Country Quotes - Page 32

• Margaret Thatcher - this great lady has not only served her country well, she has served the free world well.

  Ronald Reagan

  World, Wells, Free World

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• We no longer live in a world that is neatly divided between rich and well-educated countries, and poor and badly-educated ones.

  Andreas Schleicher

  Motivation, Inspiration, World

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• What I'm really worried about is war. Will the former rich countries really accept a completely changed world economy, and a shift of power away from where it has been the last 50 to 100 to 150 years, back to Asia?

  Hans Rosling

  Motivation, War, Inspiration

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• The high price of health care in this country is a serious issue that demands serious attention. Putting limits on damages have little or no effect on skyrocketing malpractice insurance rates.

  Mary Landrieu

  Issues, Attention, Demand

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• We have the highest graduation rates, the broadest health care access, and the greatest level of home ownership and workforce participation in the country. And we did it all with a small population in a cold state that coastal big shots refer to as fly-over land.

  Tim Pawlenty

  Home, Land, Population

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• Our media, which is very open and report on really everything, tend to exaggerate the crime issue...This is why one gets the impression that we have much more crime than other countries.

  Jacob Zuma

  Media, Issues, Ridiculous

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• God expects the ANC to rule this country because we are the only organisation which was blessed by pastors when it was formed. It is even blessed in Heaven. That is why we will rule until Jesus comes back. We should not allow anyone to govern our city [Cape Town] when we are ruling the country.

  Jacob Zuma

  Jesus, Blessed, Cities

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• I’m so thrilled to manufacture in LA and to support the finely skilled craftsmen and women. Making it in America ensures that the fashion industry will continue to thrive in this country for years to come.

  Nanette Lepore

  Fashion, Years, America

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• Because Katrina put it out there, no one can play the pretend game anymore that there isn't poverty and inequality in this country. The Millions More Movement - Katrina gives it added significance.

  Marc Morial

  Games, Play, Giving

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• People turned around and came back to watch. An enormous crowd formed. Ampol Oil took films. When we left Australia, we also left our boards for the Aussies. Those films were shown all over the country to different clubs. The films and our boards became the basis for the modern surfboard movement in Australia.

  Greg Noll

  Oil, Australia, People

  Greg Noll, Andrea Gabbard (1989). “Da Bull: Life Over the Edge”, p.71, North Atlantic Books

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• Many countries today have begun the transition from an industrial wealth system and civilization to a knowledge-based system - without appreciating that a new wealth system is impossible without a corresponding new way of life.

  Alvin Toffler

  Civilization, Appreciate, Today

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• My fame came from my success as a country music singer.

  Mindy McCready

  Singers, Fame

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• Across our country, social enterprise partnerships between the public and private sectors are providing millions of Americans - young and old - a second chance.

  George R. Roberts

  Second Chance, Partnership, Social

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• I opened my own restaurant when I was 17. I went broke, then traveled around the country, learning about different kinds of foods, had three other restaurants that went broke. It didn't all start just a few years ago!

  Paul Prudhomme

  Years, Different, Three

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• People are fed up with Labour for taking them for granted for far too long, they are fed up of too much spin, and the people of Dunfermline and West Fife have spoken for the rest of the country with their views on the Labour government.

  Willie Rennie

  Government, Views, Long

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• The traveler fancies he has seen the country. So he has, the outside of it at least; but the angler only sees the inside. The angler only is brought close, face to face with the flower and bird and insect life of the rich riverbanks, the only part of the landscape where the hand of man has never interfered.

  Charles Kingsley

  Flower, Men, Lakes

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Prose Idylls: New and Old: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.32, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• International institutions ought to be, as the national ones in democratic countries, established by the peoples and for the peoples

  Henri La Fontaine

  Hymns, Shepherds, Slaughterhouses

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• Thus, if armaments were curtailed without a secure peace and all countries disarmed proportionately, military security would have been in no way affected.

  Ludwig Quidde

  Military, Way, Armament

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• So long as peace is not attained by law (so argue the advocates of armaments) the military protection of a country must not be undermined, and until such is the case disarmament is impossible.

  Ludwig Quidde

  Military, Law, Long

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• I believe that never was a country better adapted to produce a great race of women than this Canada of ours, nor a race of women better adapted to make a great country.

  Emily Murphy

  Believe, Race, Canada

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• I love my country and I love my league.

  Al Davis

  League

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• I thought a dignified thing to do would be to live in the country by the time I'm 50 and write books

  Julian Clary

  Book, Writing, Would Be

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• Because I am an African I reserve the right to say that Africa does not exist simply to make people in this country [the UK], or anywhere else in the developed world, feel good about themselves.

  Nicky Oppenheimer

  People, Feel Good, Doe

  "I am an African". Interview with Terry Macalister, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2005.

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• I never thought that I could reach such a high political position. But I have always been ready to serve my country.

  Atifete Jahjaga

  Political, Ready, Position

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• Since our economy is closely allied with that of foreign countries, not one of us can be indifferent to what consequences these disturbances can have at home and abroad

  Hjalmar Schacht

  Home, Economy, Indifferent

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