- Blankets
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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
- Air Travel
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- Nov 07, 2020
A world with a sudden limit on air travel would be tremendously different from the one we live in now.
- Clean Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rather than forcing local factories to clean up after themselves, Changzhou decided to outsource the job of managing its water supply to a French company named Veolia - one of a handful of corporate giants now scrambling to take over city water systems around the planet, especially in the often polluted and water-short developing world.
- Climate Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Paris pact was correctly described by its opponents - greens and anti-greens alike - as toothless. But it was also the first time that nations around the world had officially agreed that climate change was a problem and that concrete steps should be taken to avoid its worst effects.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
- Nov 07, 2020
Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm fascinated by the journey that an intelligent and an ambitious woman makes in the professional world in contrast to the journey that a man of similar ambition, of similar intelligence makes. What sort of concessions does a woman have to make? Does she have to work 20 percent harder than a man?
- Critically
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our long-term prosperity depends critically on the ability of world leaders to make politically difficult decisions at a time when the global economy is still vulnerable on so many fronts.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is time to recognise that austerity alone condemns not just Greece but the whole of Europe to the probability of a painful and protracted era of little or no economic growth. This would be a tragedy not just for Greece and for Europe, but for the world.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
How can the United States preserve its financial and security leadership role when it conducts itself with such ineptitude and such disregard for the consequences for the world?
- Nov 07, 2020
A core group of the world's leading economies need to come together and hammer out an understanding.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can no longer contemplate a world in which public or private sector funds are used to bail out or recapitalize failing firms.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
A new forum is needed that reflects the realities of today's globalised world and the rising importance of emerging markets.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Countries that are occasionally immature in their ability to manage their economic affairs as well as they should - and that includes most of them - are going to find that the world is at risk.
- Flag
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I was to put a little flag in everywhere I've been in the world, there'd be a lot of little flags.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020