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• It takes 1,000 tons of water to produce 1 ton of grain. As water becomes scarce and countries are forced to divert irrigation water to cities and industry, they will import more grain. As they do so, water scarcity will be transmitted across national borders via the grain trade. Aquifer depletion is a largely invisible threat, but that does not make it any less real.

  Lester R. Brown

  Country, Real, Aquifers

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• If we had intellectual vigour enough to ascend from effects to causes, we would explain political, economical and social phenomena less by credit sheets, balance of trade and reparations than by our attitude towards God.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Attitude, Political, Intellectual

  Fulton J. Sheen (2009). “God and Intelligence in Modern Philosophy: A Critical Study in the Light of the Philosophy of Saint Thomas”, p.1, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Country, Blessing, Government

  "Essay on Mitford's History of Greece" by Thomas B. Macaulay, 1824.

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• The cult of the omnipotent state has millions of followers in the united States. Americans of today view their government in the same way as Christians view their God; they worship and adore the state and they render their lives and fortunes to it. Statists believe that their lives - their very being - are a privilege that the state has given to them. They believe that everything they do is - and should be - dependent on the consent of the government. Thus, statists support such devices as income taxation, licensing laws, regulations, passports, trade restrictions, and the like.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  Christian, Believe, Views

  Jacob G. Hornberger (1997). “The tyranny of gun control”

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• The economy is still substantially that of the fur trade, still based on the same general kinds of commercial items: technology, weapons, ornaments, novelties, and drugs. The one great difference is that by now the revolution has deprived the mass of consumers of any independent access to the staples of life: clothing, shelter, food, even water. Air access remains the only necessity that the average user can still get for himself, and the revolution has imposed a heavy tax on that by way of pollution. Commercial conquest is far more thorough and final than military defeat.

  Wendell Berry

  Military, Independent, Technology

  Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.16, Counterpoint

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• In Heaven, our bodies are going to be the same make, but a new model. Our old, decaying, worn-out natural, physical body will go back to the dust. We will trade it in for an entirely new heavenly model!

  David Berg

  Dust, Heaven, Body

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• Free trade with Colombia is something that's a no-brainer.

  John McCain

  Colombia, Free Trade, No Brainer

  John McCain at The Third Presidential Candidates Debate at Hofstra University at Hempstead, New York, www.nytimes.com. October 15, 2008.

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• The trade agreement itself does have labor and environmental protections, but we have to stand for human rights and we have to make sure that violence isn't being perpetrated against workers who are just trying to organize for their rights.

  Barack Obama

  Rights, Agreement, Environmental

  "McCain, Obama go head to head in last debate". www.cnn.com. October 15, 2008.

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• I think that the important point is we've got to have a president who understands the benefits of free trade but also is going to enforce unfair trade agreements and is going to stand up to other countries.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Thinking, Agreement

  "Breaking the Sound Barrier: Third-Party Candidates Ralph Nader & Cynthia McKinney Respond to Final McCain-Obama Debate". "Democracy Now!" with Juan Gonzalez and Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. October 16, 2008.

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• I believe climate change is real, but I reject the cap and trade solution of John - of, you know, of Al Gore. He's made a religion. It's a problem.

  Lindsey Graham

  Real, Believe, Climate

  "Sen. Graham on security of our nation's capital, 2016 plans; Sen. Sanders ready to challenge Hillary Clinton?". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. April 19, 2015.

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• Over the years, we have lost millions of decent paying jobs. These trade agreements have forced wages down in America so the average worker in America today is working longer hours for lower wages.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jobs, Agreement, Average

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement is a continuation of other disastrous trade agreements, like NAFTA, CAFTA, and permanent normal trade relations with China.

  Bernie Sanders

  Agreement, Normal, Partnership

  "Sen. Bernie Sanders on taxes, trade agreements and Islamic State". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. May 18, 2015.

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• When you're in an economic downturn, what you want is to create jobs and economic growth. And the recipe isn't Republican or Democrat. It's low taxes, low spending, less regulation, free trade.

  Nancy Pfotenhauer

  Jobs, Growth, Recipes

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• I actually started in the opposite place. I come from a technical background - I'm a mathematician and a programmer by trade - and I was one of those people who would watch a show and say, "Oh, that could never happen."

  Michael Loceff

  Opposites, People, Watches

  "The Worst Day Ever". Interview with James Surowiecki, www.slate.com. January 17, 2006.

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• I don't think that our problem, our jobs problem, is fundamentally a problem of trade. I think it has much more to do with the fact that we have not sufficiently educated our population. We have not got out of this great recession with adequate stimulus and adequate fiscal and monetary policies over all.

  Robert Reich

  Jobs, Thinking, Population

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The moving accident is not my trade; To freeze the blood I have no ready arts: 'Tis my delight, alone in summer shade, To pipe a simple song for thinking hearts.

  William Wordsworth

  Summer, Song, Art

  'Hart-leap Well' (1800) pt. 2, l.1

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• Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring then to be original; by destroying one's first productions.

  Andre Maurois

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• If one looks closely one sees that there is no essential difference between a beggar's livelihood and that of numberless respectable people. Beggars do not work, it is said; but then, what is work? A navvy works by swinging a pick. An accountant works by adding up figures. A beggar works by standing out of doors in all weathers and getting varicose veins, chronic bronchitis, etc. It is a trade like any other; quite useless, of course - but then, many reputable trades are quite useless.

  George Orwell

  Doors, Weather, Differences

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• What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead.

  Pablo Picasso

  Understanding, Wish, Poor

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• Stamps God's own name upon a lie just made, To turn a penny in the way of trade.

  William Cowper

  Money, Lying, Names

  'Table Talk' (1782) l. 420 (Perjury)

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• Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Business, Haste, Decay

  Oliver Goldsmith (1871). “The works of Oliver Goldsmith: Vicar of Wakefield, select poems and comedies, with intr., notes and a life by J.F. Waller”, p.209

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• I deplore the tendency, in some institutions, to go directly toward training for a trade or profession or something and ignoring the liberal arts. It is the foundation of education.

  Ronald Reagan

  Art, Training, Foundation

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1988). “Ronald Reagan”

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• I have the instincts of a minstrel rather than those of a scrivener. There you have it. We are not of the same trade at all and so how can your rules fit me?

  John Steinbeck

  Fit, Instinct, Minstrels

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• The anointed don't like to talk about painful trade-offs. They like to talk about happy "solutionsthat get rid of the whole problem- at least in their imagination.

  Thomas Sowell

  Imagination, Society, Problem

  Thomas Sowell (1993). “Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• The nation that buys commands, the nation that sells serves; it is necessary to balance trade in order to ensure freedom; the country that wants to die sells only to one country , and the country that wants to survive sells to more than one.

  Jose Marti

  Country, Order, Balance

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