World Quotes
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Colorado's collective shale deposits contain somewhere in the neighborhood of 1 trillion barrels of oil. That's almost as much as the entire world's proven oil reserves!
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'Rationalism' is a historical concept that contains within itself a world of contradictions.
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If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.
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Hating people isn’t a productive way of living. So what’s the point in hating anyone? There’s enough hate in the world as it is, without me adding to it.
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Nobody does anything better than me in baseball (said before the 1971 World Series).
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Who says God has created this world? We have created it by our own imagination. God is supreme, independent. When we say he has created this illusion, we lower him and his infinity. He is beyond all this. Only when we find him in ourselves, and even in our day to day life, do all doubts vanish.
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As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world.
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Who would have thought that the Internet, that's supposed to knit the world into a shining tyranny-proof ball, would be so grubbily adolescent?
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I think if everyone would write down the funny stories from their own childhoods, the world would be a better place.
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There are probably five songs in the world that I get excited about when I hear them on the radio.
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The U.N. is worse than disaster. The U.N. creates conflicts. Look at the disgraceful U.N. Human Rights Council: It transmits norms which are harmful, anti-liberty and anti-Semitic, among other things. The world would be better off in its absence.
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My work is about the world I live in. So, I sort of make a picture of my life or our lives. I'm always looking for something that is overlooked, so I need to constantly be aware of what's going on.
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In the old days we were the challenger brand competing against the big banks, but today I go round the world and I sit with governors of central banks and finance ministers and, in some cases, prime ministers. They all know Travelex. We are regarded as the establishment - the world's largest retailer of foreign currency.
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If you didn't know better, you might have thought in 2003 and 2004 that U.S. government strategy was being set by people trying to make enemies rather than friends in the Arab-Islamic world. And if you didn't know better, you might think that the Chinese government's approach to the Olympics is being set by people trying to make the country look bad.
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...the worry over media manipulation of photographs pales beside the threat that we will be exposed to an unedited, unvetted picture world where all images seem equally important and equally trivial.
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What strange circumstances, or what odd combination of many circumstances, must occur, I wondered, to make it possible for a man to step from one world to another.
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Our one goal is to give the world a taste of peace, friendship and understanding. Through the visual arts, the art of celebration of life.
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I think the world today is upside down, and is suffering so much, because there is so very little love in the homes and in family life.
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San Diego is the best city in the world.
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So far we have not convinced the Chinese authorities. My own brother was refused a visa on what was probably my last chance of seeing him when he was going around the world on a tour. Scott Nearing was similarly refused.
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Poetry evokes out of words the resonance of the primordial world.
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My mother was a product of World War II. My grandfather was on leave in Edinburgh when he met my grandmother.
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Doing real world projects is, I think, the best way to learn and also to engage the world and find out what the world is all about.
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Serious thinkers are few, and the world is ruled by crude ideas.
