Regions Quotes - Page 30

• I was very good in math and physics. In the Soviet time, we had a lot of Olympic-style competitions for different disciplines: I was always winning in my region.

  Oleg Deripaska

  Math, Winning, Discipline

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• I expect an energy bill to increase and diversify supply and stabilize energy prices - not drive up energy costs in one part of the country to subsidize energy in another region.

  Pete Domenici

  Country, Energy, Cost

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• I think it is the responsibility of anyone involved in politics to always think of what Japan can do to contribute more to the peace and stability not just of Japan and the region but of the entire world.

  Shinzo Abe

  Responsibility, Thinking, Japan

  "U.S. 'only indispensable alliance'". Interview with Lally Weymouth, articles.chicagotribune.com. April 23, 2007.

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• We must remember that North Carolina is more than a collection of regions and people. We are one state, one people, one family, bound by a common concern for each other.

  Mike Easley

  People, North Carolina, Common

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• Palaeontology is the Aladdin's lamp of the most deserted and lifeless regions of the earth; it touches the rocks and there spring forth in orderly succession the monarchs of the past and the ancient river streams and savannahs wherein they flourished. The rocks usually hide their story in the most difficult and inaccessible places.

  Roy Chapman Andrews

  Spring, Science, Past

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• Nevertheless, scientific method is not the same as the scientific spirit. The scientific spirit does not rest content with applying that which is already known, but is a restless spirit, ever pressing forward towards the regions of the unknown, and endeavouring to lay under contribution for the special purpose in hand the knowledge acquired in all portions of the wide field of exact science. Lastly, it acts as a check, as well as a stimulus, sifting the value of the evidence, and rejecting that which is worthless, and restraining too eager flights of the imagination and too hasty conclusions.

  Archibald Garrod

  Science, Hands, Imagination

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• If all goes well, the Iraqis are going to have a country that's going to have a representative government and will be at peace with its neighbors and in the region.

  Douglas J. Feith

  Country, Government, Neighbor

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• I think that Iran with a nuclear weapon is extremely destabilizing. I think it could precipitate a nuclear arms race in the region.

  Robert M. Gates

  Thinking, Iran, Race

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• There are certain regions in the country where the indigenous people eat dogs.

  Jessica Hagedorn

  Country, Dog, People

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• Tibet is a beautiful and richly endowed region of our great motherland.

  Hu Jintao

  Beautiful, Motherland, Tibet

  Hu Jintao's Speech at Tibet's Peaceful Liberation, www.chinese-embassy.no. July 19, 2001.

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• Peace in the Middle East is of prime importance to the Philippines, due to the presence of around 2 million of our countrymen working in that region.

  Benigno Aquino III

  Middle East, Philippines, Prime

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• The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place that frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.

  Abdallah II

  Jobs, Frustration, People

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• No one will remember that President Obama supported the Arab Spring if it eventually fails and the region collapses back into the political Dark Ages. If we actively engage these movements with advice, with money, and, when necessary, with military force, then we get a vote in how it all turns out.

  Sebastian Junger

  Spring, Military, Dark

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• There are parts of the country in America, in the Midwest, where wind is a big resource, and we should absolutely use it. But to try and apply it nationally doesn't make sense. There are technologies that will work that are appropriate to certain regions.

  Vinod Khosla

  Country, Technology, Wind

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• The less oil the world uses, the less important the region that has so much of it becomes.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Oil, Important, Use

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• You can't have a discussion about Israel and the region without including Iran and their nuclear ambitions.

  Peter MacKay

  Ambition, Israel, Iran

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• Let Jammu and Kashmir lead the way in the building of a new future for India. Let it set an example to the rest of India and the world by showing how the entire region can be transformed into a zone of peace, stability and prosperity.

  Pranab Mukherjee

  Kashmir, India, Example

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• Whenever a total eclipse of the sun was visible in an accessible region parties were sent out to observe it.

  Simon Newcomb

  Party, Eclipse Of The Sun, Visible

  Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

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• In 2005, I founded the Democratic Pacific Union, an international organization of 28 democratic countries to promote democracy, peace and prosperity in the Pacific region.

  Annette Lu

  Country, Organization, Democracy

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• Taiwan matters because of its vital role in spreading democracy in East Asia. Taiwan matters because of its strategic importance to promote peace in the Pacific region.

  Annette Lu

  Democracy, Taiwan, East

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• Bringing an end to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians may help the young Arab generation to realise their aspirations. Israel is more than willing to offer our experience in building a modern economy in spite of limited resources to the whole region.

  Shimon Peres

  Israel, Generations, Limited Resources

  "We in Israel welcome the Arab spring" by Shimon Peres, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2011.

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• If you care to define the South as a poor, rural region with lousy race relations, that South survives only in geographical shreds and patches and most Southerners don't live there any more.

  John Shelton Reed

  Race, Care, Poor

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• Faulkner came from my region and taught me how you could write about a place.

  Ron Rash

  Writing, Taught

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• I live in Cullowhee, North Carolina. That's where I teach, at Western Carolina University. That region is where my family has lived for a long time and that region is my landscape.

  Ron Rash

  Long, Landscape, North Carolina

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• Meth is a major problem not only in our urban areas, but in most of the rural areas of Colorado. No region has been immune from this scourge and it is getting larger.

  Ken Salazar

  Rural Areas, Colorado, Urban

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