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“I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat.”

World India I Realized Flats Valleys Silicon Silicon Valley World Is Flat Bangalore

“I love America. I think it's the best country in the world. But I also think we're not tending to our sauce.”

Thinking World Country America Sauce Best Country World Is Flat

“From 1918 on, trade unionists were to express from the platforms of their congresses the workers' desire for peace through a rational organization of the world.”

World Desire Organization Trade Workers Congress Rational Platforms

Author:Leon Jouhaux

“In Globalization 1.0, which began around 1492, the world went from size large to size medium. In Globalization 2.0, the era that introduced us to multinational companies, it went from size medium to size small. And then around 2000 came Globalization 3.0, in which the world went from being small to tiny.”

World Company Size Tiny Mediums Eras Globalization Multinationals World Is Flat

Author:Thomas Friedman

“Yes, the world is now flat for publishing as well.”

World Wells Flats Publishing

Author:Thomas Friedman

“No, most of our political elite has not realized that the world is flat.”

World Political Flats Elites World Is Flat

Author:Thomas Friedman

“France cannot be destroyed. She is an old country who, despite her misfortunes, has, and always will have, thanks to her past, a tremendous prestige in the world, whatever the fate inflicted upon her.”

World Country Past Fate Despite Destroyed Thanks France Misfortunes Prestige

Author:Pierre Laval

“Basically all the world's computer parts come from the same supply chain that runs from Korea, down through coastal China, over to Taiwan, and down to Malaysia.”

World Running Computer China Chains Ties Korea Taiwan Malaysia Coastal Supply Chain

Author:Thomas Friedman

“If you followed this economic crisis and you do not think that the world is getting flatter, you are not paying attention. We saw the entire global economy at one time acting totally in sync. The real truth is the world is even flatter than I thought. Our mortgage crisis is killing Deutsche Bank. You still don't think the world is flat?”

“A film must have two elements - it must deal with the real world and show how it could be made better.”

World Made Two Real Shows Film Deals Elements Real World

Author:Rouben Mamoulian

“The world today is so full of violence, obscenity, war, the failure of political systems. I try to make movies that make people a bit more confident. But that doesn't mean being sugary.”

People World Trying Mean War Today Political Bits Violence World Today Political Systems Obscenity

Author:Rouben Mamoulian

“I love to travel the world. My husband and I always travel and everywhere we go I've been to Italy, of course London, Ireland, and you just receive so much love.”

World Courses Husband London My Husband Ireland Travel The World Much Love

Author:Tamera Mowry

“Development does not take place in Washington, DC. Development takes place in the rest of the world.”

World Doe Development Washington Dc

Author:Andrew Natsios

“The use of the internet, the use of Twitter, the way protest movements developed...This is a different world.”

World Way Different Use Movement Internet Protest Different Worlds Protest Movements

Author:Gus O'Donnell, Baron O'Donnell

“My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through the GI Bill.”

World War Home Parent Mom Bills My Mom Thanks War Of The Worlds World War Ii Navy Loan Enlisted Gis

Book:That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back

Source: That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back

“I have a great deal of difficulty with those who live in a hugely prosperous country telling people in the developing world that they should be deprived of a critical source of energy.”

People World Should Country Energy Deals Economy Source Difficulty Critical Developing Deprived Prosperous Prosperous Country

Author:Lee R. Raymond

“Since I've got on the Internet, it's opened a whole world of wasted time for me. My wife says she's an Internet widow.”

World Whole Wife Internet My Wife Whole World Widows Wasted Time

Author:Mick Ralphs

“The most stylish country in the world is Italy.”

World Country Stylish

Author:Nick Rhodes

“By 'flat' I did not mean that the world is getting equal. I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before. That's why an Indian in Bangalore can take care of the office work of American doctors or read the X-rays of German hospitals.”

People World Mean Said Care Equal Office Tools Doctors Take Care Indian Flats Hospitals Rays Office Work Bangalore Equal Power

Author:Thomas Friedman

“Sweden is a small country and, well, our family's pretty prominent in that world, I guess. And I really didn't like the sound of just being 'the fourth acting Skarsgard.”

World Wells Country Sound Acting Our Family Fourth Just Being Prominent Sweden Small Countries

Author:Bill Skarsgard

“I do more work in Britain than I do anywhere else in the world.”

World Britain

Author:Edwin Starr

“The record industry is a world within itself.”

World Records Industry

Author:Edwin Starr

“It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world.”

People World Play Share Platforms World History Plugs Sharing Knowledge

Author:Thomas Friedman

“It seems essential to try to find some meaning to life and I guess Jungian philosophy is the one that's helped me understand myself and the world more than anything else.”

World Trying Philosophy Seems Essentials Meaning Life

Author:Noah Taylor

“My father felt that his world of ideas was too liberal for traditional rabbinical teachings, and he looked for a chance to find a way in life.”

World Way Ideas Father Felt Chance Teaching Traditional Way In Life

Author:Immanuel Velikovsky

“As long as man labors for a physical existence, though an act of necessity almost, he is yet natural; it is life, though that of this world, for which he instinctively works.”

Men World Long Natural Existence This World Labor

Book:Essays and Poems

Source: Essays and Poems

“Macbeth is contending with the realities of this world, Hamlet with those of the next.”

