- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nation Quotes
Reflections on country, community, and the work of change.
This collection brings together quotes about what a nation owes its people and what its people owe back, touching on education access, inequality, and the leaders a country produces. Several lines connect that civic outlook to a deeper belief in what a country can become.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Dallas Cowboys
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- Nov 07, 2020
A single Dallas Cowboys football game uses up as much electricity as the entire nation of Liberia in those same three hours - one reason the globe, if looked at from a certain height, is a cluster of lights surrounded by enormous patches of dark.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a way, the debate about Margaret Thatcher in Britain has just gotten fossilized in this notion that she is either this she-devil who wrecked the industrial base of the country and ruined the lives of millions, or she is the blessed Margaret who saved the nation and rescued us from our post-war decline.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most observers understand the difference between a committed Christian who accepts Jesus as a model for living and a 'cultural Christian' who happens to live in a nation with a Christian heritage. Most Muslims do not.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a nation allows its literary culture to die, it's a sign that it doesn't fundamentally care.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nigeria is a West African nation of over 100 million energetic people. It is endowed with lots of natural resources but lacks human resources.
- Bad Situation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are as much every U.S. citizen's wars as they are the veterans' wars. If we don't assume that civilians have just as much ownership and the moral responsibilities that we have as a nation when we embark on something like that, then we're in a very bad situation.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
The future of our nation depends on our ability to produce food and fiber to sustain the world.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ukraine is an industrialized nation that can produce their own weapons. We're talking about the defensive weapons, which help us just defensively.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
America pays its bills. It always has. It always will. The fact that Washington is now debating whether to honor its debts and obligations, then, should come as a surprise. But playing political football with a necessary vote to raise the nation's debt ceiling has become as predictable as a Twitter rant from Charlie Sheen.
- Confronting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beyonce may be a gifted entertainer, but no one should really care what she thinks about any serious issue confronting our nation.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
It means that, in fact, it's - whether fascist is the right word I don't know - more of a plutocracy than anything resembling a democracy; it has become a nation controlled by a very small, very wealthy elite.
- Finance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trade deficits are OK under certain circumstance. 1. An emerging nation imports capital goods necessary to enhance its productivity. 2. A developed nation, with a current account surplus, uses some of its investment income to finance the purchases of additional consumer goods from abroad.
- Judge
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- Nov 07, 2020
From 8,000 miles away... I would not judge a fellow soldier from a friendly nation and how they are employing their resources.
- Appreciate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I appreciate America as being the most artistic nation because of its diversity.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do we elect a man because of what he stands for, because of where he stands on the issues, because how he makes the nation feel?
- Nov 07, 2020
A nation is an organic thing.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020