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“10 years ago the black man knew what his condition was. And today, because of the world revolution that's taking place all over this earth, the black man would be fighting for what he knows is his by right, but the movement on the part of [Martin Luther] King and the others had done nothing but slow down the militancy that is inherent in the nature of the black man.”

Knows Men World Years Done Would Be Today Earth Fighting Black Conditions Movement Revolution Kings Years Ago Inherent Slow Down Luther Militancy

Author:Malcolm X

“If I remember, Russia, 20 or 30 years ago, you'd get shot trying to leave. Today, Russian tourists are all over the world. You have Russian oligarchs with big yachts all over the world.”

Ifs World Trying Years Bigs Today Remember Shots Years Ago Russia Tourists Yacht

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“I felt that the world, and in particular this country, were going in circles. What had happened 40 or 50 years ago was happening again, but even in a worse form - that we were sinking into a lot of ignorance and a lot of superficial change.”

World Years Country Form Felt Happened Ignorance Particular Happenings Years Ago Circles Superficial Sinking Happening Again

Author:Raoul Peck

“[Carnival Ride] is part of a line from my favorite song on the album, "Wheel of the World." It sums up everything that's happened to me. It's nuts to think of where I was a couple of years ago.”

Thinking World Years Song Lines Happened Couple Years Ago My Favorite Albums Wheels Nuts Favorite Song Carnivals Carnival Rides

Author:Carrie Underwood

“Hans Rosling typically would go into the room, and he would ask the audience questions. Often they had to answer them with clickers or raising their hands or something. We get [data] wrong because 50 years ago that wasn't the case and because we haven't had these graphics we don't realize that over the last 30, 40, 50 years things have changed dramatically. And you see how the world has been getting a better, safer, more homogeneous place. It just has.”

World Years Has Beens Hands Lasts Asks Realizing Answers Rooms Cases Audience Havens Changed Years Ago Data Things Have Changed Homogeneous

Author:Keith Devlin

“The Iranian government is the government that supplied the arms on the Karin-A to the Palestinian Authority several years ago, they are the world's largest central banker for terrorism, if they thought it was in their interest to give a terrorist group a nuclear weapon to use against America or against Israel, I don't think they'd hesitate.”

“Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.”

Men World Years Political Politics This World Years Ago Gentle Greek

Book:Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy

Source: Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy

“I came from the old world of gastronomy. Many years ago I walked into the kitchens of the Hotel St George and I feel very fortunate that I worked for chefs that were behind their stoves. I saw that world of gastronomy. I can sit here today and say that I saw the golden age of gastronomy. It's gone, it's gone. It's never going to have that anymore, once the accountants get involved the romance fades. That's the reality.”

World Feels Years I Can Reality Age Today Romance Behinds Gone Saws Involved Years Ago Golden Fortunate Kitchen Hotel Fades Chef Get Involved Accountants Golden Age Old World Stoves

Author:Marco Pierre White

“What's the purpose of NATO? Well actually we have an official answer. It isn't publicized much, but a couple of years ago, the secretary-general of NATO made a formal statement explaining the purpose of NATO in the post-Cold War world is to control global energy systems, pipelines, and sea lanes. That means it's a global system and of course he didn't say it, it's an intervention force under US command, as we've seen in case after case. So that's NATO.”

“The world is a dangerous place. And it's a more dangerous place than it was seven years ago [before Obama].”

World Years Dangerous Years Ago Seven Seven Years Dangerous Places

Author:Kris Kobach

“I think the Bible is completely inspired by God in its overall messages. But, for the people of those days to know what was going to happen 4,000 years later in a world of astronomy or subatomic particles. They didn't have access to the knowledge that we presently have about geology. So, we know now that the world was created many of billions of years ago, 13 or 14 billion years ago. As far as they knew, the earth was the center of the universe. They thought that stars were little twinkling things in the sky where as now we know stars are very distant and much larger than the earth.”

“The United States does have the highest rate of incarceration in the world dwarfing the rates of even highly repressive regimes like Russia, China or Iran. This reflects a radical shift in criminal justice policy, a stunning development that virtually no one - not even the best criminologists - predicted forty years ago.”

World Years Doe States Justice United United States Policy Development Highest Years Ago Rate China Criminals Russia Radical Forty Iran Regimes Stunning Criminal Justice Incarceration

Author:Michelle Alexander

“There have, for years, been comparative studies of religious fanaticism and factors that correlate with it. By and large, it tends to decline with increasing industrialization and education. The US, however, is off the chart, ranking near devastated peasant societies. About 1/2 the population believe the world was created a few thousand years ago: the justification for the belief is that that is what they were ordered to believe by authority figures to whom they were taught one must subordinate oneself. And on, and on.”

