"The People's Republic of China has not yet……" — Barbara Amiel
"The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists."
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28 Quotes by Barbara Amiel
Barbara Amiel has 28 quotes on this site.
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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
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Power is sexy, not simply in its own right, but because it inspires self-confidence in its owner and a shiver…
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If America was trying to keep the bubonic plague out of its hemisphere, Canadians would import it just to show…
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Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us…
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I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic…
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When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a…
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In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
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I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on television because I…
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All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.
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Indeed, we Jews were at the leading edge of communist totalitarianism, one of the most murderous movements of the 20th…
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There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of…
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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More Aid Quotes
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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief;…
— Aristotle
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The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible;…
— Charles Babbage
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Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their…
— Conrad Black
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U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with…
— Bono
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The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.
— James Buchan
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Governments of rich countries spend some $6bn of tax money a year on disaster relief and development aid overseas, while…
— James Buchan
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At the heart of banking is a suicidal strategy. Banks take money from the public or each other on call,…
— James Buchan
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Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all…
— Edmund Burke
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There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
— Paul Cezanne
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It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the…
— Nicolas Chamfort
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Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual…
— William Ellery Channing
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