Territory Quotes - Page 18

• Habit is formed out of memory... We often shape our present situation according to those habitual memories. Instead of starting fresh, we go back to what we've done in the past... easier for us than fighting our way through foreign territory.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Memories, Fighting, Past

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• Eagles are very tolerant and very adaptable, but they have to get established first. When birds are setting up their breeding territory, they are the most susceptible to being discouraged.

  Jim Elliot

  Eagles, Bird, Firsts

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• Throwing young men out of work, throwing people into poverty and ending business life don't promote stability in the Palestinian territories,.

  Chris Patten

  Men, People, Poverty

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• No more slave States and no more slave territory.

  Salmon P. Chase

  Slavery, Slave, States

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (Resolutions Adopted at the Free-Soil National Convention), 1922.

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• The only logical solution to solve the Palestinian issue is to hold free elections with the participation of Palestinians inside and outside the occupied territories and a recognition of the nation's legitimacy

  Ali Khamenei

  Issues, Recognition, Election

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• We have created islands, small islands of power, but we have not built a bridge between those islands, .. The center and the territories, regional and local authorities are still competing with each other, competing for power. Those who take advantage of disorder and arbitrary rule are watching their mutually destructive fight.

  Vladimir Putin

  Fighting, Islands, Bridges

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• What is... disturbing to me is that many of these pro-Israeli lawmakers sit on the House International Relations Committee despite the obvious conflict of interest that their emotional attachments to Israel cause... The Israeli occupation of all territories must end, including Congress.

  Cynthia McKinney

  Emotional, Israel, Attachment

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• The world should commit Israel to withdraw from our territories and stop occupation and aggression, and allow the Palestinian people to establish their independent state.

  Khaled Mashal

  Independent, Israel, People

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• I want to tell the United States, the international community and all those who speak about peace that... the shortest way for this is that they should work for halting the Israeli aggression and occupation of the Palestinian territories.

  Khaled Mashal

  Community, Israeli Occupation, Want

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• The important issue for us is bringing (people) who recognize the Palestinian people's rights and work on ending the occupation (to the Palestinian territories) and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

  Mohammed Dahlan

  Issues, Rights, People

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• The unknown is uncontrolled; no strategies exist that will enclose the endless territory of the new. Only by trusting in yourself and in this world can you get past the watchdogs of your fears and out of the iron gates of the already-known.

  Arthur J. Deikman

  Past, Iron, World

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• Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. My folks were Indian. Both my mother and father had Cherokee blood in them. I was born and raised in Indian Territory. 'Course we're not the Americans whose ancestors came over on the Mayflower, but we met them at the boat when they landed.

  Will Rogers

  Mother, Running, Father

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• The basic principle that we must follow in directing the armies of the Republic is this: that they must feed themselves on war at the expense of the enemy territory.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Army, Enemy

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• In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

  Will Rogers

  Life, Being There, Birth

  Will Rogers (1977). “Letters of a self-made diplomat to his President”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• They all agree, they are all unanimous in Congress, in the States, on the rostrum, in the sanctuary - everywhere they declare that slavery shall not go into the Territories.

  Robert Toombs

  Sanctuary, Slavery, States

  Robert Augustus Toombs (1860). “Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860”, p.8

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• We had a large common domain, already added by the several States for the common benefit of all; purchase and war might make large additions to this common domain; hence the power over existing and future territories, with the stipulation to admit new States, was conferred.

  Robert Toombs

  War, Power, Benefits

  Robert Augustus Toombs (1860). “Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860”, p.4

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• Those who tell you that the territorial question is an abstraction, that you can never colonize another territory without the African slavetrade, are both deaf and blind to the history of the last sixty years.

  Robert Toombs

  Years, Deaf And Blind, Lasts

  Robert Augustus Toombs (1860). “Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860”, p.8

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• We are already engaged in World War III. It is a war against nature, and it is simply no contest. As a result, the threat from the skies is no longer missiles but ozone-layer depletion and global warming. Leaders who assert they will not concede one square meter of national territory to an invader should think of the hundreds of square kilometers of topsoil eroded from their countries each year.

  Norman Myers

  Country, War, Thinking

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• The American Colossus was fiercely intent on appropriating and exploiting the riches of all continents - grasping with both hands, reaping where he had not sown, wasting what he thought would last forever. New railroads were opening new territory. The exploiters were pushing farther and farther into the wilderness. The man who could get his hands on the biggest slice of natural resources was the best citizen. Wealth and virtue were supposed to trot in double harness.

  Gifford Pinchot

  Men, Hands, Land

  Gifford Pinchot (1998). “Breaking New Ground”, p.23, Island Press

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• In a way, as much as we love to be a big, loud rock band, the acoustic album was a lot easier to make than the rock records. I think because it was brand new territory for the band.

  Dave Grohl

  Thinking, Rocks, Albums

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. August 9, 2006.

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• I lost a lot of territory I really enjoyed having, but there was no doubt I had to do it to help Democrats.

  Albert Wynn

  Doubt, Helping, Lost

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• Imperialism is capitalism at that stage of development at which the dominance of monopolies and finance capitalism is established; in which the export of capital has acquired pronounced importance; in which the division of the world among the international trusts has begun, in which the division of all territories of the globe among the biggest capitalist powers has been completed.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Development, World, Dominance

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• As a cultural form, database represents the world as a list of items and it refuses to order this list. In contrast, a narrative creates a cause-and-effect trajectory of seemingly unordered items (events). Therefore, database and narrative are natural enemies. Competing for the same territory of human culture, each claims an exclusive right to make meaning out of the world.

  Lev Manovich

  Order, Enemy, Events

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• It is not possible to redefine marriage.  Marriage is the union between a man and a woman, has been historically, remains so. It is Alice in Wonderland territory, Orwellian almost, for any Government of any political persuasion to seek to come along and try to re-write the lexicon. It will not do.

  Roger Gale

  Writing, Men, Political

  "To an understanding of marriage as merely the end-point of romance". Daily Hansard - Debate, publications.parliament.uk. February 5, 2013.

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• Having a real public outlet is how you imprint something for yourself. It's just a matter of timing. It's like you've marked your territory.

  Lily Tomlin

  Real, Matter, Timing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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