Globes Quotes - Page 13

• Time is a snow globe; you shake it and everything changes.

  Alison Pick

  Snow, Things Change, Shakes

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• Our country asserts for itself the glory of being the freest upon the surface of the globe... but one dark spot still dimmed its lustre. Domestic slavery existed among a people who had themselves disdained to submit to a master.

  James Forten

  Country, Dark, People

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• I would contend that we place no other value above the right to be free. We will die for our freedom. In fact, we believe freedom is sufficiently important that we will even die so that others around the globe might be free.

  Ward Connerly

  Believe, Important, Might

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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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• The U.S. should stop garrisoning the globe, subsidizing rich friends, and reconstructing poor enemies. Instead, it's about time Washington focused on defending America and its people.

  Doug Bandow

  America, People, Enemy

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• It is remarkable that the elements diffused through the host of stars are some of those most closely connected with the living organisms of our globe.

  William Huggins

  Stars, Science, Elements

  William Huggins, Margaret Lindsay Huggins (1909). “The scientific papers of Sir William Huggins”, Рипол Классик

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• It's still easier to find the correct Hoover bag than to find one pure person, one pure faith, on the globe.

  Zadie Smith

  Bags, Easier, Hoover

  Zadie Smith (2003). “White Teeth”, p.196, Vintage

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• Within ten years, he had earned his college degree and was a millionaire from his business enterprises in real estate, landscaping, and bodybuilding. He was also the winner of a Golden Globe Award for his debut as a dramatic actor in Stay Hungry.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Real, Bodybuilding, College

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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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• It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and to make my reader acquainted with a species of Remains, which, though absolutely necessary for understanding the history of the globe, have been hitherto almost uniformly neglected.

  Georges Cuvier

  Understanding, Littles, Fossils

  Georges Cuvier (Barón, (), Robert Jameson (1817). “Essay on the Theory of the Earth”, p.1

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• Sometimes it can feel like the whole globe is spinning with irredeemable losses, capricious natural disasters and crimes so outrageously evil they dismantle any attempt to solve or explain them.

  Karen Russell

  Loss, Evil, Spinning

  "What Author Karen Russell Knows For Sure About 7 P.M." by Karen Russell, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 19, 2012.

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• To watch this crystal globe just sent from heaven to associate with me. While these clouds and this somber drizzling weather shut all in, we two draw nearer and know one another.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Clouds, Weather, Two

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2012, Delphi Classics

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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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• The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our cities and the gardens of our sea-side residences.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Ocean, Garden, Sea

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.826, Delphi Classics

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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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• immigration today is a racial issue. It is one which sees masses of non-whites from around the globe immigrating to white countries.

  Arthur Kemp

  Country, White, Issues

  Arthur Kemp (2008). “The Immigration Invasion: How Third World Immigration is Destroying the First World -- and what Must be Done to Stop it”, p.1, Lulu.com

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• As the United Nations pushes for jurisdiction over the globe, it is important to remember how it has acted in Bosnia. The character of an institution, no less than of an individual, is revealed through actions, not words.

  Wendy McElroy

  Character, Important, Bosnia

  "Is the U.N. Running Brothels in Bosnia?" by Wendy McElroy, www.foxnews.com. January 22, 2002.

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• your actions live after you till this globe is dissolved; they pass inevitably down as an inheritance from one generation to another. ... decency and integrity, courage and compassion, are always well worth while; they are not lost, but pass on down the generations; we are indeed the heirs of all the ages.

  Phyllis Bentley

  Integrity, Compassion, Age

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• I think it needs to be with a heart-based wisdom and this heart-based wisdom needs to go hand in hand with science and with social activism and love for our planet and love for our whole human family that spans the whole globe and this may sound very high and mighty or airy-fairy, but it's going to have to go to that or else we're just all going to destroy each other.

  Rainn Wilson

  Heart, Thinking, Hands

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. November 11, 2010.

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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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• 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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• When the white race broke out of Europe 500 years ago, it did many astounding things all over the globe. Inspired by a raging sky-god, the whites were able to pretend that their conquests were in order to bring the One God to everyone, particularly those with older and subtler religions.

  Gore Vidal

  Race, Order, Years

  Gore Vidal (1992). “The Decline and Fall of the American Empire”

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• Though, probably, no competent geologist would contend that the European classification of strata is applicable to the globe as a whole; yet most, if not all geologists, write as though it were so.

  Herbert Spencer

  Writing, Science, Europe

  "Illustrations of Universal Progress: A Series of Discussions".

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• No mercy, no power but its own controls it. Panting and snorting like a mad battle steed that has lost its rider, the masterless ocean overruns the globe.

  Herman Melville

  Ocean, Sea, Mad

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.307, Velvet Element Books

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• Let America add Mexico to Texas, and pile Cuba upon Canada; let the English overswarm all India, and hang out their blazing banner from the sun; two thirds of this terraqueous globe are the Nantucketer's. For the sea is his; he owns it.

  Herman Melville

  Texas, Sea, Two

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.70, Velvet Element Books

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