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  • I Will Follow Anyone And Remind EveryoneOf The Targeted CiviliansIn Kurdistan Regions -- Widad Akrawi
  • By night the Glass Of Galileo ... observes Imagin'd Land and Regions in the Moon. -- John Milton
  • I have come to the conclusion that life in the Antarctic Regions can be very pleasant. -- Robert Falcon Scott
  • Were the Inhabitants of Italy charming as their Country, all other Regions would be depopulated I think. -- Bill Vaughan
  • I anticipate the Day when to command Respect in the remotest Regions it will be sufficient to say I am an American. -- Benjamin Rush
  • The Party of the Regions has won a convincing victory. We are ready to undertake responsibility for forming the Cabinet and we are calling on everyone to join us. -- Viktor Yanukovych
  • Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. -- Abraham Lincoln
  • It appears that the human genome does indeed contain deserts, or large, gene-poor regions. -- Craig Venter
  • By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors. -- James Buchan
  • Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time. -- Robert Smithson
  • A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples. -- Emily Greene Balch
  • From time to time, it is worth wandering around the fuzzy border regions of what you do, if only to remind yourself that no human activity is an island. -- Julian Baggini
  • Literature offers not just a window into the culture of diverse regions, but also the society, the politics; it's the only place where we can keep track of ideas. -- Reza Aslan
  • New England has a harsh climate, a barren soil, a rough and stormy coast, and yet we love it, even with a love passing that of dwellers in more favored regions. -- Henry Cabot Lodge
  • There are no other Everglades in the world. They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth; remote, never wholly known. Nothing anywhere else is like them. -- Marjory Stoneman Douglas
  • Corporatist attitudes against capitalism came to the fore in the 1920s. Corporatists, with their conservative values, hated the invasion of towns and regions by new businesses, upsetting traditional ways, wealth and status. -- Edmund Phelps
  • Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal. -- Desmond Tutu
  • Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the influence of the regions through which it has passed on its migrations, and the people with whom it came into contact, must be considered. -- Franz Boas
  • We have in this country a federal government that increasingly is engaged in trying to determine which business, which regions, which industries will succeed, which will not through a whole range of economic development, regional development corporate subsidization programs. -- Stephen Harper
  • Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • By curious accident of history and geography, the world's major energy resources are located pretty much in Shiite regions. They're a minority in the Middle East, but they happen to be where the oil is, right around the northern part of the Gulf. -- Noam Chomsky
  • It is tempting to think of this form of insomnia, the inability to fall asleep, as a disease of agency and control: the inability to relinquish high self-reflexive consciousness for the vulnerable, ignorant regions of slumber in which we know not what we do. -- Siri Hustvedt
  • To many, peace is what enables development and is critical in providing opportunities to young people. To some - especially those from regions involved in conflict - peacekeeping and efforts to preserve peace are absolutely vital in bringing prosperity and hope for the future. -- Kim Yuna
  • Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny. -- Marguerite Duras
  • A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends. -- Henry A. Wallace
  • Black holes, we all know, are these regions where if an object falls in, it can't get out, but the puzzle that many struggled with over the decades is, what happens to the information that an object contains when it falls into a black hole. Is it simply lost? -- Brian Greene
  • While the United States has never decreed that everyone has a 'right' to a telephone, we have come close to this with the notion of 'universal service' - the idea that telephone service (and electricity, and now broadband Internet) must be available, even in the most remote regions of the country. -- Vint Cerf
  • Climate change, in some regions, has aggravated conflict over scarce land, and could well trigger large-scale migration in the decades ahead. And rising sea levels put at risk the very survival of all small island states. These and other implications for peace and security have implications for the United Nations itself. -- Ban Ki-moon
  • Measuring success in cultural diplomacy - the use of education, creative expression in any form, or people-to-people exchange to increase understanding across regions, cultures, or peoples - is challenging. How does one quantify changes in attitude, abandoning stereotypes, or feeling empathy as a result of a performance, a film, a book? -- Cynthia P. Schneider
  • What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust. -- Salvador Dali
  • I think the driving force for cultural evolution is this desire for groups to be splitting off and separating and forming subgroups insofar as the environment will allow it. We see great cultural diversity and large numbers of cultures per unit area in regions of the world in which the environment is really rich. -- Mark Pagel
  • I would love it if we made more comparisons between current issues and issues of the past. Maybe we'd realize that sometimes 'current issues' and 'past issues' are one and the same. Our world's people still fight over natural resources, kill in the name of religion, occupy regions and give them up - just as we did 'so long ago.' -- Adora Svitak
