#nations

I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death. ↗

— Eben Alexander

#believed #brain #death #described #escaped

If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will? ↗

— Kofi Annan

#chart #course #decades #does #first

So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#campaign #despotism #during #indispensable #long

The beliefs expressed in the Declaration of Independence remain a standard for our nation today. They also remain a standard for those nations across the globe striving to achieve democracy. ↗

— Paul Gillmor

#across #also #beliefs #declaration #democracy

And most importantly perhaps, children can learn about their rights, share their knowledge with the children of other nations, identify problems with them and establish how they might work together to address them. ↗

— Carol Bellamy

#address #children #establish #how #identify

Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought. ↗

— Edward Carpenter

#examinations #go #great #great success #naturally

Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being gloomy. We've spent too long trying to cheer ourselves up by spending money on brightly coloured things we don't really need. We've stopped using our imaginations. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#brightly #cheer #coloured #diet #discarded

Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise. ↗

— Marquis De Custine

#being #best #cannot #good #nations

I define my life not by the things I have done, but by the people I have loved. ↗

— John Paul Warren

#church #john-paul #john-paul-warren #leadership #love

The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#fighting #fought #freedom #had #hope