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We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human rights against the civilian population.


Jan Egeland


#atrocities #basis #civilian #daily #daily basis

What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you.


Vernon Jordan


#basis #cannot #care #equal #i

On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.


Hu Shih


#basis #better #biological #death #decay

It's easy to write a good column if you've got good information. It's hard if you have to depend on style alone. I suppose there are people who can get away with styling on a regular basis. I'm not one of them. You're probably not, either.


Allan Sloan


#away #basis #column #depend #easy

Reality shows that, contrary to other countries in southern Africa, we have no basis for a classical guerilla struggle. We have never had a hinterland, and we do not expect to.


Joe Slovo


#basis #classical #contrary #countries #expect

Voices were heard from the United States of America which made it clear that America wanted a peaceful and united Europe as a basis for mutual cooperation.


Gustav Stresemann


#basis #clear #cooperation #europe #heard

The human race is the basis on which heaven is founded, is because man was last created, and that which is last created is the basis of all that precedes.


Emanuel Swedenborg


#because #created #founded #heaven #human

The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character.


Antonio Tabucchi


#basis #character #creating #else #important

Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.


William Howard Taft


#adequate #basis #effort #enlightened #enterprise

I shall support the law, for the law gentlemen, is the firm and solid basis of civil society, the guardian of liberty, the protection of the innocent, the terror of the guilty, and the scourge of the wicked.


Charles Lawrence


#civil #civil society #firm #gentlemen #guardian