Country Quotes - Page 29

• In the poorest countries...it is women who are the key to breaking out of poverty...and preparing another generation for...leading their countries into real security.

  Queen Noor of Jordan

  Real, Keys, Generations

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• A man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Party, Men, Political

  Jiddu Krishnamurti, Raymond Martin (1997). “Krishnamurti: Reflections on the Self”, p.94, Open Court Publishing

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• Dear America, when you tell gay Americans that they can't serve their country openly or marry the person that they love, you're telling that to kids too. So don't be f**king shocked and wonder where all these bullies are coming from that are torturing young kids and driving them to kill themselves because they're different; they learned it from watching you.

  Sarah Silverman

  Kings, Love You, Kids

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• Operation Iraqi Freedom is over, and the Iraqi people now have lead responsibility for the security of their country

  Barack Obama

  Responsibility, People, Operations

  Address to the Nation on the End of Operation Iraqi Freedom, delivered 31 August 2010, Oval Office of the White House, Washington, D.C.

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• All B.S. aside, it all comes down to... we got to survive. I mean, even warriors put their spears down on Sundays. We got to survive here in this country... 'cause I'm not going back to Africa. We got to survive here. And for us to survive here-White folks, Black folks, Korean folks, Mexican folks, Puerto Ricans-we got to understand each other.

  Tupac Shakur

  Mean, Warrior, Sunday

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• Help is even being offered from across the ocean, as over two dozen countries have stepped forward to offer financial and material support to the American people.

  Jo Bonner

  Ocean, Two, People

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• I think Operation Smile is in more than 22 countries, mostly Third World. It just happened that my schedule opened up at the time they were heading to Vietnam.

  Roma Downey

  Smile, Thinking, Vietnam

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• The telephone is a great knee-jerk machine, but if you really want to tell someone how you feel, you need the slowness of the letter.  In a society where everything is fast, it's like going out in the country and looking up at the stars.

  Nick Bantock

  Stars, Needs, Going Out

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• Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit.

  Leon Kass

  Mean, Wish, Rogues

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• The city, no matter how small, is corrupt and unrepentant, while the sun shines brighter in the country, making people more wholesome.

  Lori Lansens

  Cities, People, Shining

  Lori Lansens (2009). “The Girls”, p.46, Vintage Canada

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• While the technology revolution has yet to reach far into the households of those in developing countries, this is certainly another area where more developed countries can assist those in the less developed world.

  Carol Bellamy

  Technology, World, Developing Countries

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• A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.

  Thomas Malthus

  Emigration, Kind, Unhappiness

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings”, p.51, Penguin UK

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• Unless they can pass the same test that immigrants must pass to become citizens, people shouldnt be allowed to vote. The idea that there is some public benefit in ignoramuses and morons pulling levers next to names on a ballot is one of the evil myths of post-modern America. The purpose of voting, in our country, is to select men and women with the competence and integrity to operate the mechanics of government fixed by our Constitution. For this process to have any public benefit requires that the choices be made on an intelligent, knowledgeable and reasoned basis.

  Charley Reese

  Integrity, Men, Intelligent

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• When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos.

  Robert Bolt

  Sake, Chaos, Duty

  Robert Bolt (2013). “A Man For All Seasons”, p.13, A&C Black

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• Religion is run by thought police. 'Obey. Listen. This is what you do. Don't ask questions. Go die for your country.' The spirituality says, 'Okay, you can die for your country, but know what you're doing while you're doing it.'

  Tommy Chong

  Running, Police, Spirituality

  Interview with Brian Polk, www.avclub.com. January 30, 2008.

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• We found water. We passed into a more fertile country where were grass and fruit. We found the trail to Babylon because the soul of a free man looks at life as a series of problems to be solved and solves them, while the soul of a slave whines, 'What can I do who am but a slave?

  George S. Clason

  Men, Water, Soul

  George S. Clason (2013). “The Richest Man In Babylon”, p.82, Lulu.com

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• The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Tone, Idiot, Praise

  The Mikado act 1 (1885)

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• I do think I am a country boy at heart. I love the buzz of towns and going out with friends and sitting with them drinking and whatever - it's fun - but, at the same time, I like space and freedom.

  Prince William

  Fun, Drinking, Heart

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• Observe that the body of man is confined to a small place; it covers only two spans of earth. But the spirit and mind of man travel to all countries and regions - even through the limitless space of the heavens - surround all that exists, and make discoveries in the exalted spheres and infinite distances. This is because the spirit has no place; it is placeless; and for the spirit the earth and the heaven are as one since it makes discoveries in both.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Distance, Men, Space

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• It has been said that a country’s greatness can be measured by what it does for its unfortunates. By that criterion Canada certainly does not stand in the forefront of the nations of the world although there are signs that we are becoming conscious of our deficiencies and are determined to atone for lost time.

  Tommy Douglas

  Greatness, World, Canada

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• The freedom of the press is a valuable privilege, but the abuse of it in this country is a frightful evil. The licentiousness of the press is a deep stain upon the character of the country; and in addition to the evil of calumniating good men and giving a wrong direction to public measures, it corrupts the people by rendering them insensible to the value of truth and of reputation.

  Noah Webster

  Christian, Character, Men

  "Letters".

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• Language is the expression of ideas, and if the people of one country cannot preserve an identity of ideas they cannot retain an identity of language.

  Noah Webster

  Expression, Ideas, People

  Noah Webster (1832). “A Dictionary of the English Language: Intended to Exhibi ... : in Two Volumes”, p.11

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• Country has been a wonderful outlet for me.

  Suzy Bogguss

  Wonderful, Outlets, Has Beens

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• The country is dying cause of an lack of men, not a lack of programms.

  Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

  Men, Dying, Causes

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• Land is a nation's basis for existence. The nation has its roots like those of a tree deep in the country's soil whence it derives its nourishment and life. There is no people that can live without land, as there is no tree which can live hanging in air.

  Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

  Air, Land, Roots

  Corneliu Zelea Codreanu (2015). “For My Legionaries”, p.106, Black House Publishing Ltd

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