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At the time Latin America was composed only of colonies. We were up against the biggest army of the colonial world, the Napoleonic army. Haiti was ostracized for almost a century. Surviving in that international context is in itself a feat.

At the time we’re stuck in it, like hostages locked in a Turkish bath, high school seems the most serious business in the world to just about all of us. It’s not until the second or third class reunion that we start realizing how absurd the whole thing was.

At the World Cup and even now at the Confederations Cup, our security provisions will ensure the greatest level of protection possible for all those participating - both inside and outside the stadiums.

At XL we are continually focused on the rate of change, the increasingly interconnected world and the need to help our clients advance wherever their business occurs.

At times, he even admitted that he'd been more an observer of the world than a participant in it.

At the World Food Programme we have recognized what a valuable tool food aid can be in changing behaviour. In so many poorer countries food is money, food is power.

At thirty I lived in a world where death wasn't immediately real; it was always something "out there." My deeply held illusions of immortality - a product of my very conservative religious upbringing - were still pretty much intact.

at this point I meet Me face to face. I am Mary MacLane: of no importance to the wide bright world and dearly and damnably important to Me.

At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles.

At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed?

A tyrant does not remain in the world; But the curse on him abides forever!

Audiences want to see them, and in fact, they earn money. The world is round, people.

A universal beauty clothes the world, And one heart seems to beat for all mankind!

A usurper always distrusts the whole world.

Audiences are the same all over the world, and if you entertain them, they'll respond.

AUM or Om is not related to any religion because Om was practiced before the birth of all the religions of the world.

A unipolar world - one with only one power - makes sure that this space almost disappears. In a multipolar world this space multiplies. Therefore, there is nostalgia for a multipolar world.

A universe capable of giving birth to many such accidents is-- blind or not-- a good world to live in, a promising universe.

Australia and New Zealand are now threatened by the might of the Imperial Japanese forces, and both of them should know that any resistance is futile.

Australia has one of the worst mammalian extinction rates in the world.

August 28th 2012. Remember that date. It marks the day when the world went raving mad.

A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators.

Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.

Authentic spirituality is revolutionary. It does not legitimate the world, it breaks the world; it does not console the world, it shatters it. And it does not render the self content, it renders it undone.

A very weighty argument is this namely, that neither does the light which descends from thence, chiefly upon the world , mix itself with anything, nor admit of dirtiness or pollution, but remains entirely, and in all things that are, free from defilement, admixture, and suffering.

A very great part of the mischiefs that vex the world arises from words.

A very underestimated part of the world, The Entrance is.

A very large majority of the U.S. population is in favor of establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba and has been for a long time with some fluctuations. And even part of the business world is in favor of it, too. But the government won't allow it.

Aviation is going to control the world economically and militarily whether we like it or not. Airpower is not merely military aviation, it is also civilian aviation and airpower is peace power.

autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes called 'Memoirs.

A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world.

Aviation has struck a delicately balanced world, a world where stability was already giving way to the pressure of new dynamic forces, a world dominated by a mechanical, materialist, Western European civilization.

Avoidance of experiences is a fixation and it binds you to the world, it binds you to the personal self.

Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.

Awake,arise,and assert yourself,you dreamers of the world. Your star is now in ascendancy.

Awakening is about liberating yourself from the prison that is the world of the mind and daring to be here as all that you are.

Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment. … The ultimate purpose of human existence, which is to say, your purpose, is to bring that power into this world.

Awakening your spiritual side is really what artists do. When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world.

Awareness is very, very important because we're living in a world which is literally shrinking by the day. We are global citizens. So, for us not to be aware of what's happening to our neighbor is almost sad. Once you're aware, then you can decide what cause you want to dedicate your time to.

A visionary is someone who sees the future with both insight and foresight: Insight into the deeper causes and meaning of events in the world, and foresight, or an intuitive grasp of the big picture, such as the trajectory of politics and popular culture.

Awakening of Western thought will not be complete until that thought steps outside itself and comes to an understanding with the search for a world-view as this manifests itself in the thought of mankind as a whole.

A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world.

A whole world is taken to the grave with the dead person; each one of us is unique and unrepeatable.

Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance, to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.

Awe is the best drug in the world

Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised.

A war film can be propaganda and they're very valuable as propaganda, as we realized in Britain in the Second World War. Film as propaganda is a very valuable tool. It can also demonize, which is the dangerous side of a war film as propaganda. But there are war films that are not propaganda. It's just saying 'This is what it's like.' For 99 percent of us we don't know what it's like. We have no idea. So to reveal that to the audience is powerful.

Away with the world's opinion of you-it's always unsettled and divided.

A woman as the leader of the Free World is an impossibility. Muslim countries won't talk to you.

A wise man should never resolve upon anything, at least, never let the world know his resolution, for if he cannot reach that he is ashamed.