#nation

Talk of citizenship today is often thin and tinny. The word has a faintly old-fashioned feel to it when used in everyday conversation. When evoked in national politics, it's usually accompanied by the shrill whine of a descending culture-war mortar. ↗

— Eric Liu

#citizenship #conversation #descending #everyday #feel

True fans of the Constitution, like true fans of the national pastime, acknowledge the critical role of human judgment in making tough calls. We don't expect flawless interpretation. We expect good faith. We demand honesty. ↗

— Eric Liu

#calls #constitution #critical #critical role #demand

It was a combination of an intense interest in children's literature, which I've always had, and the feeling that I'd just have a go and see if I could do it. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#children #combination #could #feeling #go

I would suggest, merely as a metaphor here, but also as the basis for a scientific program to investigate the computational capacity of the universe, that this is also a reasonable explanation for why the universe is complex. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#basis #capacity #complex #computational #explanation

Great investors need to have the right combination of intuition, business sense and investment talent. ↗

— Andrew Lo

#business sense #combination #great #intuition #investment

As President Obama clearly said just a few months ago, China must play by the international rules, the international trading system from which they've benefited so much. ↗

— Gary Locke

#benefited #china #clearly #few #international

If the Chinese can't buy U.S. products, they'll buy them from European countries and then develop stronger economic ties with France and Germany and perhaps side more with those countries when international issues flare up. ↗

— Gary Locke

#chinese #countries #develop #economic #european

But it is well to remember that we are dealing with nations every one of which has a direct individual interest to serve, and there is grave danger in an unshared idealism. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#dealing #direct #every #grave #grave danger

I would rather see the United States respected than loved by other nations. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#loved #nations #other #rather #respected

Internationalism, illustrated by the Bolshevik and by the men to whom all countries are alike provided they can make money out of them, is to me repulsive. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#bolshevik #countries #illustrated #internationalism #make