#nation

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. ↗

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#degree #genius #go #imagination #intelligence

Citizens, the priority now is to recover trust between the Egyptian - amongst the Egyptians and to have trust and confidence in our economy and international reputation and the fact that the change that we have embarked on will carry on and there's no going back to the old days. ↗

— Hosni Mubarak

#back #between #carry #change #citizens

Propelled by freedom of faith, gender equality and economic justice for all, India will become a modern nation. Minor blemishes cannot cloak the fact that India is becoming such a modern nation: no faith is in danger in our country, and the continuing commitment to gender equality is one of the great narratives of our times. ↗

— Pranab Mukherjee

#becoming #cannot #cloak #commitment #continuing

I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities. ↗

— Brian Mulroney

#environment #government #i #i think #international

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation. ↗

— Hector Hugh Munro

#inaccuracy #little #saves #sometimes #ton

My worry about the New York Times is that it's got the only position as a national elitist general-interest paper. So the network news picks up its cues from the Times. And local papers do too. It has a huge influence. And we'd love to challenge it. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#challenge #cues #elitist #got #huge

Speaking from my experience as a person involved for a long time in building the European Union, it is important to have patience and efforts to build a community of nations. ↗

— Giorgio Napolitano

#building #community #efforts #european #european union

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. ↗

— Anais Nin

#beings #complete #developments #few #fragment

What I look for when I see a piece of art for the first time is some kind of emotional, intellectual experience, that's a combination of both of those things and is informed by my knowledge and something new that I see the artist doing. ↗

— Cheech Marin

#artist #both #combination #doing #emotional

It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires. ↗

— Ed Markey

#cause #causes #cigarettes #common #common knowledge