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country easy walks
It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something. Charles Dickens
country men climate
In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least. Charles Caleb Colton
country travel home
Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds. Charles Caleb Colton
country sadness men
In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes. Charles Caleb Colton
country heart simple
As the grand discordant harmony of the celestial bodies may be explained by the simple principles of gravity and impulse, so also in that more wonderful and complicated microcosm, the heart of man, all the phenomena of morals are perhaps resolvable into one single principle, the pursuit of apparent good; for although customs universally vary, yet man in all climates and countries is essentially the same. Charles Caleb Colton
country self names
The most notorious swindler has not assumed so many names as self-love, nor is so much ashamed of his own. She calls herself patriotism, when at the same time she is rejoicing at just as much calamity to her native country as will introduce herself into power, and expel her rivals. Charles Caleb Colton
country mean hands
Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail. Charles Dickens
country night men
If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe. Charles Dickens
country character men
Rattle me out of bed early, set me going, give me as short a time as you like to bolt my meals in, and keep me at it. Keep me always at it, and I'll keep you always at it, you keep somebody else always at it. There you are with the Whole Duty of Man in a commercial country. Charles Dickens
nuclear weapons acquisition
The Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons would be infinitely more costly than any scenario you can imagine to stop it. Benjamin Netanyahu
nuclear problem
We have never had a problem with the nuclear reactor and it has been here for 38 years. Todd Simmons
nuclear weapons mass
If there was a market in mass-produced portable nuclear weapons, we'd market them, too. Alan Sugar
nuclear technology valuable
U.S. nuclear technology is one of this nation's most valuable secrets, and it should have been protected. Charles Bass
nuclear-terrorism forever suffering
Nuclear terrorism is one of the most serious threats of our time. Even one such attack could inflict mass casualties and create immense suffering and unwanted change in the world forever. This prospect should compel all of us to act to prevent such a catastrophe. Ban Ki-moon
nuclear-disarmament world path
Nuclear disarmament is the only sane path to a safer world. Ban Ki-moon
nuclear looks comedy
The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll look exactly the same afterwards. Billy Connolly
nuclear foundation trouble
While politicians, clergy, creators of advertisements, and other worthies assert stoutly that the family is the foundation of society, the nuclear family, as an institution, is currently in grave trouble. Jane Jacobs
nuclear bombs physicist
The one great gift to humankind from our nuclear physicists has been the nuclear bomb. How can we ever thank them? Edward Abbey
weapons tools negotiating
Food is a tool. It is a weapon in the U.S. negotiating kit Earl Butz
weapons sometimes wounds
Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes. Cher
weapons changing-environment dinosaurs
The dinosaurs disappeared because they could not adapt to their changing environment. We shall disappear if we cannot adapt to an environment that now contains spaceships, computers — and thermonuclear weapons. Arthur C. Clarke
weapons
Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons. Samuel Butler
weapons human-nature realizing
When the gunman realizes that nobody else is armed, he will lay down his weapons and turn himself in ... that's just human nature. Dianne Feinstein
weapons needs construction
We need to be weapons of mass construction, weapons of mass love. It's not enough just to change the system. We need to change ourselves. Walter Benjamin
weapons mein-kampf willpower
If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower. Adolf Hitler
weapons sophisticated defeated
The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower. Abu Bakar Bashir
weapons junk defeated
The national security state has many unfair and cruel weapons in its arsenal, but that of junk science is one which can be fought and perhaps defeated. Aldrich Ames