#regions

That's what I think regions are about, making central government more accountable and fairer. ↗

— John Prescott

#accountable #central #central government #fairer #government

Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#art history #explosive #faster #history #into

We must remember that North Carolina is more than a collection of regions and people. We are one state, one people, one family, bound by a common concern for each other. ↗

— Michael F. Easley

#carolina #collection #common #concern #each

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

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

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust. ↗

— Salvador Dali

#cause #dreams #dust #eyes #his

The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one's steps, and reach the air above, there's the rub. ↗

— Virgil

#air #descent #easy #enough #infernal