World Today Quotes - Page 8

• Throughout the world today there is a gowing awareness of the failings of the Western model of development and a corresponding desire to look for more human-scale, ecological ways of living.

  Helena Norberg-Hodge

  Desire, Looks, Development

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• Much of the world today, including the United States, is still living in the social, cultural, and political aftermath of Britain's cultural achievements, its industrial revolution, its government of checks and balances, and its conquests around the world.

  Thomas Sowell

  Government, History, Achievement

  Thomas Sowell (2008). “Conquests And Cultures: An International History”, p.67, Basic Books

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• The American motion picture is the greatest unconscious carrier of propaganda in the world today. It is a great distributor for ideas and opinions. The motion picture can standardize the ideas and habits of a nation. Because pictures are made to meet market demands, they reflect, emphasize and even exaggerate broad popular tendencies, rather than stimulate new ideas and opinions. The motion picture avails itself only of ideas and facts which are in vogue. As the newspaper seeks to purvey news, it seeks to purvey entertainment.

  Edward Bernays

  Ideas, Today, Facts

  Edward L. Bernays (1930). “Propaganda”

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• The biggest problem facing our world today is a lack of hope and a lack of meaning. [It's] basically just a postmodern world in which there is no right or wrong, no better or worse.

  Jon Foreman

  Our World, Today, Problem

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• There are more than 27 million people enslaved in the world today - that's double the amount of people taken from Africa during the entire trans-Atlantic slave trade.

  Lisa Kristine

  Motivation, Taken, Inspiration

  FaceBook post by Lisa Kristine from May 28, 2014

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• My Christmas prayer is that I would remain close to God, and He close to me. With all the suffering in the world today, there is the temptation to fall to fear… we need to be near the Lord.. we need the Hope of Christmas.

  Don Moen

  Prayer, Fall, Temptation

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• When you’re the best fighter in the world today, they don’t call you a great fighter. They call you Chael Sonnen.

  Chael Sonnen

  World, Today, Fighter

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• The biggest change in the world today is that the young don’t learn from the old, they teach the old about the world today.

  Klaus Schwab

  World, Today, Young

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• Remember that Divinity is the true self of Man. It cannot be sold for gold; neither can it be heaped up as are the riches of the world today. The rich man has cast off his Divinity, and has clung to his gold. And the young today have forsaken their Divinity and pursue self-indulgence and pleasure.

  Khalil Gibran

  Men, Self, Gold

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• We have been taught (that is, schooled) in this country to think of 'success' as synonymous with, or at least dependent upon, 'schooling,' but historically that isn’t true in either an intellectual or a financial sense. And plenty of people throughout the world today find a way to educate themselves without resorting to a system of compulsory secondary schools that all too often resemble prison.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Country, School, Thinking

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• What can change the world today is the same thing that has changed it in the past-an idea and the service of dedicated, committed individuals to that idea.

  Sargent Shriver

  Past, Ideas, World

  Sargent Shriver (1964). “Point of the lance”

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• Network marketing is the fastest growing business model in the world today.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Marketing, World, Growing

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• There is a sad tendency in our world today for persons to cut one another down. Did you ever realize that it does not take very much in the way of brainpower to make remarks that may wound another? Try the opposite of that. Try handing out compliments.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Cutting, Our World, Opposites

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• The art of loving creates the unity which has unlimited spiritual strength, and that is the greatest need in the world today, and each and every one of us can make such a difference if we become humble, if we develop a service attitude rather than an exploitative attitude, if we develop the broad mind to see the oneness and to learn to love all living beings.

  Radhanath Swami

  Spiritual, Art, Attitude

  "Unity Is Strength". Radhanath Swami's Lecture in Mumbai, www.radhanathswami.net.

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• There is no national problem in the world today which cannot be resolved by reason alone.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  World, Today, Problem

  "Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health". Book by L. Ron Hubbard, 1950.

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• An immense and ever-increasing wealth of knowledge is scattered about the world today; knowledge that would probably suffice to solve all the mighty difficulties of our age, but it is dispersed and unorganized. We need a sort of mental clearing house for the mind: a depot where knowledge and ideas are received, sorted, summarized, digested, clarified and compared.

  H. G. Wells

  Wealth Of Knowledge, Ideas, House

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• There are seeds of happiness in every soul. Our mental attitude and dispositions constitute the environment in which these seeds germinate. There is as much need for sunshine in our heart as for sunshine in the world. Today, as perhaps never before, mankind needs encouragement and cheer.

  David O. McKay

  Encouragement, Cheer, Attitude

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• When you are doing one thing - talking on your phone, texting, whatever - you are automatically not doing something else. What is the greatest scarcity in the world today? It's not oil. It's time. Time is precious. Don't throw it away.

  Martin Cooper

  Phones, Talking, Oil

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• For eighteen centuries every engine of destruction that human science, philosophy, wit, reasoning or brutality could bring to bear against a book has been brought to bear against that book to stamp it out of the world, but it has a mightier hold on the world today than ever before. If that were man's book it would have been annihilated and forgotten hundreds of years ago.

  R. A. Torrey

  Philosophy, Book, Men

  Charles Leach, R. A. Torrey “Our Bible: How We Got It and Ten Reasons Why I Believe the Bible is the Word of God”, Moody Publishers

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• The majority of the people of the world today are unsane, not insane, unsane meaning having been exposed to methods of evaluation that have long rendered obsolete.

  Jacque Fresco

  Long, People, Insane

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• We need to give Christ a chance to make use of us, to be His word and His work, to share His food and His clothing in the world today. If we do not radiate the light of Christ around us, the sense of the darkness that prevails in the world will increase.

  Mother Teresa

  Light, Giving, Darkness

  Mother Teresa (1997). “No Greater Love”

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• The only trouble with this world today lies in our lack of understanding of the power of imagination.

  Napoleon Hill

  Lying, Imagination, Understanding

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, editor, Napoleon Hill “Law of Success - Law of Attraction”, Lulu.com

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• The human psyche has two great sicknesses: the urge to carry vendetta across generations, and the tendency to fasten group labels on people rather than see them as individuals. Abrahamic religion gives strong sanction to both-and mixes explosively with both. Only the willfully blind could fail to implicate the divisive force of religion in most, if not all, of the violent enmities in the world today.

  Richard Dawkins

  Strong, Two, Giving

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• There are certainly people for whom politics is not a category that helps you understand human existence. In fact, it's kind of a detour into superficiality, and although I disagree with those people, I don't think it's the case that everyone who writes has to write politically or has to write in opposition to the really horrendous things that are going on on a political level in the world today. There are some writers who simply aren't any good at that and really should stay away from it.

  Tony Kushner

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You can't force someone to learn. You present these beautiful lines that have so much to do with the world today and let them fall where they will.

  Elizabeth Hurley

  Beautiful, Fall, World

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