- Government
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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
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The time has passed in the history of the world when anything is too sacred to be touched, when anything is beyond the reach of the inquiring and scientific spear.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a lot of rich people in the world. There are very few people who have the privilege of getting to invent things that billions of people use.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today there are millions of people making stuff and putting it into the world: that's become part of our identity and it shouldn't be limited to people who fancy themselves writers, or who are particularly witty or talented.
- Excel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've seen looting around the world and thought I knew the best looters in the world. The Iraqis excel at that.
- Inequality
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look internationally over the last 50 years there have been improvements in the third world, but in the last 20 years the reverse has happened, with debt crises and increased poverty.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
My own experience in the third world was that even if people started to make more money, the cost of living and housing increased often faster than the wages.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
It will take some time before a politician will capture the imagination of the American people and have the vision and understanding to do what is necessary for a better future for the people of America and the world.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's really cool to know that you've put something together that isn't for a particular audience. It's so often that a TV show can really only speak to one sect of the population, and this really is something that appeals to a worldwide fan base. People who are into the pursuit of knowledge. Their reaction has meant the world to us.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can possibly say I have entertained and educated more people than anyone else in the world.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've asked every grammar schoolteacher in the nation to have their students write on the meaning of the Statue of Liberty. Wouldn't it be wonderful if the winning kid got up to the microphone and, in front of the world, had to dig into a pocket to pull out a crumpled sheet of paper containing the words that would move us all?
- Greatness
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- Nov 07, 2020
When they did the Olympics in Seoul - or elsewhere - didn't each host country try to show its greatness to the world viewing audience?
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to say, 'We think it's going to work. Let's go with it.' Either you're going to kill the world, or you're going to fall on your rear end.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020