504 Quotes About Countries

  • Author Charles Martin
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    The idea of pushing countries around isn't valid, it doesn't work. The U.S. has to produce products that are desired in other markets.

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  • Author Christien Meindertsma
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    In the Netherlands - where I come from - you actually never see a pig, which is really strange, because, in a population of 16 million people, we have 12 million pigs. And well, of course, the Dutch can't eat all these pigs. They eat about one-third, and the rest is exported to all kinds of countries in Europe and the rest of the world.

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  • Author Czesław Miłosz
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    The masses in highly industrialized countries like England, the United States, or France are largely de-Christianized. Technology, and the way of life it produces, undermines Christianity far more effectively than do violent measures.

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  • Author Dambisa Moyo
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    I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.

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  • Author Dambisa Moyo
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    Too many African countries have already hit rock-bottom - ungoverned, poverty-stricken, and lagging further and further behind the rest of the world each day; there is nowhere further to go down.

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  • Author David Murrin
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    We won't be thinking of countries in terms of emerging or emerged but whether they have commodities or not.

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  • Author Dick Marty
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    There are countries that have collaborated actively, and there are others who have tolerated. Others have simply looked the other way.

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