  • Words build bridges into unexplored regions. -- Adolf Hitler
  • Nymphets do not occur in polar regions. -- Vladimir Nabokov
  • Order is the primary regulation of the celestial regions. -- John Godfrey Saxe
  • Providence seems to call me to the regions beyond -- David Livingstone
  • Indians are numerous in the tropical regions; not so elsewhere. -- Ezra Stiles
  • The soul is kissed by God in its innermost regions. -- Hildegard of Bingen
  • The power of thought, the vast regions it can master. -- Bertrand Russell
  • Few tyrants go down to the infernal regions by a natural death. -- Juvenal
  • An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly. -- Edwin Percy Whipple
  • Even in the darkest regions, people have discovered their right of freedom. -- Javier Bardem
  • Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought. -- Honore de Balzac
  • There are certain regions in the country where the indigenous people eat dogs. -- Jessica Hagedorn
  • Due to global warming, the coming winters in the local regions will become milder. -- Stefan Rahmstorf
  • People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library. -- Tom Peters
  • That's what I think regions are about, making central government more accountable and fairer. -- John Prescott
  • A system devolving power to the regions is the route to a viable Iraq. -- Mowaffak al-Rubaie
  • Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions date descry. -- Thomas Gray
  • Our intention is to develop music, theatre and exhibition activities on the Far Eastern regions. -- Vladimir Putin
  • Satan conquered Jesus on the Cross and took His spirit to the dark regions of hell -- Kenneth Copeland
  • Not surprisingly, in most Sunni regions there has little appetite for free U.S.-sponsored elections. -- Richard Engel
  • Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers. -- Ellsworth Huntington
  • winds are produced by differences of air temperature, and hence density, between two regions of earth. -- Evangelista Torricelli
  • I can tell you love him. (Syn) Yeah, like a boil in my nether regions. (Kiara) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
  • The Doctor of our souls has placed the remedy in the hidden regions of the soul. -- John Cassian
  • Deep in the frozen regions of the north, A goddess violated brought thee forth, Immortal Liberty! -- Tobias Smollett
  • Whatever discoveries we may have made in the regions of self-love, there still remain many unknown lands. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  • In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world. -- Omar Bongo
  • In all highly civilised communities Pretence is prominent, and sooner or later invades the regions of Literature. -- James Payn
  • In order to make India prosperous, all sections and regions of the society needed to be prosperous. -- Narendra Modi
  • Everything is on a reduced scale here in the Polar regions; we can't afford to be extravagant. -- Roald Amundsen
  • The greater part of the truth is always hidden, in regions out of the reach of cynicism. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Beyond the realms of what we see, into the regions or the unexplored limited only by our imaginations. -- Albert Einstein
  • Did you ever see a giraffe? It is like something from between the regions of truth and fiction. -- Geraldine Jewsbury
  • Trips to fairly unknown regions should be made twice; once to make mistakes and once to correct them. -- John Steinbeck
  • It is high time to make known the glad tidings in these dark regions of sin and spiritual bondage. -- Samuel Marsden
  • I used to live in Canada. It's a beautiful country with a lot of different kind of topographic regions. -- Sebastian Bach
  • I dream of a Digital India where quality healthcare percolates right up to the remotest regions powered by e-Healthcare. -- Narendra Modi
  • When I get the morning report on security, I call those battalions in the regions where there are problems. -- Alvaro Uribe
  • China has a rich history that has spanned millennia. It consists of the histories of many nations and regions. -- Ai Weiwei
  • The freedom to create is somehow linked with facility of access to those obscure regions below the conscious mind. -- Loren Eiseley
  • We have experienced highly challenging global market conditions in the past quarter with significant steel price decline in all regions. -- Lakshmi Mittal
  • Do not commence your exercises in philosophy in those regions where an error can deliver you over to the executioner. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
  • We, however, place the love of God and His honour above our own and above the acquisition of many regions -- Richard I of England
  • I fancy that the Hell of Too Many People would occupy a respectable place in the hierarchy of infernal regions. -- J. B. Priestley
  • The fact is not kill entire populations is able to infect entire regions of land and control the only cure. -- Ted Dekker
  • Blood rushed to the regions of my body that I associated with naughtiness, and I was powerless to stop it. -- Kat Lowe
  • Little Maiden Encounters FearDeepest regions walked she therelittle maiden sweet and fairventured far from the pathnever a whispernever a laugh... -- Muse
  • We believe that people will use real-time fMRI feedback to hone cognitive strategies that will increase activation of brain regions. -- Christopher deCharms
  • Imagination is the queen of truth, and possibility is one of the regions of truth. She is positively akin to infinity. -- Charles Baudelaire
  • We have to see that all regions of India, particularly the east and west, are brought on par in development parameters. -- Narendra Modi
  • People who go to the polar regions are statistically less likely to die than salesmen who drive on motorways in England. -- Ranulph Fiennes
  • There is no complete spiritual life without music, for the human soul has regions which can be illuminated only by music. -- Zoltan Kodaly
