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Letter "H" » heads of state
«One usually dies because one is alone, or because one has got into something over one's head. One often dies because one does not have the right alliances, because one is not given support. In Sicily the Mafia kills the servants of the State that the State has not been able to protect.»
«Last May, in Addis Ababa there was convened a meeting of Heads of African States and Governments. In three days, the thirty-two nations represented at that Conference demonstrated to the world that when the will and the determination exist, nations and peoples of diverse backgrounds can and will work together in unity for the achievement of common goals and the assurance of that equality and brotherhood which we desire.»
Author: Haile Selassie
(Emperor, Statesman)
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Ababa, Addis, Addis Ababa, African, backgrounds, brotherhood, conference, demonstrated, diverse, heads of state, head of state, peoples, represented, Thirty two, unity
«Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for .success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
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Hope
| Keywords:
enterprises, heading, heads of state, head of state, invest, obviously, state of mind, The State of the World, willingness
«Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
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Adolf, Adolf Hitler, heads of state, Ho Chi Minh, landscape, notoriously, Ronald, seaman, seamen
«All that stirring of old instincts which at stated periods drives men out from the sounding cities to forest and plain to kill things by chemically propelled leaden pellets, the blood lust, the joy to kill--all this was Buck's, only it was infinitely more intimate. He was ranging at the head of the pack, running the wild thing down, the living meat, to kill with his own teeth and wash his muzzle to the eyes in warm blood.»
Author: Jack London
(Novelist, Writer)
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«George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.»
Author: Jesse Jackson
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader, Politician)
| Keywords:
George Bush, heads of state, head of state, substantial
«More than 150 heads of state attended the UN Summit, giving New Yorkers a chance to get in touch with prejudices they didn't even know they had.»
Author: Jon Stewart
(Actor, Comedian)
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attended, even chance, get in, get in touch, heads, heads of state, head of state, prejudices, summit, summits, The New Yorker
«Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out.»
Author: Mikhail Gorbachev
(President)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
cutting, cutting off, drive off, heads of state, in the United States, nails, pull off, Soviets, tooth and nail
«A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.»
Author: Walter Lippmann
(Journalist)
| About:
Journalism
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air space, heads of state, head of state, journalist, Presidents
«There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief /a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you.»
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