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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
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I'm the most awkward person in the world, but onstage, I'm completely fine. I could run around in a thong and not care.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's funny, but I always feel really safe on the streets of London. It's the most inspiring place to be in the world.
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People become writers in the first place by those things that hurt you into art, as Yeats said it. Then they become separated from what started out affecting them. Journalism forces you to look at the world so you don't get cut off.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The odyssey is not going out and seeing the world: it's about trying to get home. It's home to the woman you love.
- Different Perspective
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The danger of having the military take over intelligence is that the military has a very different perspective on the world.
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Succeeding against an army of strawmen might feel good as a speech, but in reality, the world is filled with extraordinarily difficult challenges and very real consequences as a result of how we face them.
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A wounded Qaddafi still in power would be an ongoing threat and menace to the rest of the world.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world has devolved into a much more hardened and lethal place since that devastating September morning when Islamists assassinated nearly 3,000 Americans in the worst terror attack on U.S. soil.
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Western Europe has been redefining the nation state since 1945 when it formed the European Union following World War II.
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- Nov 07, 2020
World leaders need to approach the problems in the Middle East and northern Africa with imaginative ideas such as those that created the E.U.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Foreign policy is painstakingly difficult, and if there is to be anything gained from the experience in Libya, it is how not to conduct world affairs.
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America's bipartisan strategy for years has been to deny jihadists with sanctuaries anywhere in the world from where they can plan, prepare, and train for attacks against the West.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hard work, years of sacrifice, and dedication are necessary to succeed in the real world. Snowden's most notable accomplishment was lying about his military service, his experience, and education to procure a job with the NSA in the first place.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are no consequences for Snowden breaking the law in Snowden's World. It's where his massively inflated ego dictates the rules and determines which he will follow.
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The Obama-Clinton administration gambled with America's national security by embracing radical jihadists, and the world lost.
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