- Everyone
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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
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
The latter 1940s and early '50s were a time of tense, explosive conflict, in the world at large and in the politics of our nation.
- Development
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- Nov 07, 2020
There should be order if the development of the cyber world is to be sustainable.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world's most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple's silence on heavy metal pollution problems.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Globalisation has powered economic growth in developing countries such as China. Global logistics, low domestic production costs, and strong consumer demand have let the country develop strong export-based manufacturing, making the country the workshop of the world.
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
China leads the world in energy consumption, carbon emissions, and the release of major air and water pollutants, and the environmental impact is felt both regionally and globally.
- China
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- Nov 07, 2020
China is bearing the environmental cost for much of the world because China is the factory of the world.
- Pressure
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're manufacturing to meet the demands of our own people but, in the meantime, for the entire world as well, and that definitely put a lot of extra pressure on our environment.
- Attempting
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the age of 24, I found myself convicted in prison in Egypt, being blacklisted from three countries in the world for attempting to overthrow their governments, being subjected to torture in Egyptian jails, and sentenced to five years as a prisoner of conscience.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college.
- Rock And Roll
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.
- Egg
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- Nov 07, 2020
Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where writers are from is one of the world' s most boring topics. Where we're born, gender or race, wealth or poverty - those are the things we spend time talking about. Stop trying to label me. I'm a writer. Worry about whether I'm any good!
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020