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- Nov 07, 2020
World Quotes
Quotes on the world and our place in it.
These quotes look at the world from different angles - one traces a common phrase back to ancient religion, another describes feeling atomized after moving to a new city. A few recall novels depicting a world with tighter social fabric, where people actually knew each other. Related reading: Great Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Inside
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- Nov 07, 2020
Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have had wonderful times and educated two children with my husband, and I just consider myself very lucky. I've had a very interesting career - I've been all over the world. I lucked out; I think you can say that: I really lucked out.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world - we need to make them accessible to every American.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, I wish the world well. I want Iraq to have democracy and the Haitians to have democracy. I want the people of Afghanistan to thrive. Lord knows, we spend enough money there to help them. What about people at home? Isn't that our first responsibility?
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our democracy is the centerpiece of who we are as a nation. And it is the fondest hope of all Americans that we can help bring democracy to every corner of the world.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
So when you go up against the Far Right you go up against the big financial special interests like the Halliburtons of the world, the big oil companies, the big energy companies who work so hard to rip us off.
- Sexist
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is still sexist.
- Difference
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most great entrepreneurs I know are nothing like the other kids. They're almost like tangent lines - those lines that seem to go nowhere. Nothing connects them, until they get out in the real world. Then they connect just fine.
- Deliberately
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- Nov 07, 2020
North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Televisions and radios are locked on government frequencies - it is a serious crime to listen to a foreign broadcast. As a result, North Koreans think that they live in the best country in the world and that, as difficult as their lives may be, everybody else has it much worse.
- Dubious
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- Nov 07, 2020
By 2022, China is expected to cede the dubious distinction of being the world's most populous nation to India, according to the population division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the ways the North Korea regime has kept power is by keeping its people ignorant of the living standards in the outside world. That's the underlying lie that supports the regime - not that their country is 'normal' but that they are better off.
- Korea
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- Nov 07, 2020
North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world.
- Emanate
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1984, George Orwell wrote of a world where the only colour to be found was in the propaganda posters. Such is the case in North Korea. Images of Kim Il-sung are depicted in vivid colours. Rays of yellow and orange emanate from his face: he is the sun.
- Society
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- Nov 07, 2020