Territory Quotes - Page 10

• The Covenant of the League of Nations had envisaged sponsoring only the protection of certain categories of men: national minorities and populations of territories controlled by other countries.

  Rene Cassin

  Country, Men, League

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• As the highest ranking American official in the United Nations organization, I came to understand thoroughly that the national constitutional processes of the member states define the status of territories under their sovereignty.

  Dick Thornburgh

  Sea, Organization, Ranking

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• Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.

  Calamity Jane

  Umpires, California, San Francisco

  Calamity Jane (1896). “Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane”

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• I think the executives at the studios today realize that it's easier and safer to go the - to some known territory which is a remake of a successful film. It's less chancy than taking a fresh idea.

  Richard D. Zanuck

  Successful, Thinking, Ideas

  "Richard Zanuck: 'Chocolate Factory' and Beyond". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. July 11, 2005.

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• There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans, through which the produce of three-eighths of our territory must pass to market, and from its fertility it will ere long yield more than half of our whole produce and contain more than half our inhabitants.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Yield, New Orleans, History

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”, p.492

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• For Indigenous people, the goal for our land is definitely about protection, but it's also about use. We see ourselves as so integrated with our territory that our protection is tied to our use and our use is tied to our protection. We use the resources on our territory to live.

  Rebecca Adamson

  Land, People, Goal

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• The novel is a territory where one does not make assertions; it is a territory of play and of hypotheses.

  Milan Kundera

  Writing, Play, Doe

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• In the first place, when there is a policy of intentional aggression, inspired by a desire to get possession of the territory or the trade of another country, right or wrong, a pretext is always sought.

  Elihu Root

  Country, Desire, Firsts

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• The V sign is the symbol of the unconquerable will of the occupied territories, and a portent of the fate awaiting the Nazi tyranny.

  Winston Churchill

  Fate, Victory, Unconquerable Will

  Message to people of Europe launching V for Victory propaganda campaign, 20 July 1941

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• Richard Lee calculated that a Bushman child will be carried a distance of 4,900 miles before he begins to walk on his own. Since, during this rhythmic phase, he will be forever naming the contents of his territory, it is impossible he will not become a poet.

  Bruce Chatwin

  Children, Distance, Forever

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• Exemplary people concern themselves with virtue,
  small people concern themselves with territory. The ruling class
  thinks of punishment, the lower classes hope for benevolence.

  Confucius

  Thinking, Punishment, Class

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• To get to Earth from the edge of the solar system, depending on the time of year and the position of the planets, you need to pass through at least Poland, Prussia, and Turkey, and you'd probably get stamps in your passport from a few of the other great powers. Then as you get closer to the world, you arrive at a point, in the continually shifting carriage space over the countries, where this complexity has to give way or fail. And so you arrive in the blissful lubrication of neutral orbital territory.

  Paul Cornell

  Country, Years, Turkeys

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• I think the Israeli people understand now what I always say: that there cannot be a situation, under any agreement, in which we relinquish security control of the territory west of the River Jordan.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Thinking, Agreement, Rivers

  "Netanyahu finally speaks his mind". www.timesofisrael.com. July 13, 2014.

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• This war is not as in the past; whoever occupies a territory also imposes on it his own social system. Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach. It cannot be otherwise. If now there is not a communist government in Paris, this is only because Russia has no an army which can reach Paris in 1945.

  Joseph Stalin

  War, Army, Past

  "Conversations with Stalin". Book by Milovan Djilas, 1963.

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• Then when [ISIS] moved into Iraq, the Sunni Muslims didn’t object to their being there and about a third of the territory in Iraq was abandoned.

  Jimmy Carter

  Isis, Iraq, Being There

  "Carter unhappy with Obama’s policies in Middle East". www.star-telegram.com. October 07, 2014.

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• The orbit of human vision has widened and art has annexed fresh territories that were formerly denied to it.

  Max Bill

  Art, Vision, Orbit

  Max Bill, James N. Wood (1974). “Max Bill”

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• If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.

  Abdurrahman Wahid

  People, Islam, Belief

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• It never ceases to amaze me to see how much territory can be grasped if one merely masters and consistently uses all the obvious and easily learned principles.

  Charlie Munger

  Principles, Use, Investing

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• Dachau-the significance of this name will never be erased from German history. It stands for all concentration camps which the Nazis established in their territory.

  Eugen Kogon

  Names, German History, Dachau

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• For my part, I feel that with regard to Nature I live a sort of border life, on the confines of a world, into which I make occasional and transient forays only, and my patriotism and allegiance to the state into whose territories I seem to retreat are those of a moss-trooper. Unto a life which I call natural I would gladly follow even a will-o'-the-wisp through bogs and sloughs unimaginable, but no moon nor fire-fly has shown me the cause-way to it. Nature is a personality so vast and universal that we have never seen one of her features.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Moon, Fire

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• The Niger Delta is an occupied territory. Citizens raise their hands in the creeks each time they see the military

  Nnimmo Bassey

  Military, Hands, Citizens

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• The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me.

  Scott McCloud

  Explaining, Hood, Familiar

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• With books at least, the best experiences are not when you find what you were looking for, but when something quite different finds you, takes you by surprise, shifts your tastes to new territory.

  Tim Parks

  Book, Different, Best Experiences

  Tim Parks (2012). “Teach Us to Sit Still: A Skeptic's Search for Health and Healing”, p.13, Rodale

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• Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen... Their faith is their passport.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Country, Russia, America

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• Historians still often see the end of the war as meaning nothing more for Germany than lost territories, lost participation in colonization, and lost assets for the state and individuals. They frequently overlook the most serious loss that Germany suffered.

  Gustav Stresemann

  War, Loss, Serious

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