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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
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our moral authority is as important, if not more important, than our troop strength or our high-tech weapons. We are rapidly losing that moral authority, not only in the Arab world but all over the world.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
We never used to blink at taking a leadership role in the world. And we understood leadership often required something other than drones and bombs. We accepted global leadership not just for humanitarian reasons, but also because it was in our own best interest. We knew we couldn't isolate ourselves from trouble. There was no place to hide.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Political scientists after World War II hypothesized that even though the voices of individual Americans counted for little, most people belonged to a variety of interest groups and membership organizations - clubs, associations, political parties, unions - to which politicians were responsive.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nations are becoming less relevant in a world where everyone and everything is interconnected. The connections that matter most are again becoming more personal.
- Committees
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is well known that the Nobel Committees bring world opinion to a focus, and that fact still further enhances the prestige attaching to the Prizes.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything I've done has always been my own made up world with its own rules and its own made up stories.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles, doing the same things, that's what Hollywood's like. It's a little block, little town. It doesn't really grow or change.
- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I feel like I'm in a dream world, because it doesn't always seem too logical how things work out.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yuri's Night is a world celebration for everyone who's interested in a human presence in space - without concern for politics, the Cold War, countries that do and don't have space programs.
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems everyone in the world is now a potential member of the paparazzi. Most of the time people ask if they can take a picture with their mobiles but increasingly they don't bother to ask.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I die, I want to be the only person in the world not to have seen 'The Sound Of Music.'
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited.
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- Nov 07, 2020