Provinces Quotes

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No big modern war has been won without preponderant sea power; and, conversely, very few rebellions of maritime provinces have succeeded without acquiring sea power. — Samuel Eliot Morison
Palaeontological research exhibits, beyond question, the phenomenon of provinces in time, as well as provinces in space. Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains teaches… — Edward Forbes
Everything that I have is natural - braid, nails - I practically never use cosmetics. They often ask me in the provinces about my braid. — Yulia Tymoshenko
The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were… — Henry Walter Bates
The errors of a wise man are literally more instructive than the truths of a fool. The wise man travels in lofty, far-seeing regions; the… — Thomas Carlyle
Thieves at home must hang; but he that puts Into his overgorged and bloated purse The wealth of Indian provinces, escapes. — William Cowper
The traveler from Europe edges into it like a tiny Jonah entering an inconceivably large whale, slipping past the straits of Belle Isle into the… — Northrop Frye
Palaeontological research exhibits, beyond question, the phenomenon of provinces in time, as well as provinces in space. — Edward Forbes
While brother Joseph was referring to the provinces of God, I was led to reflect that there is no act, no principle, no power belonging… — Brigham Young
Some European countries insist on saying that during World War II, Hitler burned millions of Jews and put them in concentration camps. Any historian, commentator… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Ambitious princes value inherited kingdoms not so much as conquered provinces. — Christian Nestell Bovee
Confederation is a compact, made originally by four provinces but adhered to by all the nine provinces who have entered it, and I submit to… — Wilfrid Laurier
The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love. — Herman Melville
Help me by whatever you are pleased to do in your provinces. — Muqtada al Sadr
One my favorite things is to go to the provinces of Russia and see the 18th century wood churches with the onion dome architecture. These… — Andre Leon Talley
Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the country, and when they feel that… — Pierre Trudeau
A man sets out to draw the world. As the years go by, he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships,… — Jorge Luis Borges
To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility in our conduct.… — Michel de Montaigne
Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard… — Anthony Bourdain
New York is perhaps the only place in America where you feel at the centre and not at the margins, in the provinces, so for… — Italo Calvino

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