Imports Quotes - Page 5

• The nobler the truth or sentiment, the less imports the question of authorship.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Authorship, Sentiments

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.155

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• Why, I say, that to tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection; it is plunder, and I entirely disclaim it; but I ask you to protect the rights and interests of labour generally in the first place, by allowing no free imports from countries which meet you with countervailing duties; and, in the second place, with respect to agricultural produce, to compensate the soil for the burdens from which other classes are free by an equivalent duty. This is my view of what is called "protection."

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Country, Rights, Views

  Benjamin Disraeli's speech in the House of Commons, May 14, 1850.

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• My solutions are to include Africa in the global economy, and not African charity, AIDS research, but African infrastructure development. And I think that Africa can import and needs everything the whole world can manufacture. And they have got enough money to pay for it. It's just that the money is in the ground.

  Andrew Young

  Thinking, Needs, Research

  "Civil Rights Leader Andrew Young Shares Life Lessons With New Generation". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. December 14, 2010.

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• I have a great admiration for English actors and actresses and have used them at every opportunity over the years, but now I won't have to import them to New York.

  Woody Allen

  New York, Opportunity, Years

  "Titanic star to play in Woody Allen's first British movie" by Kirsty Scott, www.theguardian.com. June18, 2004.

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• Who and of what import were the men whose bones bulk the Great Wall, the thirty million Mao starved, or the thirty million children not yet five who die each year now?  Why, they are the insignificant others, of course; living or dead, they are just some of the plentiful others...And you?  To what end were we billions of oddballs born?

  Annie Dillard

  Children, Wall, Men

  Annie Dillard (2010). “For the Time Being”, p.123, Vintage

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• If Mexican farm labor is so much cheaper, maybe we should be growing our fruits and vegetables in Mexico. There's absolutely no reason to import Mexicans to do something they could do at home and then sell to us. I believe this is what economists call "competitive advantage".

  Ann Coulter

  Believe, Home, Vegetables

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• Love is a strange commodity, because you can't import it if you don't also export it.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Love Is, Strange, Commodity

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• If any vestige of the American automobile industry is to survive, it must involve state-of-the-art vehicles that are not equal to but surpass the best imports in every way.

  Brock Yates

  Art, Way, States

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• Imports remain a concern with the currency holding at $US0.75 cents and cost pressures persist, in particular for power and transport.

  Christofer Drew

  Cost, Pressure, Currency

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• What is doing the damage is the fact that the U.K. is pulling in more imports, which shows the continued strength of the economy and the strength of sterling.

  Adam Cole

  Damage, Facts, Economy

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• The future and the past are equally meaningless because they are nebulous entities, times that do not exist, containing events which have no echo because they are gone, or which hold no import because they are yet to happen. What is important is the here and now, and now, and now, and the spaces between the nows.

  Tim Lebbon

  Past, Echoes, Space

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• It takes time and experience to absorb new technologies, so technologically backward producers need a period of protection from international competition during this period of learning. Such protection is costly, because the country is giving up the chance to import better and cheaper products. However, it is a price that has to be paid if it wants to develop advanced industries.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Country, Giving Up, Technology

  Ha-Joon Chang (2008). “Bad Samaritans: The Guilty Secrets of Rich Nations and the Threat to Global Prosperity”, p.47, Random House

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• There is perhaps no single factor contributing so much to people's frequent reluctance to let the market work as their inability to conceive how some necessary balance, between demand and supply, between exports and imports, or the like, will be brought about without deliberate control. The conservative feels safe and content only if he is assured that some higher wisdom watches and supervises change, only if he knows that some authority is charged with keeping the change "orderly.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  People, Balance, Inability

  "In Memoriam: F.A. Hayek" by Virginia Postrel, reason.com. June 1992.

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• The history of the Bible text is a romance of literature, though it is a romance of which the consequences are of vital import; and thanks to the succession of discoveries which have been made of late years, we know more about it than of the history of any other ancient book in the world.

  Frederic G. Kenyon

  Book, Discovery, Years

  "The Story Of The Bible" by Frederic G. Kenyon. Ch. I, The Bible And Recent Discoveries, p. 4, 1949.

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• We forget today that Britain still depends for its livelihood and, indeed, its day-to-day survival, on the sea. But the Royal Navy is now pitifully small and has been reduced in size by the current Government, seeking economies to finance its social programmes. Fine while there is no threat to our security. But what use would schools and hospitals be if we could not protect our imports?

  John Keegan

  School, Government, Sea

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• Criticism of the commitment of religion to the supernatural is thus positive in import.

  John Dewey

  Commitment, Criticism, Atheism

  William James, John Dewey, John M. Capps, Donald Capps (2005). “James and Dewey on Belief and Experience”, p.245, University of Illinois Press

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• It's just like a liberal, they import slaves, they hold slaves, they fight for slavery, they go to war in a civil war to defend slavery. They then install legal discrimination against blacks for a hundred years.

  Ann Coulter

  War, Fighting, Years

  Conservative Political Action Conference, www.esquire.com. 2011.

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• Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she home-keeping.

  James Howell

  Home, Paint, Used

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• Creativity is an import-export business.

  Ethan Zuckerman

  Creativity

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• The things of God are of deep import; and time, and experience, and careful and ponderous and solemn thoughts can only find them out.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Careful, Solemn

  "Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith". Book by Joseph Smith, 137, March 25, 1839.

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• Shaped like Texas, but twice as big, Mali is one of the poorest countries in the world. It exports almost nothing - mostly just cotton, gold and livestock - and doesnt have enough money to import much of anything, either.

  Richard Engel

  Country, Texas, Gold

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• A nation's exchange rate is the single most important price in its economy; it will influence the entire range of individual prices, imports and exports, and even the level of economic activity. So it is hard for any government to ignore large swings in its exchange rate.

  Paul Volcker

  Government, Swings, Important

  Paul A. Volcker, Toyoo Gyohten (1992). “Changing fortunes: the world's money and the threat to American leadership”, Crown

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• Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because shes had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Writing, Fighting, Opposites

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• The prices of all imports would rise if the dollar depreciates.

  Robert C. Solomon

  Dollars, Depreciate, Ifs

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• Russian cars are silly. They look like imports drawn by a cartoonist for a UAW newsletter.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  War, Silly, Car

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