- Me
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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
- Blessed
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- Nov 07, 2020
People say that F1 is blessed with the 'best drivers in the world,' but I want to witness the 'total best drivers in the world,' and this means taking away the elements that make their job easier.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
Millions around the world see Formula One as the pinnacle of motorsport, and I firmly believe that we should do whatever it takes to keep this accolade. Traction control, automatic gear changes, and launch control isn't my definition of the 'pinnacle of motorsport.'
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 'Ek Duje'... I play Suman, a girl who runs her own tiffin service in Delhi. She is calm and composed at home but quite bold when it comes to facing the outside world.
- Nov 07, 2020
Playing at the Women's World Cup is my long-term goal and, hopefully, I can contribute to winning a medal.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
That first game was so hyped up, and it was obviously my first experience of a crowd in a World Cup. When I first walked out and heard the national anthem, it was just an unreal experience. I didn't expect a crowd like that.
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
While the finish given to our picture of the world by the theory of relativity has already been absorbed into the general scientific consciousness, this has scarcely occurred to the same extent with those aspects of the general problem of knowledge which have been elucidated by the quantum theory.
- Join
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- Nov 07, 2020
When an Occupy demo in the centre of Frankfurt makes world news, I shall hurry to join in.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Looking back as an historian, I find myself having great respect for Ronald Reagan's consistency: his absolute conviction that the Soviet Union - the only competing world empire at the time - was bound to collapse!
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
Regularly, customers asked for a book on Greenwich, and there was none. After all, Elizabeth I was born there. The Observatory is known all over the world; the Royal Naval College is there. So I decided to do it.
- George W. Bush
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- Nov 07, 2020
Both JFK and George W. Bush were the sons of wealthy U.S. ambassadors and thus privileged to meet distinguished figures, to travel, and to see the world and think about its problems if they chose.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am all for charity in judging the men who have occupied the Oval Office over the past seventy years, given the huge responsibilities the president carries across the world.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have long argued that in the modern world, corporation tax has had its day as a major source of tax revenue.
- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the countries in the world are outside the E.U., and they are doing very nicely, thank you.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Too much of British business and industry feels similarly secure in the warm embrace of the European single market and is failing to recognise that today's great export opportunities lie in the developing world, particularly in Asia.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020