World Quotes
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There are always some areas world history does not reach, zones of silence and undisturbed ignorance.
Fernand Braudel
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Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers human beings the illusion of an identity, of dignity, and of morality while making it easier for them to part with them.
Vaclav Havel
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And so there I was living in California from Brooklyn, New York, and it was this whole new world for me and I was meeting vegetarians. I thought, let me try this vegetarian thing. I got really into that.
Warren Cuccurullo
Duran Duran
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Most American writers don't get asked their opinion on current affairs, whereas in Europe and England, we still do. There are writers here who are the most sophisticated commentators, but they're not asked. Like Don DeLillo, who sort of forecast most of the modern world before it happened.
Salman Rushdie
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Growing up in Israel, how can I not be an optimist? When you remember what Israel was 50 years ago and you see Israel now, one of the most successful countries in the world, stable, democratic, with an enormously stable economy despite everything that has happened in the global economy in the last few years, how can I not be an optimist?
Ehud Olmert
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In our fibre-optic world of tweets and tablets, we are more conscious of the world around us. The technicolour violence and humanitarian abuses of today are just a flick of a switch away. In our homes, on the train, in our coffee shops, we see it, we feel it, we know about it. All of us. All of the time. Human suffering is visible, constantly.
Peter Maurer
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When I talk about rock n' roll, to me, that goes back to the beginning of the 1950s. Blue suede shoes and sideburns, man. Pink and black coloured clothes. Turn your collar up, comb your hair in ducktails. And the music was cool. It was a whole culture then - a different world.
Bobby Keys
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When people are committed to things, and the world view they have is no longer in alignment with our world view, then it becomes funny.
Jeff Baena
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Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes!
Benjamin Franklin
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The number one priority now is reducing the deficit that they [Labour] left us - the biggest deficit since the Second World War.
Iain Duncan Smith
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There's many things in this world that will depress you, and make you good for nothing, if you take them seriously, and that cheer you up if you don't.
E. F. Benson
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Whether you are a Democrat or a Republican, our nation is stronger when we are respected throughout the world.
Bill Richardson
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The Spanish ladies of the New World are madly addicted to chocolate, to such a point that, not content to drink it several times each day, they even have it served to them in church.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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Europe will not accept genetically modified foods. It doesn't make any difference in the final analysis what Brussels does, what Washington does, or what the World Trade Organization does.
Jeremy Rifkin
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The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shook our nation to the core. Americans were deeply frightened, sad, and angry, and they rallied around a President who, at the time, showed impressive certitude and calm.
Eliot Spitzer
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I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.
Gary Chapman
