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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
- Nov 07, 2020
I spend much of my time in a broadly liberal secular world but I don't belong to it, I belong somewhere else.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Generally on a Saturday I come home wreathed in media glamour having interviewed a former Krankie or someone, and suddenly I am back in the world of orange blossom and bells.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not in favour of hierarchies that grant privileges to members who fail to uphold those values - there are plenty of those - but the monarchy is really the Queen, who is of unimpeachable integrity and the longest serving head of state in the world, and who never puts a foot wrong.
- Question
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- Nov 07, 2020
The real question was, here we had this information, Bin Laden intends to strike in the United States. We knew they had struck before in 1993 at the World Trade Center in the first bombing of the trade center.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Generally, social networking sites can be hugely promising and beneficial in opening new friendships and vistas and knowledge of the world, but they are also fraught with peril, when young people are reckless or headless.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be tested.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
Through the right people focusing on the right things, we can, in time, get on top of a lot if not most of the problems of this world. And that's what a number of us are trying to do.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're embarking around the world in a hot-air balloon, don't forget the toilet paper.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father Ted fought in North Africa, Italy, and Germany during World War II. My grandfather survived the horrors of the trenches in World War I. I truly believe that one of the E.U.'s greatest achievements is that it has kept its members out of conflict in Europe.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Africa's informal economy is one of the most innovative and inventive environments in the world. Yet it is an environment with little regulation in which workers are often exposed to hard conditions and live without a safety net.
- Obesity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obesity is a problem that nearly every nation in the world is facing, but there is much that we can do to fix it.
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- Nov 07, 2020