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• Maybe they'd use biological or chemical weapons instead. Maybe they'd crash the world economy. Maybe they'd turn every program on television into one of those reality shows." "That's mostly done already, Harry." "Oh. Well. I've got to believe that the world is worth saving anyway.

  Jim Butcher

  Believe, Reality, Weapons

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.2361, Penguin

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• The American president [George W. Bush] closes his eyes to the economic and human damages that are inflicted on his country and the world economy by natural disasters, like Katrina, through neglected climate protection.

  Jurgen Trittin

  Country, Eye, President

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• Nuclear terrorism is still often treated as science fiction. I wish it were. But unfortunately we live in a world of excess hazardous materials and abundant technological know-how, in which some terrorists clearly state their intention to inflict catastrophic casualties. Were such an attack to occur, it would not only cause widespread death and destruction, but would stagger the world economy... [creating] a second death toll throughout the developing world.

  Kofi Annan

  Nuclear Terrorism, Creating, Wish

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• The people of the United States don't recognize it, but the oil industry has given the greatest gift to the people of the nation, and that gift is the low cost of energy. Bottom line is this enables the country to be very competitive manufacturing-wise and in the world economy.

  Ray L. Hunt

  Wise, Country, Oil

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• The globalization of the capital market is actually part of economic globalization. This will create a change in the entire world economy, not just restricted to some fields in some countries.

  Richard Grasso

  Country, Economic Globalization, World

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• It is really gratifying, for example, to visit India now and see that because they've had good educational institutions, and they've had a focus on it, there are more and more people in India participating in the world economy.

  Bill Gates

  Educational, People, Focus

  "Keynote Address to the Creating Digital Dividends Conference". voicesofdemocracy.umd.edu. October 18, 2000.

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• The world economy today is recovering slowly, and there are still some destabilising factors and uncertainties. The underlying impact of the international financial crisis is far from over.

  Hu Jintao

  Impact, Economy Today, World

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• The world economy is not yet a community--not even an economic community...Yet the existence of the "global shopping center" is a fact that cannot be undone. The vision of an economy for all will not be forgotten again.

  Peter Drucker

  Shopping, Community, Vision

  Peter Drucker (2017). “The Age of Discontinuity: Guidelines to Our Changing Society”, p.111, Routledge

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• China has made important contribution to the world economy in terms of total economic output and trade, and the RMB has played a role in the world economic development. But making the RMB an international currency will be a fairly long process.

  Hu Jintao

  Long, Important, Roles

  The Wall Street Journal Interview, www.wsj.com. January 18, 2011.

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• Drawing a comparison to football, it could be said that the Spanish economy has, during this legislature, into the Champions League of the world economy, however bad that may seem to some.

  Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

  Football, Champions League, Drawing

  Speech in the Congress of Deputies, September 11, 2007.

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• I think the producers, for the most part, don't want to see prices skyrocket because that will only create problems for them down the road and would also be a, you know, would be a very serious shock for a world economy that can't afford serious shocks right now.

  Daniel Yergin

  Thinking, World, Want

  "CNN American Morning with Paula Zahn". www.cnn.com. September 3, 2002.

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• Production for sale in a market in which the object is to realize the maximum profit is the essential feature of a capitalist world-economy. In such a system production is constantly expanded as long as further production is profitable, and men constantly innovate new ways of producing things that will expand the profit margin.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Men, Long, World

  Immanuel Wallerstein (1979). “The Capitalist World-Economy”, p.15, Cambridge University Press

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• The world economy diffuses rather than concentrates wealth.

  Robert Gilpin

  World, Wealth, Economy

  Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.85, Princeton University Press

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• Give a small number of people the power to enrich themselves beyond everyone's wildest dreams, a philosophical rationale to explain all the damage they're causing, and they will not stop until they've run the world economy off a cliff.

  Philipp Meyer

  Running, Dream, Philosophical

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• Although population and consumption are societal issues, technology is the business of business. If economic activity must increase tenfold over what it is today to support a population nearly double its current size, then technology will have to reduce its impact twenty-fold merely to keep the planet at its current levels of environmental impact. For example, to stabilize the climate we may have to reduce real carbon emissions by as much as 80 percent, while simultaneously growing the world economy by an order of magnitude.

  Stuart L. Hart

  Real, Technology, Order

  Stuart L. Hart (2010). “Capitalism at the Crossroads: Next Generation Business Strategies for a Post-Crisis World”, p.52, FT Press

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• I believe in an America that is on the march - an America respected by all nations, friends and foes alike - an America that is moving, doing, working, trying - a strong America in a world
  of peace. That peace must be based on world law and world order, on the mutual respect of all nations for the rights and powers of others and on a world economy in which no nation lacks the
  ability to provide a decent standard of living for all of its people.

  John F. Kennedy

  Strong, Believe, Moving

  Speech at Convention Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. October 31, 1960.

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• America and Japan are the two leading world economies in terms of technology and innovative products. And in software, information-age technology and biotechnology the U.S. has an amazing lead.

  Bill Gates

  Technology, Japan, Two

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• Many people in the world believe that in the 21st century, the Asia-Pacific - Asia in particular - will play a more important role in global economy and politics and that Asia will become an important engine for the world economy.

  Li Keqiang

  Believe, Play, People

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• Geographically, the global economy is now multi-polar , as new centres of production have emerged in parts of what had been, historically, the periphery of the world economy. The world is now more accurately described as a 'mosaic of unevenness in a continual state of flux'.

  Peter Dicken

  Mosaics, World, Economy

  Peter Dicken (2003). “Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century”, p.509, SAGE

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• Today, you have 20 percent of the world controlling 80 percent of the Gross Domestic Product; you've got a $30 trillion (US) world economy, and $24 trillion of it is in the developed countries... These inequities can't exist. So if you are talking about systemic breakdown, I think you have to look in terms of social breakdown.

  James Wolfensohn

  Country, Thinking, Talking

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• Events and developments that we have observed in 2014, prove that this year will be very difficult for the world economy, but thoughtful economic policy, diversification and unity between the country's leadership and people guarantee that this year will be successful for us.

  Ilham Aliyev

  Leadership, Country, Successful

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• Right after 9/11 it looked as if the idea of a huge skyscraper might be considered obsolete. It came back, but I think that's more closely connected to the rise of Asian and Middle Eastern cities in the world economy (Dubai, Shanghai, Taipei, etc.) than anything else.

  Paul Goldberger

  Thinking, Dubai, Cities

  "Ask the Author Live: Paul Goldberger on the World Trade Center". The New Yorker interview, www.newyorker.com. September 2, 2011.

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• Structuralism argues that a liberal capitalist world economy tends to preserve or actually increase inequalities between developed and less developed economies.

  Robert Gilpin

  World, Arguing, Economy

  "The Political Economy of International Relations". Book by Robert Gilpin, 1987.

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• In a perfect world we would bring corporate tax rates down to 25% or less so we can get competitive in the world economy. Ultimately, I would love to see a flat tax.

  Eric Cantor

  Perfect, World, Economy

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• We escaped the last big bursting of a bubble - the dotcom bubble - with a relatively light U.S. recession. On that occasion, the world economy found its way back on track fairly quickly.

  Evan Davis

  Light, Track, Lasts

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