Provinces Quotes
54 quotes by 51 authors
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I became a soldier, not because I had a military vocation initially, but because it was the only way that that young, poor-class child from…
— Hugo Chavez
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The Mississippi River carries the mud of thirty states and two provinces 2,000 miles south to the delta and deposits 500 million tons of it…
— Charles Kuralt
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It may be observed, that provinces amid the vicissitudes to which they are subject, pass from order into confusion, and afterward recur to a state…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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The people of the various provinces are strictly forbidden to have in their possession any swords, bows, spears, firearms or other types of arms. The…
— Toyotomi Hideyoshi
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I have learnt that all our theories are not Truth itself, but resting places or stages on the way to the conquest of Truth, and…
— Justus von Liebig
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The field of scientific abstraction encompasses independent kingdoms of ideas and of experiments and within these, rulers whose fame outlasts the centuries. But they are…
— Fritz Haber
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Experience has instructed us that no skill in the science of government has yet been able to discriminate and define, with sufficient certainty, its three…
— James Madison
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The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it - The Territory is worth. Empires which branch out widely are often more flourishing…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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The people in the southern provinces have no interest whatsoever to see British forces leave because they're providing security, stability, structure, and relations have always…
— Hoshyar Zebari
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Jacobins, I have a truth to tell you. You do not know your most deadly enemies; they are the constitutional priests. It is they who…
— Jean-Paul Marat
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To recommend a monarchy on account of the prosperity it gives the provinces seems to me like recommending that a man should have liberty to…
— Robert Graves
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If we do not learn to regard a war, and the separate campaigns of which it is composed, as a chain of linked engagements each…
— Carl von Clausewitz
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The civil war which has so long prevailed between Spain and the Provinces in South America still continues, without any prospect of its speedy termination.
— James Monroe
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It is said that many children who live in the central provinces, away from the ocean, have a great longing to see it. I who…
— Pierre Loti
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Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harm Nor question much That subtle wreath of hair, which crowns my arm; The mystery, the sign…
— John Donne
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Often, before returning home, I would take a long and roundabout way and pass by the peaceful ramparts from where I had glimpses of other…
— Pierre Loti
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So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful war, even though that war involves the acquisition of immense…
— Havelock Ellis
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I will take back Kashmir, all of it, and I will not leave behind a single inch of it because, like the other provinces, it…
— Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
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As soon as I finished the Russian course, I was sent to Korea with the task of trying to establish an agent network, a network…
— George Blake
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Europe is a state with several provinces
— Baron de Montesquieu
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