Imports Quotes

• Our goal as a nation must be to rely less on imports and more on products made here in the USA.

  Donald Trump

  Usa, Goal, Made

  "Trump's 'America First' Agenda Marks Sharp Break In U.S. Economic Policy", wbgo.org. February 28, 2017.

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• The proposed Constitution, so far from implying an abolition of the State governments, makes them constituent parts of the national sovereignty, by allowing them a direct representation in the Senate, and leaves in their possession certain exclusive and very important portions of sovereign power. This fully corresponds, in every rational import of the terms, with the idea of a federal government.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Ideas, Government, Important

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Quentin P. Taylor, John Jay (1998). “The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers”, p.85, Rowman & Littlefield

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• It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Oil, Political

  "It's Dumbo v Pinocchio" by Francis Wheen, www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2000.

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• The brown toxic cloud strangling Los Angeles never lifts and grows thicker with every immigrant added. One can't help appreciate the streets of Paris will soon become the streets of LA. However, Paris' streets erupted while LA's shall sink into a Third World quagmire much like Bombay or Calcutta, India. When you import that much crime, illiteracy, multiple languages and disease-Americans pick up stakes and move away.

  Frosty Wooldridge

  Moving, Paris, Clouds

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• What you demand from storytelling is a moral - even political - import. I tend to shun that didactic aspect.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Political, Demand, Moral

  Interview with Colum McCann, www.believermag.com. January, 2010.

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• In the name of religion, we force widowhood upon our three lakh girl-widows who could not understand the import of the marriage ceremony.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Girl, Names, Religion

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• Without new money, salaries won't be paid, the health system will stop functioning, the power network and public transport will break down, and they won't be able to import vital goods because nobody can pay.

  Martin Schulz

  Health, Salary, Down And

  "EU warns of Armageddon if Greek voters reject terms" by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, www.telegraph.co.uk. July 4, 2015.

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• While the scientist, on the one hand, is concerned with giving a faithful description of facts, on the other, he has the equally important task of construing them in relation to some explanatory conjecture. Similarly the historian has a double duty: both of reporting the past as nearly as possible as it passed or was lived through by men at the time (without doctoring up events to fit later developments or some more "enlightened reading" of them); and second, of interpreting their import in the light of a present hypothesis.

  Marie Taylor Collins Swabey

  Reading, Science, Past

  Marie Taylor Collins Swabey (1954). “The judgment of history”

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• The import is not the kind of work woman does, but rather the quality of the work she furnishes.

  Emma Goldman

  Quality, Doe, Kind

  Emma Goldman (2016). “Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926”, p.59, PM Press

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• It is very certain that the strong British race which has now overrun much of this continent, must also overrun [Texas], and Mexico and Oregon also, and it will in the course of ages be of small import by what particular occasions and methods it was done.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Race, Texas

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Elliot Cabot (1887). “The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: With a General Index and a Memoir”

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• The notion dies hard that in some sort of way exports are patriotic but imports are immoral.

  David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech

  Patriotic, Way, Internet

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• Every tree sends its fibres forth in search of the Wild. The cities import it at any price. Men plow and sail for it. From the forest and wilderness come the tonics and barks which brace mankind.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Cities, Tree

  Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Natural History Essays”, p.112, Gibbs Smith

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• Music is 'significant form,' and its significance is that of a symbol, a highly articulated, sensuous object, which by virtue of its dynamic structure can express the forms of vital experience which language is peculiarly unfit to convey. Feeling, life, motion and emotion constitute its import.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Music, Feelings, Emotion

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• For you, o broker, there is no other principle but arithmetic. For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor can I detach one duty, like you, from all other duties, and concentrate my forces mechanically on the payment of moneys.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Money, Character, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.70, Xist Publishing

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• Democracy is not a commodity for import and export.

  Prince Hassan bin Talal

  Democracy, Commodity

  Interview with Samina Ibrahim, newslinemagazine.com. May 2003.

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• Let us come together and think of ways India does not have to import but we export to the world.

  Narendra Modi

  Motivation, Thinking, Together

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• The things of God are of great import; and time, and experience,and careful, and ponderous, and solemn thoughts can only find them out. Thy mind, oh man, if thou wilt lead a man unto salvation, must stretch as high as the utmost heavens, and search into and contemplate the darkest abyss, and the broad expanses of eternity; thou must commune with God!

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Men, Heaven, Mind

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• The easiest method of acquiring the habit of scholarship is through acquiring the ability to express oneself clearly in discussing and disputing scholarly problems. This is what clarifies their import and makes them understandable. Some students spend most of their lives attending scholarly sessions. Still, one finds them silent. They do not talk and do not discuss matters. More than is necessary, they are concerned with memorizing. Thus, they do not obtain much of a habit in the practice of scholarship and scholarly instruction.

  Ibn Khaldun

  Practice, Matter, Students

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• Haiti is extremely stratified socially with a number of large families controlling most of the economy, and import-export.

  Michele Montas

  Numbers, Haiti, Economy

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• My agent is based in New York. And due to a historic accident, my publishing track is primarily American - I'm sold into the UK almost as a foreign import! So I'm quite out of touch with what's going on in UK publishing.

  Charles Stross

  New York, Track, Agents

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• We all have to draw some lines. To preserve my sanity, I steer clear of cooking, professional sports and most imports, unless imported to us via PBS, Sundance, etc.

  Hank Stuever

  Sports, Pbs, Cooking

  "What to Watch: TV chat with Hank Stuever". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. October 15, 2015.

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• It is a simple matter to see the obvious, to do the expected. The tendency of the individual life is to be static rather than dynamic, and this tendency is made into a propulsion by civilization, where the obvious only is seen, and the unexpected rarely happens. When the unexpected does happen, however, and when it is of sufficiently grave import, the unfit perish. They do not see what is not obvious, are unable to do the unexpected, are incapable of adjusting their well-grooved lives to other and strange grooves. In short, when they come to the end of their own groove, they die.

  Jack London

  Simple, Civilization, Adjusting

  Jack London, black Horse Classics (2017). “Jack London: The Complete Novels [Classics Authors Vol: 6] (Black Horse Classics)”, p.1689, Jack

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• When West End Girls came out on import, I was a student at Liverpool University. I'd go to a club in Liverpool and it would come on, and I'd be really embarrassed.

  Chris Lowe

  Girl, Clubs, West

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• News in general doesn't matter most of the time, and most people would be far better off if they spent their time consuming less news and more ideas that have more lasting import.

  Evan Williams

  Ideas, People, Would Be

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• Words matter, words have import.

  Douglas Kennedy

  Matter, Words Matter

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