#world

One's teachers all belonged to that generation who were imperialists, and the whole narrative throughout my adolescence was of countries leaving the empire. I find it extraordinary that this purpose which drove how we viewed the world is now considered to be something that has no effect upon us. ↗

— Jeremy Paxman

#belonged #considered #countries #drove #effect

The scientific perspective of the world, especially the living world, inexorably impresses on us a dynamic picture of the world of entities and structures involved in continuous and incessant change and in process without ceasing. ↗

— Arthur Peacocke

#change #continuous #dynamic #entities #especially

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

#carrying #drop #even #go #idea

The dark outside world of Paris under German occupation exerted a strong containing pressure. ↗

— Gerard Debreu

#dark #exerted #german #occupation #outside

I'm trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It's so easy to get turned. ↗

— Elvis Presley

#careful #easy #get #head #i

We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers. ↗

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

#each #other #reality #shaped #thinkers

America must be a light to the world, not just a missile. ↗

— Nancy Pelosi

#just #light #missile #must #world

Every person should have their escape route planned. I think everyone has an apocalypse fantasy, what would I do in the event of the end of the world, and we just basically - me and Nick - said what would we do, where would we head? ↗

— Simon Pegg

#basically #end #end of the world #escape #event

They still don't want to admit to the world that this isn't the best and the fairest and most equal justice system. And that they are guilty of railroading people into jail. They don't want to, or never will, admit these things. ↗

— Leonard Peltier

#best #equal #equal justice #fairest #guilty

The Second World War claimed tens of millions of victims. ↗

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

#millions #second #second world war #tens #victims