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“In an age where everything and everyone is linked through networks of glass and air, no one - no business, organization, government agency, country - is an island. We need to do right by all our stakeholders, and that's how you create value for shareholders. And one thing is for sure - no organization can succeed in a world that is failing.”

World Needs Country Government Age Values Failing One Thing Air Succeed Organization Glasses Islands Agency Linked Shareholders Stakeholder Government Agencies Business Organization

Author:Don Tapscott

“For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble and necessary to the common weal, has no assurance that it will sustain him while he stands ready to practice it, or keep him out of the poorhouse when illness or age makes him idle.”

Men Country Age Common Practice Ready Labor Trade Illness Decent Civilized Idle Absurdity Assurance Industrious

Author:H. L. Mencken

“There has been enough suffering in our country, there has been enough of children whose dreams die before they have a chance to grow and there has been enough of our elders who, having served their nation, are forced into indignity in their old age.”

Children Has Beens Country Enough Dream Age Suffering Dies Nations Grows Chance Old Age Our Country Elders Indignity

Book:Towards a golden age of business: selected speeches of H. E. Mr. John Agyekum Kufuor, January-December, 2001

Source: Towards a golden age of business: selected speeches of H. E. Mr. John Agyekum Kufuor, January-December, 2001

“A Classical style... is the syllogism of art, the only legitimate process from one world to another. Classicism is not the manner of any fixed age or of any fixed country; it is a constant state of the artistic mind. It is a temper of security and satisfaction and patience.”

World Mind Art Country States Age Process Security Style Constant Satisfaction Artistic Fixed Temper Classicism

Book:Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)

“There are few writers of note, of any country or of any age, from whom quotations might not be made in proof of the love with which they regarded Nature.”

Made Country Might Age Notes Proof Quotations

Author:Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

“I never tried to make a cartoon for a certain age bracket. I just tried to make entertaining pictures. That's why they still play and why they play so well in foreign countries.”

Wells Stills Country Play Age Certain Entertaining Cartoon Foreign Countries Brackets

Author:Walter Lantz

“Some reformers may urge that in the ages distant future, patriotism, like the habit of monogamous marriage, will become a needless and obsolete virtue; but just at present the man who loves other countries as much as he does his own is quite as noxious a member of society as the man who loves other women as much as he loves his wife. Love of country is an elemental virtue, like love of home.”

Men May Doe Country Home Age Virtue Wife He Man Habit Members Patriotism Urges Other Countries Obsolete Like Love Reformers Elementals Wives Love

Book:American ideals and other essays, social and political

Source: American ideals and other essays, social and political

“A continent ages quickly once we come. The natives live in harmony with it. But the foreigner destroys, cuts down the trees, drains the water, so that the water supply is altered, and in a short time the soil, once the sod is turned under, is cropped out and, next, it starts to blow away as it has blown away in every old country and as I had seen it start to blow in Canada. The earth gets tired of being exploited.”

Country Age Earth Next Water Cutting Tree Land Harmony Tired Blow Soil Canada Continents Foreigners Altered Drains Short Time Blown Away Sod

Book:The Hemingway Collection

Source: The Hemingway Collection

“Now, to a single-minded man, who is either brave enough or reckless enough to surrender himself wholly to one idea, and look neither right nor left, but only forward, what earthly consequences may follow is not material. Persecution strengthens him; and so he is sure he is right, whether his course end in a prison or on a throne is no matter at all. But men of this calibre are uncommon in any age or in any country very uncommon in this age and this country.”

Men Looks May Ideas Ends Country Matter Enough Age Courses Left Materials Consequence Prison Brave Surrender Thrones Persecution Reckless Uncommon

Book:The Nemesis of Faith

Source: The Nemesis of Faith

“The great unmentionable evil at the center of our culture is monotheism. From a barbaric Bronze Age text known as the Old Testament, three anti-human religions have evolved -- Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. These are sky-god religions. They are, literally, patriarchal -- God is the Omnipotent Father -- hence the loathing of women for 2,000 years in those countries afflicted by the sky-god and his earthly male delegates.”

Source: The Decline and Fall of the American Empire

“Vodka has a huge history in Russia, in that it's almost like a currency. It's the one thing that keeps the country in the dark ages and having a rollicking good time.”

Country Age Dark One Thing Huge Russia Good Times Currency Dark Ages Vodka

Author:Gary Shteyngart

“It was probably very difficult to go from Chinese and then suddenly go to kindergarten and start speaking English; it's very hard to transition back and forth when you are in that pivotal age. It's also hard to transition back, but if I was immersed in the country for a given amount of time, you are surrounded by it, everyone is speaking, you are learning new things, you are practicing all the time.”

Ifs Country Hard Age Given Difficult Amount Chinese Transition New Things Back And Forth Kindergarten Pivotal Learning New Learning New Things

Author:Lucy Liu

“I was born in Rome on March 11, 1923. Because of my age, I've become a piece of this country's history, but it's also true that a certain strand of Italy's film history has passed though me.”

Country Age Film Certain Born Pieces March Rome Strands Film History

Author:Giovanna Cau

“But it is evident, that these bursts of universal distress are more dreaded than felt; thousands and ten thousands flourish in youth, and wither in age, without the knowledge of any other than domestic evils, and share the same pleasures and vexations, whether their kings are mild or cruel, whether the armies of their country pursue their enemies or retreat before them.”

