Settlement Quotes - Page 8

• America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.

  James Madison

  Art, Agriculture, America

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• Everyone assumes America must play the leading role in crafting some settlement or compromise between the Israelis and the Palestinians. But Jefferson, Madison, and Washington explicitly warned against involving ourselves in foreign conflicts.

  Ron Paul

  Play, America, Roles

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• Payment systems are critically important for overall market stability. On a typical business day, U.S. payment and settlement systems settle transactions valued at over $13 trillion.

  Henry Paulson

  Important, Typical, Settling

  Speech on the "Blueprint for Regulatory Reform", www.cnbc.com. March 31, 2008.

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• The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man: abjuration of force in the settlement of disputes between states; the assurance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion; the safeguarding of international peace and security.

  Haile Selassie

  Sex, Men, Rights

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 6 October 1963

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• We do not build new Jewish communities in Samaria, Judea and Gaza. The United States has never accepted our building of communities or of the fence. Yet, I've managed to develop relations between Israel and the United States even though President Bush never supported settlements.

  Ariel Sharon

  Israel, Community, President

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• Hamas is regularly described as 'Iranian-backed Hamas, which is dedicated to the destruction of Israel.' One will be hard put to find something like 'democratically elected Hamas, which has long been calling for a two-state settlement in accord with the international consensus'—blocked for over 30 years by the US and Israel. All true, but not a useful contribution to the Party Line, hence dispensable.

  Noam Chomsky

  Party, Israel, Years

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• No settlement with the majority community is possible, as no Hindu leader speaking with any authority shows any concern or genuine desire for it.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Leader, Desire, Majority

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah's Address to the Muslim League Lucknow, www.columbia.edu. October 1937.

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• If I ever meet with the man who fulfills my ideal, I shall make it a condition of the marriage settlement, that I am to have chocolate under the pillow.

  Wilkie Collins

  Men, Chocolate, Pillow

  Wilkie Collins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Wilkie Collins (Illustrated)”, p.6857, Delphi Classics

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• I am all for love, because love fails. You will be surprised - I have my own logic. I am all for love, because love fails. I am not for marriage, because marriage succeeds; it gives you a permanent settlement. And that is the danger: you become satisfied with a toy, you become satisfied with something plastic, artificial, man-made.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Love Is, Men

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• Put an end to so great an evil and arrive at a peace settlement whatever the outcome, and whatever the conditions.

  William of Tyre

  War, Evil, Outcomes

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• Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for a really increasingly brutal repression, colonial settlements and a new wall.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Wall, Support, Terrorism

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• War is not in itself a condition so much as the symptom of a condition, that of international anarchy. If we wish to substitute for war the settlement of disputes by justice, we must first substitute for the condition of international anarchy a condition of international order

  Alfred Hermann Fried

  War, Order, Justice

  Alfred Hermann Fried (1918*). “International Co-operation”

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• World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor - it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Peace, Men

  American University Commencement Address, delivered 10 June 1963

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• How I will cherish you then, you grief-torn nights! Had I only received you, inconsolable sisters, on more abject knees, only buried myself with more abandon in your loosened hair. How we waste our afflictions! We study them, stare out beyond them into bleak continuance, hoping to glimpse some end. Whereas they're really our wintering foliage, our dark greens of meaning, one of the seasons of the clandestine year -- ; not only a season --: they're site, settlement, shelter, soil, abode.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Grief, Dark, Night

  Rainer Maria Rilke, Lou Andreas-Salomé (2008). “Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: A Love Story in Letters”, p.297, W. W. Norton & Company

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• In the old days, land was important as the giver of all things. That period is gone now. Technology and brainpower are all that matters and yet conflicts over land, specially one like on the India-China border, that yields nothing, continue. This is a burden of ancient history that we continue to carry. If tomorrow there is settlement on planet Mars, we will begin to worry if others are interested.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Technology, Yield, Land

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• There is as much need for a change of heart among the Hindus and Mussalmans as there is among the British, before a proper settlement is arrived at.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Heart, Needs, Language

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• If you demand money from someone in exchange for your silence, it's called 'blackmail'. If your lawyer demands money from someone in exchange for your silence, it's called a settlement. If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.

  Arthur Baer

  Silence, Thumbs, Demand

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• [In 1889] the last big tract of Indian land was declared open for settlement, in Oklahoma. The claimants and the speculators mounted their horses and lined up like trotters waiting for a starting gun. The itchy ones jumped the gun and were ever after known as Sooners-and Oklahoma was thereafter called the Sooner State.

  Alistair Cooke

  Horse, Gun, Land

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• I have no doubt that humans will go to Mars. And I feel that America has led so many things in space - we have invested so much, and we have a lot to gain - that America could and should be the nation that should lead the settlement of Mars.

  Buzz Aldrin

  America, Space, Doubt

  "Buzz Aldrin's mission to Mars". Interview with Jeremy Wilks, www.euronews.com. February 7, 2013.

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• Unless we are able to commit to a permanent growing settlement [on Mars], then I don't think just going there with humans and coming back is worth doing. The expense of planning to come back is like the people who left Europe to come to America and then to turn around and go back to Europe, it really doesn't make any sense at all.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Thinking, America, Europe

  Source: www.euronews.com

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• I think a lot of concern of the people in the north is that one hears constant reports in talking to them is about militarisation and the presence of the army, the entry of the army into civic life, into the economy, the lack of a political settlement.

  Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu

  Army, Thinking, Talking

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• There are several sources for my appreciation of pastors and the way they are described in this book. One of them is reading history and realizing that they had a profound creative impact on the Middle West and the settlement of the Middle West.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Appreciation, Reading, Book

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Peace with Syria would provide more security than a few settlements on the Golan.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Syria, Security

  Yitzhak Rabin, Efraim Inbar, Merkaz Besa le-meḥḳarim asṭraṭegiyim (1996). “Yitzhak Rabin and Israeli national security: special memorial issue”

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• I am told the settlement of $5 million I am being paid is the largest amount ever paid under the New York right to privacy law

  Woody Allen

  New York, Law, Privacy

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• We knew the Syrian situation was complex and there were lots of divisions, particularly on the side of the opposition... This is a tough job... It can perhaps be done if you stand united and work with me in putting sustained pressure on the protagonists or the parties to come together and seek a political settlement.

  Kofi Annan

  Jobs, Party, Political

  "Kofi Annan on 40 Years Trying to End War, Promote Peace at the United Nations". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.kofiannanfoundation.org. September 20, 2012.

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