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80 percent of the export of armament in the world comes from the G8 countries. [The] United States alone exports about 50… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
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Those new regions [America] which we found and explored with the fleet . . . we may rightly call a New World… — Amerigo Vespucci Copy Share Image
Sometime in my second year at Brown [University], I took an acting class. And the lightbulb went off for me. I fell… — Tracee Ellis Ross Copy Share Image
Simplicity brings back the joys of Paradise. Not that we have pure pleasure without a moment's suffering, but when we are surrendered… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Governments have been ceding power to big multinational corporations in the market. We see the manifest in a variety of ways. Where… — Noreena Hertz Copy Share Image
Long ago, when I was a very young girl, I said that I wanted to go everywhere, see everything, taste everything. hear… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life.… — Mae Jemison Copy Share Image
From my intimate discussions with President Obama, it is evident that India figures significantly in American geo-political, economic and strategic thinking. India… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
All was predicted by the mathematical cycles of the Mayan calendars. -- It will change --everything will change. Mayan Day-keepers view the… — Carlos Barrios Copy Share Image
He is the real Guru Who can reveal the form of the formless before your eyes; who teaches the simple path, without… — Kabir Copy Share Image
The screening in the United States is the toughest screening of any country in the world in terms of refugees, that accepts… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
I think it's really important to be humble for the music because there is always someone better than you, there is always… — Tarja Turunen Copy Share Image
If we dig deep in our history and remember that we are not descendants from fearful people, we proclaim ourselves indeed as… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on… — Augustus Hare Copy Share Image
I had said that Le Guin's worlds were real because her people were so real, and he said yes, but the people… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
Let us not use bombs and guns to overcome the world. Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile-smile… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
There is also the issue of personal privacy when it comes the executive power. Throughout our nation's history, whether it was habeas… — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
The ultimate effort of everything in the Church is to the end that a father and a mother and their children can… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
... the heroism of the average mother. Ah! When I think of that broad fact, I gather hope again for poor humanity;… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
One love it is that pervades the whole world, few there are who know it fully: They are blind who hope to… — Kabir Copy Share Image
Swift or smooth, broad as the Hudson or narrow enough to scrape your gunwales, every river is a world of its own,… — Bob Marshall Copy Share Image
You think it will never happen to you, that it cannot happen to you, that you are the only person in the… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
People, especially the liberals, just live in this world where if anything is said that offends anybody even a little bit, not… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Robert Osborne either has the best job in the world, or comes very close. As millions of viewers know, Osborne is the… — Tom Shales Copy Share Image
I think that was E.T.'s central appeal, personally. E.T. is this metaphorical journey, this strange Odysseus from another world, who just wants… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Aberjhani's writing blows the mind and frees the psyche of any rigid assumptions about ancestral heritage. Here, our collective experience is starkly… — Rosy Cole Copy Share Image
The world is so caught up in the 'American Idol' idealistic sort of tendency in regards to just thinking that this whole… — Maxwell Copy Share Image
Commentators who today talk of 'The Dark Ages' when faith instead of reason was said to ruthlessly rule, have for their animadversions… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
The church must seek to be biblical rather than relevant. We are not going to leave a mark upon our culture because… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
Our generation has inherited an incredibly beautiful world from our parents and they from their parents. It is in our hands whether… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Everything we think of as great has come to us from neurotics. It is they and they alone who found religions and… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Read for fun, read for information, read in order to understand yourself and other people with quite different ideas. Learn about the… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
The world, this palpable world, which we were wont to treat with the boredom and disrespect with which we habitually regard places… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Arts are fundamental resources through which the world is viewed, meaning is created, and the mind developed. To neglect the contribution… — Elliot W. Eisner Copy Share Image
When you strive for perfection, you compare different versions of what could be instead of being present with what is. Perfectionism is… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
The world is a mirror of infinite beauty, yet no man sees it. It is a Temple of Majesty, yet no man… — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
Marx says that revolutions are the locomotives of world history. But the situation may be quite different. Perhaps revolutions are not the… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
She is furious with herself for her own stupidity. Opening herself up like this, voluntarily, to a lifetime of worry and anguish.… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image