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'Crash' is a metaphor for what I see as the dehumanizing elements that are present in the world in which we live. We're distanced by the nature of the society we inhabit from a normal human reaction.
J. G. Ballard
Nature
World
Live
Society
See
Reaction
Metaphor
Normal
Human
Crash
Which
Inhabit
Elements
Present
Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Truth
Art
World
Myth
Reflect
Moral
Must
Solution
Religious
Primary
Contain
Known
Real
Error
Form
Real World
Explicit
Elements
There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.
J. William Fulbright
World
Example
Power
Appropriate
Respects
Magnanimity
Empathy
Itself
Intelligent
America
Size
Which
Act
Many
Many Respects
Bring
Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art can change the way we see the world. Art can create an analogy.
JR
Art
Change
World
Change The World
Analogy
Way
See
Perceptions
Supposed
Practical
Practical Things
Create
Things
When you scratch the surface, every one of us has something that we deeply want to contribute to the world. All we have to do is step up and do it.
Jack Canfield
You
World
Every
Something
Step
Surface
Up
Contribute
Scratch
Want
Us
Deeply
The Soviet Union represents a threat in terms of might. It is a joke in terms of its economy and what it has to offer the Third World - a laughingstock to countries that are looking for an economic-development model.
Jack Kemp
World
Joke
Looking
Threat
Countries
Economy
Terms
Offer
Model
Soviet
Soviet Union
Represents
Might
Union
Third
Third World
Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?
Jack London
World
Must
Gear
Darn
Over
Continually
Reverse
Wheel
Where
Turn
Why
China is still the fastest growing economy in the world, but we need to learn how to use money in a better way, and it's about quality, not quantity.
Jack Ma
Quality
World
Money
Better
Way
About
Better Way
Economy
Learn
Quantity
How
Still
China
Use
Growing
Fastest
Need
As a business person, I want the world to share the prosperity together.
Jack Ma
Business
Together
World
Prosperity
Share
Person
Want
Business Person
For millions of women and men around the world, the playwright Eve Ensler is a beloved figure. She represents the epitome of the politically engaged artist, someone who uses her creative brilliance to illuminate injustice and give voice to the voiceless.
Jackson Katz
Injustice
Creative
Women
World
Men
Playwright
Someone
Give
Voice
Voiceless
She
Around
Women And Men
Artist
Politically
Represents
Engaged
Epitome
Figure
Who
Uses
Eve
Illuminate
Her
Brilliance
Millions
Beloved
The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.
Jackson Pollock
Words
World
Energy
Other
Forces
Motion
Modern
Artist
In Other Words
Working
Expressing
Inner
Inner World
I don't get upset if people think I'm crazy. If you go to a mental hospital and someone calls you a name, would you get upset? Of course not. Well, that's the way I think about the world. They don't know any better.
Jacque Fresco
Crazy
You
People
World
Better
Think
Way
Would
About
Someone
Mental
Hospital
Name
Know
Well
Calls
Course
Go
Get
Any
Upset
Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done.
Jacques Barzun
Work
Knowledge
Intelligence
World
Mind
Wicked
Society
Addition
Aims
Impart
Only
Take
Develop
Share
Perhaps
Schooling
Schools
Hand
Intended
Improving
Done
After
Lend
Social
Prepare
Two
I do a lot of reading, meditating, and praying to stay as grounded as I can be in this crazy world.
Jada Pinkett Smith
Crazy
World
Reading
Crazy World
Stay
Praying
Lot
Grounded
Meditating
All strife concerning Christ's testaments cometh hence that men do not understand that Heaven wherein Christ sitteth at the right hand of God. They understand not that he is in this World, and that the World standeth in Heaven, and Heaven in the World, and are in one another, as Day and Night.
Jakob Bohme
God
Day
World
Christ
Men
Strife
He
Day And Night
Concerning
Cometh
Another
Understand
Hand
Heaven
Wherein
Hence
Right
Night
Right Hand
Ideas control the world.
James A. Garfield
World
Control
Imagination
Ideas
Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
James Allen
You
Man
Woman
Quality
Courage
World
Mind
Honor
Will
Never
Without
Greatest
Anything
Whether
Next
You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.
James Baldwin
You
Yourself
World
Long
Oppressor
Enough
Know
Because
Does
Effectively
Begin
There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.
James Dean
Great
World
Crook
Way
Truly
Conditioning
Politics is dirty. Politics is exciting. Politics is often very, very difficult and disappointing. And I really would rather the world would be a little more like it was when my dad was young, where you knew pretty much where people stood on the great moral issues.
James Dobson
Politics
Great
You
People
World
Young
Difficult
Moral
Would
Would-Be
Moral Issues
Pretty
Rather
More
Dirty
Knew
Exciting
Disappointing
Like
Issues
Very
Stood
Often
Where
Little
Much
Really
Dad
There is no greater privilege in living than bringing a tiny new human being into the world and then trying to raise him or her properly during the next eighteen years. Doing that job right requires all the intelligence, wisdom, and determination you will be able to muster from day to day.
James Dobson
Wisdom
Day
You
Determination
Intelligence
Human Being
World
Will
Job
Living
Muster
Able
Properly
Day-To-Day
New
Him
Greater
Doing
Years
Privilege
Than
Trying
Human
Tiny
Being
Eighteen
Then
Next
Requires
Her
Right
Bringing
Raise
The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government.
James K. Polk
Government
World
Fear
Ambition
Nothing
Military
Our
Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it we ask God to bear witness to the promises we make with the implicit expectation that He will hold us accountable for the manner in which we honor them.
James L. Buckley
Today
God
World
Witness
Honor
Will
Promises
Power
Expectation
Oath
Bear
Fact
He
Reminded
Implicit
Make
Accountable
Hold
Unfortunately
Which
Them
Ask
Us
Manner
Derives
Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
James Lane Allen
You
Man
Woman
Quality
Courage
World
Mind
Honor
Will
Never
Without
Greatest
Anything
Whether
Next
Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.
James Russell Lowell
Day
World
Rightly
Anew
Born
Takes
Him
Who
Each
Each Day
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
James Russell Lowell
Beautiful
Man
World
Single
Action
Every
Weigh
Instinctively
Feels
Than
Romantic
Lovely
Sentiments
Less
Every Man
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