Quotes and Sayings About Territory
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If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.
-- Abdurrahman Wahid -
Our object must be to bring our territory into harmony with the numbers of our population.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi.
-- Alan Alda -
I lost a lot of territory I really enjoyed having, but there was no doubt I had to do it to help Democrats.
-- Albert Wynn -
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I learned there's an amazing unexplored territory in terms of narrative. Before, I thought the unexplored territory was the form, the way you shoot a movie. Now, I'm learning about the beautiful marriage between form and narrative.
-- Alfonso Cuaron -
The map is not the territory... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map...
-- Alfred KorzybskiSource : "Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics". Book by Alfred Korzybski, 1933.
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The only logical solution to solve the Palestinian issue is to hold free elections with the participation of Palestinians inside and outside the occupied territories and a recognition of the nation's legitimacy
-- Ali Khamenei -
Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.
-- Alice Walker -
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This is a landmark opportunity for all that live and work in the Yukon. The Territory is now one step closer to realizing the potential that geothermal heat and power has for the economy, the environment, First Peoples, tax-payers and businesses.
-- Alison Thompson -
Compassion is all inclusive. Compassion knows no boundaries. Compassion comes with awareness, and awareness breaks all narrow territories.
-- Amit Ray -
I condemn the entry of a Russian so-called humanitarian convoy into Ukrainian territory without the consent of the Ukrainian authorities and without any involvement of the International Committee of the Red Cross.
-- Anders Fogh Rasmussen -
When walking in open territory, bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask him to stop. If he does not stop, destroy him.
-- Anton Szandor LaVeySource : "The Eleven Satanic Rules of the Earth" by Anton Szandor LaVey, www.buzzfeed.com. 1967.
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Push me past my limit all you want. It's territory I know well.
-- Ben Greenhalgh -
From time immemorial History has decreed that territory on this Planet Earth belongs to those powerful enough to take it and determined enough to keep it.
-- Ben Klassen -
In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.
-- Bernard M. OliverSource : Bernard M. Oliver, Len Cutler (1997). “The Selected Papers of Bernard M. Oliver”
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Thousands of mercenaries, who have trained in camps on the territory of Chechnya as well as come in from abroad, are actually preparing to impose extremist ideas on the whole world
-- Boris Yeltsin -
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There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.
-- Brian Eno -
I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your best work.
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There is no precedent of a civilian population, displaced by a war that their leadership started and lost, claiming a right to return to territory that they failed to conquer.
-- Caroline Glick -
We have at last glimpsed the surface of the fabled world, Titan, Saturn's largest moon and the greatest single expanse of unexplored territory remaining in the Solar System today,
-- Carolyn PorcoSource : "Space probe sees Xanadu on Saturn moon" by Robert Roy Britt, www.cnn.com. May 7, 2004.
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I love strange choices. I'm always interested in people who depart from what is expected of them and go into new territory.
-- Cate Blanchett -
Its not weird being recognised, but its weird having to stop what youre doing to take pictures or sign something. But the fans are the reason you have your success, so it comes with the territory.
-- Chord Overstreet -
Throwing young men out of work, throwing people into poverty and ending business life don't promote stability in the Palestinian territories,.
-- Chris Patten -
I do not know much. But there are certain advantages in not knowing. Like virgin territory, the mind is free of preconceptions. Everything I do not know forms the greater part of me: This is my largesse. And with this I understand everything. The things I do not know constitute my truth.
-- Clarice Lispector -
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I've never put Northern Ireland into a novel because it's not my territory. I come from the South, so my imaginative territory is very much the Republic of Ireland rather than the North. Even though, if I wrote a novel about the North, it might sell more.
-- Colm Toibin -
Everyone pretends to be 'free thinkers', but few individuals pass the line into expressive territories that may be detrimental to their own social well-being.
-- Criss Jami -
The most promising words ever written on the maps of human knowledge are terra incognita, unknown territory.
-- Daniel J. Boorstin -
It would be dangerous territory if I wasn't practising what I preach which is to always accept responsibility, always accept the consequences of your actions.
-- David Blunkett -
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I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid.
-- Desmond Tutu -
As the highest ranking American official in the United Nations organization, I came to understand thoroughly that the national constitutional processes of the member states define the status of territories under their sovereignty.
-- Dick Thornburgh