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“We didn't do anything wrong, but among the lessons learned, given the magnitude of the problems we now face in Afghanistan, a major U.S. force on the ground would convince the world we were in for the long-haul recovery of a country devastated by 21 years of warfare.”

World Years Long Country Problem Faces Given Force Lessons Majors Recovery Convince Afghanistan Warfare Magnitude Devastated Haul Lesson Learned Long Haul

Author:Alexander Haig

“I have a feeling Virtual Reality will further expose the conceit that 'reality' is a fact. It will provide another reminder of the seamless continuity between the world outside and the world within, delivering another major hit to the old fraud of objectivity. 'Real,' as Kevin Kelly put it, 'is going to be one of the most relative words we'll have.'”

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Author:John Perry Barlow

“Growth is widely thought to be the panacea for all the major economic ills of the modern world.”

World Growth Economic Modern Majors Modern World Panacea

Book:Ecological Economics and Sustainable Development

Source: Ecological Economics and Sustainable Development

“I begin by looking for megatrends, changes in the world that will create major new demands. My goal is to create a company that can be there to meet those demands.”

World Goal Company Demand Majors

Author:Rodney Brooks

“Homicide is the major leagues, the center ring, the show. It always has been ... It goes beyond academic degrees, specialized training or book learning, because all the theory in the world means nothing if you can't read the street.”

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Author:David Simon

“America has the highest standard of living of any major country in the entire world. To maintain and enhance that standard of living, America should continue to embrace those qualities which have made America great: openness and dynamism. Openness to new technologies, new ideas and new people is America's greatest source of strength.”

People World Should Made Ideas Country America Quality Technology Source Majors Highest Standards Embrace Openness New Ideas New Technology Standards Of Living Dynamism Source Of Strength

Author:Alex Tabarrok

“One of the great unresolved psychological enigmas of the modern western world is the question of what or who has persuaded us to accept as virtually axiomatic a self-view and a world-view that demand we reject out of hand the wisdom and vision of our major philosophers and poets in order to imprison our thought and our very selves in the materialist, mechanical and dogmatic torture-chamber devised by purely quantitative and third-rate scientific minds.”

Source: Human image, world image: the death and resurrection of sacred cosmology

“The most revealing books are the Holy Koran and the Holy Bible. The Bhagavad Gita is a great book as well, and the works of Buddha. These are the major influences on the world.”

World Wells Book Influence Holy Majors Revealing Holy Bible Great Book Gita

Author:RZA

“Fitzgerald describes the social disillusionments and ballroom romanticism of the young people of the upper classes and the loneliness of Gatsby, who gives large parties and has an extensive social life; yet he is lonely, and his guests scarcely know him.... Hemingway's characters live in a tourist world, and one of their major problems is that of consuming time itself. It is interesting to observe that his works are written from the stand point of the spectator. His characters are usually people who are looking--looking at bullfights, scenery, and at one another across cafe tables.”

“I want to see all the countries in the world and learn all the languages. I want to have thousands of friends and I want all my friends to be different. I want to play six instruments. I want to be the best in the world at two things. I want to be a great athlete and I want to be a great surgeon. I need to practice very hard every day. I need to sleep as little as possible. I need to read at least one major book every week. And I need to remember that my seventy years are going to go by too quickly.”

“Without a deal [with Iran], the international sanctions regime will unravel with little ability to reimpose them. With this deal, we have the possibility of peacefully resolving a major threat to regional and international security. Without a deal, we risk even more war in the Middle East and other countries in the region would feel compelled to pursue their own nuclear programs, threatening a nuclear arms race in the most volatile region in the world.”

“America is facing some major threats. Cyber warfare, Islamic terror and Russia, does it sound terrible? It sounds like the end of the world.”

World Doe Ends America Sound Terrible Majors Threat Terror Russia Islamic Warfare End Of The World Cyber Cyber Warfare

Author:Kimberly Guilfoyle

“A major boom in real stock prices in the US after Black Tuesday brought them halfway back to 1929 levels by 1930. This was followed by a second crash, another boom from 1932 to 1937, and a third crash. Speculative bubbles do not end like a short story, novel, or play. There is no final denouement that brings all the strands of a narrative into an impressive final conclusion. In the real world, we never know when the story is over.”

“In Washington, if you're a congressman or a senator or the President, you make much more money than the average American, but you'd think that if you were the leader of the free world you'd be making major bank, and you don't.”

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Author:Beau Willimon

“Night baseball isn't an aberration. What's an aberration is a team that hasn't won a World Series since 1908. They tend to think of themselves as a little Williamsburg, a cute little replica of a major league franchise. Give me the Oakland A's, thank you very much. People who do it right.”

