Harbors Quotes - Page 8

• Lincoln was a modernizer, so to speak. He believed in economic development. As a Whig before the war he favored what we would call infrastructure spending, government appropriation for canals, railroads, river and harbor improvements, and a tariff to protect industry. He believed in this market revolution that was sweeping across Northern society. He himself benefited from it in his own life.

  Eric Foner

  War, Rivers, Government

  "Eric Foner on the Perennial Relevance of Abraham Lincoln". Interview with Aaron Leonard, historynewsnetwork.org. October 4, 2010.

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• If the most important revolutionary part of the George W. Bush Doctrine is that states that harbor terrorists are terrorist states, what do we conclude from that? We conclude exactly what Kissinger was kind enough to say: These doctrines are unilateral. They are not intended as doctrines of international law or doctrines of international affairs. They are doctrines that grant the U.S. the right to use force and violence and to harbor terrorists, but not anyone else.

  Noam Chomsky

  Law, Important, Violence

  Source: progressive.org

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• We are privileged that the dollar is the "currency of last resort" and the most important currency in the world. Global commodities are priced in dollars. Central banks in other countries hold great quantities of dollars. The dollar was the safe harbor, the port in the storm during the credit crisis.

  Kabir Sehgal

  Country, Important, Storm

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• It's incredible how the human body is. That it could do so much. That it can go beyond the everydayness of life; That it can be extraordinary and powerful, and harbor a spirit of hope and pure will.

  Lynne Cox

  Powerful, Body, Spirit

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• Disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, floods, oil spills and radioactive fallout cause massive death of people, pigs, bats and birds. These disasters also impact the immune health of survivors. All harbor viruses.

  Paul Stamets

  Impact, Volcanoes, Pigs

  "Agarikon: Ancient Mushroom for Modern Medicine" by Paul Stamets, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 15, 2012.

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• The amount of chiaroscuro an idea harbors is the only index of its profundity.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Ideas, Chiaroscuro, Profundity

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• Every man harbors an inner female territory ruled by his mother, from whom he can never entirely break free.

  Camille Paglia

  Mother, Men, Female

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.46, Canongate Books

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• We're all like the little sailor. From the harbors we hear the strains of accordions and the murky soapy noises of the docks, from the mountains we receive the dish of silence that the shepherds eat, but we don't hear more than our own distances. And what distances without end and without doors and without mountains!

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Distance, Doors, Silence

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• Behold, now, another providence of God. A ship comes into the harbor.

  William Bradford

  Ships, Providence

  William Bradford (1952). “Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647”, p.112, Rutgers University Press

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• Well, it's always, though, safer in politics to avoid risk, to just kind of go along with the status quo. But I didn't get into government to do the safe and easy things. A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not why the ship is built. Politics isn't just a game of competing interests and clashing parties. The people of America expect us to seek public office and to serve for the right reasons. And the right reason is to challenge the status quo and to serve the common good.

  Sarah Palin

  Party, Government, Games

  Sarah Palin's speech as Running Mate of John McCain in Dayton, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com.

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• When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, the United States struck back. She didn't go and bomb - she bombed any part of Japan. She dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. Those people in Hiroshima probably hadn't even, some of them; most of them hadn't even killed anybody.

  Malcolm X

  Japan, People, United States

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• From the windows of my office in Boston ... I can see the Golden Stairs from Boston Harbor where all eight of my great-grandparents set foot on this great land for the first time. That immigrant spirit of limitless possibility animates America even today.

  Edward Kennedy

  Eight, Boston, Land

  Attributed to a 2007 Senate speech by Kathy Kiely, "Kennedy 'fashioned the modern day legal system of immigration'", abcnews.go.com.

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• I vowed to our countrymen that I would do everything I could to protect the American people... That's why I said to Afghanistan: If you harbor a terrorist, you're just as guilty as the terrorist.

  George W. Bush

  People, Guilty, Said

  George W. Bush at the second Presidential Debate in St. Louis, Missouri, www.cnn.com. October 9, 2004.

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• After 9/11, it became clear that we [the United States] had to do several things to have a successful strategy to win the global war on terror, specifically that we had to go after the terrorists wherever we might find them, that we also had to go after state sponsors of terror, those who might provide sanctuary or safe harbor for terror.

  Dick Cheney

  War, Successful, Winning

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• USA have got a comprehensive strategy to not only chase down the Al Qaida, wherever it exists - but to make sure that countries that harbor terrorists are held to account.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Usa, Als

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Once negro community recognize it as such, they can adopt the same measures against the community that harbors the criminals who are responsible for this activity.

  Malcolm X

  Community, Criminals, Responsible

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• We've ordered a crackdown on sanctuary cities that refuse to comply with federal law and that harbor criminal aliens and we've ordered an end to the policy of catch and release on the border, no more release. No matter who you are, release.

  Donald Trump

  Law, Cities, Criminals

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I'm so lucky to be crazy happy in my life. And I think it's not so much that I'm happier now than ever; it's that I'm more content. I'm in the harbor of my life.

  Julia Roberts

  Crazy, Thinking, Lucky

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• I grew up in the 1920s and 1930s in a nouveau riche world, where money was spent wildly, and I'm still living in one!... The private schools are all jammed with long waiting lists; the clubs -- all the old clubs -- are jammed with long waiting lists today; the harbors are clogged with yachts; there has never been a more material society than the one we live in today.... Where is this 'vanished world' they talk about? I don't think the critics have looked out the window!

  Louis Auchincloss

  School, Thinking, Long

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• Old age is the harbor of all ills.

  Wilfred Bion

  Age, Old Age

  "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers". Book by Diogenes Laërtius, Book 4: The Academy, 47, c. 200 A.D..

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• Thirty years ago, my sister, Gale (so named because a gale hit Boston Harbor the night she was born), some friends and I stole a boat in the middle of the night and sailed it out of the Santa Barbara harbor. Suddenly we were becalmed and the current began pushing us toward the breakwall. With no running lights and no power, we were dead in the water. Out of that darkness a steel hull appeared: it was the local Coast Guard cutter. My father, stern-faced and displeased, stood in the bow.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Running, Father, Night

  Gretel Ehrlich (1995). “A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning”, p.29, Penguin

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• The lunatic populism that preceded the Pearl Harbor bombing is astonishing in its permutations, its crisscrossings. Guys like [Catholic priest and controversial radio broadcaster] Father Coughlin and [racist and anti-Semitic agitator and founder of the Christian Nationalist Crusade] Gerald L.K. Smith started out as share-the-wealth socialists.

  James Ellroy

  Christian, Father, Guy

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 9, 2014.

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• Of course, individuals are responsible for individual actions - the pilots who flew over Pearl Harbor and dropped bombs on those ships did a terrible thing as part of an attack on a military base.

  Nicholson Baker

  Military, Bombs, Pearls

  "Nicholson Baker: Human Smoke". Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. April 7, 2008.

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• On one of my birthdays I did 1,000 chin-ups and 1,000 push-ups. For my 70th birthday I towed 70 boats with 70 people in it, my feet and hands tied-my hands were in handcuffs, my feet were tied together-and I towed these boats a mile-and-a-half in Long Beach Harbor. For my 93rd birthday I'm going to tow my wife across the bathtub.

  Jack LaLanne

  Beach, Hands, Feet

  Source: www.superchevy.com

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• To criminally prosecute a child not old enough to go to the school prom makes no sense, you get much more cooperation from a victim if you give them a safe harbor, a place to live, job training, an education.

  Amy Klobuchar

  Education, Jobs, Children

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