- Happiness
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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
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
America is just the country that how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.
- Democratic Society
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- Nov 07, 2020
But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world.
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like every other industry or institution, the journalism world is populated by the petty and fearful, in addition to the courageous and brilliant.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
Serious collectors and art experts, among the world's most educated, often cannot fathom the possibility of being rooked, and then once taken, cannot face the humiliation of admitting it.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Doing processing locally has its advantages. For instance, the cost of an endpoint CPU and memory is a 1000x cheaper than the cost of CPU and memory in the server. And in many places around the world, connectivity and transmission costs are sometimes far more expensive than the device.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The growth of our understanding of the world through science weakens some of the motivation which makes people believers. But that's not the same thing as saying they're incompatible. It's just that I think some of the traditional reasons for belief, going back thousands of years, are rather undermined.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world's poor have discovered that the E.U. (that's the country we live in, no point pretending there's anywhere called Britain any more) has absolutely no clue how to stop determined immigrants.
- Any Other Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thanks to centuries of island freedom, when we were able to decide who came in and who didn't, it is far easier to disappear in Britain than in almost any other country in the world.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just think in this world of extreme religious pluralism, the great spectrum of things ranging from the healthy and the respectable, and the balance and the true and tried, you go down to quite bizarre things which are very risky for people, particularly people who are young or vulnerable or unable to discriminate.
- Attitude
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a very go-to kind of attitude in New Zealand that stems from that psyche of being quite isolated and not being able to rely on the rest of the world's infrastructure.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not anti-media at all. But the media, the news anywhere in the world, is based on drama.
- Technology
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just think that we're living in a world where the technology is advancing so rapidly. You're having cameras that are capable of more and more - the resolution on cameras is jumping up.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once the film is out and a lot of people are seeing it, it becomes almost owned by the cinemagoers of the world.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
My day starts with Radio 4's Today live or 'listen again' wherever I am in the world, thanks to digital radio - I even have an app on my iPhone that receives it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are people who can achieve huge success in life, while adding a bit of fun and a splash of colour to this increasingly grey world.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020