Regions Quotes - Page 21

• People who go to the polar regions are statistically less likely to die than salesmen who drive on motorways in England.

  Ranulph Fiennes

  Adventure, People, England

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• Besides the pleasure derived from acquired knowledge, there lurks in the mind of man, and tinged with a shade of sadness, an unsatisfactory longing for something beyond the present, a striving towards regions yet unknown and unopened.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Sadness, Men, Mind

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• The United States being in Asia is unambiguously a good thing for the region.

  Paul Keating

  United States, Asia, Good Things

  "Paul Keating welcomes the rise of China". "Lateline" with Tone Jones, www.abc.net.au. November 24, 2011.

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• I think the rise of China is one of the great events of all economic and human history, and I think this will be overwhelmingly a positive thing for the region and the world.

  Paul Keating

  Thinking, Events, World

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You see, psychologically, Australia must understand it has to live in the region around it. Australia must find its security in Asia; it cannot find its security from Asia.

  Paul Keating

  Australia, Asia, Security

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples.

  Emily Greene Balch

  Community, Characteristics, Stills

  Emily Greene Balch (1972). “Beyond Nationalism: The Social Thought of Emily Greene Balch”, New York : Twayne Publishers

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• I was born in Darien, Connecticut, but in 1959, when I was four, my parents moved to the suburbs of Toronto. Then, in the late 1960s, they bought a cottage in a resort/trailer park in the Kawarthas region of Ontario, and we moved up there. I wrote a book about it in 2000 called 'Last Resort: Coming of Age in Cottage Country.

  Linwood Barclay

  Country, Book, Parent

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• To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.

  Hannes Alfven

  Drama, Writing, Ignorance

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• Are Iraqis ready to carry the responsibility for their country? Is Iraq ready to be its own master? We want to be the masters of ourselves and to carry our responsibilities in this region.

  Ahmed Chalabi

  Country, Responsibility, Iraq

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• If the United States were to cut and run from Iraq, we would send a message of weakness that would embolden our terrorist enemies across the globe. A failed Iraq would destabilize the entire region and undermine U.S. national security for decades to come.

  Dennis Cardoza

  Running, Cutting, Iraq

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• It now seems certain that the amino acid sequence of any protein is determined by the sequence of bases in some region of a particular nucleic acid molecule.

  Francis Crick

  Molecules, Acid, Determined

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• We went into Iraq because Iraq posed a threat to the stability of the region and was engaged in the process of trying to develop weapons of mass destruction and had links to terrorists.

  Frank Carlucci

  Mass Destruction, Iraq, Trying

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• Moreover, it thus follows that not a great deal of time was needed for the large animals of the three major parts of the world to become known to the people who spent time on the coasts of those regions.

  Georges Cuvier

  Animal, People, Three

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• Your ethnic or sexual identity, what region of the country you're from, what your class is - those aspects of your identity are not the same as your aesthetic identity.

  Stanley Crouch

  Country, Class, Identity

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• The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity.

  Steven Chu

  Atoms, Lasers, Intensity

  "Lasers Slow Atom for Scrutiny". The New York Times, July 13, 1986.

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• I was very good in math and physics. In the Soviet time, we had a lot of Olympic-style competitions for different disciplines: I was always winning in my region.

  Oleg Deripaska

  Math, Winning, Discipline

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• I expect an energy bill to increase and diversify supply and stabilize energy prices - not drive up energy costs in one part of the country to subsidize energy in another region.

  Pete Domenici

  Country, Energy, Cost

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• I think it is the responsibility of anyone involved in politics to always think of what Japan can do to contribute more to the peace and stability not just of Japan and the region but of the entire world.

  Shinzo Abe

  Responsibility, Thinking, Japan

  "U.S. 'only indispensable alliance'". Interview with Lally Weymouth, articles.chicagotribune.com. April 23, 2007.

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• We must remember that North Carolina is more than a collection of regions and people. We are one state, one people, one family, bound by a common concern for each other.

  Mike Easley

  People, North Carolina, Common

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• Palaeontology is the Aladdin's lamp of the most deserted and lifeless regions of the earth; it touches the rocks and there spring forth in orderly succession the monarchs of the past and the ancient river streams and savannahs wherein they flourished. The rocks usually hide their story in the most difficult and inaccessible places.

  Roy Chapman Andrews

  Spring, Science, Past

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• Nevertheless, scientific method is not the same as the scientific spirit. The scientific spirit does not rest content with applying that which is already known, but is a restless spirit, ever pressing forward towards the regions of the unknown, and endeavouring to lay under contribution for the special purpose in hand the knowledge acquired in all portions of the wide field of exact science. Lastly, it acts as a check, as well as a stimulus, sifting the value of the evidence, and rejecting that which is worthless, and restraining too eager flights of the imagination and too hasty conclusions.

  Archibald Garrod

  Science, Hands, Imagination

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• If all goes well, the Iraqis are going to have a country that's going to have a representative government and will be at peace with its neighbors and in the region.

  Douglas J. Feith

  Country, Government, Neighbor

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• I think that Iran with a nuclear weapon is extremely destabilizing. I think it could precipitate a nuclear arms race in the region.

  Robert M. Gates

  Thinking, Iran, Race

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• There are certain regions in the country where the indigenous people eat dogs.

  Jessica Hagedorn

  Country, Dog, People

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• Tibet is a beautiful and richly endowed region of our great motherland.

  Hu Jintao

  Beautiful, Motherland, Tibet

  Hu Jintao's Speech at Tibet's Peaceful Liberation, www.chinese-embassy.no. July 19, 2001.

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