Countries Quotes
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If the guidebook used to be critical, today it seems largely a celebratory adjunct to the publicity operations of hotels, resorts, and even countries.
— Paul Fussell
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International institutions ought to be, as the national ones in democratic countries, established by the peoples and for the peoples
— Henri La Fontaine
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Thus, if armaments were curtailed without a secure peace and all countries disarmed proportionately, military security would have been in no way affected.
— Ludwig Quidde
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I have twenty countries in my memory and trail in my soul the colors of one hundred cities.
— Arthur Cravan
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Man has gone to the moon but he does not yet know how to make a flame tree or a bird song. Let us keep…
— Felix Houphouet-Boigny
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Since our economy is closely allied with that of foreign countries, not one of us can be indifferent to what consequences these disturbances can have…
— Hjalmar Schacht
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The Pentagon's lost entire countries.
— Jack O'Neill
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This is my long-run forecast in brief: The material conditions of life will continue to get better for most people, in most countries, most of…
— Julian Simon
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The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation. The whole grim apparatus of oppression and coercion,…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Other countries care for their mentally ill. Making them debate on TV is just cruel.
— Andy Borowitz
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It is quite clear that beauty does depend on one's culture and upbringing for certain kinds of beauty, pictures, literature, poetry and so on...But mathematical…
— Paul Dirac
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The main thing that I hate the most is ignorance, like the prejudice problems of America. I know it is worse in some other countries.…
— Michael Jackson
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The great glory of travel, to me, is not just what I see that's new to me in countries visited, but that in almost every…
— Clara E. Laughlin
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For many years, at great cost, I traveled through many countries, saw the high mountains, the oceans. The only things I did not see were…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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If you are waging peace, you can't be too particular sometimes about the special attitudes that different countries take. We were a young country once,…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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When I travel around the world, I see that poor countries sell their grain to the West while their own children starve in their arms.…
— Philip Wollen
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In ten Muslim countries you can get the death penalty just for being gay. If they were chopping the heads off of gay people in…
— Bill Maher
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From the poorest of countries to the richest of nations, education is the key to moving forward in any society.
— Nelson Mandela
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In the poorest countries...it is women who are the key to breaking out of poverty...and preparing another generation for...leading their countries into real security.
— Queen Noor of Jordan
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Help is even being offered from across the ocean, as over two dozen countries have stepped forward to offer financial and material support to the…
— Jo Bonner
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