- Ale
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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
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
This notion that borders wouldn't matter, that we would have commonality of interests around the world. Well, guess who got there first? The plutocrats.
- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
The high-tech, globalized capitalism of the 21st century is very different from the postwar version of capitalism that performed so magnificently for the middle classes of the Western world.
- Events
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- Nov 07, 2020
The tragedy of 9/11 and the bloody scrambling-up of the Middle East were painful reminders that the world had not yet reached any end-of-history ideal. But these events mattered less to the assumptions and strategies of huge multinational companies than one might guess.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's important to remember that, in the 1930s, a lot of people in the West looked at communism as a pretty good idea. That was partly because they didn't know how bad things were on the communist side of the world, but it was also partly because things were bad in the West.
- Technology
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think Obama and the economists around him have a very sophisticated understanding of both globalization and the technology revolution and the impact they're having on the world economy and they way they're creating these winner-take-all spirals.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The one source of criticism even the most repressive authoritarian leader cannot silence is the outside world. Autocrats are usually thin-skinned and like to be admired, so at least, at first, they often seek to be praised abroad.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a very strong supporter of our government's view that it is important to engage with all countries around the world - very much including Russia.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is the 21st-century paradox: Even as political democracy has become the intellectual default mode for much of the world, the private sector usually trumps the public one when it comes to accommodating consumer choice.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are all living in a world shaped by Reagan and his ideology of small 'l' liberalism.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody in the '80s, well, we hate rap. Now, the biggest rapper in the world... Eminem. Rap's a black thing.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Gong Show provided me with five years of the happiest times of my life, but that's that. And to be known as the guy who gave the world The Gong Show - listen, my Uncle George isn't known as anything. So I guess it isn't so bad in that context.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want my kids growing up believing that there is nothing destructive in the world.
- Eternally
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- Nov 07, 2020
I owe baseball all that I have and much of what I hope to have. Baseball made my entrance to the film industry immeasurably easier than I could have made it alone. To the greatest game in the world I shall be eternally in debt.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't a bad basketball player, but I was far from the world's greatest. Good defense, no offense - that was me.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020