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It’s just at this interface between the Old World and the New World. – Philip Donoghue	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I love Emmylou Harris's version of my song, 'Sweet Old World.' Her intonation is great. – Lucinda Williams	added by RobertHaigh 3 years ago
We're still thinking about migration with a vision that's maybe 20 years old at this point. We're not -- as the public or even as policymakers -- catching up fully, the ground has shifted beneath our feet, and we're still operating as if it's the old world. – Christopher Wilson	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The platforms are extending into every part of our life and creating superpowers within them, if you communicate something in the old world, you can get it to five people. These platforms allow you to communicate to a million. That realization has created, I think, now the responsibility for all of the platform builders to take responsibility for the content on your platform. – Dara Khosrowshahi	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Every industry in the world is being disrupted, to some extent knowing how to do it really well in the old world is not always an advantage for how to do it in the new. – Mark Read	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Our data suggests that dogs were domesticated twice, on both sides of the Old World, this suggests that at least two group of humans independently came to the same conclusion: dogs can be domesticated. It also suggests that the process of domestication, while mostly rare, may be replicated more often than we think. – Laurent Frantz	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Old World meets the New World kind of thing. – Micky Dolenz	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The political climate has changed, that's hurt cotton's standing, the old world doesn't exist. That's gone with the wind. – John Robinson	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Wine in the U.S. in general is expensive. It’s also true of California. In many cases you can get an old world version for much less. That’s a somewhat intractable problem…It’s just expensive to do business in the United States. – Karen MacNeil	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
There's kind of a war brewing between the old world and the new world, the Internet has kind of been a nuclear warhead on a lot of businesses and a lot of industries. ... The Internet's kind of bizarre to be thrown in the middle of The Internet. I'm literally just a fan making a fan video. – Adi Shankar	Found on CNN 9 years ago
We actually use a lot of Old World craft to make these. So the dyes, the printing, the labor, the hand-wrapping makes them really interesting, i love the combination of Old World craft and modern day technology. – Marc Friedland	Found on CNN 9 years ago
We who have lived before railways were made belong to another world. It was only yesterday, but what a gulf between now and then! Then was the old world. Stage-coaches, more or less swift, riding-horses, pack-horses, highwaymen, knights in armor, Norman invaders, Roman legions, Druids, Ancient Britons painted blue, and so forth -- all these belong to the old period. But your railroad starts the new era, and we of a certain age belong to the new time and the old one. We who lived before railways, and survive out of the ancient world, are like Father Noah and his family out of the Ark. – William Makepeace Thackeray	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World. – Christopher Columbus	added by anonymous 14 years ago

It’s just at this interface between the Old World and the New World.

– Philip Donoghue

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I love Emmylou Harris's version of my song, 'Sweet Old World.' Her intonation is great.

– Lucinda Williams

added by RobertHaigh
3 years ago

We're still thinking about migration with a vision that's maybe 20 years old at this point. We're not -- as the public or even as policymakers -- catching up fully, the ground has shifted beneath our feet, and we're still operating as if it's the old world.

– Christopher Wilson

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The platforms are extending into every part of our life and creating superpowers within them, if you communicate something in the old world, you can get it to five people. These platforms allow you to communicate to a million. That realization has created, I think, now the responsibility for all of the platform builders to take responsibility for the content on your platform.

– Dara Khosrowshahi

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Every industry in the world is being disrupted, to some extent knowing how to do it really well in the old world is not always an advantage for how to do it in the new.

– Mark Read

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Our data suggests that dogs were domesticated twice, on both sides of the Old World, this suggests that at least two group of humans independently came to the same conclusion: dogs can be domesticated. It also suggests that the process of domestication, while mostly rare, may be replicated more often than we think.

– Laurent Frantz

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Old World meets the New World kind of thing.

– Micky Dolenz

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The political climate has changed, that's hurt cotton's standing, the old world doesn't exist. That's gone with the wind.

– John Robinson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Wine in the U.S. in general is expensive. It’s also true of California. In many cases you can get an old world version for much less. That’s a somewhat intractable problem…It’s just expensive to do business in the United States.

– Karen MacNeil

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

There's kind of a war brewing between the old world and the new world, the Internet has kind of been a nuclear warhead on a lot of businesses and a lot of industries. ... The Internet's kind of bizarre to be thrown in the middle of The Internet. I'm literally just a fan making a fan video.

– Adi Shankar

Found on CNN
9 years ago

We actually use a lot of Old World craft to make these. So the dyes, the printing, the labor, the hand-wrapping makes them really interesting, i love the combination of Old World craft and modern day technology.

– Marc Friedland

Found on CNN
9 years ago

We who have lived before railways were made belong to another world. It was only yesterday, but what a gulf between now and then! Then was the old world. Stage-coaches, more or less swift, riding-horses, pack-horses, highwaymen, knights in armor, Norman invaders, Roman legions, Druids, Ancient Britons painted blue, and so forth -- all these belong to the old period. But your railroad starts the new era, and we of a certain age belong to the new time and the old one. We who lived before railways, and survive out of the ancient world, are like Father Noah and his family out of the Ark.

– William Makepeace Thackeray

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

– Christopher Columbus

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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