Country Age Evil Felt Pleasure Enemy Share Youth Kings Ten Universal Army Pursue Distress Evident Retreat

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius

“When the new country came out ten to 15 years ago, people my age were almost too old. But it never stopped me. I never stopped writing. I never stopped recording.”

People Writing Years Country Age Ten Years Ago

Author:Dolly Parton

“You, your families, your friends and your countries are to be exterminated by the common decision of a few brutal but powerful men. To please these men, all the private affections, all the public hopes, all that has been achieved in art, and knowledge and thought and all that might be achieved hereafter is to be wiped out forever. Our ruined lifeless planet will continue for countless ages to circle aimlessly round the sun unredeemed by the joys and loves, the occasional wisdom and the power to create beauty which have given value to human life.”

“I could buy myself paper, a pen, a pencil and a brush and could create pictures whenever and wherever I wanted. ... That evening, in the spring of 1947, on the embankment of the Seine in Paris, at the age of thirty, I saw that it was possible to live and work in the world, and that I could participate in the exchange of ideas that was taking place all around, bound to no country.”

World Ideas Country Age Wanted Saws Paper Spring Bounds Evening Paris Thirty Pens Brushes Pencils

Book:Leavetaking: And , Vanishing Point

Source: Leavetaking: And , Vanishing Point

“Literature is the voice of the age and the state; the character, energy, and resources of the country are reflected and imaged forth in the conceptions of its great minds; they are organs of the time; they speak not their own language, they scarce think their own thoughts; but under an impulse like the prophetic enthusiasm of old, they must feel and utter the sentiments which society inspires.”

Source: Selections from the Works of Edward Everett: With a Sketch of His Life

“It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even his personal services to the defence of it, and consequently that the Citizens of America (with a few legal and official exceptions) from 18 to 50 Years of Age should be borne on the Militia Rolls, provided with uniform Arms, and so far accustomed to the use of them, that the Total strength of the Country might be called forth at a Short Notice on any very interesting Emergency.”

“Inferior thinking and writing will make a name for a man among inferior people, who in all ages and countries, are the majority.”

People Thinking Men Writing Country Age Names Majority Inferiors

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“Let us be thankful that there is no court by which we can be excluded from our share in the inheritance of the great poets of all ages and countries, to which our simple humanity entitles us.”

Country Age Humanity Simple Share Poet Court Inheritance Being Thankful Excluded Great Poet

Book:The North American Review

Source: The North American Review

“The practice of all ages and all countries (whether Christian or heathen, polite or barbarous) hath been ... to do honour to those who are invested with public authority.”

Country Age Christian Practice Authority Honour Polite Heathen

Book:Sermons and Discourses on several Subjects and Occasions

Source: Sermons and Discourses on several Subjects and Occasions

“By making college more affordable for all and more accessible for minority students, the first new higher education authorizing legislation in a decade will help strengthen our nation and America's middle class, and spur a new age of innovation and ingenuity in our country.”

“The church of this country is not only indifferent to the wrongs of the slave, it actually takes sides with the oppressors.... For my part, I would say, welcome infidelity! Welcome atheism! Welcome anything! in preference to the gospel, as preached by these Divines! They convert the very name of religion into an engine of tyranny and barbarous cruelty, and serve to confirm more infidels, in this age, than all the infidel writings of Thomas Paine, Voltaire, and Bolingbroke put together have done!”

“In virtually every Continental state at this time, aristocracies had to live with the risk that their property might be pillaged or confiscated. Only in Great Britain did it prove possible to float the idea that aristocratic property was in some magical and strictly intangible way the people's property also. The fact that hundreds of thousands of men and women today are willing to accept that privately owned country houses and their contents are part of Britain's national heritage is one more proof of how successfully the British elite reconstructed its cultural image in an age of revolution.”

Source: Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837

“Diplomacy, n : 1. The patriotic art of lying for one's country. 2. The art of letting someone have your way. 3. The art of saying 'nice doggy' until you can find a rock. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.”

Men Way Art Country Age Remember Lying History Nice Rocks Humour Patriotic Diplomacy Diplomats

Author:Robert Frost

“The moral and religious teachings of no bible reach a higher altitude than the intelligence and mental development of the age and country which produced it.”

Country Age Religious Moral Atheism Teaching Development Higher Positive Atheism

Book:The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors: Or, Christianity Before Christ, Containing New, Startling, and Extraordinary Revelations in Religious History, which Disclose the Oriental Origin of All the Doctrines, Principles, Precepts, and Miracles of the Christian New Testament, and Furnishing a Key for Unlocking Many of Its Sacred Mysteries, Besides Comprising the History of 16 Heathen Crucified Gods

Source: The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors: Or, Christianity Before Christ, Containing New, Startling, and Extraordinary Revelations in Religious History, which Disclose the Oriental Origin of All the Doctrines, Principles, Precepts, and Miracles of the Christian New Testament, and Furnishing a Key for Unlocking Many of Its Sacred Mysteries, Besides Comprising the History of 16 Heathen Crucified Gods

“In all countries, and in all ages, from the Druids down to brother Beecher, priests have aimed at universal power.”

Country Age Atheism Brother Universal Positive Atheism Priests Druids

Author:Anne Royall