“In America, we happen to be living in a third world country from the point of view of economic and social development. I came back from New York yesterday and I took the fastest train in the country, the Acela. My wife and I took the New York-Boston train sixty years ago - it wasn't called the Acela then - and I think it's improved by about fifteen minutes since then. Any other country in the world would be about half the time. In fact when it's riding along the Connecticut turnpike it's barely keeping up with traffic, which is just scandalous.”

“Half of the [USA] population, roughly, thinks the world was created a couple thousand years ago. Two thirds of the country is expecting the second coming of Christ. They've also had to turn to nativists. The gun culture in the United States, which is out of control, is party fueled by people who think 'we've got to have our guns to protect ourselves.'”

“A young person in Africa with a smartphone has more communications technology than the U.S. president had 25 years ago. So if the tools to change the world are now in everyone's hands, then the individuals now have the power that only governments and corporations used to have a couple of decades ago. I get excited by how that increases our capacity to be creative, and how that increases our capacity to create transformative things in the world.”

“When I was a student I did a report on Madagascar, and ever since then it was my biggest dream to go there. Three years ago I went, and it was so different. We live in this high tech world with Facebook, Twitter, and mobile phones, and there you land and you have nothing. Yet the people live and get by every day walking in the roads, living this super simple life, and they're still happy. It is an experience that keeps you humble, puts things in perspective.”

People World Years Stills Different Dream Three Simple Land Students Perspective Walking Years Ago Phones Humble Reports Three Years Mobile Simple Life Mobile Phones Madagascar

Author:Irina Shayk

“I feel really - actually - quite terrified about the world as it now exists. The kind of sucking the world dry for a dollar seems to me to be even worse (though it was hard for me to imagine 30 years ago that it could get worse) and the idea that bling and profit over human beings is really more and more a credible idea; people don't even examine it with any kind of question: I find that really terrifying.”

People World Feels Years Humans Kind Ideas Hard Seems Human Beings Imagine Years Ago Dollars Profit Dry Terrified Credible Bling

Author:Amber Hollibaugh

“You may know that in India now the Tata car is becoming all the rage; you can buy it for one lakh - $2000 dollars - it's very, very cheap. So India seems to be going the route that China went a few years ago and that developing countries all over the world seem to want to follow, namely, to rely on these personal vehicles, which is just an irrational way of organizing transport.”

Knows World Way Want Years May Country Seems Car Becoming Years Ago India Dollars China Rage Developing Rely Vehicle Irrational Routes Transport Developing Countries Tata

Author:Thomas Pogge

“In fact, we haven't ever really recalibrated our foreign policy commitments since the end of the Cold War. We still have alliances throughout Asia and across Europe that were devised to tame the Soviet Union, which, last time I checked, ceased to exist more than 20 years ago. Today, of course, we have a commitment to go to nuclear war with Russia in case Russia invades Latvia. To me, that's complete and utter nonsense. There ought to be a reconsideration of our posture in every region of the world.”

“We can try to gain some of the sensibility of some of the indigenous populations of the world or our predecessors 800 years ago. We can laugh at them as being naive and unsophisticated, but unless we can gain that sensibility that there has to be rights of nature as Bolivians and others put it, then we're going to be destroyed.”

World Trying Years Laughing Rights Gains Years Ago Population Destroyed Sensibility Naive Indigenous Predecessors

Author:Noam Chomsky

“I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.”

World Years Poetry Loneliness Messages Years Ago Lonely Passing Passings Aliens Hostile Gave Up Feeling Lonely Being Lonely

Author:Russell Baker

“In my first book, Under Fire, I wrote that I revered Ronald Reagan. That was a dozen years ago. I still feel that way. I think he changed the world for the better for my children and my children's children.”

Thinking World Way Feels Years Firsts Children Stills Book Fire Changed Years Ago My Children Dozen

Author:Oliver North

“I am very conscious that, from the time of The God of Small Things was published 10 years ago, we are in a different world ... which needs to be written about differently, and I really very much want to do that.”

World Want Needs Years Different Written Conscious Years Ago Small Things Different Worlds

Author:Arundhati Roy

“What we want to do is reform the welfare system in the way that Tony Blair talked about 13 years ago but never achieved - a system that was created for the days after the Second World War. That prize is now I think achievable.”

