Places In The World Quotes - Page 10

• Americans chose a free enterprise system designed to provide a quality of opportunity, not compel a quality of results. And that is why this is only place in the world where you can open up a business in the spare bedroom of your home.

  Marco Rubio

  Home, Opportunity, Quality

  Speech at the Conservative Political Action Committee conference at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, voices.washingtonpost.com. February 18, 2010.

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• You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Knowing Who You Are

  Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Oh, The Places You'll Go”

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• In a mad moment, my family and I purchased a home in Maine because it's the place in the world that my wife loves better than any other place or any other human, and so I have committed my life and what had once been my economic security that has now returned to insecurity, to a patch of painful, rocky land on the shores of horrible, cold waters to a place where people go in the summer to experience autumn because leaves start falling on August 1.

  John Hodgman

  Summer, Fall, Home

  "Bewildered Maine resident John Hodgman takes another crack at our 11 Questions". The A.V. Club Interview, www.avclub.com. September 3, 2015.

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• I still happen to think the United States is the greatest place in the world to invest.

  Don Nickles

  Thinking, United States, World

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• I think Pope Francis is a guy who comes from a certain place in the world, and that shapes how he processes things. He's like a liberation theology guy, but I think that what he's done is focused the Catholic Church where it should be - on the poor.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Thinking, Guy, Catholic

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world ... Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspiring, Children, Home

  Eleanor Roosevelt, Allida Mae Black (2013). “Courage in a Dangerous World: The Political Writings of Eleanor Roosevelt”, p.190, Columbia University Press

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• I am absolutely convinced that Florida will become the most exciting place in the world to live and work.

  Rick Scott

  Florida, World, Exciting

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• Things separate from their stories have no meaning. They are only shapes. Of a certain size and color. A certain weight. When their meaning has become lost to us they no longer have even a name. The story on the other hand can never be lost from its place in the world for it is that place.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Hands, Color, Names

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Crossing”, p.146, Pan Macmillan

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• I heard an Israeli speaking on Palestinian human rights issues, an interesting guy, and he said 'There's no military solution to terrorism. If there were, Israel would be the safest place in the world. But there's no military solution.'

  Bradley Whitford

  Military, Israel, Issues

  "Exclusive Interview: Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip's Bradley Whitford". Interview with Travis Fickett, www.ign.com. September 22, 2006.

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• I challenge you to be dreamers; I challenge you to be doers and let us make the greatest place in the world even better.

  Brian Schweitzer

  Dream, Challenges, World

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• Once I thought that Lake Forest was the most glamorous place in the world. Maybe it was.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Lakes, World, Forests

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “Collected Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.154, e-artnow

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• Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste, surround himself with books, all in his own language, and thence forward have at least one place in the world.

  Augustine Birrell

  Book, Men, Years

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• Mumbling priests swinging stick cans on their chains and even witch doctors conjuring up curses with a well-buried elephant tooth have a better sense of their places in the world. They know this universe is brimming with magic, with life and riddles and ironies. They know that the world might eat them, and no encyclopedia could stop it.

  N.D. Wilson

  Doctors, Elephants, Magic

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• To break boundaries interests me. With all the knowledge that is available now in the world, it should be accessible to everyone. You can get so much information on the Internet now, and yet there are so many places in the world where people just don't have the education.

  Melanie Griffith

  People, World, Information

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• The most impactful place that Ive been to where I was just completely awestruck, happy, moved is Victoria Falls between Zambia and Zimbabwe. It is probably the most beautiful and romantic place in the world.

  Hill Harper

  Beautiful, Fall, Zambia

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• More terrorists and extremists have been captured or killed in Pakistan than in any place in the world.

  Thomas E. Donilon

  Pakistan, World, Terrorist

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• Cuba may be the only place in the world where you can be yourself and more than yourself at the same time.

  Pedro Juan Gutierrez

  Being Yourself, Cuba, World

  "Cruising Through Cuba’s Past and Present" by Elizabeth Holbrook, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 9, 2017.

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• The American Museum of Natural History is my son's absolute favorite place in the world! So we really, really, really love New York.

  Mark Teixeira

  New York, Son, Museums

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• I learned a lot of different things from different schools. MIT is a very good place…. It has developed for itself a spirit, so that every member of the whole place thinks that it’s the most wonderful place in the world—it’s the center, somehow, of scientific and technological development in the United States, if not the world … and while you don’t get a good sense of proportion there, you do get an excellent sense of being with it and in it, and having motivation and desire to keep on

  Richard P. Feynman

  Motivation, Learning, School

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• If you're willing to travel, or just super-desperate, the best place in the world to meet unattached men is on the Alaska pipeline. I'm told that the trek through the frozen tundra is well worth the effect for any woman who wants to know what it feels like to be Victoria Principal.

  Linda Sunshine

  Men, Alaska, Dating

  Linda Sunshine (2005). “Women Who Date Too Much... And Those Who Should Be So Lucky: Happy Dating, Great Sex, Healthy Relationships, and Other Delusions”, Three Rivers Press

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• My favorite place in the world is this store called My Sister's Closet in Arizona and it's the greatest secondhand shop in the world.

  Chelsea Kane

  Arizona, Favorite Places, World

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I believe in my heart that I am ready to work to restore America to its rightful place in the world.

  Chris Christie

  Believe, Heart, America

  "Exclusive: Chris Christie explains why he is running for president on 'Hannity'". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. June 30, 2015.

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• If you look back at history or you look at any place in the world where religious groups or ethnic groups or racial groups or political groups are killing each other, or families have been feuding for years and years, you can see - because you're not particularly invested in that particular argument - that there will never be peace until somebody softens what is rigid in their heart.

  Pema Chodron

  Religious, Peace, Heart

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• The world is a dangerous place to live

  Albert Einstein

  Dangerous World, Evil, Apathy

  Joseph Eger, Albert Einstein (2005). “Einstein's Violin: A Conductor's Notes on Music, Physics, and Social Change”, Tarcher

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• Know your place in the world and evaluate yourself fairly, not in terms of the naïve ideals of your own youth, nor in terms of what you erroneously imagine your teacher's ideals are.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Teacher, World, Youth

  "Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman". Book by Richard P. Feynman, 2005.

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