He has another three years to go before graduating from high school, but I always like to remind him that his family and friends think the world of him -- and for the most part, just about everyone else on this planet doesn't give a damn about him.
However in my view, what we cannot do is to allow them to think, and the rest of the world to think, for the future terrorists of the world to believe al Qaeda is a legitimate representation of jihad and Islam.
Nor was there any effort to ask the rest of the world what they think of the recommendations made (though, of course, that would come about in the course of lobbying for the proposed changes).
Think about the world of mobile gaming before the iPhone.
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If you think the rest of the world is interested in hearing about your collection of Ottoman porcelain or why "The Catcher in the Rye" is the great American novel (yawn) you really do need an ego the size of a house.
And if you think of the world in traditional measures, then you think of it in a way that's broadly traditional, and none too fussed about strict adherence to logically thought-out principles.
But I would like everyone to think of other reasons, to think of South Africa, where the World Cup starts next month, and a young girl called Nothemba, to think of Eddie from Manchester and Kadra from west London.
In terms of our relationship with the Muslim world, I think the President has obviously spent a lot of time on improving our relationship with countries throughout the world, and special time and care on our relationship with the Muslim world.
"I think the world needs all of these kinds of systems, " Little said.
Just when you think the world is cleansed of the likes of Enron, along come panjandrums Madoff, Stanford, and Rajaratnam.
It is tough to make judgements like this when your own life is so tangled up with the events of the world, but I think it is reasonable to say that the 1972 election was the end of an era.
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He has also been accused of homophobia after telling a radio station that talk of legalising same-sex marriage made him think of "the end of the world".
He also said that even though he believed that "everyone should be allowed to do what they liked with their lives", legalising same-sex marriage made him think of "the end of the world".
Mr Danto, a jolly, bearded man with a self-deflating sense of humour and an old-fashioned taste in clothes, is the last sort of person you would think of as an authority-figure in the world of contemporary art.
Going in with the fastest time in the world you think you are ahead of the field and everybody but I've got to use my brain a little bit smarter about how I approach this situation.
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Whatever one may think of the songs, the world-wide success of Irish rock bands is a strange and wonderful phenomenon, made stranger still by the anti-poverty evangelism so vigorously pushed by Bob Geldof and his more popular imitator, Bono.
But think about how quickly the world of gaming has changed since iPad launched.
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Its relations with international rulemakers can be thorny: think of the World Trade Organisation.
Whereas if you think of the world in a metric way, your perception is somewhat different.
String theorists think that the world is made of matter that exists independently of space and time.
What must the world think of the United States in the wake of the mass murders in Newtown, Connecticut?
"Instead of thinking of Oman just as Oman, think of the world as one single ecosystem, " said Al Lawati.
And what did London's mayor think of the World Economic Forum in Davos?
Now, I think it's worth mentioning since I'm with the Prime Minister of India that this important not just to the United States, but it's important to the world, and that the whole world I think has a core security interest in making sure that the kind of extremism and violence that you've seen emanating from this region is tackled, confronted in a serious way.
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And food companies don't meet the disapproval in China that they do in the West: according to the Pew Research Centre, while 72% of Chinese think that fast food has made the world a better place, only 23% of Americans do.
This is also how we should think of the sprawling new slums of the developing world: not as doomed, deforming environments but as the low-cost housing built for (and by) displaced, formerly rural, people drawn into the modern urbanized economy and energetically aspiring to a better life.
The view of the United States in that part of the world seems to be improving, and I think observers have talked about the notion that the President's speech has already begun to pay some dividends as it relates to that.
Look, I think that what the President has set out to do from the very beginning was to improve our relations with the rest of the world after I think what could easily be said was a rocky period in our bilateral and multilateral relationships around the world.
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