Residents Quotes

• The causes of the China Incident were the exclusion and insult of Japan throughout China, the exclusion of Japanese goods, the persecution of Japanese residents in China, and the illegal violation of Japanese rights

  Hideki Tojo

  Rights, Japan, Causes

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• Security is still the most important issue facing Washington state residents and millions of Americans - the security of having a job, of access to affordable health care, of a quality education, and of protecting our homeland and defending our nation.

  Patty Murray

  Jobs, Issues, Important

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• Cities are erected on spiritual columns. Like giant mirrors, they reflect the hearts of their residents. If those hearts darken and lose faith, cities will lose their glamour.

  Elif Safak

  Spiritual, Heart, Mirrors

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• The infinite vibratory levels, the dimensions of interconnectedness are without end. There is nothing independent. All beings and things are residents in your awareness.

  Alex Grey

  Independent, Levels, Dimensions

  Alex Grey (2008). “Art Psalms”, p.126, North Atlantic Books

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  I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

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• This world is magnificent for strangers and pilgrims, but miserable for residents.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  World, Miserable, Stranger

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.232

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• It is simply a fact that the birth rate of our illegal immigrants exceeds that of our legal residents.

  John Linder

  Birth Rate, Facts, Illegal

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• The Japanese army is now prepared to use every means within its power to subdue its opponents. The objectives of the Japanese Expeditionary Forces are, as clearly set forth in statements issued by the Japanese Government, not only to protect the vested interests of Japan and the lives and property of the Japanese residents in the affected area, but also to scourge the Chinese Government and army who have een pursuing anti-foreign and anti-Japanese policies in collaboration with Communist influences.

  Iwane Matsui

  Mean, Army, Government

  "Shanghai's Undeclared War: An Illustrated Factual Recording of the Shanghai Hostilities". Book by George C. Bruce, p. 54, 1937.

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• The utter insanity of living in a place like this doesn't occur to the 9,000,000 people who inhabit New York. Except for visits I think I shall not be here any more as a resident.

  John Steinbeck

  New York, Thinking, People

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• It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks' greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere...That's the world! On which hope sits!

  Barack Obama

  Running, Years, White

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams From My Father”, p.293, Canongate Books

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• Why do we marry, why take friends and lovers? Why give ourselves to music, painting, chemistry or cooking? Out of simple delight in the resident goodness of creation, of course; but out of more than that, too. Half earth's gorgeousness lies hidden in the glimpsed city it longs to become.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Lying, Simple, Cities

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• Once you cross into the next loyal kingdom, however... be warned. You may not find such a warm reception. The Mimosa Land and its residents are not nearly so accommodating." This was warm and accommodating? That didn't bode well for the next kingdom. I also found it sad that a place called the Mimosa Land was unfriendly. It sounded like a party waiting to happen.

  Richelle Mead

  Party, Land, Waiting

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Shadow Heir”, p.203, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• And in general, the residents of the town wondered why they all felt hollow just beneath the throat, the result of missing something they had never been able to name in the first place.

  Jodi Picoult

  Names, Missing, Able

  Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance”, p.294, Simon and Schuster

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• What planet are you from? Obviously Planet Insanity was missing a local, long-term resident.' (Nick)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Long, Missing, Insanity

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Infinity: Chronicles of Nick”, p.281, St. Martin's Griffin

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• In 1992, the federal Government actually issued more work authorizations to immigrants and temporary foreign workers than the net number of new jobs created by our economy. Something is fundamentally wrong when we have millions of American citizens and legal residents begging for jobs, and yet we are admitting thousands and thousands of immigrants a year with virtually no consideration to our employment needs or their employment skills.

  Ronald Reagan

  Jobs, Government, Years

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• Science is one land, having the ability to accommodate even more people, as more residents gather in it; it is a treasure that is the greater the more it is shared. Because of that, each of us can do his work in his own way, and the common ground does not mean conformity.

  Wilhelm Ostwald

  Hard Work, Mean, Land

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• As long as there's land available, single-family homes will be built, and Colorado residents will always go for a single-family over a condo.

  Gary Bauer

  Home, Land, Long

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• A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning. The city is like poetry: it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines. The island of Manhattan is without any doubt the greatest human concentrate on earth, the poem whose magic is comprehensible to millions of permanent residents but whose full meaning will always remain elusive.

  E. B. White

  Islands, Race, Cities

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• They all looked very much like the residents of any small valley to which you've never been.

  Norton Juster

  Valleys

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.123, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• It was when I realised I had a new nationality: I was in exile. I am an adulterous resident: when I am in one city, I am dreaming of the other. I am an exile; citizen of the country of longing.

  Suketu Mehta

  Dream, Country, Cities

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• As a writer, even as a child, long before what I wrote began to be published, I developed a sense that meaning itself was resident in the rhythms of words and sentences and paragraphs...The way I write is who I am, or have become.

  Joan Didion

  Children, Writing, Who I Am

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• I believe the projects were a social experiment; we were laboratory rats stacked on top of each other, and people just knew, inherently, that there was something wrong. There's not a lot of regard for the property by the residents.

  Mos Def

  Believe, People, Rats

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• I don't think the folks in the low-tax states really want to go into a fairness discussion. Residents of Connecticut and New York would love to remind them how much they pay in federal taxes to support programs for Mississippi and South Dakota.

  Gail Collins

  New York, Thinking, Support

  "Grand Bargain Express". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. December 5, 2012.

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• The arenas are historic sites, preserved after the Games. Popular destinations for Capitol residents to visit, to vacation. Go for a month, rewatch the Games, tour the catacombs, visit the sites where the deaths took place. You can even take part in reenactments. They say the food is excellent

  Suzanne Collins

  Vacation, Games, Months

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.192, Scholastic Inc.

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• When there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the spiritual is apt gradually to be lost.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Life, Spiritual, Lost

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.151, Macmillan

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