World Today Quotes - Page 13

• The world today is sick to its thin blood for lack of elemental things, for fire before the hands, for water welling from the earth, for air, for the dear earth itself underfoot. In my world of beach and june these elemental presences lived and had their being.

  Henry Beston

  Beach, Fire, June

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• Obviously, Jay-Z is one of the greatest entertainers of the world today. Not only is he a remarkable rhetorical genius, he's also a man of deep sympathy and empathy for those who are lost and vulnerable, but especially under-educated youth of all cultures and stripes.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Men, Empathy, Stripes

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• All over the world today, many girls still get the idea that their bodies are somehow not as good as a boy's body. These girls - who later grow up to be women with girls of their own - get the message that they are weaker in spirit, not worth educating, somehow cursed because of their menstrual cycle, and so forth.

  Christiane Northrup

  Girl, Growing Up, Boys

  Source: www.drfranklipman.com

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• Today, of course, the world's perception of India has changed tremendously. People understand its role in world affairs; they understand that India is not some backward nation. In fact, it is the fastest growing free-market democracy in the world today, and that says it all.

  Kabir Bedi

  People, Perception, Democracy

  Source: www.youthkiawaaz.com

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• People divide into groups where they talk to each other, but don't talk across the divide. And yet most of the challenges we face in the world today are challenges that are to do with trade, with technology, with how you make sure that people are properly educated, reform your health care system.

  Tony Blair

  Technology, People, Challenges

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• John Logan is maybe the No. 1 screenwriter in the world today, not to mention that he won a Tony for Best Play for Red. So he may just be the best writer period right now. He wrote The Aviator, and I was in New York doing a play, and he asked if they would see me for the film, just meet with me. 'Cause that's what Martin Scorsese does.

  Brent Spiner

  New York, Play, World

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  World, Today, Well Known

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• There is...a spiritual hunger in the world today and it cannot be satisfied...by better cars on longer credit terms.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Spiritual, Car, Soul

  "A New America". Adlai E. Stevenson's Acceptance Address at the Democratic National Convention, voicesofdemocracy.umd.edu. August 17, 1956.

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• I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.

  Harry S. Truman

  Country, Teacher, Retirement

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• The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other.

  Princess Diana

  World, Today, Problem

  "Remembering the enduring legacy of Lady Diana: the People’s Princess" by Natasha Koifman, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 24, 2017.

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• If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

  Bertrand Russell

  Happiness, Happy, Hippie

  Attributed to Bertrand Russell, Think, Vol. 27 (p. 32), 1961.

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• In the developed countries there is a poverty of intimacy, a poverty of spirit, of loneliness, of lack of love. There is no greater sickness in the world today than that one.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, World, Lack Of Love

  "In My Own Words".

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• Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make.

  Ruth Benedict

  Racism, History, Decision

  Ruth Benedict (1945). “Race: Science and Politics”, Viking Adult

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• The greatest guitar player in the world today for me is Paco de Lucia, who is actually Spanish.

  George Benson

  Player, Guitar, World

  Interview with Paul Cashmere, www.noise11.com. April 23, 2016.

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• In the world today, only a philosophy of eternity could justify non-violence.

  Albert Camus

  Philosophy, World, Today

  "The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt".

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• Call it the Tiger Mom effect: In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option.

  Naveen Jain

  Mom, World, Today

  "Dear CEOs, Celebrate Failure" by Naveen Jain, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 14, 2011.

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• In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.

  Naveen Jain

  Attitude, Failure, Fall

  FaceBook post by Naveen Jain from Aug 19, 2016

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• If we had kept the vision of interconnectedness, we would not have created the kind of environmental crisis facing the world today.

  Satish Kumar

  Vision, Environmental, World

  Interview with Frank Lipman, www.drfranklipman.com. April 14, 2009.

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• America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  America, World, Today

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2010). “Gift from the Sea”, p.124, Random House

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• The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.

  Imelda Marcos

  People, Giving, Justice

  "Queen of the islands". Interview with Jonathan Watts, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2006.

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• Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today.

  Ralph Merkle

  Powerful, World, Sugar

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• There are many vampires in the world today - you only have to think of the film business.

  Christopher Lee

  Thinking, Vampire, World

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Donald Trump is an instrument of a Power bigger than himself, and bigger than all of the power that's in America today, or in the world today.

  Louis Farrakhan

  America, World, Today

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• The Vietnam War ended because of the campus situation. And so many other injustices have been corrected in the World today only thanks to the young people. So, young people especially have a responsibility for Tibet.

  Elie Wiesel

  War, Responsibility, People

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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• My supporters and family have limited resources, very limited resources; but the FBI has the unlimited resources of the most powerful government in the world today. It's amazing that they haven't successfully had me assassinated since I have been in here. There have been plots uncovered in the past that I know of to have me killed.

  Leonard Peltier

  Powerful, Past, Government

  Source: montanapioneer.com

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