- Motto
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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
- Change The World
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't change the world without a certain amount of healthy willingness to break the rules.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Photography has become a small world with so many jealous people. You do a story and then a lot of people try to do the same thing.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you don't like Beyonce, then it's hard for me to trust you. It's like not liking world peace.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are Latino people in our world who believe strongly that if you are Latino you should speak the language, you should eat the food, you should listen to the music, you should be proud. And when you don't do those things, some people will look at it as if you're neglecting who you are.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, as you've said, we cannot expect the people of China not to want to progress, so if you have an opportunity to progress, to develop your economy to a world class economy, it's an aspiration that is natural and that, I welcome.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether you're dealing with your allies in Europe or you're dealing with a resurgent Russia, whether you're dealing with Iran or North Korea, you have to use the whole panoply of national tools of power to deal with the challenges the world faces.
- Crime
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- Nov 07, 2020
One could reasonably argue that the Turkish pogrom against the Armenians during World War I qualifies as a crime against humanity, as does the United States' ethnic cleansing of Native Americans.
- Dayton
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Kosovars were granted autonomy at the end of World War II, but then aspiring president Milosevic had the autonomy revoked in 1989, and the Dayton Accords of 1995, which ended the recent war in Bosnia and Croatia, failed to address the issue of Kosovo's status.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think journalists in World War II were objective about the Nazis, and I don't think they should have been.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think, unfortunately, we live in a world where people attack other people and I think a legitimate rationale for war is the saving of human life, the saving of lives of people who cannot defend themselves.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're scared, you're still hanging on to life. When you're ready to die, you let it go. A sort of emptying out occurs, a giving up on the world that seems oddly familiar even if you've never done it before.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have an inner window through which we can see the world, and though it gets cloudy in life, it's our job to wipe it clean and see things as they really are.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many politicians are far removed from their own electorates and continue to make the mistake of ignoring their voters' problems because they live in their own world.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020