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«The world still consists of two clearly divided groups: the English and the foreigners. One group consists of less than 50 million people; the other of 3,950 million. The latter group does not really count.»
«You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.»
Author: George Norman Douglas
(Composer)
| About:
Advertising,
Ideals,
Nations
| Keywords:
advertisements, ideals
«United Nations: Where America feeds the hands that bite it»
«The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.»
Author: Lucretia Mott
(Social Reformer)
| About:
Life,
Nations,
Women,
World
| Keywords:
degradation, fountains, poisoned, virtuous
«To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not fully conscious of the importance of their gifts, and who are irresponsible in the application of their art: they»
Author: Ben Okri
| About:
Nations,
Society
| Keywords:
application, demoralised, irresponsible, poison, stories, storyteller, storytellers
«We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
America and Americans,
Nations
| Keywords:
Americans, American System, count, countries, felt, like it, maybe, medical, nation, Scotland, seconds, second world, system, vaporize, vaporized
«Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises in another. What begins with the failure to uphold the dignity of one life all too often ends with a calamity for entire nations.»
Author: Kofi Annan
| About:
Nations,
Right
| Keywords:
all too, calamity, crises, humanitarian, Human rights, national, separate, upheld, uphold, upholding, upholds, walls
«Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.»
«We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
| About:
Nations
| Keywords:
adopt, conformity, jailer, nations, systems
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