We live in a globalising world. That means that all of us, consciously or not, depend on each other. Whatever we do or refrain from doing affects the lives of people who live in places we'll never visit.
Zygmunt Bauman
Related Most of all, we remain focused on our Rock that never moves. CRAIG GROESCHEL We're basically educating people to go out and do what they can for the environment and the people w... LARKSPUR MORTON Man does not live in isolation, we depend upon each other. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA We do not choose to be born...We do not--most of us, choose to die, or the times or conditions of ou... JOSEPH EPSTEIN We all live in hiding. In one way or another, each of us conceals pieces of ourselves from the rest ... MARY SHANNON Let me just say that I am not often lonely in country places. In cities I am, like the writers of th... NUALA O'FAOLAIN As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of o... BILLY JOEL We all have that capacity to lose our humanity when circumstances force us to do so. It's not sp... ISHMAEL BEAH This oath is the oath we all swear. Not to a god, or a master, or to the Ludu Achillea...but to our ... LESLEY LIVINGSTON We live in relative world with relatives. DEYTH BANGER Promise keeping is a powerful means of grace in a time when people hardly depend on each other to re... LEWIS B. SMEDES In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will... S. I. HAYAKAWA I believe our country has to do whatever we can do to protect ourselves-we're king of the hill. ... RICK YUNE If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or d... JANET FRAME People are attracted to who we are more than what we do. LORRIN L. LEE When we acknowledge that all of life is sacred and that each act is an
act of choice and therefore s... SCOUT CLOUD LEE I'm not an idealist. I know we're not going to be living in a world that's peace and lov... MICHAEL FRANTI People live too much of their lives on email or the Internet or text messages these days. We're ... TRACY MORGAN Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD I don't want to live in the kind of world where we don't look out for each other. Not just the peopl... CHARLES DE LINT We know each other, we visit each other and in times of crisis, we pull together. We cannot let the ... EMILY SMITH We live in a material world. I'm not saying that beautiful things don't enhance our lives. B... TOM FORD So long as you are a slave to the opinions of the many you have not yet approached freedom or tasted... JULIAN THE APOSTATE So long as you are a slave to the opinions of the many you have not yet approached freedom or tasted... JULIAN THE APOSTATE Call it egotistical or narcissist, but I think that's what we all look for in books - the right ... JOHN COREY WHALEY Do we work for and pay for all this convenience in order to live our lives, or do we live our lives ... COLIN BEAVAN The most and best of us depend on others; we have to live either among friends or among enemies. BALTASAR GRACIáN Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day. CRAIG GROESCHEL We've never slammed people over the head or made 'The Flash' an after-school special. Wi... ANDREW KREISBERG City people live the city. We live in L.A., New York, we live in places where it's chaotic and y... ALICE COOPER A friend once taught me that we'd all live differently if we could live our lives over, but all we c... TONI SORENSON Animals have come to mean so much in our lives. We live in a fragmented and disconnected culture. Po... JON KATZ You're different. We all are. We are each "one of a kind." This means each of us will live the Chris... J. GRANT HOWARD The most tragic and deviant behaviour of all is that we live our lives like we will never die, and n... DRAGOS BRATASANU When we acknowledge that all of life is sacred and that each act is an act of choice and therefore s... SCOUT CLOUD LEE When we acknowledge that all of life is sacred and that each act is an act of choice and therefore s... SCOUT CLOUD LEE Circumstances in life often take us places that we never intended to go. We visit some places of bea... KRISTIN ARMSTRONG My writing and my paintings do not have a direct connection in my mind. But I am sure they influence... ETEL ADNAN It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or d... JANET FRAME We live in a world where we have friends, neighbors, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, people we jou... ROB BELL Weather affects everything we do. We have a live radar that monitors everything from rain to lightni... DONNIE MEFFORD We also live in strange places: each in a universe of our own. The people with whom we populate our ... DOUGLAS ADAMS That's the world we live in: when it comes to economics, people have emotions; it's not like... ROBERT J. SHILLER Without realizing it, we fill important places in each other’s lives. It’s that way with the guy... ROBERT FULGHUM We're born alone. We do need each other. It's lonely to really effectively live your life, a... BILL MURRAY A great number of people wake up each morning with the thought of not just how to pay back, but how ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We're kind of in a voyeuristic world. We have TV shows that are all about watching people do wei... JAMIE BELL I am not better than you because of my religion, color, culture, education, status, wealth, etc. I a... NAJWA ZEBIAN Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service
