- Black And White
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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If people think we can draw a circle around North America and that we can be an independent island of energy, that's not realistic. This is a world market for oil, for refined products, and increasingly, for natural gas.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cinema has only been around for about 100 years. Has all of the world's violence towards women taken place only within the past 100 years?
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.
- Battle
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- Nov 07, 2020
The battle over genetically modified crops is rife with business interests and political opportunism. When GMOs were first produced in laboratories around the world, they were rightly heralded as a tremendous leap forward in our ability to supplement nature by providing high-nutrient foods.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are people in this servile world who will endure any trampling, and at the first beck rush delightedly to proffer their assistance.
- Mankind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ever since the world began, it has been the belief of mankind that desolate places are the special haunt of supernatural beings.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Asia, Free People, along with World Co., Ltd. of Japan, will launch a shop in Shinjuku and a freestanding store and wholesale showroom in Harajuku.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the direct-to-consumer channel, we continue to look at the entire world as an extension opportunity for all of our brands.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our enemy is Al Qaeda and its allies, people who have publicly said they wish to attack the United States again, people who have publicly called on nuclear physicists and engineers to help them gain access to nuclear weapons, which, as the whole world knows, Pakistan has.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a supreme irony.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a wide-eyed imperialist who wants to see Americans manning outposts all over the world. Not outposts to freedom in the cold war cliche, but islands of stability and seas of ethnic strife. That is not what anyone should feel comfortable seeing Americans doing.
- Pizza
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no question that the next generation of terrorists, rather than going for small, little dramas, will go for the big one. They now understand that the way to get the world's attention is not strapping bombs to themselves in a pizza parlour, but to do something so horrific it gets you into the Guinness Book of World Records for terrorism.
- Leap
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- Nov 07, 2020