#region

Every culture has its southerners -- people who work as little as they can, preferring to dance, drink, sing brawl, kill their unfaithful spouses; who have livelier gestures, more lustrous eyes, more colorful garments, more fancifully decorated vehicles, a wonderful sense of rhythm, and charm, charm, charm; unambitious, no, lazy, ignorant, superstitious, uninhibited people, never on time, conspicuously poorer (how could it be otherwise, say the northerners); who for all their poverty and squalor lead enviable lives -- envied, that is, by work-driven, sensually inhibted, less corruptly governed northerners. We are superior to them, say the northerners, clearly superior. We do not shirk our duties or tell lies as a matter of course, we work hard, we are punctual, we keep reliable accounts. But they have more fun than we do ... They caution[ed] themselves as people do who know they are part of a superior culture: we mustn't let ourselves go, mustn't descend to the level of the ... jungle, street, bush, bog, hills, outback (take your pick). For if you start dancing on tables, fanning yourself, feeling sleepy when you pick up a book, developing a sense of rhythm, making love whenever you feel like it -- then you know. The south has got you. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#culture #north #north-and-south #northerners #perceptions

Personally, I believe in self-determination, but in the context of one South Africa - so that my self-determination is based in this region, and with my people. ↗

— Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#based #believe #context #i #i believe

We would like to have friendly regimes with enough broad participation of their populations to maintain long-term stability, so that we would have not only access to the region's wealth, but we would be able to ensure the security of our good friend Israel. ↗

— Frank Carlucci

#access #broad #enough #ensure #friend

The situation in Iraq is dangerous but the regional situation is also very complicated and precarious. ↗

— Joschka Fischer

#complicated #dangerous #iraq #precarious #regional

Factors affecting effective regional cooperation are mindsets and perceptions emanating from the past. ↗

— Khaleda Zia

#cooperation #effective #factors #mindsets #past

Do we settle on a regional team because we can go to its ballpark and see its games on television? Or do we choose a team as our favorite because it has an especially appealing player, a Barry Bonds or an Ichiro? ↗

— John Thorn

#ballpark #barry #barry bonds #because #bonds

What region of the earth is not full of our calamities? ↗

— Virgil

#earth #full #our #region

We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that? ↗

— Dalton Trumbo

#army #bigger #every #free #get

It is critical to develop a biofuel industry powered by feedstocks produced in every corner of the country, in addition to the Midwest. That is why USDA has established five regional research centers working on science necessary to ensure profitable biofuels can be produced from a diverse range of feedstocks. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#centers #corner #country #critical #develop

Local and regional food systems are about opportunity. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#food #local #opportunity #regional #systems