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country men climate
Charles Caleb Colton In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least.
country travel home
Charles Caleb Colton Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.
country sadness men
Charles Caleb Colton In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes.
country heart simple
Charles Caleb Colton As the grand discordant harmony of the celestial bodies may be explained by the simple principles of gravity and impulse, so also in that more wonderful and complicated microcosm, the heart of man, all the phenomena of morals are perhaps resolvable into one single principle, the pursuit of apparent good; for although customs universally vary, yet man in all climates and countries is essentially the same.
country self names
Charles Caleb Colton The most notorious swindler has not assumed so many names as self-love, nor is so much ashamed of his own. She calls herself patriotism, when at the same time she is rejoicing at just as much calamity to her native country as will introduce herself into power, and expel her rivals.
country mean hands
Charles Dickens Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail.
country night men
Charles Dickens If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe.
country character men
Charles Dickens Rattle me out of bed early, set me going, give me as short a time as you like to bolt my meals in, and keep me at it. Keep me always at it, and I'll keep you always at it, you keep somebody else always at it. There you are with the Whole Duty of Man in a commercial country.
views christ superficial
Charles Spurgeon The more you know about Christ, the less you will be satisfied with superficial views of Him.
views people film
Alan Parker The films that I do tend to polarise people's views.
views mind lovely
Alan Perlis One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
views years organization
Akhmad Kadyrov One has to work for years and decades, to conduct negotiations, to stand for positions and points of view, to jointly develop a civilized view on the administrative and state organization of Chechnya.
views evil causes
Aiden Wilson Tozer A low view of God is the cause of a hundred lesser evils. A high view of God is the solution to ten thousand temporal problems.
views lows
Aiden Wilson Tozer Low views of God destroy the gospel for all who hold them.
views ego enlightenment
Chogyam Trungpa The attainment of enlightenment from ego's point of view is extreme death.
views extending fearlessness
Chogyam Trungpa Fearlessness is extending ourselves beyond our limited view.
views people helping
Chogyam Trungpa The point is not to convert anyone to our view, but rather to help people wake to their own view, their own sanity.
iran revolution problem
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani We did not treat the Americans badly. They left Iran in a relaxed mood. The embassy was active here after the revolution. We didn't have any problem with them. They started it.
iran outcomes tough
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Passing a tough resolution or threatening Iran will not bring about the desired outcome.
iranians russia serious whether
Nicholas Burns We want the Iranians to negotiate, whether it's with the EU-3 or Russia or any other country, on a serious basis.
iran empowering unrest
Chris Christie When we empower Iran, then get ready for more unrest and more murder and more violence in the Middle East.
iranians position taken
John Reid The position that has been taken by the Iranians is so extreme,
iran prices resolved unless until
Fadel Gheit Until and unless the stalemate with Iran is resolved one way or the other, I think we're going to see prices higher.
iran newts gas
Bill Maher Newt Gingrich...is absolutely for bombing Iran and for lowering gas prices. And I've just to say, you can't be for both. They are diametrically opposed.
iran missing shots
Bill Walton Kazemi has to understand that nobody is going to tell him he has to go back to Iran if he misses a shot.
iran america political
Madeleine Albright In 1953, the United States played a significant role in orchestrating the overthrow of Iran's popular prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh. The Eisenhower administration believed its actions were justified for strategic reasons, but the coup was clearly a setback for Iran's political development and it is easy to see now why many Iranians continue to resent this intervention by America in their internal affairs.