Globe Quotes

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If they [enlightened men] take any interest in examining, in the infancy of our species, the almost obliterated traces of so many nations that have… — Georges Cuvier
Throughout history, the arts and humanities have helped men and women around the globe grapple with the most challenging questions and come to know the… — Barack Obama
Thousands upon thousands of people across America and many more across the globe are suffering at the hands of the oil and gas industry. — Josh Fox
Conventional turbines only work up to 200 feet, but capturing a small fraction of the global wind energy at higher altitudes could be sufficient to… — Saul Griffith
Happiness quantification sounds a bit wishy-washy, sure, and through a series of carefully administered surveys across the globe, economists and psychologists have certainly confronted a… — Adam Davidson
I want to know what changed in fully modern humans, compared with Neanderthals, that made a difference. What made it possible for us to build… — Svante Paabo
The speed with which WikiLeaks went from niche interest to global prominence was a real-time example of the revolutionizing power of the digital age in… — Heather Brooke
Every outbreak across the globe today stems from a descendant of the medieval plague. — Hendrik Poinar
Our actions - and inaction - touch people we may never know and never meet across the globe. — Jacqueline Novogratz
I am mad about hats. I collect them as souvenirs from my globe trotting. — Gillian Zinser
If trees can create art, if they can encircle the globe seven times in one year, if prisoners can grow plants and raise frogs, then… — Nalini Nadkarni
I consider myself incredibly lucky to live and work in places like Canada and the U.S. where polio no longer threatens to rob the livelihoods… — Ksenia Solo
There are few colonial nations anymore. Instead, we are colonized by financial institutions beyond our political control. We are colonized with pens and papers and… — Charlie Pierce
Globalisation means many things. At one level, it talks of trade, which since the 16th century has exchanged goods and now, increasingly, ideas and information… — John Berger
I have already demonstrated, by crucial tests, the practicability of signaling by my system from one to any other point of the globe, no matter… — Nikola Tesla
With the recent addition of a full soundtrack and the players map, millions of Poptropicans around the globe are now fully immersed in a multimedia… — Jeff Kinney
When I travel around the globe, I try as hard as I can to represent the NBA and the game of basketball to the best… — Dikembe Mutombo
One of the best Christmas presents I ever got was the globe that I now keep right beside my desk. — Tess Gerritsen
Cities depend on a healthy mix of uses and people for their vitality. As a pre-eminent world city, London is a magnet to people from… — Richard Rogers
Our globe is under new dramatic environmental pressure: our globe is warming, our ice caps melting, our glaciers receding, our coral is dying, our soils… — Richard Lamm

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