Country Quotes - Page 33

• Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism.

  Jane Elliott

  Maintaining The Status Quo, Racism, Racist

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• Bosnia is a complicated country: three religions, three nations and those "others". Nationalism is strong in all three nations; in two of them there are a lot of racism, chauvinism, separatism; and now we are supposed to make a state out of that.

  Alija Izetbegovic

  Strong, Two, Racism

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• If a country is governed with tolerance, the people are comfortable and honest. If a country is governed with repression, the people are depressed and crafty. When the will to power is in charge, the higher the ideals, the lower the results. Try to make people happy, and you lay the groundwork for misery. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice. Thus the Master is content to serve as an example and not to impose her will. She is pointed, but doesn't pierce. Straightforward, but supple. Radiant, but easy on the eyes.

  Laozi

  Eye, People, Tolerance

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• The heavy is the root of the light. The unmoved is the source of all movement. Thus the Master travels all day without leaving home. However splendid the views, she stays serenely in herself. Why should the lord of the country flit about like a fool? If you let yourself be blown to and fro, you lose touch with your root. If you let restlessness move you, you lose touch with who you are.

  Laozi

  Moving, Home, Light

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• When the great Tao is forgotten, goodness and piety appear. When the body's intelligence declines, cleverness and knowledge step forth. When there is no peace in the family, filial piety begins. When the country falls into chaos, patriotism is born.

  Laozi

  Fall, Body, Steps

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• The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country.

  Tim McGraw

  Class, Issues, People

  "Tim McGraw: I'm 'a True Southern Populist Kind of Democrat'". www.foxnews.com. October 16, 2006.

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• It is only reasonable that our laws do not force our country to provide safe harbor to those individuals that are being sought out by their governments due to their terrorist ties.

  Bill Shuster

  Government, Law, Ties

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• If we only said safe sex, use a condom, we won't stop the spread of AIDS in this country.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Sex, Safety, Use

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• In the southern half of the country perhaps no crop has larger possibilities for quick increase of production of food for both men and animals than the sweet potato.

  David F. Houston

  Sweet, Animal, Men

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• WASHINGTON - Ever since President Obama ordered American warplanes to begin bombing terrorist targets in Iraq and Syria last year, members of Congress have insisted on having a say in the matter. The president, they declared, could not, or at least should not, take the country back to war without the input of the nation's elected representatives.

  Peter Baker

  War, Years, Iraq

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• So, what exactly is the News-Press' unforgivable crime? Calling illegal aliens 'illegals' in a headline for a story about illegal aliens descending on California DMVs. A new law went into effect last Friday allowing illegal aliens to obtain driver's licenses without proof of lawful residence. The article featured interviews with ecstatic illegal aliens, including one who has been in the country illegally for '22 years.'

  Michelle Malkin

  Friday, Exactly Is, Years

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• Everybody knows how complicated this country's relationship with France has been, in war and in peace. Certainly there have been times when the leaders of France could have done better by us. We should have done better by them on Sunday. Only you couldn't find us.

  Kimberley Strassel

  War, Sunday, Should Have

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• Obama's immigration legacy will be the juxtaposition of his serial insistence that he was not a king or an emperor, and could not contravene the Constitution by granting a blanket amnesty, with his efforts to do just that when it was no longer politically inexpedient. I don't think a president has ever quite so habitually warned the country of the dangers that would soon emanate from himself.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Kings, Thinking, Effort

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• 'This is how democracy works,' Barack Obama lectured the country before giving everyone the specifics of his expansive one-man executive overreach on immigration. If you enjoy platitudinous straw men but are turned off by open debate and constitutional order, this speech was for you.

  David Harsanyi

  Men, Order, Giving

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• As Democratic losses mounted in Senate races across the country on election night, some liberal commentators clung to the idea that dissatisfied voters were sending a generally anti-incumbent message, and not specifically repudiating Democratic officeholders. But the facts of the election just don't support that story.

  Byron York

  Loss, Night, Race

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• Today, Americans of all political stripes are coming to a similar, sad realization about our president. A recent Fox News poll asked Americans 'How often does Barack Obama lie to the country on important matters?' Thirty-seven percent said 'most of the time,' 24 percent said 'some of the time,' and 20 percent said 'only now and then.' Just 15% said 'never.'

  Marc Thiessen

  Lying, Political, Stripes

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• Taiwan is an independent, sovereign country.

  Chen Shui-bian

  Independent, Prejudice, Taiwan

  "Complete Interview with President Chen Shui-bian". Interview with Keith Bradsher, www.nytimes.com. October 18, 2007.

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• If we really love and cherish Taiwan, we should hold our hands in unity to protect our country and our democratic values with the most humble and tolerant hearts.

  Chen Shui-bian

  Heart, Humble, Hands

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• We are cutting things kids like-music, art, and gym classes; stuff that kept me in school. This country can't survive without you kids. It's all about you kids.

  Tony Danza

  Art, School, Kids

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The National Catholic Register's coverage of the Church universal, and the Church in our own country, is splendid.

  Timothy M. Dolan

  Catholic, Church, Advertising

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• In countries where there is no marriage, there is no duty between husband and wife; when marriage comes, husband and wife live together on account of attachment; and that kind of living together becomes settled after generations; and when it becomes so settled, it becomes a duty.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Marriage, Husband, Attachment

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action”, p.61, Advaita Ashrama

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• I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tomb of the Capulets.

  Edmund Burke

  Sleep, Southern, Littles

  Edmund Burke, Arthur P.I. Samuels (2014). “The Early Life Correspondence and Writings of The Rt. Hon. Edmund Burke”, p.221, Cambridge University Press

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• It certainly must have been a relief for women of the country to realize that one could be a woman and a lady and yet be thoroughly political.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Women, Political, Relief

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• The chicken is the country's, but the city eats it.

  George Herbert

  Cities, Chickens

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.295

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• It is organized as a fellowship of men, a system of morals, a philosophy taught by degrees through the use of symbol, story, legend, pictures, and drama. It has served as a center of union among differing backgrounds, cultures, and countries. It serves as the means of conciliating true friendship among persons, who, because of differences, must have otherwise remained at a perpetual distance.

  Harry S. Truman

  True Friend, Philosophy, Distance

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