- Challenges
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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
- Developed World
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- Nov 07, 2020
Engineers in the developed world should be arguing not for protectionism but for trade agreements that seek to establish rules that result in a real rise in living standards. This will ensure that outsourcing is a positive force in the developing nation's economy and not an exploitative one.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a child, I wanted to... go into space! To go to Mars. I wanted to explore and explore and explore. I wanted to go to the Lost World in South America - I was heartbroken to discover there were no dinosaurs; I still don't accept it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I've been surprised by is not how different people are, but how similar they are. There are certain types of Airbnb people, and they are in every city in the world - it's just that in some cultures, there is more of a generational divide.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you are in someone's home, in their bed, you see the world from their eyes. You understand 'the other' is not so other.
- Certitude
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in a world in which data convey authority. But authority has a way of descending to certitude, and certitude begets hubris.
- Jews
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the anti-Semite, the problems of the world can invariably be ascribed to the Jews; for the Communist, to the capitalists.
- Developed World
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- Nov 07, 2020
Listen carefully to the global warming alarmists, and the main theme that emerges is that what the developed world needs is a large dose of penance. What's remarkable is the extent to which penance sells among a mostly secular audience. What is there to be penitent about?
- Domestic Policy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since the end of World War II, U.S. presidents of both parties have recognized that foreign and domestic policy do not have to be pursued at the expense of each other.
- Economic Prosperity
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- Nov 07, 2020
It may be a truism that the country cannot be strong abroad unless it is strong at home, but it's also a fact that the country's economic prosperity depends on its security abroad - not only in the core of the liberal democratic world but often well beyond it, too.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Arab world's problems are a problem of the Arab mind, and the name for that problem is anti-Semitism.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Successful nations make a point of trying to learn from their neighbors. The Arab world has been taught over generations only to hate theirs.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything Republicans once claimed to advocate - entitlement reform, free trade, standing up to dictators, encouraging the march of freedom around the world - turns out to be negotiable and reversible, depending on Donald Trump's whims and the furies of his base.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020