#nation

The Japanese keenly learned from Western civilisation in a bid to modernize and preserve the nation. ↗

— Akihito

#civilisation #japanese #keenly #learned #modernize

Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible. ↗

— Norman Angell

#courses #desires #every #every nation #impossible

LEONATO Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband. BEATRICE Not till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#empowerment #equality #freedom #happiness #husbands

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit. ↗

— Doris Day

#explicit #imagination #vulgarity

Over the years, I've come to realize that determination makes one to punch above one's weight. ↗

— Ogwo David Emenike

#inspirational #motivational #inspirational

No matter who you are or what you've been through realize in this life there is nothing that you cannot do" Imagine This Imagine That ↗

— Yanatha Desouvre

#imagination

There is a deep affection in Australia for the Queen. And I mean the Queen's been the Queen ever since I was born. I mean she is part of the firmament of Australia's sort of national life; there's a deep respect for her role. ↗

— Kevin Rudd

#australia #been #born #deep #ever

...the best possible way to prepare for tomorrow is to concentrate with all your intelligence, all your enthusiasm, on doing today's work superbly today. That is the only possible way you can prepare for the future. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#intelligence

Henry Ford was right. A prosperous economy requires that workers be able to buy the products that they produce. This is as true in a global economy as a national one. ↗

— John J. Sweeney

#buy #economy #ford #global #global economy

We always have hoped that American diplomacy deploys itself in dialogue and persuasion rather than by ultimatums. That is the path we want in international relations. ↗

— Mahmoud Abbas

#american #dialogue #diplomacy #hoped #international