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No one will pay you for planning an expedition at first: you have to work in pubs at weekends so you can pay the gas bills. I joined the Territorial Army, which paid me when I turned up to drill nights, and so did my wife. -- Ranulph Fiennes
...one of the first achievements of the legislature was to institute a ten-thousand-dollar agricultural fair to show off forty dollars' worth of pumpkins in - however, the Territorial legislature was usually spoken of as the "asylum". -- Mark Twain
I'm a little territorial and defensive. -- Shia LaBeouf
I'm a little territorial and defensive. I don't like having my space invaded. -- Shia LaBeouf
Call me territorial or narcissistic, but I avoid novels about people who share my vocation. -- Julia Glass
The only thing I learnt in high school is that people are very violent and territorial. -- Gerard Way
No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology. -- Ronald Reagan
There are both things in international law: the principle of territorial integrity and right to self-determination. -- Vladimir Putin
Moreover, if the territorial state is to continue as the last word in the development of society, then war is inevitable. -- Christian Lous Lange
The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative. -- Eugene McCarthy
In seeking an empire of liberty, Jefferson wished not only to expand the country's territorial holdings, but also to extend American institutions around the globe. -- Robert Dallek
It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain forms of primitive human warfare. -- Jane Goodall
And so in terms of territorial control, in terms of economic preeminence, the western share of the gross world product is declining as Asian societies in particular develop economically. -- Samuel P. Huntington
I think everyone must settle for what is in the parameter of their own rights. No one must have an evil intention toward the territorial benefit or integrity of other nations. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Art to me is not precious enough that I feel territorial about what the word gets applied to. Conversations about what counts as art and what doesn't doesn't captivate my attention very much. -- Maggie Nelson
Like other countries in the world, China must uphold its own sovereignty, territorial integrity and development interests. At the same time, we are willing to properly handle differences and disagreements in state-to-state relations. -- Hu Jintao
Those who tell you that the territorial question is an abstraction, that you can never colonize another territory without the African slavetrade, are both deaf and blind to the history of the last sixty years. -- Robert Toombs
We did not speak in terms of strategy, in terms of overall economies, in terms of production and territorial conquest. We spoke of the impact of the bomb on the homes and the hopes of men and women. -- Philip Morrison
Many small towns I know in Maine are as tight-knit and interdependent as those I associate with rural communities in India or China; with deep roots and old loyalties, skeptical of authority, they are proud and inflexibly territorial. -- Paul Theroux
Today we stand on a bridge leading from the territorial state to the world community. Politically, we are still governed by the concept of the territorial state; economically and technically, we live under the auspices of worldwide communications and worldwide markets. -- Christian Lous Lange
The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided. Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united. -- Noam Chomsky
Russia - having sat across the table from Vladimir Putin, it's pretty clear when you meet him that he has an almost limitless ambition for power. And he's been very good at acquiring it - political power, economic power, military power, territorial power. -- Carly Fiorina
Both President Obama and I shared the conviction that territorial and maritime disputes in the Asia Pacific region should be settled peacefully based on international law. We affirm that arbitration is an open, friendly and peaceful approach to seeking a just and durable solution. -- Benigno Aquino III
Civility is not not saying negative or harsh things. It is not the absence of critical analysis. It is the manner in which we are sharing this territorial freedom of political discussion. If our discourse is yelled and screamed and interrupted and patronized, that's uncivil. -- Richard Dreyfuss
We, as Americans, at least - I mean, I love my country - but we're so self-righteous sometimes, in terms of, like, our nationality, our country. But we're people from somewhere else; the true 'Americans' are the original peoples. It's funny, but we're a very territorial species. -- Peter Dinklage
The rise of the presidency began with the Louisiana Purchase, which in 1803 doubled the land mass of the United States. History taught the framers that, just as Rome changed from republic to empire with conquest of new lands, territorial acquisition would lead to the centralization of political power. -- Noah Feldman
There is not, in the Constitution, a syllable that implies that persons, born within the territorial limits of the United States, have allegiance imposed upon them on account of their birth in the country, or that they will be judged by any different rule, on the subject of treason, than persons of foreign birth. -- Lysander Spooner
We are territorial, power-hungry and even more brutal than chimpanzees. -- Frans de Waal
Where there is no vision, poverty is enthroned as a territorial king -- Ikechukwu Izuakor
I am Switzerland. I refuse to be affected by territorial disputes between mythical creatures. -- Stephenie Meyer
It [the Sudetenland] is the last territorial claim that I have to make in Europe. -- Adolf Hitler
China's limited military power is for the sake of preserving national sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity, -- Li Zhaoxing
Red protects itself. No colour is as territorial. It stakes a claim, is on the alert against the spectrum. -- Derek Jarman
It is confidently believed that our system may be safely extended to the utmost bounds of our territorial limits... -- James K. Polk
Primates are very territorial. It is in their nature to protect their food resources as well as their females and young. -- Jane Goodall
I wish to reiterate solemnly China's continued firm support to Pakistan in its efforts to uphold independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity. -- Li Keqiang
Besides problems of traditional societies, the Caucasus has to cope with quite a few unsettled territorial conflicts that also nurture authoritarian governmental structures. -- Garry Kasparov
We can also reassure our Palestinian partners that we understand the importance of territorial contiguity in the West Bank for a viable Palestinian state. -- Ariel Sharon
Take the American declaration of Independence. It contains no mention of territorial limits. We are not obliged to fix the limits of the State. -- Moshe Dayan
Sovereignty no longer resides in the territory itself, but in the control of the territory. And localisation is an inherent part of that territorial control. -- Paul Virilio
Wild groups of chimpanzees attack their enemies like gangs. What they completely lack, precisely because of their strong territorial behavior, is a friendly relationship with their neighbors. -- Frans de Waal
However you define territorial ambitions, it need not be a country that's right next to the U.S. for it to exercise its extraterritorial or territorial ambitions. -- Vijay Prashad
The goal of terror is not traditional territorial enlargement; rather the war target of the terrorist is the dismemberment of the will of the community it terrorizes. -- John Ashcroft
We believe we have no territorial problems at all. It is only Japan that believes it has territorial problems with Russia. We are ready to talk about this. -- Vladimir Putin
...a state is not the same thing as a society, although the Greeks and Romans thought it was. A state is an organization of power on a territorial basis. -- Carroll Quigley
It is the last territorial claim which I have to make in Europe, but it is a claim from which I will not recede and which, God willing, I will make good. -- Adolf Hitler
We will not leave the Golan Heights, not even in exchange for a peace treaty. We will be ready for a limited compromise and it does not have to be in territorial terms. -- Yitzhak Rabin
But foreign should not be defined in geographical terms. Then it would have no meaning except territorial or tribal patriotism. To me that alone is foreign which is foreign to truth, foreign to Atman. -- Ram Swarup
When Alani started to speak, Jackson held up a finger. In the past five minutes, he'd had more mood swings than a menopausal woman. First turned-on, then territorial, bored, aggressive and now on alert. -- Lori Foster
Mr. Obama at the UN said that the large nations should not trample small ones in pursuit of what he called "territorial ambition". These are curious statements coming from the American president at this time. -- Vijay Prashad

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