#region

We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts. ↗

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#desire #establishment #expansion #extensive #public

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

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#confront #excessive #hysteria #impoverished #language

I didn't do a movie until I was almost 30. I'm grateful for that because it gave me a chance to be an adult in the world and do work in the regional theater that very few people cared about. I loved it and I wanted to do that stuff. ↗

— Annette Bening

#adult #almost #because #cared #chance

In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world. ↗

— Omar Bongo

#democracy #models #other #political #regions

By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors. ↗

— James Buchan

#compound #devastated #disruption #foreign #foreign aid

When I get the morning report on security, I call those battalions in the regions where there are problems. ↗

— Alvaro Uribe

#call #get #i #morning #problems

Moreover, it thus follows that not a great deal of time was needed for the large animals of the three major parts of the world to become known to the people who spent time on the coasts of those regions. ↗

— Georges Cuvier

#coasts #deal #follows #great #great deal

Now it is time to make historic reassessments in order to transform our region into one of stability, freedom, prosperity, cultural revival and co-existence. In this new regional order there should be less violence and fewer barriers between countries, societies and sects. ↗

— Ahmet Davutoglu

#between #countries #cultural #fewer #freedom

I expect an energy bill to increase and diversify supply and stabilize energy prices - not drive up energy costs in one part of the country to subsidize energy in another region. ↗

— Pete Domenici

#bill #costs #country #diversify #drive