Globes Quotes

• Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.

  Abdallah II

  Opportunity, Reality, Numbers

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• Party of Five" won a Golden Globe, it was a well-written television series.

  Neve Campbell

  Party, Television, Golden

  "Neve Campbell lives out a dream with "The Company". Interview with Ben Nuckols, www.today.com. January 8, 2004.

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• The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn today from the humanities as well as from the scientists.

  Ruth Benedict

  Opposites, Humanity, Culture

  Ruth Benedict (2011). “An Anthropologist at Work”, p.470, Transaction Publishers

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• We live in a land like no other - a land of freedom and opportunity unparalleled on the face of the globe.

  Bob Taft

  Opportunity, Land, Faces

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• On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Ignorance, Men, Brotherhood Of Man

  "Man of Honor, Man of Peace: The Life and Words of Adlai Stevenson". Book by Robert L. Polley, p. 61, 1965.

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• Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.

  Sam Levenson

  Baby, Children, Fun

  Sam Levenson (2016). “You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson”, p.179, Open Road Media

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• Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.

  Karl Liebknecht

  Crush, Ghouls, Blood

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• I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books.

  Anthony Doerr

  Book, Writing, Boston

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• Australia is properly speaking an island, but it is so much larger than every other island on the face of the globe, that it is classed as a continent in order to convey to the mind a just idea of its magnitude.

  Charles Sturt

  Islands, Order, Ideas

  Charles Sturt (1834). “Two expeditions into the interior of Southern Australia: during the years 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831 with observations on ... New South Wales”, p.12

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• The act of voting by ordinary Iraqis in the face of extreme danger confirms President Bush's belief that people around the globe, when given a chance, will choose liberty and democracy over enslavement and tyranny.

  John Ensign

  People, Voting, President

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• In times such as these, people should recognize that evil knows no borders, knows no limits and knows no compassion. Those around the globe that value freedom must continue to persevere even in the darkest of times.

  Michael C. Burgess

  Compassion, People, Evil

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• If the United States were to cut and run from Iraq, we would send a message of weakness that would embolden our terrorist enemies across the globe. A failed Iraq would destabilize the entire region and undermine U.S. national security for decades to come.

  Dennis Cardoza

  Running, Cutting, Iraq

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• America and its allies are engaged in a war against a terrorist movement that spans all corners of the globe. It is sparked by radical ideologues that breed hatred, oppression, and violence against all of their declared enemies.

  Kenny Marchant

  War, America, Hatred

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• Our decade of change has unleashed the ingenuity, creativity, and character of the most extraordinary people in the world - the people of this state, who come from every corner of the globe.

  George Pataki

  Change, Creativity, Character

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• We are in a time when the Peace Corps mission is more vital than ever, and the organization is at a 30-year high in the number of volunteers in the field. The Peace Corps is currently in 69 posts and serving 75 countries across the globe.

  Kenny Marchant

  Country, Years, Organization

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• The flames kindled on the Fourth of July, 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them.

  Thomas Jefferson

  July, Flames, Too Much

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont”, p.218

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• After September 11th, nations from across the globe offered their generous assistance to the people of New York. And whenever our friends around the world need our assistance, New York is there.

  George Pataki

  New York, People, September 11

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• Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven....The higher animals have no religion. And we are told that they are going to be left out in the Hereafter. I wonder why? It seems questionable taste.

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Brother, Cutting

  "Man's Place in the Animal World" (ca. 1896)

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• You know, Democratic and Republican administrations alike have supported individuals and regimes that have slaughtered millions across the globe. And they need to be held accountable for that.

  Aaron McGruder

  Needs, Administration, Republican

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  The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.

  Jules Verne

  Lonely, Ocean, Men

  Jules Verne (2015). “Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea: Science Fiction Stories”, p.49, 谷月社

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• The two most important things that can be done to promote democracy in the world is first, to bring moral clarity back to world affairs and second, to link international policies to the advance of democracy around the globe.

  Natan Sharansky

  Two, Democracy, Important

  "The Case for Democracy". Interview with Jamie Glazov, archive.frontpagemag.com. December 17, 2004.

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• I feel there should have been some recognition of the Spice Girls at this year's 25th anniversary. We flew the flag for Britain around the globe in the 1990s and we achieved a hell of a lot.

  Melanie Chisholm

  Anniversary, Girl, Should Have

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• In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained.

  James Henry Breasted

  Civilization, Firsts, Ascent

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• The presence of American troops is fueling the insurgency in Iraq, as acknowledged by General Casey and numerous other experts, and is helping terrorist recruiters build their numbers across the globe.

  John Conyers

  Iraq, Numbers, Troops

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• The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as the human form can ever come to abstract art.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Art, Essentials, Body

  "Tynan Right and Left : Plays, Films, People, Places and Events" by Kenneth Tynan, (p. 432), 1967.

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