Regions Quotes - Page 33

• Suppose a nation in some distant region should take the Bible for their only law book, and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited. What a Utopia! What a paradise this region would be.

  John Adams

  Religious, Book, Law

  John Adams (2004). “The Portable John Adams”, p.3, Penguin

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• A science of all these possible kinds of space [the higher dimensional ones] would undoubtedly be the highest enterprise which a finite understanding could undertake in the field of geometry... If it is possible that there could be regions with other dimensions, it is very likely that God has somewhere brought them into being.

  Immanuel Kant

  Space, Understanding, Fields

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• Why abandon a seat in your own home to wander in vain through dusty regions of another land? If you make one false step, you miss what is right before your eyes.

  Dogen

  Home, Eye, Land

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• The United States has weakened itself with Iraq; Iranians feel victorious - they feel capable of filling the void. I think from the very outset the nuclear issue has been secondary to the more strategic outlook, in which the United States has, since 1991, pursued a policy that it cannot permit any country in the region to become too powerful and challenge American hegemony.

  Trita Parsi

  Country, Powerful, Thinking

  "Trita Parsi: The NIE’s Got Nothing on Him". Interview with Justin Elliott, www.motherjones.com. December 5, 2007.

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• From the Israeli perspective, the fear is that if pressure is off of Iran, Israel would be left having to accept the balance of power in the region significantly shifting toward Iran. It's not an existential threat, but it would definitely be a problem for Israel.

  Trita Parsi

  Israel, Iran, Perspective

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Parents' work has shifted markedly around the world - and that goes for every region. Men in particular have been moving away from farmed-based work, and into industrial and post-industrial work - so they've moved away from the home. Women, likewise, have moved into the paid labor force and away from the home.

  Jody Heymann

  Moving, Home, Men

  "Forgotten Families". Interview with Juliana Bunim, www.motherjones.com. April 21, 2006.

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• If the region truly becomes democratic, an undemocratic bit of earth would remain here. It's hard to imagine that the world, especially the Arab world, would tolerate this.

  Tom Segev

  World, Earth, Imagine

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The greatest tragedy of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is that everyone knows how it will end. We will divide up the region.

  Yair Lapid

  Tragedy, Conflict, Ends

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I consider the modernization of the Middle East the central challenge of our time. This region behaves as if it were disturbed, if you'll excuse the clinical expression.

  Zalmay Khalilzad

  Expression, Challenges, Middle East

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The amygdala, along with related areas..., plays a crucial role in coordinating perceptions with memory and behavior. These regions are especially sensitive to social interactions.

  Daniel J. Siegel

  Memories, Play, Perception

  Daniel J. Siegel (2015). “The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are”, p.158, Guilford Publications

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• Those people who occupy a territory determine the nature of the society in that region.

  Arthur Kemp

  People, Territory, Determine

  Arthur Kemp (2009). “The Lie of Apartheid and other true stories from Southern Africa”, p.2, Lulu.com

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• I am very pleased to see this project moving ahead. The Hamilton Airport serves as an international gateway to south-western Ontario. This new facility will allow the airport to expand its air cargo business and help strengthen the local economy. This is another example of Ontario's commitment to public infrastructure that contributes to long-term growth for the region.

  Ted McMeekin

  Moving, Commitment, Airports

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• Do you know what the lurid intermixture of complicated emotions produces, according to Nathaniel Hawthorne? That's right, it produces the illuminating blaze of the infernal regions. Ryan MacDonald's glorious shards of prose are both lurid and blazing, and together they comprise an anthology of complex feelings-dream-like, vivid, and never, ever obvious.

  Chris Bachelder

  Dream, Feelings, Together

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• Our Government is pleased to partner with the Kelowna Visual and Performing Arts Centre Society, located in the heart of British Columbia's vibrant Central Okanagan region. Support for the performing arts is essential for the professional growth and development of our Canadian artists.

  Shelly Glover

  Art, Government, Support

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• The same regions of the brain light up when someone touches their smartphone as when they touch a family member or a pet.

  Matt Cohler

  Light, Smartphones, Pet

  "Matt Cohler: This Is Why Mobile Advertising Is Underrated" by Owen Thomas, www.businessinsider.com. September 11, 2012.

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• The world has paid a heavy price for the lack of democracy in most of the Middle East. Operation Ajax [CIA code for the August 1953 coup] taught tyrants and aspiring tyrants there that the world's most powerful governments were willing to tolerate limitless oppression as long as oppressive regimes were friendly to the West and to Western oil companies. That helped tilt the political balance in a vast region away from freedom and toward dictatorship.

  Stephen Kinzer

  Powerful, Tyrants, Oil

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• A few years ago, they [Neandertals] were thought to be ancestral to anatomically modern humans, but now we know that modern humans appeared at least 100,000 years ago, much before the disappearance of the Neandertals. Moreover, in caves in the Middle East, fossils of modern humans have been found dated 120,000-100,000 years ago, as well as Neandertals dated at 60,000 and 70,000 years ago, followed again by modern humans dated at 40,000 years ago. It is unclear whether the two forms repeatedly replaced one another by migration from other regions, or whether they coexisted in some areas

  Francisco J. Ayala

  Years, Two, Middle East

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• As the Indian economy adds strength to our region and the world, it will also benefit Mongolia.

  Narendra Modi

  Strength, Benefits, World

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• Americans have eliminated Iran's worst enemies, the Taliban in Afghanistan and Saddam [Hussein]. I occasionally threatened my Iranian counterpart in Kabul that one day I would send him a big bill for what we did. But, seriously, Iran is pursuing a dual strategy in Iraq. On the one hand, the Iranians, after decades of hostility, are now interested in good relations. On the other hand, they want to keep the country weak and dominate the region.

  Zalmay Khalilzad

  Country, Hands, Iran

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It goes without saying that the stability of the Middle East is the foundation for peace and prosperity for the world, and of course for Japan. Should we leave terrorism or weapons of mass destruction to spread in this region, the loss imparted upon the international community would be immeasurable.

  Shinzo Abe

  Peace, Loss, Mass Destruction

  "Japan's Abe pledges support for Mideast countries battling IS" by Stephen Kalin, www.reuters.com. January 17, 2015.

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• Every year lays more earth upon us, which weighs us down from aerial regions, till we go under the earth at last.

  E. T. A. Hoffmann

  Death, Years, Earth

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• The foot of the heavenly ladder, which we have got to mount in order to reach the higher regions, has to be fixed firmly in every-day life, so that everybody may be able to climb up it along with us. When people then find that they have got climbed up higher and higher into a marvelous, magical world, they will feel that that realm, too, belongs to their ordinary, every-day life, and is, merely, the wonderful and most glorious part thereof.

  E. T. A. Hoffmann

  Order, Feet, People

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• I think earth, if chosen instead of Heaven, will turn out to have been, all along, only a region in Hell; and earth, if put second to Heaven, to have been from the beginning a part of Heaven itself.

  C. S. Lewis

  Thinking, Heaven, Earth

  C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.134, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The disastrous invasion of Iraq, something that I strongly opposed, has unraveled the region.

  Bernie Sanders

  Iraq, Invasion

  Source: www.complex.com

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• I think it's perfectly possible for us to stay outside of power politics, or parliamentary politics, and speak about things like the American hegemony in the region or speak about the unjust war on terror that's been brought to our borders.

  Fatima Bhutto

  War, Thinking, Borders

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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