- Globalization
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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
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're writing plays, it's possible to believe you don't have any real world skill. When you're adapting, it is really all about the mechanics, so you feel closer to, I don't know, an accountant or someone who has a body of information. It's not all about temperament.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
One sure way to ruin American credibility in the Arab world is to sit silently in Damascus and look like you're part of the Assad show.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
Biden's support for Mubarak in the face of his falling regime sends a powerful and unfortunate message to the Arab world that their freedoms are negotiable.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
U.S. academics and Upper East Side New Yorkers like to think of the United Nations as a place where foreign ambassadors have intellectual discussions about power and world peace.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
While we all want the U.N. to live up to its original intent and be the place where the world comes together to solve international problems, the reality is the U.N. isn't all that different from any other political body. Countries and individuals play to the cameras, create good theatre, and negotiate selfishly.
- Bush Administration
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- Nov 07, 2020
For eight years, you had the Bush administration with a very interventionist policy, driving into world affairs, driving primarily into the Islamic world, army first or fist first.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
Afghanistan was always a backwater in the Islamic world.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Iraq was home of the Abbasid Caliphate, a golden age when the Muslim world was at the forefront of math, science and medicine.
- United
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- Nov 07, 2020
If Syria collapses completely, the United States and the world would have to consider who, and what, fills the vacuum.
- Enough Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shaped like Texas, but twice as big, Mali is one of the poorest countries in the world. It exports almost nothing - mostly just cotton, gold and livestock - and doesn't have enough money to import much of anything, either.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone who follows the Middle East and Islamic world in general can't deny it is often a very violent place, that a band of instability now stretches from Algeria to Pakistan.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am interested in the gap between what people say and what they think - the undiscovered world of people's lives. Lives of quiet desperation.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the collision between the First and Third world is going to become more and more conspicuous. It's the big cliff that we've all got to climb.
- Changed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before 9/11, absolutely, there were concerns about terrorism; but the world fundamentally changed.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
The North Koreas of the world are trying very hard to acquire the material they need to acquire nuclear weapons, as is the case with Iran.
- Enchanted
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- Nov 07, 2020