World Today Quotes - Page 13

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

  Pablo Picasso

  Music, Art, World

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• According to Gur's theory of boredom, everything that happens in the world today is because of boredom: love, war, inventions, fake fireplaces - ninety-five percent of all that is pure boredom.

  Etgar Keret

  War, Boredom, Fake

  Etgar Keret (2006). “The Nimrod Flipout: Stories”, p.55, Macmillan

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Ric Flair, you can tell all these people that I'm full of it for calling myself the Legend Killer? Well, I think you're full of it for coming out here every Monday and telling the whole world that Triple H is the best wrestler in the world today. I know it's not true, I'm pretty sure all these people know it's not true and Ric Flair, I know that deep down inside your heart, you know it's not true either which is why it's so tragic to see what you've become. This generation is gonna remember Ric Flair for kissing Triple H's ass!

  Randy Orton

  Monday, Heart, Kissing

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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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• Hillary Rodham Clinton was America's chief diplomat. So let's look around at the violence and danger in our world today in every region of the world that has been infected with her flawed judgment.

  Chris Christie

  America, Our World, Today

  "Chris Christie: 'It is our obligation to stop Hillary Clinton now'". Republican convention speech, www.macleans.ca. July 19, 2016.

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• There are those people who basically don't like those who are different. Now, that is a prejudice and it's a prejudice that's dangerous because in the world today, the world works through connectivity. It works through going across the boundaries, but faith and culture and race in a nation.

  Tony Blair

  Race, People, Different

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. August 24, 2016.

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