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The civil war which has so long prevailed between Spain and the Provinces in South America still continues, without any prospect of its speedy termination. -- James Monroe
In 1688 England contracted to the Netherlands the highest debt that one nation can owe to another. Herself not knowing how to recover her liberties, they were restored by men of the United Provinces. -- George Bancroft
It is clear that the flame of True Freedom had passed with naval supremacy and constitutional, consultative government from the United Provinces to Great Britain, where it was regarded with quite as much national pride. -- Peter Padfield
Help me by whatever you are pleased to do in your provinces. -- Muqtada al Sadr
I suppose I have the tastes of someone who teaches at a university in the provinces. -- Andrew Davies
The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love. -- Herman Melville
According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze. -- Salvatore Quasimodo
Camiguin, Romblon and Camarines Norte got out of the list of poorest provinces in 2003. With tourism, these provinces can become rich. -- Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
We are distressed by the unilateral actions of those provinces that are clearly determined to redefine what our common faith was once. -- Peter Akinola
Everything that I have is natural - braid, nails - I practically never use cosmetics. They often ask me in the provinces about my braid. -- Yulia Tymoshenko
The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown. -- Henry Walter Bates
Many countries - as well as cities, states and provinces - are taking global warming seriously and are working to reduce emissions and shift to cleaner energy sources. -- David Suzuki
Booming cities, and the provinces and states in which they are located, are driving forces in economic growth today. Consequently, they constitute the new frontier in America's international economic policy. -- Robert Hormats
Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the country, and when they feel that all Canada belongs to them. -- Pierre Trudeau
Often, before returning home, I would take a long and roundabout way and pass by the peaceful ramparts from where I had glimpses of other provinces, and a sight of the distant country. -- Pierre Loti
Initially, before the modern state of Iraq was created, there were three separate provinces here: a Shiite in the south, a largely Sunni one in the middle, and a Kurdish one in the north. -- Richard Engel
In the animal world, on the other hand, the process of evolution is characterised by the progressive discrimination of the animal and vegetative functions, and a consequent differentiation of these two great provinces into their separate departments. -- Wilhelm Wundt
On behalf of the federal government, I wish now publicly to appeal to the provinces to lend their co-operation in furthering our country's war effort by effecting at as early a date as may be possible this much needed restriction. -- William Lyon Mackenzie King
Turkey wants to see Bashar al-Assad go and wants to kind of expand its sphere of influence into Turkey so its Ottoman glory or Ottoman past are once again project into the Syrian provinces. That's kind of what Turkey's vision is. -- Richard Engel
I became a soldier, not because I had a military vocation initially, but because it was the only way that that young, poor-class child from the provinces could go to the center of the country: through baseball, which was my dream. -- Hugo Chavez
It is said that many children who live in the central provinces, away from the ocean, have a great longing to see it. I who had never been away from the monotonous country surrounding us looked forward eagerly to seeing the mountains. -- Pierre Loti
The house of Austria has publicly used every effort to deprive the country of its legitimate Independence and Constitution, designing to reduce it to a level with the other provinces long since deprived of all freedom, and to unite all in a common sink of slavery. -- Lajos Kossuth
Confederation is a compact, made originally by four provinces but adhered to by all the nine provinces who have entered it, and I submit to the judgment of this house and to the best consideration of its members, that this compact should not be lightly altered. -- Wilfrid Laurier
One my favorite things is to go to the provinces of Russia and see the 18th century wood churches with the onion dome architecture. These humble wonders of incredible imagination of architects that were obviously not living in places like Paris or London, but they've created these amazing churches. -- Andre Leon Talley
The Yankees won the pennant, we went on to the World Series, 41 years after that in the city of Toronto. The great city of Toronto, and all the provinces in Canada, everybody reached out and they were excited because we won the first World Series ever, across the border. -- Dave Winfield
Europe is a state with several provinces -- Baron de Montesquieu
Ambitious princes value inherited kingdoms not so much as conquered provinces. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Palaeontological research exhibits, beyond question, the phenomenon of provinces in time, as well as provinces in space. -- Edward Forbes
A good hanging now and then -- that entertains folk in the provinces and robs death of its glamour. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Thieves at home must hang; but he that puts Into his overgorged and bloated purse The wealth of Indian provinces, escapes. -- William Cowper
The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy. -- Honore de Balzac
Nationalism will keep its venom until we succeed in creating an image of the nations of the whole world as so many provinces. -- Storm Jameson
No big modern war has been won without preponderant sea power; and, conversely, very few rebellions of maritime provinces have succeeded without acquiring sea power. -- Samuel Eliot Morison
To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct. -- Michel de Montaigne
So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful war, even though that war involves the acquisition of immense new provinces. -- Havelock Ellis
I will take back Kashmir, all of it, and I will not leave behind a single inch of it because, like the other provinces, it belongs to Pakistan, -- Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
Manufacturers...gradually shift their places, leaving those countries and provinces which they have already enriched, and flying to others, whether they are allured by the cheapness of provisions and labour. -- David Hume
The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it - The Territory is worth. Empires which branch out widely are often more flourishing for a little timely pruning. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
As soon as I finished the Russian course, I was sent to Korea with the task of trying to establish an agent network, a network in the so called maritime provinces. -- George Blake
But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this-that men despair and think things impossible. -- Francis Bacon
Anyone who has crossed from the district of Bolkhov into that of Zhizdra will probably have been struck by the sharp difference between the natives of the provinces of Orel and Kaluga. -- Ivan Turgenev
L'imagination est la reine du vrai, et le possible est une des provinces du vrai. Imagination is the queen of the truth and the possible is one of the provinces of the truth. -- Charles Baudelaire
The love I felt for her on that train ride had a capital and provinces, parishes and a Vatican, an orange planet and many sullen moons -- it was systemic and it was complete. -- Gary Shteyngart
Because my main concern is the Tibetan Buddhist culture, not just political independence, I cannot seek self-rule for central Tibet and exclude the 4 million Tibetans in our two eastern provinces of Amdo and Kham. -- Dalai Lama
Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan. Recently, we witnessed massive demonstration by Iranian woman in the 7th of Tir square, and it was brutally suppressed. -- Akbar Ganji

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