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It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with… — Hannah Arendt
As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti, to share in… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the people of Palestine.… — Mahmoud Abbas
It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what I was getting… — Lance Armstrong
An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it… — Sholem Asch
Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing to experience for… — Bashar al-Assad
What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender. — Chinua Achebe
I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature… — David Attenborough
Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country. — Chinua Achebe
Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot of yourself. — Margaret Atwood
I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in… — Chinua Achebe
Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can you avoid such… — Margaret Atwood
It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. — Diane Ackerman
We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces. — Mahmoud Abbas
In the winter, I enjoy cross-country skiing and raising orchids and amaryllises. If I could grow tropical flowers as perennials, I would, especially hibiscus and… — Diane Ackerman
There are no doubts that, the situation in the country today, indicates that there is much more work to do in the process of reforming… — Ibrahim Babangida
We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure. — Ibrahim Babangida
Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's,… — Charles Babbage
That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle… — Charles Babbage
They have a joy for life in Brazil unlike any country I've ever seen. — Morena Baccarin

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