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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
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
World Peace Day is envisioned to become a moment of global unity - it is up to each and every one of us to make this a reality.
- High Unemployment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Think how weird profit margins are: We've got high unemployment and financial crises - and world record profit margins. People think the American market is very cheap. We don't. The market quite incorrectly gives full credit to today's earnings.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
We used to live in a world where the price of resources came down steadily, and now the world has changed. You have a great mismatch between finite resources and exponential population growth.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it comes to portfolios, my personal advice is for anyone who can, put money into forestry or farmland. Long term, you would probably never come near their returns in the stock market. In the world that I see, land is golden.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is using up its natural resources at an alarming rate, and this has caused a permanent shift in their value. We all need to adjust our behavior to this new environment. It would help if we did it quickly.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
I consider most of the talent in the financial world to be suboptimal. It could be better placed earning its living in the real world.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
One example of 21st century activism we are engaging in is All Out, a first-of-its-kind global movement to advance the interests and rights of LGBT people. All Out is bringing together people of all identities to build a world in which everyone can live freely and be embraced for who they are.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps the most encouraging trend is that, through technology, people are realizing how much agency they actually have. Technology has revolutionized the way we eat, live, communicate, socialize, learn, and do. We see enormous potential to create lasting, positive change in the way the world works by doing what we are doing.
- Medicine
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- Nov 07, 2020
In medicine, all over the world, there are always going to be mistakes made.
- Economic Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Theresa May has made a decision that we want our economic future to remain close to Europe: it's the biggest single market in the world; it's right on our doorstep.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can be the best actor in the world, but if you don't have that one lucky moment, it kind of doesn't matter. There are a lot of amazing actors who will never get the chance to prove themselves because they won't have that one lucky moment.
- Outside
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mission in life is to try and get to a point where my insides world is not affected by the outside world.
- Looks
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- Nov 07, 2020
As we've often said, to the world at large, Marvel looks like a giant octopus that's out to swallow the galaxy - which, by the way, we are. But we are, in fact, a rather small and intimate company.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020