- 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
- Possible
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do as much debugging as possible on the Mac, but I occasionally must debug problems in the PC world, which is significantly slower.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That was encouraging but also little daunting to think that you had to work so hard to be new and yet it was old.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in my office when - on 9/11. I think I had a number of meetings scheduled. I was just getting to know the bureau. And somebody walked in and said the first plane had - or a plane had struck the World Trade Center, one of the towers.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think around the world, our agents are the best collectors of information you'll find.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyplace we go in the world, when someone asks us what we do, we feel an immense pride in saying, 'FBI.'
- Interfere
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- Nov 07, 2020
Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change.
- Gold
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem started before World War I. The gold standard was working fairly well. But it broke down because of the war and what happened in the 1920s. And then the U.S. started to become so dominant in the world, with the dollar becoming the central currency after the 1930s, the whole world economy shifted.
- Leaf
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- Nov 07, 2020
The United States can't keep a completely open system if the rest of the world is less open. The United States may have to take a leaf out of the book of Japan, China, and Germany, and have protectionism inside the system.
- Initiative
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most important initiative you could take to improve the world economy would be to stabilize the dollar-euro rate.
- Currency
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- Nov 07, 2020
The benefits from a world currency would be enormous.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man!
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020