Local Quotes

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So the British, of all ages, still walk the course. On trips to Florida or the American desert, they still marvel, or shudder, at the… — Alistair Cooke
The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little. — Samuel Johnson
With a small fraction of the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the Iraq war, the US and Australia could ensure every starving, sunken-eyed… — Bob Brown
It is tragic what we do in the poorest neighborhoods, entrapping children in child laws which are truly stupid...These schools should get rid of unionized… — Newt Gingrich
Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump. — Willard Van Orman Quine
Our garden was debated territory between five local cats, and we'd heard that the best way to keep other cats out of the garden was… — Terry Pratchett
Public charities, foodbanks and church pantries are doing more than ever before, but they can't keep up with the need. We can never end hunger… — Jeff Bridges
Who am I? is the only question worth asking and the only one never answered. It is your destiny to play an infinity of roles,… — Deepak Chopra
Magnitude may be compared to the power output in kilowatts of a [radio] broadcasting station; local intensity, on the Mercalli or similar scale, is then… — Charles Francis Richter
No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard… — Al Smith
"Have you done your homework?" my mother would ask. "I'll do it later." "You will do it now, young man. I don't want you winding… — Lewis Grizzard
Try this thought experiment. Pretend you're a tyrant. Among your many liberty-destroying objectives are extermination of blacks, Jews and Catholics. Which would you prefer, a… — Walter E. Williams
...if the citizens neglect their Duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made, not for the… — Noah Webster
Our leaders must remember that education doesn't begin with some isolated bureaucrat in Washington. It doesn't even begin with state or local officials. Education begins… — Ronald Reagan
We can begin by doing small things at the local level, like planting community gardens or looking out for our neighbors. That is how change… — Grace Lee Boggs
A government regulating itself by what is wise and just for the many, uninfluenced by the local and selfish views of the few who direct… — Thomas Jefferson
Whether the authorities be invaders or merely local tyrants, the effect of such [gun control] laws is to place the individual at the mercy of… — Robert A. Heinlein
I spent twenty years of my life trying to recruit people out of local churches and into missions structures so that they could be involved… — George H. Miley
The richest person in the world - in fact. All the riches in the world - couldn't provide you with anything like the endless, incredible… — Malcolm Forbes
The human mind has a natural tendency to explore what has passed in distant ages in scenes with which it is familiar: hence the taste… — William Buckland

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