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«The map is not the territory.»
Author: Alfred Korzybski
(Philosopher, Scientist)
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map, territories, territory, The map
«The national dish of Scotland is something called haggis, the specific ingredients of which I won't go into other than to say that if you can visualize boiled, inside-out road kill, you're pretty close.»
Author: David Grimes
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boiled, dish, go into, haggis, ingredients, inside out, road kill, Scotland, specific, The National, visualize, visualizing
«The European Union and Russia have an identical viewpoint. We have condemned any potential revision of the ABM treaty, believing that such a revision will involve a risk of proliferation that will be very dangerous for the future.»
Author: Jacques Chirac
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ABM, European, European Union, identical, involve, proliferation, revision, revisions, Russia, The European, Treaties, treaty, viewpoint, viewpoints
«The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.»
Author: Anthony Burgess
(Critic, Man of letter, Novelist)
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bold, common mistake, experimentation, frankly, persistent
«The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.»
Author: Golda Meir
(Founder, Prime Minister)
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Egypt, Egyptians, Syria, Syrians
«The English are not happy unless they are miserable, the Irish are not at peace unless they are at war, and the Scots are not at home unless they are abroad»
«The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms - you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
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Law and lawyers,
Weapons
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composite, composites, foundations, inevitably
«The land was ours before we were the land's.»
Author: Robert Frost
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«The Irish are hearty, the Scotch plausible, the French polite, the Germans good-natured, the Italians courtly, the Spaniards reserved and decorous - the English alone seem to exist in taking and giving offense»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
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Civilization,
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courtly, decorous, Germans, Good Natured, hearty, Italians, Italian A, offense, plausible, polite, reserved, Scotch, Spaniard, the French, The Italian