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Thus, the struggle for peace includes the struggle for freedom and justice for the masses of all countries.
Arthur Henderson

Peace, Freedom, Struggle

We've got to get back on track to working with them. Because if I and my colleagues are going to continue to attract inward investment from overseas - you know particularly from the big Asian countries - they see Britain as a gateway to Europe. They don't want any doubts cast upon that.
Vince Cable

Working, Big, Investment

Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending view not just of the religion but also of women living in Muslim majority countries, as if the desire for choice and happiness is the monopoly of women in the west.
Azar Nafisi

Religion, Happiness, Women

Asian countries produce eight times as many engineering bachelors as the United States, and the number of U.S. students graduating at the masters and PhD levels in these areas is declining.
Mark Kennedy

Times, United, Students

In the United States, viewers don't get to see a lot of things we can show in other countries. We didn't get to show our naked Twister game from Wild On Jamaica, but we definitely filmed it.
Brooke Burke

Game, Show, United

I began working with the John Muir Institute and then started helping found Friends of the Earth organizations here and there in other countries. That pretty well brings us up to the present.
David R. Brower

Friends, Pretty, Working

We're saying this to both countries: We want a two-state solution. We want a Jewish state of Israel and alongside a independent Palestinian state. Unilateral measures are not helping at all to bring about this cause, and we agree that we wish to cooperate very closely on this, because as we both say, time is of the essence.
Angela Merkel

Time, Saying, Wish

The fact is, that with the creation of the Jewish state in 1948, hundreds of thousands of Jews fled Arab countries, almost all of whom left behind all their property for which compensation was never paid.
Meir Kahane

Fact, State, Almost

I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.
Orhan Pamuk

Future, Democratic, Europe

I wish we didn't have to own up to a policy deliberately designed to inflict suffering on people who have already been traumatised in the countries from which they've fled.
Hugh Mackay

Wish, Suffering, Policy

In some countries, no one knows who Idris Elba is.
Idris Elba

The issue of Palestine has been there since more than 60 years. But more important since 1967 when the war was, ended in the defeat of some Arab countries.
Al-Waleed bin Talal

War, Important, Since

Economically, unfair trade will benefit nobody in the long run, as poorer countries will be bled totally dry and will become unable to produce anything.
Chris Martin

Long, Become, Unfair

Britain has no divine right to be one of the richest countries in the world.
George Osborne

Divine, Britain, Richest

I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.
Jerzy Kosinski

Time, Travel, Why

We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible.
Paul Farmer

Health, Problems, Sense

My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.
Tahar Ben Jelloun

Work, Hope, Leave

It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn.
Tahar Ben Jelloun

Respect, Through, Turn

There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes.
Ian Botham

Nothing, Two, Exciting

The U.K. and the U.S. are very different countries, and it really shows in the television.
Robert Carlyle

Different, Television, Shows

And Israel, being a tiny, small country, of course has interest to strengthen - we have interest to strengthen our relations with other countries, mostly countries that were hostile for many, many years.
Ariel Sharon

Country, Small, Interest

I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomes more valuable to the other.
William Howard Taft

Valuable, Prosperity, Helping

One thing that I feel very, very strongly is that we talk about Islamic countries, Islamic people, Islamic leaders, as either moderates or extremists. It's almost like there are only two categories of Muslims. And actually, that doesn't show respect. It shows lack of understanding of the diversity of Muslim thought.
David Miliband

Respect, Thought, Two

Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind.
Philo

Happiness, Good, Great

Also, it is interesting that developing countries, with China and India perhaps in the lead, where the future of the global environment will be decided are now on board with the case for sustainable development.
Maurice Strong

Future, Lead, Perhaps

The world is run by monsters and you have to deal with them. Some of them run countries, some of them run banks, some of them run news corporations.
Kenneth Robert Livingstone

Run, Deal, News

We see the tendency in the world to criticise democracy and sometimes even to say that authoritarian countries like China are more efficient. That is very short-sighted. China looks efficient only because it can sacrifice most people's rights. This is not something the west should be happy about.
Ai Weiwei

Happy, Democracy, Sacrifice

The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that.
Colin Farrell

Sea, Stories, Fortitude

What we call barbecuing in this country is actually direct grilling. In many countries, it also means cooking in an enclosed box with a heat source, ideally wood, all year round.
Jamie Oliver

Country, Means, Year

Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal.
Leon Kass

Human, Universal, Efforts

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