Today's World Quotes - Page 2

In today's world, you would call my father mostly unaccessible. I'm not sure that isn't true of most fathers at that time. He went through the Depression. I don't know what that would have done to my psyche.

Bob Newhart

Father, Done, World

"Bob Newhart: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. December 18, 2008.

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If history is really relevant in today's world, the proposition doesn't command much respect. Perhaps the past is a different country, but if so no one much wants to travel there.

Elizabeth Janeway

Country, Past, History

Elizabeth Janeway (1987). “Improper behavior”, William Morrow

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What are the characteristics of today's world so that one may recognize it by them?" It pays pensions and borrows money: credit and monuments.

Franz Grillparzer

Money, Today, Credit

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Rigorously investigated and fearlessly reported, A Crime So Monstrous is a passionate and thorough examination of the appalling reality of human bondage in today's world. In his devastating narrative, Ben Skinner boldly casts light on the unthinkable, yet thriving, modern-day practice of slavery, exposing a global trade in human lives. The abuses detailed in these pages are repugnant, but there is hope to be found: by giving voice to the victims, Skinner helps restore their dignity and makes crucial strides toward closing this shameful chapter in history.

William J. Clinton

Reality, Practice, Voice

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Today's world needs change, alteration, renewal, and corrections of errors. It needs new ideas, new approaches, methods, plans, procedures, and new ways of doing things. Maybe you should think of going-literally or symbolically- to a circus today, where you'll see stunts you never dreamed possible. The novelty and originality there may stimulate what you need more of in this life. Have the daring to take a flight for the idea you believe in!

Wilferd Peterson

Believe, Thinking, Errors

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No sustainable prosperity or security can be attained at the expense or marginalization of others. Indeed, in today’s world, humanity will either triumph or fail as a whole.

Nayef Al-Rodhan

Humanity, Triumph, World

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There are nearly 200 countries and a population of over 6 billion in today's world. International affairs should be addressed by all countries through consultations rather than monopolised by a few powers.

Li Peng

Country, Population, World

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In today's world, the elites are growing even more comfortable with one another across national lines, yet at the same time, less comfortable with low-income people who share their nationality. How we create those bonds of community that are truly global as well as national is one of our generation's great challenges.

Jacqueline Novogratz

Our Generation, People, Community

Jacqueline Novogratz (2012). “The Blue Sweater : Bridging The Gap Between Rich And Poor In An Intercnnected World”, p.108, HarperCollins Publishers

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In the desert we rediscover the value of what is essential for living; thus in today's world there are innumerable signs, often expressed implicitly or negatively, of the thirst for God, for the ultimate meaning of life. And in the desert people of faith are needed who, by the example of their own lives, point out the way to the Promised Land and keep hope alive.

Pope Benedict XVI

Land, People, Today

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Because of the conflicts and challenges we face in today’s world, I wish to suggest a single choice—a choice of peace and protection and a choice that is appropriate for all. That choice is faith. Be aware that faith is not a free gift given without thought, desire, or effort. It does not come as the dew falls from heaven. The Savior said, “Come unto me” (Matthew 11:28) and “Knock, and it shall be [given] you” (Matthew 7:7). These are action verbs—come, knock. They are choices. So I say, choose faith.

Richard C. Edgley

Fall, Free Gifts, Choices

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Knowledge is sacred and the choice to be informed or merely entertained in today's world is a very revealing test of the times. Expanding your mind to penetrate the deeper meanings of life is not only liberating, it is crucial to your well-being, for knowledge is power, and how you use your power inevitably determines the course of your personal and collective life.

Barbara Marciniak

Choices, Mind, Use

Barbara Marciniak (2010). “Path of Empowerment: New Pleiadian Wisdom for a World in Chaos”, p.3, New World Library

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In today’s world of fear and uncertainty, every child should have one class period a day to dive within himself and experience the field of silence - bliss - the enormous reservoir of energy and intelligence that is deep within all of us. This is the way to save the coming generation.

David Lynch

Children, Should Have, Class

"Paul McCartney signs on for NYC benefit" by Jonathan Cohen, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 27, 2009.

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Nothing is more inspiring in today’s world of easily dissolved marriages than to observe a husband and wife quietly appreciating and enjoying each other’s friendship year in and year out as they experience together the blessings and trials of mortality.

Marlin K. Jensen

Husband, Blessing, Years

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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.

Damien Hirst

Light, Yesterday, Tools

"Damien Hirst: 'I still believe art is more powerful than money'". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2012.

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Suppose hypothetically that one out of every 200 people or so is a jerk. In today's world these jerks will discover that if they enter government or business they can become super rich and powerful jerks. Do we conclude, therefore, that markets (or government) have caused greed? No, the fact is that once we no longer live in tiny tribes of 200, anonymity allows some people, who would have been assholes in a small tribe but who would have been sanctioned there, to go off and become jerks on a much, much larger scale.

Michael Strong

Powerful, Government, People

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The late Estee Lauder says you can never wear white shoes after Labor Day. But of course, in today's world, that does not exist.

Andre Leon Talley

Shoes, White, Labor Day

"A history of the little black dress" by Ann Hoevel, www.cnn.com. October 2, 2012.

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Content is power in today's world, and if you can own that content, create it and make interaction more of an experience than a transaction, you create a different kind of loyalty.

Mindy Grossman

Loyalty, Different, World

"Q&A With Mindy Grossman". Interview with Jordan Saniuk, footwearnews.com. January 11, 2010.

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In today's world, it is shortsighted to think that infectious diseases cannot cross borders. By allowing developing countries access to generic drugs, we not only help improve health in those nations, we also help ourselves control these debilitating and often deadly diseases.

Ron Wyden

Country, Thinking, Drug

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With Epcot Center, the Disney corporation has accomplished something I didn't think possible in today's world. They have created a land of make-believe that's worse than regular life.

P. J. O'Rourke

Life, Believe, Thinking

P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.160, Atlantic Books Ltd

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In today's world, marketers reach inside the home and attempt to figure out not what's good for your daughter, because that is not their business, but what deep desires they can manipulate, stimulate and ostensibly satisfy in order to produce cold, hard cash.

Maggie Gallagher

Daughter, Mother, Home

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The flight of most members of a profession to the high empyrean, where they can work peacefully on purely scientific problems, isolated from the turmoil of real life, was perhaps quite appropriate at an earlier stage of science; but in today's world it is a luxury we cannot afford.

Gerald Holton

Real, Science, Luxury

Gerald James Holton (1998). “The Scientific Imagination: With a New Introduction”, p.250, Harvard University Press

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In today's world, most people are working side jobs while waiting to do what they really want to do.

Beth Behrs

Jobs, People, Waiting

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Now more than ever the world has to come together to make changes. Just because certain cultures have had long-standing traditions does not mean that in today's world they are acceptable any longer. The world and the environment are evolving and that means we must change our ways as human beings as well.

Hayden Panettiere

Mean, Long, Together

"Hayden Panettiere Speaks Out on Protesting Dolphin Hunt". people.com. November 2, 2007.

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The truth of the matter is that although not all Muslims are terrorists, unfortunately, in today's world, most of the terrorists - 99 per cent - are Muslim.

Shohreh Aghdashloo

Today's World, Matter, Terrorist

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You have to be literate in today's world. We're not going to get away with not teaching boys to read.

Christina Hoff Sommers

Teaching, Boys, Today

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