- Family
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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
- Powerful
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- Nov 07, 2020
You are the most powerful cultural force in the world.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I think about the world I would like to leave to my daughter and the grandchildren I hope to have, it is a world that moves away from unequal, unstable, unsustainable interdependence to integrated communities - locally, nationally and globally - that share the characteristics of all successful communities.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree.
- Guerilla
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a world with no systems, with chaos, everything becomes a guerilla struggle, and this predictability is not there. And it becomes almost impossible to save lives, educate kids, develop economies, whatever.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
What a different world this would be if people would listen to those who know more and not merely try to get something from those who have more.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think with the needs to feed the world's population, to end starvation, plant sciences offer great opportunities to do good and also to develop industry in St. Louis.
- Pictures
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Inspiring scenes of people taking the future of their countries into their own hands will ignite greater demands for good governance and political reform elsewhere in the world, including in Asia and in Africa.
- High Price
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- Nov 07, 2020
Governments that use violence to stop democratic development will not earn themselves respite forever. They will pay an increasingly high price for actions which they can no longer hide from the world with ease, and will find themselves on the wrong side of history.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Americans cannot teach democracy to the world until they restore their own.
- Humiliation
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the world's finest democracy, we do not do guillotines. But there are other less bloody rituals of humiliation, designed to reassure the populace that order is restored, the Republic cleansed.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you think about it, Washington's overwhelming power in the world is founded on death, the awesome arsenal for killing people.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020