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“But, clearly, the prime minister has laid down some ground rules which any functioning democratic state would insist upon, having to do with, you know, arms belonging to the state, not to -- not in private hands. The current circumstances come out of what I think is a very important and indeed appropriate action that the Iraqi government has taken.”

Thinking Knows Important States Hands Government Action Democracy Taken Arms Circumstances Democratic Currents Ministers Appropriate Belonging Prime Prime Minister Ground Rules

Author:Condoleezza Rice

“Each of us is born into our own mysteries but the mystery of another might just take us in and embrace us. And then what a sense of homecoming, of belonging!”

Might Born Mystery Embrace Belonging Homecoming

Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“We handed the most important belongings of our people - the railroads and the banks - to aliens who 2000 years ago had turned the temple into a house of usury. Back then there was a man who had the bravery to drive out these scoundrels with a whip! If today a national socialist is seen with such a temple-whip, he's thrown into jail.”

People Ifs Men Years Important Today House Years Ago Bravery Aliens Thrown Temples Belonging Jail Socialist Whips Railroads Scoundrels Usury

Author:Julius Streicher

“Do you think there's a difference? Between belonging with and belonging to?”

Thinking Differences Belonging

Book:To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.”

Needs Fun Freedom Five Survival Driven Belonging Genetic Mutation

Author:William Glasser

“Each man is contained and constrained, on entering social life, to fit his own life in, just as he fits his words and thoughts into a language that was formed without and before him and which is impervious to his power. Entering the game, as it were, whether of belonging to a nation or of using a language, a man enters arrangements which it does not fall to him to determine, but only to learn and respect the rules.”

Men Doe Fall Games Language Nations Social Fit Determine Belonging Arrangements Entering Social Life Impervious

Author:Alain Finkielkraut

“We tend to think of the problems of globalization and cultural identity as peculiar to our times. In fact they are rooted in ancient problems of civic belonging.”

Thinking Facts Problem Identity Ancient Our Time Belonging Peculiar Rooted Globalization Civics Cultural Identity

Book:The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age

Source: The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age

“1. 0 is a number. 2. The immediate successor of a number is also a number. 3. 0 is not the immediate successor of any number. 4. No two numbers have the same immediate successor. 5. Any property belonging to 0 and to the immediate successor of any number that also has that property belongs to all numbers.”

Two Numbers Property Belonging Successors Number 2 Number 3 Number 4

Author:Giuseppe Peano

“Conservation is getting nowhere because it is incompatible with our Abrahamic concept of land. We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. There is no other way for land to survive the impact of mechanized man, nor for us to reap from it the aesthetic harvest it is capable, under science, of contributing to culture”

Source: A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There

“If we attach more importance to what other people believe than to what we know to be true - if we value belonging over being - we will not attain authenticity.”

People Ifs Knows Believe Values Importance Authenticity Being True Belonging

Book:How to Raise Your Self-Esteem: The Proven Action-Oriented Approach to Greater Self-Respect and Self-Confidence

Source: How to Raise Your Self-Esteem: The Proven Action-Oriented Approach to Greater Self-Respect and Self-Confidence

“The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends the most to the perpetuation of society itself.”

Wisdom Politics Interesting Economy Circumstances Property Valuable Our Family Liberalism Belonging Ancestry Perpetuating

Book:Revolutionary Writings: Reflections on the Revolution in France and the First Letter on a Regicide Peace

Source: Revolutionary Writings: Reflections on the Revolution in France and the First Letter on a Regicide Peace

“It is almost impossible to convince people who are under the influence of ideological bigotry that whose whom they regard as belonging to the enemy species are human.”

People Humans Enemy Impossible Atheism Influence Regard Species Convince Bigotry Belonging Ideological

Author:Louis J. Halle

“The proofs of the existence of God are to such an extent fallen into discredit that they pass for something antiquated, belonging to days gone by.”

Existence Gone Atheism Positive Atheism Proof Fallen Belonging Existence Of God Discredit Days Gone By

Author:Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“The fact that I haven't been married might qualify me as belonging in the nutty category to a lot of women.”

Facts Might Havens Married Belonging Categories Nutty

Author:Thomas Haden Church

“Hair is the most delicate and lasting of our materials, and survives us, like love. It is so light, so gentle; so escaping from the idea of death, that, with a lock of hair belonging to a child or friend, we may almost look up to heaven and compare notes with the angelic nature,--may almost say, "I have a piece of thee here not unworthy of thy being now.”

Source: Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs from His Uncollected Prose Writings

“A woman in a single state may be happy and may be miserable; but most happy, most miserable, these are epithets belonging to a wife.”

May States Wife Miserable Belonging Epithet

Book:Letters, conversations, and recollections [ed. by T.Allsop].

Source: Letters, conversations, and recollections [ed. by T.Allsop].

“There is a certain period of the soul-culture when it begins to interfere with some of characters of typical beauty belonging to the bodily frame, the stirring of the intellect wearing down the flesh, and the moral enthusiasm burning its way out to heaven, through the emaciation of the earthen vessel; and there is, in this indication of subduing the mortal by the immortal part, an ideal glory of perhaps a purer and higher range than that of the more perfect material form. We conceive, I think, more nobly of the weak presence of Paul than of, the fair and ruddy countenance of David.”

