Regions Quotes - Page 15

• Our heroes are fighting to bring stability to the Middle East, and they have put pressure on all of the tyrannies of the Middle East. They have taken a stand against tyranny, against terrorists, and for the prospect of decent societies throughout that region.

  Orrin Hatch

  Hero, Taken, Fighting

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• We've always had a dual role in the region - friend of Israel, and honest broker. We've given up the honest broker role completely.

  Chris Matthews

  Israel, Roles, Honest

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• I've traveled with Jack Murtha to Iraq three times to learn more about the region, talk with our diplomats and military leaders, and meet with our troops. Those visits are the main reason that I opposed the War in Iraq since its inception.

  John B. Larson

  Military, War, Iraq

  "Why I Support Murtha for Majority Leader" by John B. Larson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 14, 2006.

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• Personally, I believe in self-determination, but in the context of one South Africa - so that my self-determination is based in this region, and with my people.

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi

  Determination, Believe, Self

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• Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. The acknowledgment of those virtues on which conscience congratulates us is a tribute that we can at any tine exact with confidence; but the celebration of those which we only feign, or desire without any vigorous endeavours to attain them, is received as a confession of sovereignty over regions never conquered, as a favourable decision of disputable claims, and is more welcome as more gratuitous.

  Samuel Johnson

  Decision, Desire, Debt

  Samuel Johnson (1793). “The rambler”, p.294

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• . . . for until that God who rules all the region of the sky . . . has freed you from the fetters of your body, you cannot gain admission here. Men were created with the understanding that they were to look after that sphere called Earth, which you see in the middle of the temple. Minds have been given to them out of the eternal fires you call fixed stars and planets, those spherical solids which, quickened with divine minds, journey through their circuits and orbits with amazing speed.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Stars, Journey, Men

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• Several other aerospace and defense firms have announced plans to build facilities in north Mississippi in recent weeks. They join an impressive group of high-tech companies already doing business in our region.

  Roger Wicker

  Business, Technology, Aerospace

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• Anthropology has been compared to a great region, marked out indeed as within the sphere of influence of science, but unsettled and for the most part unsubdued. Like all such hinterland sciences, it is a happy hunting-ground for adventurers.

  H. G. Wells

  Hunting, Sphere Of Influence, Spheres

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.12554, Delphi Classics

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• The hunger drive is truly a mind-body connection. Eating is so important that the nerve cells of appetite are located in the hypothalamus region of the brain.

  Evelyn Tribole

  Cells, Mind, Brain

  Evelyn Tribole, M.S., R.D., Elyse Resch, M.S., R.D., F.A.D.A. (2012). “Intuitive Eating”, p.62, Macmillan

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• Also the fact that anything he does is seen and heard by the entire country, not just his actual audience or those who live in the region he happens to be in.

  Robert Teeter

  Country, Doe, Facts

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• I dare you to call Ask-A-Nurse and tell them you feel a presence in your womb region.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Nurse, Womb, Dare

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• The celebrated Aboriginal painter Albert Namatjira loved the Ghost Gums of the Northern Territory... They are evocatively Australian, their white trunks contrasting with the red earth and the deep blue sky of the Dreamtime region that has for centuries sustained Namatjira's Aranda people.

  Richard Allen

  Blue, Sky, White

  Richard Allen (2009). “Australia's Remarkable Trees”, p.24, The Miegunyah Press

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• The Sierra, a region so quiet and pristine that we have the sense of being the first human beings ever to set foot in it. We fall silent ourselves in its midst, as if conversation in a place of such primeval solitude would be like talking in church.

  Jim Fergus

  Travel, Fall, Talking

  Jim Fergus (2005). “The Wild Girl: The Notebooks of Ned Giles, 1932”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• There is a region beyond reason. Unless you get there, you will not know the sweetness of love, nor the Divine.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Divinity, Devotion

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• There is one, and only one solution, and we have almost no time to try it. We must turn all our resources to repairing the natural world, and train all our young people to help. They want to; we need to give them this last chance to create forests, soils, clean waters, clean energies, secure communities, stable regions, and to know how to do it from hands-on experience.

  Bill Mollison

  Hands, Water, People

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• The abdominal and waist region coordinate all parts of the body and act as the center or generator. Therefore, you can promote the ability to control the body's action and master your will more easily.

  Bruce Lee

  Body, Abdominals, Action

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: The Art of Expressing the Human Body”, p.83, Tuttle Publishing

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• With the danger of terrorism and war spreading in the world, now is the right moment to stop and reconsider our actions and do everything possible to bring an end to the fighting, be it in your own homeland, neighboring countries, or in your region.

  Dalia Grybauskaite

  Country, War, Fighting

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• It is wonderful to hear of the relief efforts that are finally coming to New Orleans and the rest of the region, but as well all know, it is simply not going to be enough.

  Angelina Jolie

  New Orleans, Effort, Relief

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• A DNA sequence for the genome of bacteriophage ΦX174 of approximately 5,375 nucleotides has been determined using the rapid and simple 'plus and minus' method. The sequence identifies many of the features responsible for the production of the proteins of the nine known genes of the organism, including initiation and termination sites for the proteins and RNAs. Two pairs of genes are coded by the same region of DNA using different reading frames.

  Frederick Sanger

  Reading, Science, Simple

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• I am optimistic that peace can be achieved in the region because I believe that every society on earth can be free and that if freedom comes to the Middle East, there can be peace.

  Natan Sharansky

  Easter, Peace, Believe

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• Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.

  Ibrahim Rugova

  Country, Europe, Today

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• Maybe it is the last chance for Europe to influence standards for world trade. Next it will be between the US and the Asia-Pacific region.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Europe, Lasts, Asia

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• We need to realise we are Europeans before we belong to a region or a Nation.

  Janne Teller

  Europe, Needs, Realising

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• Why is it that any technological and scientific achievement reached in the Middle East regions is translated into and portrayed as a threat to the Zionist regime? Is not scientific R&D one of the basic rights of nations?

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Rights, Achievement, Middle East

  "EU3 pushing incentives plan for Iran". www.cnn.com. May 10, 2006.

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• As to the fable that there are Antipodes, that is to say, men on the opposite side of the earth where the sun rises when it sets to us, men who walk with their feet opposite ours, that is on no ground credible. Even if some unknown landmass is there, and not just ocean, there was only one pair of original ancestors, and it is inconceivable that such distant regions should have been peopled by Adam's descendants.

  Saint Augustine

  Ocean, Men, Feet

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