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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are looking for stability in a shaky world. They want something they can get hold of that's firm and sure and an anchor in the midst of all of this instability in which they're living.
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the end of our lives, we step across the threshold or death and enter into a new and better world. I believe that. It's just that simple.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in a world that is filled with filth and sleaze, a world that reeks of evil. You cannot afford that filthy poison to touch you. Stay away from it. Avoid it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every pilot thinks they're the best pilot in the world. I think I'm the best pilot.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no economy without airlines. Airfreight runs the world. There is no Honolulu without an airplane. This is a very complex system. If you take it down, you can't build it back up overnight.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Grounding airplanes to cover your butt would never have let Orville or Wilbur change the world. We would still be spending weeks to cross the Atlantic to do business in London.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
The airline business is the biggest team sport in the world. When you're all consumed with fighting among yourselves, your opponents can run over you every day.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 2005 we have a once in a generation opportunity to deliver a modern Marshall plan for the developing world.
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- Nov 07, 2020
America knows it has got to deal with its deficit problems so that it, too, can promise it is making its proper and best contributions to the world economy.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Britain should be the world's number one center for genetic and stem cell research, building on our world leading regulatory regime in the area.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith, and people of no faith. But I think what's new is that we now have the capacity to communicate instantaneously across frontiers right across the world.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our ability to organize internationally. That, in my view, gives us the first opportunity as a community to fundamentally change the world.
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- Nov 07, 2020
You need in the long run for stability, for economic growth, for jobs, as well as for financial stability, global economic institutions that make sure that growth to be sustained has to be shared, and are built on the principle that the prosperity of this world is indivisible.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If our economies are to flourish, if global poverty is to be banished, and if the wellbeing of the world's people enhanced - not just in this generation but in succeeding generations - we must make sure we take care of the natural environment and resources on which our economic activity depends.
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is happened in the years since the Second World War is not a temporary truce. It is not simply a ceasefire. Instead of battling with weapons and armaments, people battle only with arguments and ideas.
- Nov 07, 2020