#territory

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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

Partisans fight on familiar territory with professed political objectives to conquer power. This is what distinguishes them from terrorists.


Jurgen Habermas


#distinguishes #familiar #familiar territory #fight #objectives

The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to the Pacific.


Albert Bushnell Hart


#carolinas #charters #extending #given #had

There aren't many people who say that Europe is a territory, or Asia is a territory - it'd be suicide. And there are even more people in America than in Europe. I think it's strange, really. I basically see it as loads of different places.


Sean Booth


#asia #basically #different #different places #europe

In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive.


Stephen Gardiner


#crowded #difficult #establish #had #houses