“Always the edge of the sea remains an elusive and indefinable boundary. The shore has a dual nature, changing with the swing of the tides, belonging now to the land, now to the sea.”

Sea Land Ocean Remains Edges Boundaries Belonging Shore Swings Tides Elusive Indefinable Dual Nature

Book:The Edge of the Sea

Source: The Edge of the Sea

“One little human truth is that opinionated people don't hold much with other people's opinions, and it is a great pleasure to some of them to be able to ascribe incurable defects, such as belonging to a certain sex; or base motives, or lack of understanding, to anyone whose views they disagree with.”

People Humans Littles Able Certain Sex Understanding Pleasure Views Opinion Truth Is Motive Belonging Disagree Defects Opinionated Lack Of Understanding

Author:Katherine Anne Porter

“It is a well-settled principle of the international code that where one nation owes another a liquidated debt which it refuses or neglects to pay the aggrieved party may seize on the property belonging to the other, its citizens or subjects, sufficient to pay the debt without giving just cause of war.”

Giving Wells May War Nations Causes Party Pay Principles Subjects Citizens Property International Refuse Debt Code Sufficient Neglect Belonging Causes Of War

Book:Messages ...: With a Short Sketch of His Life

Source: Messages ...: With a Short Sketch of His Life

“The [film] business is run by men, and they're basically interested in their own species, and they're not so interested in women belonging to the human race.”

Men Humans Running Film Race Species Human Race Movie Belonging

Author:Bette Midler

“The spiritual is inclusive. It is the deepest sense of belonging and participation.We all participate in the spiritual at all times, whether we know it or not.”

Knows Spiritual All Time Belonging Participation

Author:Rachel Naomi Remen

“I have frequently thought that the dead should be buried with all their belongings. It seems weirdly perverse that their clothes should still be here when the people you love best in the world have gone.”

People World Should Stills Seems Love Is Gone Clothes Belonging Buried

Book:Home Life

Source: Home Life

“People come to Paris, to the capital, to give their lives a sense of belonging, of an almost mythical participation in society.”

People Giving Paris Belonging Participation

Author:Marguerite Duras

“Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.”

Joy Tomorrow Future Belonging

Book:A Burst of Light: and Other Essays

Source: A Burst of Light: and Other Essays

“I fell in love with my country - its rivers, prairies, forests, mountains, cities and people. No one can take my love of country away from me! I felt then, as I do now, it's a rich, fertile, beautiful land, capable of satisfying all the needs of its people. It could be a paradise on earth if it belonged to the people, not to a small owning class.”

Source: The Rebel Girl: an autobiography, my first life (1906-1926).

“Something in me was always watching life from the outside, permanently obsessed with the notion of belonging vs. not-belonging [to a group]. It did not make for a happy childhood, but it was excellent training for a writer.”

Groups Childhood Training Notion Excellent Obsessed Belonging Happy Childhood Not Belonging Belonging To A Group

Author:Barbara Kingsolver

“Whether we are poor among the poorest, or less poor among the wealthier, let us stand proud and noteworthy, united and strong, comforted by our belonging to the Community of the Free Nations of our Planet.”

Strong Nations Community Poor United Planets Proud Belonging Our Planet Poorest

Author:Mathieu Kerekou

“The power of the state to impose restraints and burdens upon persons and property in conservation and promotion of the public health, good order, and prosperity is a power originally and always belonging to the states, not surrendered to them by the general government, nor directly restrained by the constitution of the United States, and essentially exclusive.”

Persons States Government Order United United States Constitution Property Prosperity Burden Belonging Conservation Restraint Promotion Exclusive Public Health Constitution Of The United States

Author:Melville Fuller

“A refugee is not just someone lacking in money and everything else. A refugee is vulnerable to the slightest touch: he has lost his country, his friends, his earthly belongings. He is a stranger, sick at heart. He is suspicious; he feels misunderstood. If people smile, he thinks they ridicule him; if they look serious, he thinks they don't like him. He is a full-grown tree in the dangerous process of being transplanted, with the chance of possibly not being able to take root in the new soil.”

“The logic of cross and resurrection, of the new creation which gives shape to all truly Christian living, points in a different direction. And one of the central names for that direction is joy: the joy of relationships healed as well as enhanced, the joy of belonging to the new creation, of finding not what we already had but what god was longing to give us.”

Giving Wells Different Christian Joy Names Creation Shapes Findings Crosses Logic Longing Belonging Resurrection Christian Living Healed Different Directions

Author:N. T. Wright

“Nail me to my car and I'll tell you who you are”

“When we have sampled much and have wandered far and have seen how fleeting and sometimes superficial a lot of the world is, our gratitude grows for the privilege of being part of something we can count on-home and family and the loyalty of loved ones. We come to know what it means to be bound together by duty, by respect, by belonging. We learn that nothing can fully take the place of the blessed relationship of family life.”