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Author:George Will

“I realize that artists can become fatigued from touring the world over, but if it's your first major tour, you've got to buckle down and do it, said Sami Jarroush, a music blogger for Consequence of Sound. Short of suffering from an actual medical emergency, saying you're going to stop performing so you can take a vacation isn't exactly going to make you look good in the eyes of however many fans you have left.”

Ifs World Firsts Looks Said Eye Artist Suffering Left Sound Realizing Music Fans Majors Consequence Down And Medical Performing Vacation Emergencies Touring Bloggers Buckles

Author:Iggy Azalea

“This is a major strategic challenge affecting not only our military, but ultimately, America's leadership in the global world order, we are at a point where our national aspirations are at risk of exceeding our available resources.”

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Author:Martin Dempsey

“The Southbank Centre Unlimited Festival was a distinct moment in time, an amazing counterpoint to the London 2012 Paralympics. There is no question that a major shift in perspective is taking place, that the world is waking up and greeting - as if for the first time - the extraordinary community of people with disability.”

“Focusing-Oriented Art Therapy is a major contribution to art therapy literature and practice. Laury Rappaport introduces a contemplative method and philosophy grounded in the body's felt-sense of experience and its innate and largely unrecognized wisdom. This intellectually provocative, yet thoroughly practical text, establishes Rappaport as an emergent leader in the art therapy world and author of a book that every student and art therapist must read in order to appreciate the depth and breadth of our discipline.”

“The nineteenth century was the last moment in history when a relatively educated layperson could follow what was going on in the world of science and invention to a wide degree. Also, there were no "professionals". This was a time when amateur explorers, naturalists and enthusiasts were are still making major contributions to progress.”

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Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“Major League Baseball is the best league in the world, full of capable hitters up and down every single lineup.”

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Author:Ron Darling

“The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.”

World Force Sex Majors

Author:Hugh Hefner

“As I looked at material and spiritual poverty in the world around me, including approximately 2 billion people who haven't even heard the gospel, I knew that I needed to make some major changes in my life.”

People World Spiritual Poverty Heard Havens Materials Needed Majors Including Billions Changing My Life Major Change

Author:David Platt

“I'm not sure if that answers the question and I have absolutely no problem with any major world religion on Earth.”

Ifs World Problem Earth Answers Majors Not Sure No Problem World Religions

Author:John Hodgman

“I have a deep attachment to the natural world. It's a major influence on my writing, and as I look out over the wonderful snow-covered Santa Fe hills, I'm grateful for every day that I live here.”

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Author:Pat Mora

“India is a youthful country. A country with such a major percentage of youth has the capability to change not only its own, but the fate of the entire world.”

World Country Fate Youth Majors India Capability Percentages

Author:Narendra Modi

“My family suffered very major losses during the Second World War, that's true. In my father's family, there were five brothers. I think four of them died. On my mother's side the picture was pretty much the same. Russia has suffered great losses. And of course we can't forget that.”

Thinking World War Mother Courses Father Sides Loss Forget Five Four Brother Majors My Family Died Russia War Of The Worlds Second World War Great Loss

Author:Vladimir Putin

“It's not an accident that the U.S. ranks lowest of all major donor countries in the world - that is the share of our income that goes to development aid. Americans will ask whether, because were so generous privately, that makes up the difference. But it doesn't. We still rank far below other countries.”

World Stills Country Asks Differences Share Development Majors Accidents Aids Income Generous Other Countries Lowest Donors Development Aid

Author:Jeffrey Sachs

“Rivalries don't necessarily mean races being close at major championships. I had a rivalry with Butch Reynolds for many years. I won all the races, but Butch was the world record holder before I came into the sport, he was extremely talented and he was the only other man running 43 seconds.”

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Author:Michael Johnson

“When we choose a man to beautify our towns, we do not automatically call on the major artists of the world. ... We now lavishly praise Frank Lloyd Wright, but we never made any community use of him, though he longed for the chance.”

Men World Made Use Artist Community Chance Majors Towns Praise Frank Our Town

Author:Paul Goodman

“Abstraction has always been around, since the drawings in the caves. It exists in all cultures all over the world. I thought for a while that it was going to be the major movement. But people always drift back to realism. I guess there is a certain security in that.”

People World Certain Culture Security Movement Majors Drawing Realism Caves Abstraction

Author:Brice Marden

“I genuinely was just such a fan of the books. When I heard that this was on the cards, I've got to do this; I've got to get involved with this. I'm such a Philip Pullman fan and actually his philosophies, morals and the way he looks at the world. He does what he does brilliantly as a writer. He writes children's stories with major adult themes and major ideas about making the right choices.”

