Quotes About Global

THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN GET AMERICANS TO NOTICE ANYTHING IS TO TAX THEM OR DRAFT THEM OR KILL THEM," Owen said. He said that once—when Hester proposed abolishing the draft. "IF YOU ABOLISH THE DRAFT," said Owen Meany, "MOST AMERICANS WILL SIMPLY STOP CARING ABOUT WHAT WE'RE DOING IN OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD.

ONE DAY THERE WILL COME AN EPIDEMIC

When we have at last overthrown all existing governments, the world will enjoy not war but global orgies conducted with the utmost protocol and the most truly international spirit, for these people do transcend simple national differences. Their minds are on one goal; they are truly united; they think as one.

because when you come right down to it the school is involved in everything that happens in the war, its all the same war and the same world...

Imagine all the people, sharing all the world

Self-interest would become comfort and then affinity. Transparency, for this reason, was vital: "We throw open our city to the world, and never by alien acts exclude foreigners from any opportunity of learning or observing." Athenians found "the fruits of other countries" to be "as familiar a luxury as those of [their] own." The walls made their citizenship global.

Epidemiological evidence suggests that a new influenza virus originated in Haskell County, Kansas, early in 1918. Evidence further suggests that this virus traveled east across the state to a huge army base, and from there to Europe. Later it began its sweep through North America, through Europe, through South America, through Asia and Africa, through isolated islands in the Pacific, through all the wide world.

In 1918, the world population was 1.8 billion, and the pandemic probably killed 50 to 100 million people, with the lowest credible modern estimate at 35 million. Today the world population is 7.6 billion. A comparable death toll today would range from roughly 150 to 425 million.

Even where fear closed down businesses, where both store owners and customers refused to stand face-to-face and left orders on sidewalks, there was still too much interaction to break the chain of infection. The virus was too efficient, too explosive, too good at what it did. In the end the virus did its will around the world.

finally fade away in both the United States and the world. It did not disappear.

The old emphasis upon superficial differences that separate peoples must give way to education for citizenship in the human community.

The goal of providing basic literacy and education to all the world's people is still the most basic development challenge.

Education and water should be a human right.

We have the ability to provide quality education to every child on earth right now.

Education, doing homework, is the way to lift up girls. Around the world, where girls are educated, the economy and the standard of living rise.

We don't have the money in America to keep paying for the education of everybody else's children from around the world. We simply don't have the financial resources to do that.

Global education is not a zero-sum game. The rise of universities in Asia will be a benefit to the entire world.

The United States ranks 14th in the world in education. Even if we subtract Sarah Palin's test scores, it only bumps us to third. Damn you, Finland!

If we're going to see sustainable results from all the other investments we're making in education, we need to build leadership capacity in each and every country.

A considerable share of the world's population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care.

Nobody on this planet is going to be untouched by the impacts of climate change.

Quite frankly, there is no answer to climate change without substantially, dramatically, increasing the amount of renewable energy in the global energy system.

Climate change policy is about how we redistribute de facto the world's wealth.

Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development.