- Hard Work
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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
From a very young age, I suspected there was more to my world than I could see: somewhere in the streets of Istanbul, in a house resembling ours, there lived another Orhan so much like me he could pass for my twin, even my double.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always disliked kamikazes, that is, people who commit suicide in order to kill others. Starting with the Japanese ones from World War II. I never considered them Pietro Miccas who torch the powder and go up with the citadel in order to block the arrival of the enemy troops at Torino. I never considered them soldiers.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is now aware that the most unavoidable and most dangerous weapon that exists is the blind decisiveness of a man ready to sacrifice his life for an obscure cause.
- Africa
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- Nov 07, 2020
Certainly, Africa accounts for only l % of world trade, and we cannot assure our development on our own.
- Other
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- Nov 07, 2020
In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world.
- Should
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is as it should be.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe the first reason that Donald Trump is running for president is because he truly believes that he can help turn the nation around. The second reason I believe is that this is the greatest position in the world, to be at the center of political power, of the universe.
- Brother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm pretty sure that the world doesn't know that I am a 'Big Brother' superfan.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
You look at what One Direction has done and just say, 'That is just lucky;' it is not. It is happening because they are talented boys, good looking lads; and yes, their songs might not be the typical songs that lots of radios want to play, but they are great songs, pop records, that are massive across the world selling in huge numbers.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a huge fan of 'Heart On My Sleeve' - I think it has a 'Take That' feel to it! John Shanks and James Morrison wrote the track, and we spoke to Sony and asked if we could reference a 'Greatest Day'/'Rule The World' sound to make that epic ballad. I think it does the job.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020