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Author:Daniel Craig

“Film is universal. All the countries of the world are making films. Hollywood is the only major unsubsidized center for films. To my knowledge all others are at least partially subsidized. I'm glad Hollywood isn't.”

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Author:Frank Capra

“Is there some magic wand they can wave on it and presto! - physics is overturned and carbon dioxide doesn't trap heat anymore? And when we see all these things happening on the Earth itself, what in the hell do they think is causing it? The scientists have long held that the evidence in their considered word is "unequivocal," which has been endorsed by every national academy of science in every major country in the entire world.”

Thinking World Long Has Beens Country Earth Hell Magic Majors Happenings Evidence Scientist Wave Physics Things Happen Heat Traps Carbon Academy Wands Carbon Dioxide Magic Wands Unequivocal

Author:Al Gore

“My favorite place in the whole world is the city of Paris. to me, Paris stands at the frontier of every major category of travel - in food, art, theater, history, in so many different areas that I simply don't get tired of it.”

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Author:Arthur Frommer

“The major impediment to experiencing the sacred depths of ordinary moments is the speed and distraction of contemporary life that moves to the imperatives of the global economic order.In addition, we increasingly live in a virtual world in which our reality is filtered through media and information technology.”

“From the Muslims I learned from the extraordinary pluralism of the Koran, the fact that the Koran endorses every single one of the major world faiths, but I was particularly enthralled by the Sufi tradition, the mystical tradition of Islam, which is so open to other religious faiths.”

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Author:Karen Armstrong

“Every single one of the major world faiths, whether we're talking about Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Darwinism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, have all come to the conclusion that what holds us back from our better self is ego, selfishness, greed, unkindness, hatred. And it all springs from a sense of thwarted ego.”

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Author:Karen Armstrong

“People can write jokes five minutes after a major world event happens, and have hundreds of thousands of people read them within 10 minutes. Whereas before you write a joke, you don't know if anybody is really touching on it or not, and you tell it onstage the next night. For joke writing it has changed things.”

People Ifs Knows World Writing Happens Night Next Five Minutes Events Changed Majors Jokes Touching Five Minutes World Events

Author:Nick Thune

“The rule of law does not guarantee freedom, since general law as well as personal edicts can be tyrannical. But increasing reliance on the rule of law clearly played a major role in transforming Western society from a world in which the ordinary citizen was literally subject to the arbitrary will of his master to a world in which the ordinary citizen could regard himself as his own master”

Source: There's no such thing as a free lunch

“If you want the other person more than anything else in the world, you're in major trouble and the relationship is a wobbly pivot. It's different if the thing you want most in the world is truth, and your partner is the person you want most in the world.”

Ifs World Want Persons Different Trouble Majors Partners

Author:Stephen Levine

“I think the Women's movement has had a major impact on everybody's lives in our nation and in the world as a whole.”

Thinking World Whole Nations Movement Majors Impact

Author:Bell Hooks

“There are major writers who have written books [based on my research]. If one looks carefully at the copyright page, you'll see my name. Writers of the stature of Mailer and even bigger. All over the world.”

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Author:Lawrence Schiller

“The Carlyle Group is the most politically connected investment firm in the world. The company has mastered the art of influence peddling on a global scale, hiring executives and consultants ranging from Republican power broker James Baker and former president George Herbert Walker Bush to foreign leaders like former British prime minister John Major and former Philippine president Fidel Ramos.”

“The United States invaded Iraq to gain control of one of the major sources of the world's energy.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“Demand for grain in the world today is a more stable trend than demand for energy. Russia is a major grain exporter and can consolidate its positions”

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Author:Dmitry Medvedev

“The darkness that we see in our world today is due to the disintegration of things out of harmony with God's laws. The basic conflict is not between nations, it is between two opposing beliefs. The first is that evil can be overcome by more evil, that the end justifies the means. This belief is very prevalent in our world today. It is the war way. It is the official position of every major nation.”

“Social unrest and protectionism are the two major risks of the world economic crisis.”

World Two Social Risk Economic Majors Crisis Unrest Economic Crisis Protectionism Social Unrest

Author:Christine Lagarde

“And I think the almost undeviating support by Great Britain for the ill-advised policies of President Bush in Iraq have been a major tragedy for the world.”

Thinking World Has Beens President Support Policy Majors Tragedy Ill Iraq Britain President Bush Great Britain

Author:Jimmy Carter

“With software products, it is usual to find that the software has major `bugs' and does not work reliably for some users... The lay public, familiar with only a few incidents of software failure, may regard them as exceptions caused by exceptionally inept programmers. Those of us who are software professionals know better; the most competent programmers in the world cannot avoid such problems.”

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Author:David Parnas

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