Borders Quotes - Page 12

• It's true we have our disagreements on border issues, we have disagreements on trade and related issues, but you don't go invading a country whenever you have a dispute on trade issues, ... We have more civilized mechanisms on resolving such problems.

  Meles Zenawi

  Country, Issues, Problem

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• Zionism is an abominable, racist and colonial movement. Like all colonial and apartheid systems, it's in the interest of all that it be swept away. My hope is to see it replaced, without any bloodshed, with a democratic, secular and lay state – for example on the borders of historic Palestine – and where Palestinians and Israelis could live under equal rights of citizenship without ethnic and religious discrimination. It's a wish that I hope will soon become a reality.

  Vittorio Arrigoni

  Religious, Reality, Rights

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• I have proudly affirmed that the Mexican nation extends beyond the territory enclosed by its borders and that Mexican migrants are an important - a very important - part of this.

  Ernesto Zedillo

  Mexican, Important, Migrants

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• To build means to make architecture real on the borders of knowledge.

  Frei Otto

  Real, Mean, Architecture

  Frei Otto (2010). “A Conversation with Frei Otto”

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• We intend to keep the lines of communication open with the Defense Department so we can help our border law enforcement agencies navigate the equipment application process.

  Henry Cuellar

  Communication, Law, Agency

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• With the grace of Prophet Muhammed and Allah, almost all Hindus in Calicut are converted to Islam. Only a few are still not converted on the borders of Cochin State. I am determined to convert them also very soon. I consider this as Jehad to achieve that object.

  Tipu Sultan

  Grace, Islam, Determined

  Letter to Syed Abdul Dulai, January 18, 1790.

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• I fear the carnival of crime is beginning on our border.

  Edward Blake

  Crime, Carnivals

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• The Land of Israel will be small, but the people of Israel will make it great. Not
  in opulence, but in eminence will their destiny be fulfilled, and the elixir of their
  pride will be distilled not out of dominion or far-flung borders, but out of the
  faithful and skillful building of the good society.

  Abba Hillel Silver

  Pride, Destiny, Israel

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• Our borders and our obstacles can only do two things: (1) stop us in our tracks, or (2) force us to get creative.

  Amy Purdy

  Two, Track, Creative

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• It's not about breaking down borders. It's about pushing off of them, and seeing what amazing places they might bring us.

  Amy Purdy

  Might, Amazing Places, Pushing

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• The reduced variability of small populations is not always due to accidental gene loss, but sometimes to the fact that the entire population was started by a single pair or by a single fertilized female. These 'founders' of the population carried with them only a very small proportion of the variability of the parent population. This 'founder' principle sometimes explains even the uniformity of rather large populations, particularly if they are well isolated and near the borders of the range of the species.

  Ernst Mayr

  Loss, Science, Parent

  Ernst Mayr (1942). “Systematics and the Origin of Species, from the Viewpoint of a Zoologist”, p.237, Harvard University Press

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• I brought a Border Collie back home to Vancouver from Wales - where some of my ancestors are from - and needed to challenge him in other ways than just being my pet. So I investigated sheep herding and took a few lessons, and decided I was probably learning more than my dog!

  Jane Siberry

  Dog, Home, Sheep

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• And, of course, millions of us cross the border to work in US homes and gardens and factories and carpentry shops and restaurants, and if you go to a restaurant pretty much anywhere in the United States, the chances are that the dishes will be washed by a Mexican.

  Alma Guillermoprieto

  Home, Garden, Mexican

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• I think the call of the inward life starts here. Solitude helps you differentiate, define the borders of the self. Solitude helps you figure our where everybody else stops and you begins.

  Jeanne Marie Laskas

  Thinking, Self, Solitude

  Jeanne Marie Laskas (2010). “Fifty Acres and a Poodle: A Story of Love, Livestock, and Finding Myself on a Farm”, p.85, Bantam

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• So, transform yourself first… Because you are young and have dreams and want to do something meaningful, that in itself, makes you our future and our hope. Keep expanding your horizon, decolonize your mind, and cross borders.

  Yuri Kochiyama

  Meaningful, Dream, Mind

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• Good ideas may not want to be free, but they do want to connect, fuse, recombine. They want to reinvent themselves by crossing conceptual borders. They want to complete each other as much as they want to compete

  Steven Johnson

  Ideas, May, Want

  Steven Johnson (2010). “Where Good Ideas Come From”, p.20, Penguin

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• When a young man, I read somewhere the following: God the Almighty said, 'All that is too complex is unnecessary, and it is simple that is needed.' So this has been my lifetime motto – I have been creating weapons to defend the borders of my fatherland, to be simple and reliable.

  Mikhail Kalashnikov

  Simple, Men, Ak 47

  "Kalashnikov, 90, decries 'criminal' use of rifle" by Dmitry Solovyov and Michael Roddy, www.reuters.com. October 26, 2009.

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• My aim was to create armaments to protect the borders of my motherland. It is not my fault that the Kalashnikov became very well-known in the world; that it was used in many troubled places. I think the policies of these countries are to blame, not the designers. Man is born to protect his family, his children, his wife. But I want you to know that apart from armaments, I have written three books in which I try to educate our youth to show respect for their families, for old people, for history.

  Mikhail Kalashnikov

  Country, Children, Book

  "For Patriotism and Profit". Interview with Robert Fisk, www.worldpress.org. July 2001.

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• I created a weapon to defend the borders of my motherland. It's not my fault that it's being used where it shouldn't be. The politicians are more to blame for this.

  Mikhail Kalashnikov

  Ak 47, Weapons, Faults

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• Mime, like music, knows neither borders nor nationalities.

  Marcel Marceau

  Mime, Knows, Nationality

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• My loving people, we have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourself to armed multitudes for fear of treachery; but I assure you, I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people. I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a King of England too, and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any Prince of Europe should dare to invade the borders of my realm.

  Elizabeth I

  Kings, Heart, Thinking

  Speech to the Troops at Tilbury, awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. August 19, 1588.

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• The superiority of the American system is eloquently proved by the pressure of people who want to crash our borders.

  William Feather

  People, Want, Pressure

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• The left claims that Republicans hate Hispanics, which is just the most ludicrous thing I've ever heard, and the right just claims all we need to do is close the borders and do nothing else, which is also ridiculous.

  Raul Labrador

  Hate, Needs, Ridiculous

  "Is Labrador GOP immigration key?" by Marin Cogan, www.politico.com. June 19, 2011.

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• I dressed all in black and went to see all the top photographers, like Irving Penn, and said, 'I am Veruschka who comes from the border between Russia, Germany and Poland. I'd like to see what you can do with my face.'

  Veruschka von Lehndorff

  Russia, Black, Germany

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• Let him who is worthy by reason of his clear eye and unjaded heart wander across these borders of beauty and mystery and be glad.

  George Sterling

  Heart, Eye, San Francisco

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