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• More than 200 ships from 13 nations conducted over 10,000 flawless intercepts, which formed a steel wall around the waters leading to Iraq. And these operations continue today. Thanks to these superb efferts not one cargo hold, not one crate, not even one pallet of seaborne contraband even touched Saddam Hussein's shores. The result: Iraq lost 90% of its imports, 100% of its exports, and had its gross national product cut in half.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Wall, War, Cutting

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• Truth then seems to me, in the proper import of the word, to signify nothing but the joining or separating of Signs, as the Things signified by them do agree or disagree one with another. The joining or separating of signs here meant, is what by another name we call proposition. So that truth properly belongs only to propositions: whereof there are two sorts, viz. mental and verbal; as there are two sorts of signs commonly made use of, viz. ideas and words.

  John Locke

  Truth, Agreement, Names

  John Locke (2015). “An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding Volume 2: Top Essays”, p.151, 谷月社

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• The intellectual life may be kept clean and healthful, if man will live the life of nature, and not import into his mind difficulties which are none of his.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Live Life, Men, Intellectual

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.48, Graphic Arts Books

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• In society, in the best institutions of men, it is easy to detect a certain precocity. When we should still be growing children, we are already little men. Give me a culture which imports much muck from the meadows, and deepens the soil,--not that which trusts to heating manures, and improved implements, and modes of culture only!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Children, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.408, Penguin

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• And now that we have returned to the desultory life of the plain, let us endeavor to import a little of that mountain grandeur into it. We will remember within what walls we lie, and understand that this level life too has its summit, and why from the mountain-top the deepest valleys have a tinge of blue; that there is elevation in every hour, as no part of the earth is so low that the heavens may not be seen from, and we have only to stand on the summit of our hour to command an uninterrupted horizon.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Wall, Lying

  Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.103, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Shaped like Texas, but twice as big, Mali is one of the poorest countries in the world. It exports almost nothing - mostly just cotton, gold and livestock - and doesnt have enough money to import much of anything, either.

  Richard Engel

  Country, Texas, Gold

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• The things of God are of deep import; and time, and experience, and careful and ponderous and solemn thoughts can only find them out.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Careful, Solemn

  "Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith". Book by Joseph Smith, 137, March 25, 1839.

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• Creativity is an import-export business.

  Ethan Zuckerman

  Creativity

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• Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she home-keeping.

  James Howell

  Home, Paint, Used

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• It's just like a liberal, they import slaves, they hold slaves, they fight for slavery, they go to war in a civil war to defend slavery. They then install legal discrimination against blacks for a hundred years.

  Ann Coulter

  War, Fighting, Years

  Conservative Political Action Conference, www.esquire.com. 2011.

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• Criticism of the commitment of religion to the supernatural is thus positive in import.

  John Dewey

  Commitment, Criticism, Atheism

  William James, John Dewey, John M. Capps, Donald Capps (2005). “James and Dewey on Belief and Experience”, p.245, University of Illinois Press

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• We forget today that Britain still depends for its livelihood and, indeed, its day-to-day survival, on the sea. But the Royal Navy is now pitifully small and has been reduced in size by the current Government, seeking economies to finance its social programmes. Fine while there is no threat to our security. But what use would schools and hospitals be if we could not protect our imports?

  John Keegan

  School, Government, Sea

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• The history of the Bible text is a romance of literature, though it is a romance of which the consequences are of vital import; and thanks to the succession of discoveries which have been made of late years, we know more about it than of the history of any other ancient book in the world.

  Frederic G. Kenyon

  Book, Discovery, Years

  "The Story Of The Bible" by Frederic G. Kenyon. Ch. I, The Bible And Recent Discoveries, p. 4, 1949.

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• There is perhaps no single factor contributing so much to people's frequent reluctance to let the market work as their inability to conceive how some necessary balance, between demand and supply, between exports and imports, or the like, will be brought about without deliberate control. The conservative feels safe and content only if he is assured that some higher wisdom watches and supervises change, only if he knows that some authority is charged with keeping the change "orderly.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  People, Balance, Inability

  "In Memoriam: F.A. Hayek" by Virginia Postrel, reason.com. June 1992.

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• It takes time and experience to absorb new technologies, so technologically backward producers need a period of protection from international competition during this period of learning. Such protection is costly, because the country is giving up the chance to import better and cheaper products. However, it is a price that has to be paid if it wants to develop advanced industries.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Country, Giving Up, Technology

  Ha-Joon Chang (2008). “Bad Samaritans: The Guilty Secrets of Rich Nations and the Threat to Global Prosperity”, p.47, Random House

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• The future and the past are equally meaningless because they are nebulous entities, times that do not exist, containing events which have no echo because they are gone, or which hold no import because they are yet to happen. What is important is the here and now, and now, and now, and the spaces between the nows.

  Tim Lebbon

  Past, Echoes, Space

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• A nation's exchange rate is the single most important price in its economy; it will influence the entire range of individual prices, imports and exports, and even the level of economic activity. So it is hard for any government to ignore large swings in its exchange rate.

  Paul Volcker

  Government, Swings, Important

  Paul A. Volcker, Toyoo Gyohten (1992). “Changing fortunes: the world's money and the threat to American leadership”, Crown

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• Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because shes had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Writing, Fighting, Opposites

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• For all the import and message of 'The Iliad,' it's ultimately a story that's meant to be heard, and the person hearing 'The Iliad' determines what it means.

  Denis O'Hare

  Mean, Stories, Hearing

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• Fortunately for England, all her imports are raw materials.

  Joseph Hume

  Raw Materials, England, Materials

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• I think all countries need to aim to cut the CO2 emissions per person, taking account of externalities like imports and exports.

  Martin Rees

  Country, Cutting, Thinking

  "Lord Martin Rees, eminent British scientist". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. March 28, 2010.

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• It is a law of life that human beings, even the geniuses among them, do not pride themselves on their actual achievements but thatthey want to impress others, want to be admired and respected because of things of much lower import and value.

  Stefan Zweig

  Pride, Law, Achievement

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• French rhetorical models are too narrow for the English tradition. Most pernicious of French imports is the notion that there is no person behind a text. Is there anything more affected, aggressive, and relentlessly concrete than a Parisan intellectual behind his/her turgid text? The Parisian is a provincial when he pretends to speak for the universe.

  Camille Paglia

  Intellectual, Speak, Tradition

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson”, Vintage

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• When "reality" is sought for at large, it is without intellectual import; at most the term carries the connotation of an agreeableemotional state.

  John Dewey

  Reality, Intellectual, Connotation

  John Dewey, Larry Hickman, Thomas M. Alexander (1998). “The Essential Dewey: Pragmatism, education, democracy”, p.209, Indiana University Press

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• Argentina is a marvelous place. Argentines are great bankers of information. They import information; if someone sneezes in Milan or in New York, they clean their faces very fast there.

  Emilio Ambasz

  New York, Bankers, Argentina

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