Knows World Mean Sometimes Home Together Grows Duty Gratitude Blessed Bounds Privilege Loyalty Belonging Loved Ones Superficial Fleeting Family Life Home And Family

Author:Thomas S. Monson

“Remember always, everyone has a place of perfect belonging, and if they leave that place without permission, sometimes they must be returned.”

Ifs Sometimes Remember Perfect Belonging Permission

Author:Jessica Shirvington

“I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.”

Thinking Believe Creativity Security Journalist Belonging Outsiders

Author:J. Anthony Lukas

“Hearing is the motion of molecules; sound is a wave in the atmosphere; solidity is the characteristic of spatial juxtaposition of atoms; smell is something given off by a body, rather than something belonging to a body.”

Body Given Sound Wave Hearing Smell Atmosphere Characteristics Belonging Atoms Molecules Spatial Juxtaposition Solidity

Author:Fulton J. Sheen

“There are countries in which public establishments are considered by the government as its own personal affair, so that it admits persons to them only according to its pleasure, just as a proprietor refuses at his pleasure admission into his house; they are a sort of administrative sanctuaries, into which no profane person can penetrate. These establishments, on the contrary, in the United States, are considered as belonging to all. The prisons are open to everyone who chooses to inspect them ad every visiter may inform himself of the order which regulates the interior.”

“The feeling of being an underdog, not belonging, is very much me. You harbour a little feeling of resentment towards the 'upper dog'.”

Littles Feelings Dog Belonging Resentment Underdog Harbour Not Belonging

Author:Asa Larsson

“Fashion has a political role insofar as following it can give you the impression to belonging to a certain social group or a private club.”

Giving Political Certain Social Roles Groups Fashion Following Clubs Impression Belonging Social Groups

Author:Carine Roitfeld

“When I was a young artist, I liked and was interested in belonging to the mainstream comics group. I didnt introduce myself as an author, but only as a designer.”

Young Artist Groups Designer Belonging Mainstream Introducing Young Artists

Author:David Mazzucchelli

“One would think that plants belonging to the same genus would always produce identical or at least similar oils. But this is by no means so.”

Thinking Mean Produce Plant Oil Belonging Identical

Author:Otto Wallach

“I have received your letter of the 6th, with the eloquent discourse delivered at the consecration of the Jewish Synagogue. Having ever regarded the freedom of religious opinions and worship as equally belonging to every sect, and the secure enjoyment of it as the best human provision for bringing all either into the same way of thinking, or into that mutual charity which is the only substitute, I observe with pleasure the view you give of the spirit in which your sect partake of the blessings offered by our Government and laws.”

Source: 1816-1828

“Imagine, capitalist America also divides the anarchists into two categories, philosophic and criminal. The first are accepted in highest circles; one of them is even high in the councils of the Wilson Administration. The second category, to which we have the honor of belonging, is persecuted and often imprisoned. Yours also seems to be a distinction without a difference. Don't you think so?”

“We can most safely achieve truly universal tolerance when we respect that which is characteristic in the individual and in nations, clinging, though, to the conviction that the truly meritorious is unique by belonging to all of mankind.”

Individual Nations Achieve Mankind Unique Universal Conviction Tolerance Characteristics Belonging Clinging

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“By directing our sentiments, passions, and reason toward the common human plight, imagination grants us the advantages of a moralexistence. What we surrender of innocent love of self is exchanged for the safeties and pleasures of belonging to a larger whole. We are born dependent, but only imagination can bind our passions to other human beings.”

Source: Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood

“As the United States drifts from its Judeo-Christian foundation and as the state becomes ever more pervasive in American life, government could ultimately insist on full allegiance from the people, an allegiance belonging only to God.”

People States Government Christian Religious United United States Foundation Belonging Allegiance American Life

Author:H. Wayne House

“my belonging to relief society has renewed, strengthened, and committed me to be a better wife and mother and daughter of God. my heart has been enlarged with gospel understanding and with love of the Savior and what He's done for me. so to you, dear sisters, i say: come to relief society! it will fill your homes with love and charity; it will nurture and strengthen you and your families. your home needs your righteous heart.”

“But the fact is that when wine is taken in moderation, it gives rise to a large amount of breath, whose character is balanced, and whose luminosity is strong and brilliant. Hence wine disposes greatly to gladness, and the person is subject to quite trivial exciting agents. The breath now takes up the impression of agents belonging to the present time more easily than it does those which relate to the future; it responds to agents conducive to delight rather than those conducive to a sense of beauty.”

Source: The Canon of Medicine of Avicenna

“In all cultures, the family imprints its members with selfhood. Human experience of identity has two elements; a sense of belonging and a sense of being separate. The laboratory in which these ingredients are mixed and dispensed is the family, the matrix of identity.”

Humans Two Culture Identity Members Elements Belonging Ingredients Human Experience Laboratory

Book:Families and Family Therapy

Source: Families and Family Therapy

“Belonging to a group can provide the child with a variety of resources that an individual friendship often cannot--a sense of collective participation, experience with organizational roles, and group support in the enterprise of growing up. Groups also pose for the child some of the most acute problems of social life--of inclusion and exclusion, conformity and independence.”

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