Nations Quotes - Page 40

• The gap between the rich and the poor is wider in the United States than it is in any of the other industrialized nations.

  Gerald Celente

  United States, Gaps, Rich

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• A friend hipped me to hypoglycemia, which an article I read calls 'a disease for a nation of sugar junkies.' Who knows how many people in this country have it?

  Phoebe Snow

  Country, People, Disease

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• The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.

  Aberjhani

  Past, Errors, Empowering

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• Mainstream medias representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black mens lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.

  Aberjhani

  Black, Assumption, Individual

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• I love the 6 Nations rugby. I feel very Scottish then. I feel very Scottish now, sitting in the middle of Chelsea. But thats part of our heritage - being part of Britain, part of Europe. I love being European.

  Rory Bremner

  Love Is, Europe, Heritage

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• To accumulate wealth, power or land beyond one's needs in a limited world is to be truly immoral, be it as an individual, an institution, or a nation-state.

  Bill Mollison

  Land, Needs, World

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• In I'm Not A Racist, But..., Lawrence Blum offers answers for our time about what race is, who is a racist, and ways for people to talk about the racialized features of our society without falling into name-calling or defensiveness. With exemplary moral and analytic clarity, Blum offers educators, students, lawyers, judges, leaders, and citizens tools for building a nation of equality, comity, and respect for each person.

  Martha Minow

  Fall, Race, Names

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• The sin against blood and race is the hereditary sin in this world and it brings disaster on every nation that commits it.

  Adolf Hitler

  Race, Blood, World

  Adolf Hitler (2016). “Mein Kampf: My Struggle: (Vol. I & Vol. II) - (Complete & Illustrated Edition)”, p.252, eKitap Projesi

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• Even putting aside the Judeo-Christian morality upon which the Constitution and our nations culture are based, the notion of forced euthanasia would contradict the long-held body of medical ethics to which all American doctors must adhere.

  Sherwin B. Nuland

  Christian, Doctors, Long

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• Whatever the job is, we can do it. Thats why the nation has a Marine Corps.

  James F. Amos

  Jobs, Marine, Adaptability

  "Reshaping Your Corps". Interview with Bob Drury, www.menshealth.com. June 2, 2011.

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• The war against Russia is an important chapter in the German nation's struggle for existence. [...] The objective of this battle must be the demolition of present-day Russia and must therefore be conducted with unprecedented severity. Every military action must be guided in planning and execution by an iron resolution to exterminate the enemy remorselessly and totally. In particular, no adherents of the contemporary Russian Bolshevik system are to be spared.

  Franz Halder

  Military, War, Struggle

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• How can I come from a nation? How can a human being come from a concept?

  Taiye Selasi

  Humans, Human Beings, Concepts

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• Homeless shelters, child hunger, and child suffering have become normalized in the richest nation on earth. It's time to reset our moral compass and redefine how we measure success.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, Suffering, Earth

  "The State of America’s Children 2012" by Marian Wright Edelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 3, 2012.

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• No nation has produced anything like his equal. There is no quality in the human mind, there is no class of topics, there is no region of thought, in which he has not soared or descended, and none in which he has not said the commanding word.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Class, Mind, Quality

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• A territory cannot become a state or a nation unless Congress approves legislation and the president signs it.

  Pedro Pierluisi

  President, Territory, States

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• Puerto Rico has two divergent paths forward. After a reasonable transition period, it could become a state. Or it can become a sovereign nation.

  Pedro Pierluisi

  Two, Divergent, Transition

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• Serbia has become a pariah nation, untouchable like a leper.

  Ivica Dacic

  Untouchables, Pariahs, Serbia

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• Research shows that the wealthier, more educated, and healthier a nation, the less violence and civil unrest among its populace, and the less likely that unrest will spread across its borders.

  Peter Diamandis

  Borders, Research, Unrest

  Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler (2014). “Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• Historically, we have lived in a nation of energy dependence. Dependence on others for our heating and electricity, and for our fuel for transportation.

  Mike Pompeo

  Energy, Fuel, Electricity

  "Untapped U.S. option: Energy exports" by Rep. Mike Pompeo, www.politico.com. January 15, 2013.

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• I've had opportunities before to run for office - the Republicans recruited me when I was surgeon general, to run for Congress, to run against Gov. Napolitano. But I didn't feel it was my calling... I felt, 'Well, I'm flattered, but I really would rather stay and be the doctor of the nation and stay as surgeon general.'

  Richard Carmona

  Running, Opportunity, Doctors

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• As 17th U.S. Surgeon General, I was privileged to serve as the nation's doctor. I focused much of my time on promoting proven programs and individual steps that lead to good health.

  Richard Carmona

  Doctors, Steps, Individual

  "Childhood Obesity: Fighting for the Future Health of America's Youth" by Richard Carmona, M.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. September 25, 2010.

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• Never should the power of an individual be allowed to impede the progress of the rest of the nation; never should the power of a nation be allowed to impede the progress of mankind.

  Leon Bourgeois

  Progress, Individual, Should

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• Aging nations have arteries clogged with obsolete laws, slowing blood flow and preventing oxygen from reaching all parts of the body politic. Physicians call this arteriosclerosis; historians see decline of empire.

  Jim Cooper

  Oxygen, Blood, Law

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• No nation on this globe should be more internationally minded than America because it was built by all nations.

  Harry S. Truman

  America, Should, Globes

  Harry S. Truman (1967). “The Quotable Harry S. Truman”, Anderson, S.C. : Droke House, distributed by Grosset & Dunlap

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• The government has created a nation of paper criminals. People can be put in jail and lose civil rights and liberties through bureaucratic procedures.The only thing that is keeping you out of jail is government goodwill.

  Ayn Rand

  Jail, Rights, Government

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