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• Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.

  Sir James Mackintosh

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• The G8 nations, together with the five major emerging economies of China, India, South Africa, Brazil, Mexico, use almost three-quarters of the Earth’s biocapacity – the capacity of the world’s ecosystems to produce natural resources and to reduce harmful substances.

  Sigmar Gabriel

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• I think it’s extremely unlikely that the European Union will fracture with nations dropping off the edge.

  John Major

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• I don’t think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.

  John Major

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• In early January I introduced my legislation, which, besides prohibiting Federal funding of human cloning, also expresses the sense of Congress that foreign nations should establish total prohibition on human cloning as well.

  Cliff Stearns

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  Tags in Human, Nations, Expresses

• We are the biggest donor to the United Nations, contributing 22 percent of the regular operating budget and nearly 27 percent of the peacekeeping budget.

  Cliff Stearns

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• I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.

  Clement Attlee

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• In fact, effective solidarity with the poor, both individual persons and entire nations, is indispensable for the construction of peace.

  Claudio Hummes

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• Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.

  Claude McKay

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• My sense is that jurists from other nations around the world understand that our court occupies a very special place in the American system, and that the court is rather well regarded in comparison, perhaps, to their own.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

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• Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

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• The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved strong enough to control the aggressive dynamism of nationalism.

  Christopher Dawson

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• On the contrary. Internationalism also recognizes, by its very name, that nations do exist. It simply limits their scope more than one-sided nationalism does.

  Christian Lous Lange

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• These deserters were our undoing. I shall have a good deal more to say about them before I finally lay down my pen, and I shall not hesitate to call them by their true name, the name with which they will be for ever branded before all the nations of the world.

  Christiaan Rudolf de Wet

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• There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.

  Edmund Burke

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• Nations are not thugs. They are bodies of intelligent people.

  Rufus Matthew Jones

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• Everybody knows that the industrialized nations are the worst offenders.

  Roland Emmerich

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• If the union between England and America is a powerful factor in the cause of peace, a new Triple Alliance between the Teutonic race and the two branches of the Anglo-Saxon race will be a still more potent influence in the future of the world.

  Edward Grey

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• French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well.

  Edward Sapir

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• The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection.

  Elihu Root

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