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Civil society people - these are the people - civil society groups are the people who need to monitor the aid to ensure that the aid is directed to what it is supposed to. And in order for them to do so, they need to have the space, they need to have the freedom, and they need to have the right to demonstrate, and to petition their government. They can't do that in Ethiopia; they can't do that in Eritrea; and so this is why I was cautioning that we may be repeating some of our old mistakes.

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God's faithful servant has no desire for people to say or to give to him, or what he likes to hear or see, for his first and greatest aim is to hear what is most pleasing to God.

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When great nations fear to expand, shrink from expansion, it is because their greatness is coming to an end. Are we, still in the prime of our lusty youth, still at the beginning of our glorious manhood, to sit down among the outworn people, to take our place with the weak and the craven? A thousand times no!

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Greatness Quotes , People Quotes

I certainly have not the talent which some people possess," said Darcy, "of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch their tone of conversation, or appear interested in their concerns, as I often see done.

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The sovereignty of the people is inalienable.

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They are all a rotten lot. Schmidt and the Americans and we are the only people who would do any standing up and fighting if necessary.

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It's always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone - sometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better.

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These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , People Quotes , Political Quotes

Of course boredom may lead you to anything. It is boredom sets one sticking golden pins into people, but all that would not matter. What is bad (this is my comment again) is that I dare say people will be thankful for the gold pins then.

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , People Quotes , Boredom Quotes

The American people are proud to welcome your majesty back to the United States, a nation you've come to know very well. After all, you've dined with 10 U.S. presidents. You've helped our nation celebrate its bicentennial in 17 - in 1976.

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I was always at about 70/30. About 70 percent of the people of my district appreciated me, and about 30 percent had quite another view of me.

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In a system of free trade and free markets poor countries - and poor people - are not poor because others are rich. Indeed, if others became less rich the poor would in all probability become still poorer.

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I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.

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The bad people trying to make the world worse never take a day off, so why should I?

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And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words... As if you had a meaning, as if you were a mere word, as if you were something that could be looked up in a dictionary. You are meaning.

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The English people on the whole are surely the nicest people in the world, and everybody makes everything so easy for everyone else, that there is almost nothing to resist at all.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , People Quotes , Insulting Quotes

If we keep bombing other people, that creates more anger. Tensions keep escalating.

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Tags : Adam Yauch Quotes , People Quotes

People have to recognize that it’s going to take some time for trust to be built not only between Democrats and Republicans, between Congress and the White House, between the House and the Senate. You know, we’ve had a dysfunctional political system for a while now.

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The liberties of a people depend on their own constant attention to its preservation.

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Tags : William Henry Harrison Quotes , People Quotes , Liberty Quotes

I believe that there are many paths to the same place, and that is a belief that there is a higher power, a belief that we are connected as a people.

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