Globes Quotes - Page 6

• There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans, through which the produce of three-eighths of our territory must pass to market, and from its fertility it will ere long yield more than half of our whole produce and contain more than half our inhabitants.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Yield, New Orleans, History

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”, p.492

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• The word 'vegetable' has no precise botanical meaning in reference to food plants, and we find that almost all parts of plants have been employed as vegetables - roots (carrot and beet), stems (Irish potato and asparagus), leaves (spinach and lettuce), leaf stalk (celery and Swiss chard), bracts (globe artichoke), flower stalks and buds (broccoli and cauliflower), fruits (tomato and squash), seeds (beans), and even the petals (Yucca and pumpkin).

  Charles Heiser

  Flower, Vegetables, Squash

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• Yoga, as a way of life and a philosophy, can be practiced by anyone with inclination to undertake it, for yoga belongs to humanity as a whole. It is not the property of any one group or any one individual, but can be followed by any and all, in any corner of the globe, regardless of class, creed or religion.

  K. Pattabhi Jois

  Philosophy, Yoga, Class

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• Earthquakes traveling through the interior of the globe are like so many messengers sent out to explore a new land. The messages are constantly coming and seismologists are fast learning to read them.

  Reginald Aldworth Daly

  Learning, Science, Land

  "Our Mobile Earth". Book by Reginald Aldworth Daly, Chapter I, p. 5, 1926.

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• There are ten times as many sex slaves transported around the globe today as agrarian slaves were transported in the 1790s.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Sex, Politics, Today

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• In [India] and across the globe, hundreds and thousands of children, as young as three, as young as four, are sold into sexual slavery. But that's not the only purpose that human beings are sold for. They are sold in the name of adoption. They are sold in the name of organ trade. They are sold in the name of forced labor, camel jockeying, anything, everything.

  Sunitha Krishnan

  Children, Motivation, Inspiration

  "The fight against sex slavery". TED Talk, www.ted.com. November 2009.

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• Today I weep for my country. No more is the image of America one of strong, yet benevolent peacekeeper. ... Around the globe, our friends mistrust us, our word is disputed, our intentions are questioned. We flaunt our superpower status with arrogance....After war has ended the United States will have to rebuild much more than the country of Iraq. We will have to rebuild America's image around the globe.

  Robert Byrd

  Country, Strong, War

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• Research students are numbered in the hundreds of thousands-soon to be millions -and they are no longer distributed superficially and at random over the globe, but are functionally linked together in a vast organic system that will remain in the future indispensable to the life of the community.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Community, Together, Research

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• Cry when you get a Golden Globe. Then you can get an Oscar nomination.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Oscars, Nominations, Golden

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• Future historians, I hope, will consider the American fast food industry a relic of the twentieth century--a set of attitudes, systems, and beliefs that emerged from postwar southern California, that embodied its limitless faith in technology, that quickly spread across the globe, flourished briefly, and then receded, once its true costs became clear and its thinking became obsolete.

  Eric Schlosser

  Attitude, Technology, Thinking

  Eric Schlosser (2002). “Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal”, Harper Perennial

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• The church of the Lord is spread over all the globe, and is thus universal; and all those are in it who have lived in the good of charity in accordance with their religion.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Life, Religion, Church

  Emanuel Swedenborg (1852). “Heaven and Its Wonders and Hell: From Things Heard and Seen”, p.383, Library of Alexandria

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• Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself . . . When we compare the (present) human population of the globe with . . . that of former times, we see that "chemical imperialism" has been . . . the main end to which human intelligence has been devoted.

  Bertrand Russell

  Life, Intelligence, Population

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• There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner, or that has not been taken away from owner after owner, cycle afer cycle, by force and bloodshed.

  Mark Twain

  Taken, Acres, Bloodshed

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• Although as a rule the absurd culminates, and it seems impossible for the voice of the individual ever to penetrate through the chorus of foolers and fooled, still there is left to the genuine works of all times a quite peculiar, silent, slow, and powerful influence; and as if by a miracle, we see them rise at last out of the turmoil like a balloon that floats up out of the thick atmosphere of this globe into purer regions. Having once arrived there, it remains at rest, and no one can any longer draw it down again.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Powerful, Voice, Miracle

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• Mostly I think I've learned to trust God more. I mean, if I start getting worried or freaked, I just try to put it in God's hands. Sometimes I imagine God cradling the globe in his hands, and I tell myself that as long as I'm with God, the Creator of the universe, I can be comfortable and at home anyplace on the planet.

  Melody Carlson

  Home, Mean, Thinking

  Melody Carlson (2009). “Notes from a Spinning Planet--Mexico”, p.225, WaterBrook

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• The Catholic church is the biggest financial power,    wealth accumulator and property owner in existence. She is a    greater possessor of material riches than any other single institution,    corporation, bank, giant trust, government or state of the whole    globe.

  Avro Manhattan

  Government, Catholic, Church

  Avro Manhattan (1972). “The Vatican billions: two thousand years of wealth accumulation from St. Peter to the space age”

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• The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe.

  Karl Marx

  Bourgeoisie, Needs, Communist Manifesto

  BookCaps, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2012). “The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English”, p.18, BookCaps Study Guides

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• For my part, I try to do my bit to make people's lives more bearable, in particular children across the globe who are having problems.

  Lionel Messi

  Children, People, Trying

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• When I started at the Globe 40 years ago, there were seven newspapers in Boston and now there are only two. There were only three or four television stations in Boston and now there are a dozen.

  Will McDonough

  Two, Boston, Years

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• It is a noble land that God has given us: a land that can feed and clothe the world; a land whose coastlines would enclose half the countries of Europe; a land set like a sentinel between the two imperial oceans of the globe.

  Albert J. Beveridge

  Country, Ocean, Europe

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• President [Barack] Obama has talked about fundamentally transforming this country. There's 7 billion people across the face of the globe, many of whom want to come to this country. If they come legally, great. But if they come illegally and they get amnesty, that is how we fundamentally change this country, and it really is striking.

  Ted Cruz

  Country, People, President

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Adult movies with any artistic credit are released in the last quarter of the year and expected to gird for battle for Globes and Oscars. So the films aren't being seen just for themselves, but rather in a competitive context.

  Alexander Payne

  Years, Battle, Adults

  Source: deadline.com

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• Across the globe, regardless of nationality or financial status, there is a common dream every mother has for her children - for them to live full, healthy and productive lives. As a mother, I share that dream for my children.

  Sylvia Mathews Burwell

  Mother, Dream, Children

  "Helping Women Achieve a Common Dream" by Sylvia Mathews Burwell, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 11, 2012.

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• Every one of you sitting here today is carrying at least 500 measurable chemicals in your body that were never in anybody's body before the 1920s... We have dusted the globe with man-made chemicals that can undermine the development of the brain and behavior, and the endocrine, immune and reproductive systems, vital systems that assure perpetuity... Everyone is exposed.

  Theo Colborn

  Men, Brain, Sitting

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• It would be rash to conclude that, on balance, the environment of the globe as a whole is either deteriorating or improving, or that the survival of the societies we know depends upon filling a simple set of prescriptions. It is all too complex and dynamic, whether it involves managing greenhouse gases or Nile snails... The future condition of the globe's interlocking natural and social systems depends more on human behavior than on the further investigation of natural processes, however desirable that may be.

  Gilbert F. White

  Simple, Survival, Environmental

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