"The dialogue between what's going on in the world and what's going on internally seems to be a natural thing - well, it's natural to me, anyway, to have these thoughts."
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"...what threatens us today in the world of computers and other invasions of privacy is not a national ID card but a number of other things."
"Being born in '31 was during the Depression and in my earlier youth World War II took place - so it was not the best of times, and yet I don't recall ever having experiences that were a burden."
"I've still got a small fitness and conditioning business where I travel round the world doing stuff for individuals and corporations, mainly fitness training."
"Even if you've been involved in a World Cup, the Olympics is huge. Only the Games has the power to change communities."
"I was very much the laymen, trying to find stuff out because I'm curious about the world."
"I wasn't naturally a scientist, but I was always fascinated by how the world worked and why things were the way they were."
"In my lifetime, the population of the world has doubled."
"The act of tattooing one's skin was a tranformative declaration of power, an announcment to the world: I am in control of my own flesh."
"Unless we lay our course in accordance with this principle, the great power for good in the world with which we have been intrusted by a Divine Providence will be turned to a power for evil."
"What the end of the carnage of World War II meant to those who remember it, can never be forgotten, but to all those who don't, its meaning can never be fully understood!"
"Anybody who doesn't think that the best hamburger place in teh world is in his home town is a sissy."
"It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival."
"Treat the world like a failed state, then you can understand the players needed to fix it."
"A woman knows she can walk away from a pot to tend something else and the pot will go on boiling; if she couldn't this world would end at once."
"I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render."
"My way of finding a place in this world is to write one."
"There are certain men born in this world, and they're supposed to die setting an example for the rest of the weak bastards we're surrounded with."
"Nothing in the world is as mobile as capital. It can move anywhere in the world instantaneously."
"Writing is the great invention of the world."