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• A good president does with executive power what Pablo Picasso did with paint. He takes bills into new and slightly discomfiting territory. He puts extra eyes on policies. He moves the mouth of the Supreme Court from where it should be to where it must be.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Moving, Eye, President

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• I think mathematics is a vast territory. The outskirts of mathematics are the outskirts of mathematical civilization. There are certain subjects that people learn about and gather together. Then there is a sort of inevitable development in those fields. You get to the point where a certain theorem is bound to be proved, independent of any particular individual, because it is just in the path of development.

  William Thurston

  Independent, Thinking, Civilization

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• In the minds of most men, the kingdom of opinion is divided into three territories,--the territory of yes, the territory of no, and a broad, unexplored middle ground of doubt.

  James A. Garfield

  Men, Doubt, Mind

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• A sense of self has to be sought in the parade of images and products; and this culture becomes the main determinant upon morality, beliefs, and purpose, usurping more and more territory that formerly belonged to parents, teachers, community, priests, and politics alike.

  Jeremy Seabrook

  Teacher, Self, Community

  Jeremy Seabrook (1978). “What Went Wrong?: Why Hasn't Having More Made People Happier?”, Pantheon

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• Anyone who is going to establish a Palestinian state, anyone who is going to evacuate territories today, is simply giving a base for attacks to the radical Islam against Israel.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Giving, Islam, Today

  "Israel's PM Netanyahu: No Palestinian state on my watch". edition.cnn.com. March 16, 2015.

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• Reference to the territory and total disregard for the nationality of the companies is of course the best guarantee that competition assessment remain just that and doesn't get affected by trade or other considerations.

  Mario Monti

  Assessment, Guarantees That, Competition

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• US spend more on research and development than the other countries, so we shouldn't be making the internet a more hostile, a more aggressive territory.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Research And Development, Internet

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Cinema is a territory. It exists outside of movies. It's a place I live in. It's a way of seeing things, of experiencing life. But making films, that's supposed to be a profession.

  Leos Carax

  Cinema, Way, Film

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• It takes faith to find personal significance in your relationship with God rather than how much money you earn, how beautiful you look, how many toys you own, how many trophies you collect, or how much territory you conquer and control.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Beautiful, Toys, Looks

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• I hope that in my thirties I grow as a writer, push into new territory.

  Karen Russell

  Grows, New Territory

  "The Exchange: Karen Russell on 'Swamplandia!'". Interview with Rachel Hurn, www.newyorker.com. February 15, 2011.

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• Yet, Puerto Ricos economic convergence and political integration with the rest of the nation is in a state of arrest - even though the island has been within the national borders, political system and customs territory of the U.S. for a century.

  Dick Thornburgh

  Islands, Political, Borders

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• No one in the modern world controls the wealth or territory that Cleopatra did.

  Stacy Schiff

  World, Wealth, Modern

  Stacy Schiff (2010). “Cleopatra: A Life”, p.287, Hachette UK

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• Having a real public outlet is how you imprint something for yourself. It's just a matter of timing. It's like you've marked your territory.

  Lily Tomlin

  Real, Matter, Timing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The culture is still there, and people are still doing it. I imagine some people are doing it very well indeed. As for me, it definitely was my native literary culture. Science fiction was where I'm from, but on the way to now, I went through a lot of other territory, and I wasn't really that culturally conventional an SF writer when I started.

  William Gibson

  People, Way, Culture

  Interview with Zack Handlen, www.avclub.com. September 7, 2010.

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• With surgical insight, Inside Madeline delves into the most complex female territory imaginable and dissects until every honest bone is revealed. Bomer's prose doesn't flinch, doesn't filter-the bravery of these stories left me breathless.

  Alissa Nutting

  Bravery, Female, Filters

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• Israel of the coastal plain, where eight out of ten Israeli Jews live far removed from the occupied territories, from the fiery Jerusalem, from the religious and nationalistic conflicts, is unknown to the outside world, almost unknown to itself.

  Amos Oz

  Religious, Eight, Israel

  "Coping with Conflict: Israeli Author Amos Oz". "PBS NewsHour" with Elizabeth Fransworth, www.pbs.org. January 22, 2002.

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• I visited New York in '63, intending to move there, but I noticed that what I valued about jazz was being discarded. I ran into `out-to-lunch' free jazz, and the notion that groove was old-fashioned. All around the United States, I could see jazz becoming linear, a horn-player's world. It made me realize that we were not jazz musicians; we were territory musicians in love with all forms of African-American music. All of the musicians I loved were territory musicians, deeply into blues and gospel as well as jazz.

  Joe Sample

  New York, Moving, Player

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• Modern Armenia survived only because it was the single province controlled, and protected, by the Russian Empire. The rest of the territory within its historical borders is almost wholly devoid of ethnic Armenians.

  John Shimkus

  Historical, Borders, Armenia

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• Every time you look at a blank piece of paper, you're doing something new. You have to step onto that blank territory and remind yourself the sky didn't fall in the last time you wrote. Writing is a question of overcoming your fears-and everybody has them.

  William Zinsser

  Fall, Writing, Sky

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• A border--the perimeter of a single massive or stretched-out use of territory--forms the edge of an area of 'ordinary' city. Often borders are thought of as passive objects, or matter-of-factly just as edges. However, a border exerts an active influence.

  Jane Jacobs

  Cities, Matter, Ordinary

  Jane Jacobs (1989). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, Vintage

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• This war is not as in the past: whoever occupies a territory also imposes his own social system.

  Joseph Stalin

  War, Past, World

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• Slasher Hathaway marks his territory by spending money. He might as well have pissed on her. It means nothing.

  Marian Keyes

  Mean, Might, Spending

  Marian Keyes (2009). “The Brightest Star in the Sky”, p.91, Penguin UK

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• We were a family that made our Halloween costumes. Or, more accurately, my mother made them. She took no suggestions or advice. Halloween costumes were her territory. She was the brain behind my brothers winning girl costume, stuffing her own bra with newspapers for him to wear under a cashmere sweater and smearing red lipstick on his lips.

  Ann Hood

  Girl, Mother, Brother

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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, States, Legislation

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• Fences, unlike punishments, clearly mark out the perimeters of any specified territory. Young children learn where it is permissible to play, because their backyard fence plainly outlines the safe area. They learn about the invisible fence that surrounds the stove, and that Grandma has an invisible barrier around her cabinet of antique teacups.

  Jeanne Elium

  Children, Grandma, Play

  Jeanne Elium, Don Elium (2011). “Raising a Daughter: Parents and the Awakening of a Healthy Woman”, p.155, Celestial Arts

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