#nations

There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you in silence, I entrust them to you in the way that you know best. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

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The puppet characters were combinations of people I had known and to some degree aspects of my own personality. Weird was based on someone I knew in Chicago. Dirty Dragon was based on a good friend I had in Indianapolis. ↗

— William Jackson

#based #characters #chicago #combinations #degree

Ping-pong was invented on the dining tables of England in the 19th century, and it was called Wiff-waff! And there, I think, you have the difference between us and the rest of the world. Other nations, the French, looked at a dining table and saw an opportunity to have dinner; we looked at it an saw an opportunity to play Wiff-waff. ↗

— Boris Johnson

#between #called #century #difference #dining

I spent my childhood in an imaginary world - probably because I needed an escape. I think that's one of the reasons people have imaginations - because they can't maintain existence here. ↗

— Rickie Lee Jones

#childhood #escape #existence #here #i

Nations are not thugs. They are bodies of intelligent people. ↗

— Rufus Jones

#intelligent #intelligent people #nations #people #thugs

Certain it is that a great responsibility rests upon the statesmen of all nations, not only to fulfill the promises for reduction in armaments, but to maintain the confidence of the people of the world in the hope of an enduring peace. ↗

— Frank B. Kellogg

#armaments #certain #confidence #enduring #fulfill

I believe that in the end the abolition of war, the maintenance of world peace, the adjustment of international questions by pacific means will come through the force of public opinion, which controls nations and peoples. ↗

— Frank B. Kellogg

#adjustment #believe #come #controls #end

I know of no greater work for humanity than in the cause of peace, which can only be achieved by the earnest efforts of nations and peoples. ↗

— Frank B. Kellogg

#cause #earnest #efforts #greater #humanity

There will always be disputes between nations which, at times, will inflame the public and threaten conflicts, but the main thing is to educate the people of the world to be ever mindful that there are better means of settling such disputes than by war. ↗

— Frank B. Kellogg

#better #between #conflicts #disputes #educate

These measures may not constitute an absolute guarantee of peace, but, in my opinion, they constitute the greatest preventive measures ever adopted by nations. ↗

— Frank B. Kellogg

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