- Children
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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
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world's industry must gain incentives to stop polluting and to invest in clean technologies.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have written before about why climate change has to be halted. In retirement, I want to look my grandchildren in the eye and tell them about the small role the business and I played in tackling the world's greatest challenge.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the Great Mongol Empire, Mongols governed by a written law called the 'Ih Zasag,' which is translated as 'the Great Order.' It was an era when the Mongols strove to establish a new world order, thus, justice, peace and cooperation in their relations with other states and peoples.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are nations, where people live in captivity, fear and silence. I believe, one day from prison camps and torture cells and from exile the leaders of freedom will emerge. The world should stand with those oppressed people until the day of their freedom finally arrives.
- Makes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Greater technological connectivity makes the world wider, and the walls of isolation - thinner.
- Dismantling
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- Nov 07, 2020
We know that dismantling old oppressive regimes is a great deal faster and easier than building new flourishing democracies. Chinggis Khaan once said, 'It was easier to conquer the world on horseback than to dismount and govern.' True validation of democracy lies less in what we tear down, and more in what we build.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write, I teach, I direct. I sail around the world for Holland America two months out of every year doing a seminar where we discuss film or theater and do improvisations.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you had told me 28 years ago that the largest organization in the world touching the lives of gays and lesbians would be a church, I would not have believed you.
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
The manufacture and running of all the world's computers, the toxicity of the hardware mountains that we currently dump on other countries; all this can be totted up on the environmental account of web-users and its authors.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Japan, Taiwan and South Korea, the government in a matter of years has put a lot of energy behind recycling food waste as livestock feed. It's environmentally friendly, it provides cheap livestock feed for the farmers in those parts of the world, and it avoids sending the food waste to landfill.
- Darwin
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- Nov 07, 2020
Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature.
- Difficult Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a very wonderful yet difficult thing to be given a lot of really good opportunities and the world is at your fingertips.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love to operate in a world that values things outside of beauty. It's just more what I feel comfortable doing.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having come from a working-class family in the rural South, the fashion industry opened my eyes to culture, arts, and the world.
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- Nov 07, 2020