- Change
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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
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
By now, it seems as if everyone has already read Thomas L. Friedman's 'The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century.' It changed the way we think about global business, competitiveness and the implication for far-flung economies, governments, education and more.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
In truth, Wall Street is in for a radical makeover. Fewer people, lower margins, lower risk, lower compensation - and ultimately, fewer talented people. It is likely to change the culture of an industry that for nearly a century has been the money center of the world.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
In September 2008 - as Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy and AIG, the world's biggest insurance company, accepted a federal bailout - Senator John McCain of Arizona, in what was widely viewed as a political move, suspended his presidential campaign and called on Obama to rush back to Washington for a bipartisan meeting at the White House.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Traditionally, we think that people with ideas are innovators - that Silicon Valley is the world of ideas. But within the hedge-fund world, they believe that they are men of ideas - that the trade is unto itself one of ideas.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before the web and these highly focused entities, journalists got to decide what was important to tell their audience and educated their readers. Now, journalists have to try and understand what their consumer actually wants to read and what angle they are looking for in order to keep audiences engaged in a highly competitive world.
- Conservative Party
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Conservative party believes Canada is stronger for being able to welcome people from all over the world.
- Cyber
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- Nov 07, 2020
The government of China has admitted that they've been involved in cyber infiltrations around the world and in governments.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
We know that the government in China has been involved in cyber attacks before. I look at our partners around the world, our traditional allies, our NATO partners who are making the same assessment. We share so much with them and rely on their technology, their expertise and interoperability in many aspects of our own armed forces.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a factory closes down here and pops up in China where they don't have access to clean technology, clean energy, then the world is not better off.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a thrilling world, and people really like stories about secrets, which is the essence of a spy drama.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Both my parents were atheists, and my grandmother was an atheist in rural Kentucky, and so they were trying to make sure that my brother and I would be atheists, too, and it worked, which doesn't mean that they didn't teach us a lot of wonder of science and of nature and the world and all of that.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not always caving to pressure: Sometimes criticism hits close to home; sometimes criticism changes our minds about something we've put out into the world.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hottest new attraction at Disney World has got to be the new Last Airbender ride.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020