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• Growth is improving the lot of the poor in many countries, reducing poverty by half since 1981. Freer trade could accelerate progress.

  Francois Bourguignon

  Growth, Progress, Half

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• In this country of the bountiful harvest, everyone can have enough to eat - we have it! We grow enough for everyone. Let's share it by supporting our local foodbanks, houses of worship and organizations who help people.

  Catherine Hicks

  Organization, People, House

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• Most Americans think of hunger as a problem affecting only places like India, Africa or South America. But it is a tragic reality that our country has millions of children who are suffering from lack of food. We must all work together to save our country from this problem.

  Beverly Johnson

  Children, Reality, Thinking

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• We cannot stand by and allow the future of our country to be undermined by the reality of American children going hungry! Please join in to help the 12 million children who are malnourished in our country.

  Donna Mills

  Children, Reality, Helping

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• 24,000 people, 18,000 of them children, die every day because of hunger. Each year we bring food to nearly 90 million people in more than 80 countries. Food - there's no greater gift, and no better way to give it than the World Food Programme.

  Dikembe Mutombo

  Children, Years, People

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• Governments can enhance growth by increasing inclusiveness. A country's most valuable resource is its people. So it is essential to ensure that everyone can live up to their potential, which requires educational opportunities for all.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Educational, Opportunity, Government

  "The Great Divide: Unequal Societies and What We Can Do about Them". Book by Joseph Stiglitz, 2015.

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• Obviously, it gave me a chance to see Barcelona. I won't deny that. But I also had a chance to see something in another country in terms of recycling and reusing nuclear material.

  Ed Pastor

  Nuclear, Barcelona, Chance

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• I am speaking to you from the Cabinet Room at 10 Downing Street. This morning the British Ambassador in Berlin handed the German Government an official note stating that unless we heard from them by eleven o'clock, that they were prepared at once to withdraw their troops from Poland, a state of war would exist between us. I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been received, and consequently this country is at war with Germany.

  Neville Chamberlain

  Morning, War, Government

  "Neville Chamberlain's declaration of war". www.theguardian.com. September 03, 1939.

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• We're in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, and I would hope that I could participate in some way in stopping the horror and the brutality.

  Wallace Shawn

  Scary, Way, Emergencies

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Much evil must befall a country before it wholly forgets the Elves, if once they dwelt there.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Evil, Magic, Forget

  "The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings".

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• To you who answered the call of your country and served in its Armed Forces to bring about the total defeat of the enemy, I extend the heartfelt thanks of a grateful Nation. As one of the Nation's finest, you undertook the most severe task one can be called upon to perform. Because you demonstrated the fortitude, resourcefulness and calm judgment necessary to carry out that task, we now look to you for leadership and example to further exalting our country in peace.

  Harry S. Truman

  Grateful, Heart, Enemy

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• You know those Navy SEALs, they weren't Democrats and Republicans. They were just doing what was best for America. Wouldn't that be a great country if all of you Americans were just like that? You followed orders, you marched in step and you followed my agenda.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Order, America, Navy

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• In every country in the world, killing human beings is condemned. The Buddhist precept of non-killing extends even further, to include all living beings.

  Nhat Hanh

  Buddhist, Animal, Vegetarianism

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• It is only with burning anger that we can speak of this attack by counter-revolutionary reactionary elements against the capital of our country, against our people's democratic order and the power of the working class.

  Janos Kadar

  Anger, Class, Order

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• Private travel into foreign countries can be requested without conditions [...]. Permission will be granted instantly. Permanent relocations can be done through all border checkpoints between the GDR into the FRG or Berlin (West).

  Gunter Schabowski

  Change, Borders, Done

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• I believe that this country's policies should be heavily biased in favor of nondiscrimination.

  William J. Clinton

  Believe, Stupidity, Favors

  Clinton, William J. (1994). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1993”, p.487, Best Books on

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• Throughout the late '80s, me and a handful of friends just like you people here, we started to break windows, we started to slash tires, we started to rescue animals from factory farms and vivisection breeders, and we graduated to breaking into laboratories . As long as we emptied the labs of animals, they were still easily replaced. So that's when the ALF in this country, and my cell, started engaging in arson.

  Rod Coronado

  Animal, Cells, Long

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• Not even the King himself has the right to subordinate the interests of his country to his own feelings of love or hatred towards strangers; he is, however, responsible towards God and not to me if he does so, and therefore on this point I am silent.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Kings, Hatred, Feelings

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• What would you do, sir, if terrorists were killing 45,000 people every year in this country? Well, the current health care system, the insurance companies, and those who support them are doing just that. [...] Because they die individually because of disease and not disaster, [radio host] Neal Boortz and all those who ape him approve this. Forty five thousand a year in America. Remind me again, who are the terrorists?

  Keith Olbermann

  Years, America, People

  "Countdown with Keith Olbermann", www.nbcnews.com. January 5, 2010.

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• A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country.

  Wendell Willkie

  World, Matter, Imperialism

  Wendell L. Willkie (1943). “Prefaces TO PEACE”

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• I'm not building a game. I'm building a new country.

  Philip Rosedale

  Games, Building

  "The Other Fed Chief". www.wired.com. June 1, 2006.

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• Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the "things" of that particular country: leaves, fruit, insects and so forth. "We give our children guns and computer games," Wendy said. "They gave their children the land."

  Bruce Chatwin

  Mother, Children, Gun

  "The Songlines". Book by Bruce Chatwin, 1987.

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• You need to control the country, and the main thing is not to ruin people's lives.

  Alexander Lukashenko

  People, Needs, Ruins

  "Profile: Alexander Lukashenko". news.bbc.co.uk. January 09, 2007.

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• My position and the state will never allow me to become a dictator, but an authoritarian style of rule is characteristic of me, and I have always admitted it. You need to control the country, and the main thing is not to ruin people's lives.

  Alexander Lukashenko

  People, Style, Needs

  "Profile: Alexander Lukashenko". news.bbc.co.uk. January 09, 2007.

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• Australia was great. I would advise anybody to go there. In fact, if you couldn't live here, Australia would be the place to live. It's the most Americanized country that I've ever seen in the world.

  Jerry Lawler

  Australia, Facts, Would Be

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