Quotes with world’s

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  • Bob Edwards In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news.
    Bob Edwards
    American broadcast journalist
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  • Barry Humphries In Edna, I created a satiric portrait of my hometown of Melbourne, a large provincial English city paradoxically in far Southeast Asia. She's a theatrical figure, related to vaudeville in some respects. She inhabits a world in which there are comparatively few female exponents of comedy.
    Barry Humphries
    Australian comedian, actor, artist, and author (1934 - 2023)
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  • Brad Feld In entrepreneurial circles, it's clear to me that violence, hatred, and discrimination - or whatever you want to label it - is another category where we need to pay attention to disruption before it changes the world in ways we don't want it to.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Bono In Ethiopia during the famine, I saw stuff there that reorganized how I saw the world. I didn't quite know what to do about it. At a certain point, I felt God is not looking for alms. God is looking for action.
    Source: Oprah Winfrey Show, 2002
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Carl Sagan In every country, we should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit. In the demon-haunted world that we inhabit by virtue of being human, this may be all that stands between us and the enveloping darkness.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Walter Bagehot In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Charles Lamb In everything that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Brenda Blethyn In fact at home I sometimes like to be quiet and hear the sounds of the world outside.
    Brenda Blethyn
    English actress (1946 - )
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  • Adam Schiff In fact, the converse is true: At a time when the United States has been called on for a level of moral leadership, vision and inspiration not seen since World War II, we cannot afford to dissemble about crimes against humanity.
    Adam Schiff
    American lawyer and politician (1960 - )
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  • Alexander the Great In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
    Alexander the Great
    Macedonian king (352 - 323)
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  • Bill Haslam In general, everybody should admit the world is changing really fast, and it's hard for the conversations to keep up. I mean, it's hard to remember now, but when Barack Obama ran for president, he was against gay marriage.
    Bill Haslam
    American businessman and politician (1958 - )
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  • Frederick W. Robertson In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.
    Frederick W. Robertson
    English divine (1816 - 1853)
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  • Lord Chesterfield In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Barry Marshall In medical school, it's quite possible to get taught that you can diagnose everybody and treat everything. But then you get out in the real world and find that for most patients walking through your door, you have no idea what's causing their symptoms.
    Barry Marshall
    Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology (1951 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Charles M. Schwab In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.
    Charles M. Schwab
    American industrialist (1862 - 1939)
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  • Brad Feld In my world, historical revenue is the least interesting thing to consider in an acquisition strategy. The goal is to acquire technology that is on your product roadmap or people that fit culturally within your organization and help you execute on your roadmap faster.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Bing Gordon In my world, I read resumes upside down, so I start with personal interests. So if somebody doesn't have believable, interesting interests, they're not going to work in a creative business.
    Bing Gordon
    American video game executive and technology venture capitalist
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Jiddu Krishnamurti In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
    Jiddu Krishnamurti
    Indian theosophist (1895 - 1986)
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