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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
- Nov 07, 2020
I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am hoping, though, that many of them have kids, who, when they have a moment to take a break from their iPods, Internet, or Google, will explain to their parents running the country just how the world is being flattened.
- Coastal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Basically all the world's computer parts come from the same supply chain that runs from Korea, down through coastal China, over to Taiwan, and down to Malaysia.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
By 'flat' I did not mean that the world is getting equal. I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before. That's why an Indian in Bangalore can take care of the office work of American doctors or read the X-rays of German hospitals.
- Globalization
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Globalization 1.0, which began around 1492, the world went from size large to size medium. In Globalization 2.0, the era that introduced us to multinational companies, it went from size medium to size small. And then around 2000 came Globalization 3.0, in which the world went from being small to tiny.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love America. I think it's the best country in the world. But I also think we're not tending to our sauce.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been a critic of the antiglobalization movement, and they've been a critic of me, but the one thing I respect about the movement is their authentic energy. These are not people who don't care about the world.
- Fame
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.
- Science
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- Nov 07, 2020
This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.
- Beautiful Places
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have one of the most beautiful places in the world in Orange County. That's a great place to live.
- Pakistan
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- Nov 07, 2020
More terrorists and extremists have been captured or killed in Pakistan than in any place in the world.
- Conduct
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- Nov 07, 2020
America is an outlier in the world of democracies when it comes to the structure and conduct of elections.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.
- Nov 07, 2020