  • Looking beyond the emerging markets, it is important not to lose sight of the growth opportunities that exist in the developed regions. -- Louis R. Chenevert
  • By nature, by necessity itself, [primitive man] is encyclopedic, while civilized man finds himself confined in the infinitely small regions of specialization. -- Charles Baudelaire
  • Every year lays more earth upon us, which weighs us down from aerial regions, till we go under the earth at last. -- E. T. A. Hoffmann
  • The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one's steps, and reach the air above, there's the rub. -- Virgil
  • Something about this boat screamed, "I am a very popular model in the world's oil-bearing regions. I cost more than your soul! -- Maureen Johnson
  • The United States has dealt with the Middle East and surrounding regions for many decades in the context of the Cold War. -- Stephen Kinzer
  • Direct your eye inward, and you'll find / A thousand regions in your mind / Yet undiscovered. Travel them, and be / Expert in home-cosmography -- Henry David Thoreau
  • Bards of Passion and of Mirth, Ye have left your souls on earth! Have ye souls in heaven too, Double-lived in regions new? -- John Keats
  • It is doubtful whether anyone who has travelled widely has found anywhere in the world regions more ugly than in the human face. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Home is home even for those who aspire to serve wider interests and who have established their home of choice in distant regions. -- Nelson Mandela
  • How far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow Into the arctic regions of our lives, Where little else than life itself survives. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • Different regions may require different strategies, as President Bush has noted, but not different basic principles. It's either collective security or selective security. -- William Safire
  • We had about 60 regions in Greece and now there are only 13. It'd be like cutting down 50 states to 13 and making it more efficient. -- George Papandreou
  • One of the reasons there are largely Catholic and largely Protestant regions of Germany today is that people did sort themselves out geographically. --
  • The same regions of the brain light up when someone touches their smartphone as when they touch a family member or a pet. -- Matt Cohler
  • The actual state of our knowledge is always provisional and... there must be, beyond what is actually known, immense new regions to discover. -- Louis de Broglie
  • RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions lying due south from Boreaplas. -- Ambrose Bierce
  • I revel in flowers without let,An atom at random in space;My soul dwells in regions ethereal,And the world is my dreaming-place. -- L. Cranmer-Byng
  • Does it make more sense to provide air conditioning or to limit CO2 emissions. I vote for more air conditioning in these susceptible regions. -- Judith Curry
  • In some remote regions of Islam it is said, a woman caught unveiled by a stranger will raise her skirt to cover her face. -- Raymond Mortimer
  • The amygdala, along with related areas..., plays a crucial role in coordinating perceptions with memory and behavior. These regions are especially sensitive to social interactions. -- Daniel J. Siegel
  • Coming from the cotton plantation, the southern regions, I was brought up with real nice kids, mannered kids, who would go to church on Sunday. -- Luther Allison
  • The propensity to play is situated in very ancient regions of the brain. Rats that have had their neocortex removed still engage in normal play. -- Jaak Panksepp
  • A persistent and age-old instinct makes us want to wander Into regions yet untrod And read what is still unread In the manuscripts of God. -- Willis R. Whitney
  • We search for life on others planets and in other regions of our galaxy. Meanwhile we destroy and ignore the other life on this planet. -- Anthony D. Williams
  • Little information is published on prisons, it is one of the hidden regions of our social system, one of the dark zones of our life. -- Michel Foucault
  • making final judgements about poets, cities or regions on the basis of an anthology is always dangerous: anthologies are mirages created, finally, by their editors. -- Margaret Atwood
  • The numerous people who imagine that a long stay in the Polar regions makes a man less susceptible of cold than other mortals are completely mistaken. -- Roald Amundsen
  • I had this feeling that, somehow, we ought to be teaching not just the history of particular nations or particular regions, but the history of humanity. -- David Christian
  • The saying 'the arts aid the body' is for samurai of other regions. For samurai of the Nabeshima clan the arts bring ruin to the body. -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • The rights of the individual are greatly prized in the developed world, but in many other regions they are considered a luxury reserved for the impossibly wealthy. -- Silvia Cartwright
  • So imagine a world 6 degrees warmer. It's not going to recognize geographical boundaries. It's not going to recognize anything. So agriculture regions today will be wiped out. -- Steven Chu
  • I believe in free trade. I don't support regulating trade prices between different regions. Our point of view is we don't want trade barriers between different countries. -- Hans Vestberg
  • We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation. -- Alexander Herzen
  • I'm an Internet expert too. It's all right to wire the industrial zone only, but there are many problems if other regions of the North are wired. -- Kim Jong Il
  • Never imitate the eccentricities of genius, but toil after it in its truer flights. They are not so easy to follow, but they lead to higher regions. -- Charles Dickens
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