Local Quotes

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Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured. — Thomas Clarkson
Malta is the only country in the world where the local delicacy is the bread. — Alan Coren
There is no celebrity quite as powerful as the local, homegrown celebrity. — Tony Wilson
Nations have the wrong granularity. Theyâ€™re too small to be global and too big to be local, and all they can think about is competing. — Nicholas Negroponte
We are moving rapidly from an era of an oligopoly of content providers to an oligopoly of content controllers: new choke points. This is not… — Dan Gillmor
No local church can afford to go without the encouragement and nourishment that will come to it by sending away its best people. — David Penman
"Nationwide" featured an amazing collection of apprentice impersonators. From all over Britain, schoolchildren materialised via local studios to give us their imitations of the mighty.… — Clive James
Everybody knows how much time Fang spends in bed. A local store that gives a 30 days' trial on mattresses gives Fang only 15 days. — Phyllis Diller
The absurdity of public-choice theory is captured by Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen in the following little scenario: "Can you direct me to the railway… — Linda McQuaig
We used to have our own plane with the band's name on the side. It was a dream come true. You drive to a local… — Joe Elliott
I think it's very important that the United States keeps out of the local electoral process in Mexico. — Vicente Fox
To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it… — Clifford Geertz
Governments have supported airlines as if they were local football teams. But there are just too many of them. This is the only industry I… — Richard L. Hanna
As a member of the House Committee on Small Business and because of my own experience as a small business owner, I am appreciative of… — Melissa Bean
Community. A friend started a real estate brokerage a few years ago. By the time she'd added her second employee, she was a pillar of… — Tom Peters
The movements of nature are in a never ending circle. The animal species which has once been put into a train of motion, is still… — Thomas Jefferson
It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries. Corollary to this we find that we… — R. Buckminster Fuller
We had no alternative except that of preparing for direct action, whereby we would present our very bodies as a means of laying our case… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
That was for instance the case in Mocambique a couple of years ago, during the flooding catastrophe. Instead of co-ordinating assistance properly, to much time… — Anna Lindh
Local television and local TV news isn't telling the voters about local candidates. — Reed Hundt

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