or other. If we cultivate the... MAHATMA GANDHI I try hope that in the end, we will live in a cancer-free world. We want to live disease-free lives. AARON CIECHANOVER Here in America, we don't let our differences tear us apart. Not here. Because we know that our ... MICHELLE OBAMA We live right next door to each other, so we're always playing something, whether it's video games o... COLIN RAY We live on a planet that is amazing, beautiful, and full of wonder but not protected from powerful d... ADAM HAMILTON We all fall into our habits, our routines, our ruts. They're used quite often, consciously or un... ANDREW STANTON What there really wasn't [information on] was 'what do people think'. We wanted to find out what it'... KERRY AGNITSCH I am tired of people saying that poor character is the only reason people do wrong things. Actually,... SHANNON L. ALDER A literary movement consists of five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other cor... GEORGE MOORE We dream that we're all different. The reality is that we're all not. ANTHONY T. HINCKS There is a widespread belief that americans hate cities. I think it is probable that Americans hate ... JANE JACOBS Worldly influences would hinder use of our agency afforded through the Atonement of Jesus Christ. Bu... DAVID A. BEDNAR In novels in general - and also on the television - we do live in a world where bodies is what we ar... A. S. BYATT Anyway, I do not want you thinking that I or Addie or Joe or Skeezie feel sorry for ourselves. We do... JAMES HOWE We need to put into practice the idea of embracing other cultures. We need to be shaping the kind of... HERBIE HANCOCK We live aware of God moment by moment. He is not part of our lives; He is our life. CRAIG GROESCHEL There's no commodity we can take with us. There is only our lives, whether we live them wisely o... SHARON SALZBERG Egypt is not a country we live in but a country that lives within us. POPE SHENOUDA III we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning. CHARLES BUKOWSKI So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It's impossible to live lik... CRISTIANO RONALDO When we are in a foreign country we live with a fervor rooting from knowing that our days there are ... FORREST CURRAN It's amusing to me that we refer to people who live in their heads as detached, disturbed, or mad, w... RICHELLE E. GOODRICH We recognize that the majority of people who are food-insecure or hungry in the world live in rural ... ERTHARIN COUSIN Most of the people who live in Washington come from other places and you can learn something from th... SALLY QUINN I've never wanted to live in a ghetto or write in a ghetto. I want to write about a world that r... VAL MCDERMID It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alon... GABRIEL BYRNE Frederick Buechner writes, “Intellectually we all know that we will die but we do not really know ... FRANCIS CHAN Microchimeric sharing means that, even if the mother loses a child, she'll have a small memento ... SAM KEAN We need to see, and agree that what we seek already lives within us, and we within it. Now we know o... GUY FINLEY Any atrocity that's committed against one person affects us all, and we are becoming more of one... DON LEMON I think we all depend on a significant other, and we think if they leave me, I'll die. But that&... KATHARINE MCPHEE To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, esc... OLIVER SACKS We should not blame people by the mistakes of others. DANIEL MELGAçO Beloved community is formed not by the eradication of difference but by its affirmation, by each of ... BELL HOOKS Introverts live in two worlds: We visit the world of people, but solitude and the inner world will a... JENN GRANNEMAN We always live at the time we live and not at some other time, and only by extracting at each presen... JOHN DEWEY This is the great lesson the depressive learns: Nothing in the world is inherently compelling. Whate... THOMAS LIGOTTI We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's hap... CHARLIE CHAPLIN Everything you do is connected to who you are as a person and, in turn, creates the person you are b... PAUL E. MILLER Being moderate or tolerant or open is not a sign of weakness but of civilization and strength, ... I... ALAIN ELKANN Bushido refers not only to martial rectitude but personal rectitude. We understand that in serving e... RICK REMENDER I think we live in a unique time - the verbs that make up our online and mobile lives haven't be... MARK PINCUS We can live out our lives, and in the end realize that we never really ‘lived’ a day in our live... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Honesty allows us to live with not knowing. We do not know the full story; we do not know where we a... DAVID WHYTE We don't live in the world of reality, we live in the world of how we perceive reality. BRYAN SINGER Electronic books are ideal for people who value the information contained in them, or who have visio... JOE QUEENAN At Diversion, we want to do genres that people are not doing - or, if we're doing genres that pe... DANIEL WU What kind of a world do we live in, when the good are taken advantage of by the bad, while the bad h... C. JOYBELL C. As the support to a person increases, so should be the rise of the doubt either on his/her intention... ANUJ SOMANY I think everyone, all of us, are complicated people. We have jobs that require us to be a certain wa... PAUL GUILFOYLE
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