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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
- War
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- Nov 07, 2020
First of all, Saddam did not win the war, even though he says he did, I mean, you know, that's a joke and everybody in the world knows it.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I think back on it, it's amazing what happens to us as we move out into the world.
- Hungry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.
- Decent Standard
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- Nov 07, 2020
The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of the total world population, live in poverty, with hunger as a constant companion and fear of famine a continual menace.
- Different Meaning
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- Nov 07, 2020
The green revolution has an entirely different meaning to most people in the affluent nations of the privileged world than to those in the developing nations of the forgotten world.
- Research
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- Nov 07, 2020
For, behind the scenes, halfway around the world in Mexico, were two decades of aggressive research on wheat that not only enabled Mexico to become self-sufficient with respect to wheat production but also paved the way to rapid increase in its production in other countries.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unless there is one master gene for yield, which I'm guessing there is not, engineering for yield will be very complex. It may happen eventually, but through the coming decades, we must assume that gene engineering will not be the answer to the world's food problems.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the greatest threats to mankind today is that the world may be choked by an explosively pervading but well camouflaged bureaucracy.
- Nov 07, 2020
If the world population continues to increase at the same rate, we will destroy the species.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the Nobel Peace Prize Committee designated me the recipient of the 1970 award for my contribution to the 'green revolution,' they were in effect, I believe, selecting an individual to symbolize the vital role of agriculture and food production in a world that is hungry, both for bread and for peace.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?
- Left
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm politically on the left, no question about it. I oppose sweatshops, I oppose exploitation of labour in the third world.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only honourable work my parents knew was blue-collar. But while my father Robert ran a pawnbroker's shop, and my mother was a waitress, I moved into a middle-class world with a level of security they never knew.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020