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#territory

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Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.


Salman Rushdie


#fight #groups #images #make #natural

We want to see Israel withdraw from our territory. But we don't want to be accountable vis-a-vis Israel on the security basis, because we don't see, in the absence of a peace agreement, that Lebanon can really be accountable to Israel if anything happens.


Rafik Hariri


#accountable #agreement #anything #basis #because

The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of nothing at all. We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France.


Ahmed Ben Bella


#army #created #fight #first #five

Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies.


Kevin Spacey


#been #before #came #cases #dark

I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your best work.


Brian Eno


#best work #completely #do your best #fascinated #i

There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.


Brian Eno


#certain #context #define #edges #found

Yet, Puerto Rico's economic convergence and political integration with the rest of the nation is in a state of arrest - even though the island has been within the national borders, political system and customs territory of the U.S. for a century.


Dick Thornburgh


#been #borders #century #convergence #customs

I prefer to break new ground, but it gets harder and harder with the territory that's already been walked on.


Scott Weiland


#been #break #gets #ground #harder

I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.


Margaret J. Wheatley


#backwards #became #century #command #companion

From the material point of view the proposal is unacceptable, for France, without further territory in Europe being taken from her, could be so crushed as to lose her position as a Great Power, and become subordinate to German policy.


Edward Grey


#being #could #crushed #europe #france






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