World Reality Next This World Contending

Book:Essays and Poems

Source: Essays and Poems

“So I decided the only place I can speak to the world is from outside Israel.”

World I Can Speak Decided Israel

Author:Mordechai Vanunu

“I did a film a long time ago with a shaved head and I had the ugliest looking head in the world.”

World Long Film Long Time Long Time Ago Shaved Head

Author:Gedde Watanabe

“Africa has been troubled for a long time - well, the world has been troubled ever since I was born.”

World Wells Long Has Beens Born Long Time

Author:Hugh Masekela

“It's obvious that the rest of the world loves high African culture - African culture, period.”

World Culture Periods Obvious World Love African Culture

Author:Hugh Masekela

“In this world of uncertainty and woe, one thing remains unchanged: Fresh, canned, pureed, dried, salted, sliced, and served with sugar and cream, or pressed into juice, the tomato is reliable, friendly, and delicious. We would be nothing without it.”

World Would Be One Thing This World Remains Uncertainty Friendly Sugar Cream Woe Delicious Juice Tomatoes

Author:Laurie Colwin

“The world needs more women filmmakers, so we have to keep encouraging ourselves and one another, and eventually things must get easier for us.”

World Needs Easier Filmmaker

Author:Lucy Walker

“I love my work, apart from when it's driving me crazy. But I get to be interested in stuff and think like a filmmaker as I'm buzzing about the world and then see an opportunity to make a film, and then make it happen.”

Thinking World Happens Film Opportunity Stuff Crazy Driving Filmmaker Make It Happen Drive Me Crazy

Author:Lucy Walker

“At issue is not only knowledge of the world but our survival as individuals and as a species. All the basic technologies ever invented by humans to feed and protect themselves depend on a relentless commitment to hard-nosed empiricism: you cannot assume that your arrowheads will pierce the hide of a bison or that your raft will float just because the omens are propitious and you have been given supernatural reassurance that they will. You have to be sure.”

Source: Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

“The double standard of morality will survive in this world so long as the woman whose husband has been lured away is favoured with the sympathetic tears of other women, and a man whose wife has made off is laughed at by other men.”

Men World Long Has Beens Made Wife This World Tears Morality Husband Standards Laughed Sympathetic Double Standard

Author:H. L. Mencken

“The artist is not a reporter, but a Great Teacher. It is not his business to depict the world as it is, but as it ought to be.”

World Artist Teacher Ought Reporters Great Teacher

Book:PREJUDICES A SELECTION

Source: PREJUDICES A SELECTION

“In America, getting on in the world means getting out of the world we have known before.”

World Mean America Known

Author:Ellery Sedgwick

“Mammon is the largest slave-holder in the world.”

World Slave

Author:Arthur Frederick Saunders

“The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.”

Men World Soul Law Simple Results History Conditions Produce Constant Laws Of Nature

Author:Friedrich Schiller

“Misery travels free through the whole world!”

World Whole Misery Whole World

Book:Schiller's Complete Works

Source: Schiller's Complete Works

“We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time, or we shall stick in the mud. Yet neither must we undertake a new world as catastrophic Utopians, and wreck our civilization in our hurry to mend it.”

World Done Lasts Civilization Sticks New World Last Time Mud Wrecks

Book:Back to Methuselah

Source: Back to Methuselah

“I was taught when I was young that if people would only love one another, all would be well with the world. I found when I tried to put that into practice, not only were other people seldom lovable but I wasn't very lovable myself.”

People Ifs World Wells Would Be Young Found Practice Taught Only Love Love One Another Lovable

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness? While it lasts, the religion of worshiping oneself is best.”

World Giving Lasts Religion Oneself Followers

Author:C. S. Lewis

“However, in modern conceptual frameworks there is a more sophisticated view. I would say that the act of music exists in several worlds simultaneously.”

World Views Modern Sophisticated Framework Conceptual Framework

Author:Robert Fripp

“The pen is the lever that moves the world.”

World Moving Pens Levers

Book:Crumbs Swept Up

Source: Crumbs Swept Up

“Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.”

World Spirit Evil Hours Dangerous Deceit Sincerity Insincerity Evil Spirits

Book:Short Studies on Great Subjects

Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects

“There will be little drudgery in this better ordered world. Natural power harnessed in machines will be the general drudge. What drudgery is inevitable will be done as a service and duty for a few years or months out of each life; it will not consume nor degrade the whole life of anyone.”

World Years Littles Done Whole Natural Work Duty Months Machines Whole Life Inevitable Degrade Drudgery

Book:The Outline of History

Source: The Outline of History

“The world is no longer closed to us in the way it was in the past - present generations have unparalleled access to pretty much all corners of the globe.”

World Way Past Generations Corners Access Globes Past Present

Author:Edgar Guest

“As a final example, let's remember Jeremy Glick, whose father died in the World Trade Center. After his name appeared in an ad opposing war in Iraq, Mr. Glick was invited on The Factor .. I'm not going to dress you down anymore.”

World War Remember Father Names Example Died Dresses Trade Finals Iraq Factors Ads Invited Opposing World Trade World Trade Center Father Died

Author:Bill O'Reilly

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