Thinking World Way Want Years War Years Ago Reform Welfare War Of The Worlds Prize Second World War Blair

Author:Iain Duncan Smith

“The world has changed - through technology, through wine-making techniques, the quality of wine is greater than it's ever been. Whereas ten, fifteen years ago it was very easy to find lots of bad wine, it's kind of hard now. The technology, the science - it's like, are you kidding? We're in the golden years of wine!”

World Years Kind Hard Easy Quality Technology Greater Changed Ten Years Ago Wine Technique Golden Fifteen Fifteen Years Wine Making Golden Years

Author:Gary Vaynerchuk

“I'm not sure what I think about current fashion, though. A few years ago, I would have said it's really, really bad and you hardly ever see anybody looking good. There must be some very good designers in the world.”

Thinking World Years Said Fashion Years Ago Very Good Currents Not Sure Designer Looking Good

Author:Vivienne Westwood

“If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.”

“In America, fundamentalist Christians believe the world was created 6,000 years ago - in England people drink in bars that are older than that.”

People World Years Believe Christian America Drink Years Ago England Bars Fundamentalist

Author:Steve Aylett

“Years ago my mother used to say to me, she'd say, "In this world, Elwood, you must be" - she always called me Elwood - "In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant." Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me.”

World Years Wells May Used Mother This World Smart Years Ago Pleasant Harvey

Author:Mary Chase

“Nefertiti, the most beautiful calico in the world, chose me as her own six short years ago.”

World Years Beautiful Six Years Ago Nefertiti

Book:House of Night Series

Source: House of Night Series

“Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.”

World Years Has Beens Two Today Spiritual Culture Thousand Years Ago Goddess Thousand Years Live For Today Spiritual Power Gods And Goddesses

Author:Dan Brown

“Thousands of years ago, man lived in harmony with the rest of the natural world. Through what we would today call Telepathy, he communicated with animals, plants, and other forms of life-none of which he considered "beneath" himself, only different, with different jobs to perform. He worked side by side with earth angels and nature spirits, with whom he shared responsibility for taking care of the world.”

Men World Years Different Care Today Earth Jobs Form Spirit Sides Natural Animal Responsibility Angel Years Ago Harmony Plant Natural World Telepathy Different Jobs Shared Responsibility

Author:Benjamin Hoff

“And I thought, eight years ago, when I began carefully charting the progress of American Gods, nervously dipping my toes into the waters of blogging, would I have imagined a future in which, instead of recording the vicissitudes of bringing a book into the world, I would be writing about not-even-interestingly missing cups of cold camomile tea? And I thought, yup. Sounds about right. Happy Eighth birthday, blog.”

World Writing Years Book Would Be Sound Water Progress Missing Cold Years Ago Eight Cups Tea Toes Blogs Blogging Vicissitudes American Gods Charting

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Two years ago your father died, Ulysses. But as long as we are alive, as long as we are together, as long as two of us are left, and remember him, nothing in the world can take him from us.”

World Years Long Two Together Remember Father Left Alive Years Ago Died Two Years Father Died Ulysses Two Of Us Two Years Ago

Author:William Saroyan

“If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago are worst than ignorant, they are the deluded to the point of perversity.”

Ifs Thinking World Years Facts Doubt Worst Evolution Thousand Ten Years Ago Ignorant Biology Thousand Years Deluded Perversity

Book:The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

Source: The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

“Why are you not smarter? It's only the rich who can't afford to be smart. They're compromised. They got locked years ago into privilege. They have to protect their belongings. No one is meaner than the rich. Trust me. But they have to follow the rules of their shitty civilised world. They declare war, they have honour, and they can't leave. But you two. We three. We're free.”

World Years Two War Three Rich Protect Smart Years Ago Privilege Belonging Honour Locked Smarter Trust Me Being Smart Civilised

Author:Michael Ondaatje

“Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the last great mind that looked out on the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as those who began to build our intellectual inheritance rather less than 10,000 years ago.”

World Years Mind Firsts Reason Eye Age Lasts Science Intellectual Years Ago Visible Magician Inheritance Newton Great Minds Age Of Reason Sumerians

Book:The Essential Keynes

Source: The Essential Keynes

“Infuriatingly stupid analysts - especially people who called themselves Arabists, yet who seemed to know next to nothing about the reality of the Islamic world - wrote reams of commentary [after 9/11]. Their articles were all about Islam saving Aristotle and the zero, which medieval Muslim scholars had done more than eight hundred years ago; about Islam being a religion of peace and tolerance, not the slightest bit violent. These were fairy tales, nothing to do with the real world I knew.”

