Quotes with child-nations

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  • Marquis de Custine Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise.
    Marquis de Custine
    French aristocrat and writer
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  • James Joyce Nations have their ego, just like individuals.
    Ireland, Island of Saints and Sages (1907)
    James Joyce
    Irish writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Joseph Conrad Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Colonel Muhammar Qaddafi Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.
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  • E. J. Hobsbawm Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.
    E. J. Hobsbawm
    British historian
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  • Henry David Thoreau Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable. It is for want of a man that there are so many men. It is individuals that populate the world.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry Bolingbroke Nations, like men, have their infancy.
    Henry Bolingbroke
    British politician (1678 - 1751)
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  • Victor Hugo Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Alcee Hastings Nearly 60 years ago, the international community made a commitment to put an end to the crime of genocide by ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
    Alcee Hastings
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Bill Hybels Never forget that if you are God's child through Jesus Christ, you are praying to a Father who couldn't love you more than he already does.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Epictetus Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? is not this also a return?
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Carol Bellamy New legislation has just been adopted by the International Labour Organization on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, such as bonded labour, prostitution and hazardous work.
    Carol Bellamy
    American nonprofit executive (1942 - )
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh No armies are needed, no weapons are needed, no nations are needed, no religions are needed. All that is needed is a little meditativeness, a little silence, a little love, a little more humanity... just a little more, and existence will become fragrant with something so totally unique and new that you will have to find a new category for it.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Charlotte Saunders Cushman No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character is a child.
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America has ever deployed one woman per child without simultaneously assigning her such major productive activities as weaving, farming, gathering, temple maintenance, and tent-building. The reason is that full-time, one-on-one child-raising is not good for women or children.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Victor Hugo No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Emma Goldman No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Brad Henry No one should have to choose between medicine and other necessities. No one should have to use the emergency room every time a child gets sick. And no one should have to live in constant fear that a medical problem will become a financial crisis.
    Brad Henry
    American lawyer and politician (1963 - )
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  • Bob Riley No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read.
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
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