- Diplomats
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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When someone needs copper, or wood or an ag product, and they invest capital somewhere to make that happen, and people get jobs from that, and that good gets introduced to the world stage and it gets traded and moved, the whole world benefits.
- Ice Cream
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have the finest officers in the world, but it seems like once they become generals it is a self-licking ice cream cone of who gets promoted and who gets approved to join that club. No one thinks outside the box.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
The left wants to protect social programs, the right wants to protect defense and intelligence spending and all the rest. I say the defense and intelligence world will be better off with a smaller budget. They would be less encumbered by bloat and able to maneuver the way they used to be able and not trip over themselves.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm no hero. The world knows all too well about my mistakes. But I was never meant to play the villain.
- Opinions
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- Nov 07, 2020
Twenty-five percent of search results for the world's top 20 largest brands are links to user generated content and thirty-four percent of bloggers post opinions about products and brands.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bitcoin is two things which share a name. One, it's a payment system, and two, it's a currency. You use the Bitcoin payment system to send bitcoins as currency from one account holder to another. The transfer is instantaneous, carries no fee, works anywhere in the world, and is private.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like the Internet, Bitcoin will change the way people interact and do business around the world.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we started ShapeShift, a future world of natively digital assets was very theoretical.
- Good Drama
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are lots of people in the world who do have the advantage of going to a good drama school and just decide that they want to be actors. There's nothing wrong with an untrained actor; they have to get their training somehow, they have to learn.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think that I had any idea that 'Fear of Flying' would become a part of the culture. I had no idea that it would go all over the world and be published in Chinese and Serbo-Croat and so on.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think there's just one person for everyone. It would be very hard for me to be with a guy who was not bright or funny. And he'd have to see the absurdities of the world, not exactly as I see them necessarily.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have a very sensitive nose. I identify with dogs. I understand the world through my nose.
- Cannot
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- Nov 07, 2020
One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020