“My mother died yesterday, yesterday many years ago. You know, what amazed me the most the next day after her leaving was the fact that the buildings were still in place, the streets were still full of cars running, full of people who were walking, seemingly ignoring that my whole world has just disappeared." (rough translation)”

People Knows World Years Stills Whole Facts Running Mother Next Streets Car Building Walking Years Ago Died Leaving Yesterday Whole World Rough Amazed Next Day Translations Mother Died

Author:Marc Levy

“But what if your obsession has nothing to do with drugs or thrills or money? What if what you want most in the world is to recapture the way life was a week, a month, a year ago-and you are willing to do whatever it takes?”

Ifs World Way Want Years Week Willing Months Drug Years Ago What You Want Obsession What If Whatever It Takes

Book:Perfect Match

Source: Perfect Match

“She is nine, beloved, as open-faced as the sky and as self-contained. I have watched her grow. As recently as three or four years ago, she had a young child's perfectly shallow receptiveness; she fitted into the world of time, it fitted into her, as thoughtlessly as sky fits its edges, or a river its banks. But as she has grown, her smile has widened with a touch of fear and her glance has taken on depth. Now she is aware of some of the losses you incur by being here--the extortionary rent you have to pay as long as you stay.”

Source: Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

“The Bible was written two thousand years ago. The world is a different place now. Stories that had meaning then are meaningless now. Beliefs that might have been valid then are invalid now. Those books should be looked at in the same way we look at anything of that age with interest with an acknowledgement of the historical importance but they should not be thought of as anything that has any value.”

“When all this is over, people will try to blame the Germans alone, and the Germans will try to blame the Nazis alone, and the Nazis will try to blame Hitler alone. They will make him bear the sins of the world. But it's not true. You suspected what was happening, and so did I. It was already too late over a year ago. I caused a reporter to lose his job because you told me to. He was deported. The day I did that I made my little contribution to civilization, the only one that matters.”

People World Trying Years Littles Made Matter Jobs Loses Sin Bears Civilization Late Happenings Years Ago Blame Contribution Too Late Reporters Nazi True You Willful Ignorance

Book:Dream of Scipio

Source: Dream of Scipio

“The atoms of our bodies are traceable to stars that manufactured them in their cores and exploded these enriched ingredients across our galaxy, billions of years ago. For this reason, we are biologically connected to every other living thing in the world. We are chemically connected to all molecules on Earth. And we are atomically connected to all atoms in the universe. We are not figuratively, but literally stardust.”

World Years Reason Body Earth Universe Stars Years Ago Connected Billions Core Ingredients Atoms Galaxy Living Things Molecules Stardust

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“[Speaking to a group of wealthy New Yorkers] A million years ago, the cave man, without tools, with small brain, and with nothing but the strength of his body, managed to feed his wife and children, so that through him the race survived. You on the other hand, armed with all the modern means of production, multiplying the productive capacity of the cave man a million times — you are incompetents and muddlers, you are unable to secure to millions even the paltry amount of bread that would sustain their physical life. You have mismanaged the world, and it shall be taken from you.”

“Americans have become conditioned to believe the world is a gray place without absolutes; this is because we’re simultaneously cowardly and arrogant. We don’t know the answers, so we assume they must not exist. But they do exist. They are unclear and/or unfathomable, but they’re out there. And—perhaps surprisingly—the only way to find those answers is to study NBA playoff games that happened twenty years ago. For all practical purposes, the voice of Brent Musburger was the pen of Ayn Rand.”

Source: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

“The first time I ever saw snow skis was when I was 62 years old and that was 19 years ago and I'm still skiing. So, we'll be skiing with some very close friends of the Carter Center letting them know what the Carter Center is doing around the world. We have programs in over 65 countries.”

Knows World Years Firsts Stills Country Saws First Time Years Ago Program Snow Around The World Carter Close Friends Skis Skiing

Author:Jimmy Carter

“Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.”

World Inspirational Years Mind Littles Long Funny Interest Particular Years Ago Boat Shore Sail Sailing Purses No Money Nautical Sailing And The Sea Boats And Sailing

Book:Moby-Dick

Source: Moby-Dick

“A year ago Guyana became politically free and independent. She assumed the untrammeled right to make her own decisions on what ought to be done or ought not to be done within her border. Since then, hers has also been the right to decide what course she would take and to state her views and opinions positively in the fora of the world. As we celebrate the first anniversary of freedom, it is our duty to take account of what we have achieved or what we have failed to do, to note where we have done well and what we ought to have done better.”

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