#nations

Human existence being an hallucination containing in itself the secondary hallucinations of day and night (the latter an insanitary condition of the atmosphere due to accretions of black air) it ill becomes any man of sense to be concerned at the illusory approach of the supreme hallucination known as death. ↗

— de Selby

#death #flann-o-brien #hallucinations #reality #the-third-policeman

The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good. ↗

— John Foster Dulles

#before #being #good #got #make

If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#destroyed #disputes #establishing #force #foundation

Generally with the Oscars or the Emmys there isn't much you can do until the nominations are announced. Then you know what kind of year you're dealing with - what's been overlooked, what the issues are. ↗

— Bruce Vilanch

#been #dealing #emmys #generally #issues

The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#biologically #creates #fixed #given #human

The G8 nations, together with the five major emerging economies of China, India, South Africa, Brazil, Mexico, use almost three-quarters of the Earth's biocapacity - the capacity of the world's ecosystems to produce natural resources and to reduce harmful substances. ↗

— Sigmar Gabriel

#almost #brazil #capacity #china #earth

Mr. Speaker, in seeking to return to the United Nations, the Republic of China on Taiwan will once again ask diplomatic allies to present its case before the United Nations this fall. ↗

— Nick Lampson

#allies #ask #before #case #china

I took and received campaign donations under the existing laws. ↗

— Sheila Jackson Lee

#donations #existing #i #laws #received

Community means engaging constructively with like-minded nations to build strong, sustaining institutions and alliances - and bringing emerging powers into this community so future conflict becomes less likely. ↗

— Joe Lieberman

#bringing #build #community #conflict #constructively

You know, I respect what Howard Dean has been able to do. It's good for our party. But I've got to tell you this: If money alone decided presidential nominations, Phil Gramm would have been nominated in '96. ↗

— Joe Lieberman

#alone #been #dean #decided #good