Quotes with country

Quotes 481 till 500 of 741.

  • Carl von Clausewitz The commander's talents are given greatest scope in rough hilly country. Mountains allow him too little real command over his scattered units and he is unable to control them all; in open country, control is a simple matter and does not test his ability to the fullest.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Barry Eichengreen The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it - Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or Greece or Spain by actually doing so - would trigger economic chaos and incur its neighbours' wrath.
    Barry Eichengreen
    American economist
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  • Gore Vidal The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western World. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • C. L. R. James The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • Anthony Burgess The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
    Anthony Burgess
    British writer, criticus (1917 - 1993)
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  • Nadine Gordimer The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.
    Nadine Gordimer
    South african writer (1923 - 2014)
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  • Armstrong Williams The country remains dependent on oil. But as we are now learning, oil is becoming increasingly scarce.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Bob Corker The debt ceiling at some point has to be raised. I don't think there's anybody that questions the fact that if we ended up getting in a situation where the U.S. government was sending out IOUs like the state of California did at one point, that ends up creating quite a brand problem for our country.
    Bob Corker
    American businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Bob Barr The definition of throwing your vote away is to go into that voting booth and vote for one of two parties that will not change the direction this country's going in.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Carlo Ratti The deployment of geolocating tags attached to ordinary garbage could paint a surprising picture of the waste management system, as trash is shipped throughout the country in a maze-like disposal process - as we saw in Seattle with our own Trash Track project.
    Carlo Ratti
    Italian architect, engineer and activist
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  • Bobby Scott The destinies of the two races in this country are indissolubly linked together, and the interests of both require that the common government of all shall not permit the seeds of race hate to be planted under the sanction of law.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Begum Aga Khan The development of a country has to start at the foundation of the society, the family.
    International Business and Leadership Symposium address
    Begum Aga Khan
    French Egyptian artist and last wife of Sultan Aga Khan III (1906 - 2000)
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  • Abraham Lincoln The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.
    Second State of the Union address (1862)
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Carter G. Woodson The educational system of a country is worthless unless it [revolutionizes the social order]. Men of scholarship, and prophetic insight, must show us the right way and lead us into light which is shining brighter and brighter.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Bhagat Singh The elimination of force at all costs is Utopian and the new movement which has arisen in the country and of whose dawn we have given a warning is inspired by the ideals which Guru Gobind Singh and Shivaji, Kamal Pasha and Reza Khan, Washington and Garibaldi, Lafayette and Lenin preached.
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Bjork The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Henry James The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Oscar Wilde The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Beth Grant The fans of 'Speed' are very different from the fans of 'To Wong Foo,' which are different from 'Donnie Darko.' Look at the classics I've been in: 'No Country for Old Men'... 'Little Miss Sunshine'... 'Rain Man' was my first big studio movie! How lucky is that?
    Beth Grant
    American actress (1949 - )
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