Settlement Quotes - Page 2

• There are some common problems in the Balkans in the settlement of which Bulgaria should also participate.

  Todor Zhivkov

  Common, Problem, Should

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• We consider these settlements to be contrary to the Geneva Convention, that occupied territory should not be changed by establishment of permanent settlements by the occupying power.

  Jimmy Carter

  Israel, Territory, Establishment

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1980). “Jimmy Carter”

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• I am against war, against violence, against violent revolution, for peaceful settlement of differences, for nonviolent but nevertheless radical changes. Change is needed, and violence will not really change anything: at most it will only transfer power from one set of bull-headed authorities to another.

  Thomas Merton

  Peace, War, Differences

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• What my job is, is to get on with getting the process of democratic politics, back on the road, entrenching the peace settlement, and I ask you to judge me on my record.

  Peter Hain

  Jobs, Judging, Records

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• The virtuous carry out the settlement, but those without virtue pursue their claims.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Virtue, Claims

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• Here is our opportunity and our challenge. If the nuclear powers are prepared to declare a truce, let us seize the moment to strengthen the institutions and procedures which will serve as the means for the pacific settlement of disputes among men.

  Haile Selassie

  Mean, Men, Opportunity

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 6 October 1963

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• Our settlement of land is without regard to the best use of land.

  Arthur Erickson

  Artist, Land, Use

  Arthur Erickson's Address to the Institute of Canadian Bankers, www.arthurerickson.com. October 16, 1972.

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• The transformation of nature, a total fusion of science, art and technology in a sublime statement of human dignity and intelligence through the settlements we build for ourselves.

  Paulo Mendes da Rocha

  Art, Technology, Sublime

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• That feeds anger, and I mean when we went and at last thank heavens got towards peace in Northern Ireland we went for justice within Northern Ireland as well as using security well, as well as a political settlement, but surely that is the lesson.

  Clare Short

  Peace, Anger, Mean

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• One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is a quick-silver faculty, and likely to be a cause of worry to any collective settlement.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Imagination, Worry, Together

  Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, p.100, U of Minnesota Press

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• In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United States for settlement.

  Peter Agre

  Gdp, Squares, Half

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• Despite the generous rewards that state juries dole out, in many cases, victims receive less than 50 cents on the dollar in settlements with the lawyers taking the rest. This is not justice

  Pat Roberts

  Justice, Dollars, Rewards

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• For me, a rocket is only a means--only a method of reaching the depths of space--and not an end in itself... There's no doubt that it's very important to have rocket ships since they will help mankind to settle elsewhere in the universe. But what I'm working for is this resettling... The whole idea is to move away from the Earth to settlements in space.

  Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

  Moving, Mean, Ideas

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• There is no justice, no law, and no God in heaven, only a single law which decides and supersedes all-[Jewish] settlement [of the land].

  Ze'ev Jabotinsky

  Law, Land, Justice

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• The real story of the settlement of the West was work, not conquest

  Stewart Udall

  Real, Stories, West

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• It would much conduce to the settlement of your hearts, to consider, That by fretting and discontent, you do yourselves more injury thart till the afsltilions you lie under could do; your own discontent is that which arms your troubles with a sting; it is you that make your burden heavy, by struggling under it. Could you but lie quiet under the hand of God, your condition would be much easier and sweeter than it is.

  John Flavel

  Lying, Struggle, Heart

  "Whole Works of the Rev. Mr. John Flavel".

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• Strike the enemy's settlements, turn them into dust, pave the Arab roads with the skulls of Jews.

  Hafez al-Assad

  Dust, Skulls, Enemy

  "Six Days of War". Book by Michael Oren, p. 293, April 18, 2002.

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• One has to realize that the powerful industrial groups concerned in the manufacture of arms are doing their best in all countries to prevent the peaceful settlement of international disputes, and that rulers can achieve this great end only if they are sure of the vigorous support of the majority of their peoples.

  Albert Einstein

  Country, Powerful, Support

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.37, Open Road Media

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• Chess holds deep wisdoms of the people. It is truly an image of life, the reflection of human fate that has shown us the earthly way of suffering in darkness and permanent shortage of time. Like in chess, we encounter all kinds of traps, mistakes, settlements, sacrifices, kings, and queens, doubled pawns, and extraordinary moves while we are on the board ourselves.

  Pope John Paul II

  Queens, Kings, Mistake

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• Whatever promises offered by dictators in any negotiated settlement, no one should ever forget that the dictators may promise anything to secure submission from their democratic opponents, and then brazenly violate those same agreements.

  Gene Sharp

  Agreement, Promise, May

  Gene Sharp (2010). “From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation”, p.12, Albert Einstein Institution

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• The U.S. should support the historic Gaza withdrawal as a first step toward a final settlement: a permanent Palestinian state in Gaza and nearly all of the West Bank.

  Lee H. Hamilton

  Support, West, Firsts

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• All human populations are in some sense immigrants. All hostility between different cultures in one place has an aspect of the classic immigrant grudge against the next boatload approaching the shore. To defend one’s home and fields and ancestral graves against invasion seems a right. But to claim unique possession – to compound the fact of settlement with the aspect of a landscape into an abstract of eternal and immutable ownership – is a joke.

  Neal Ascherson

  Home, Unique, Population

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• I've heard it said that there are men who read in books to convince themselves there is a God. I know not but man may so deform his works in the settlements, as to leave that which is so clear in the wilderness a matter of doubt among traders and priests.

  James F. Cooper

  Book, Men, Doubt

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• The PURPOSE of the DATA INTEGRITY BOARD review meeting is NOT for the purpose of reviewing the INTEGRITY of the paperwork because that has already been decided, it is for the PURPOSE of determining the CHARACTER & STANDING of THE MAN/WOMAN who brought the perfect paperwork and was intending to use the perfect paperwork for COMMERCIAL settlement and closure. So they have to find out if the STATUS and CHARACTER of the party who is going to use the paperwork was going to be ALLOWED to use it.

  Jack Smith

  Integrity, Party, Character

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• Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the people of Palestine. We only aim to de-legitimize the settlement activities and the occupation and apartheid and the logic of ruthless force, and we believe that all the countries of the world stand with us in this regard.

  Mahmoud Abbas

  Country, Believe, Countries Of The World

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