Ronald Reagan
Politician, Actor
"A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation."
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Borders
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Edward Blake
Politician
"I fear the carnival of crime is beginning on our border."
Khalil Gibran
Poet, Writer
"All things in this creation exist within you and all things in you exist in creation; there is no border between you and the closest things, and there is no distance between you and the farthest things, and all things, from the lowest to the loftiest, from the smallest to the greatest, are within you as equal things."
Hayao Miyazaki
Animator, Director
"When you watch the subtitled version you are probably missing just as many things. There is a layer and a nuance you're not going to get. Film crosses so many borders these days. Of course it is going to be distorted."
Robert Anton Wilson
Author, Philosopher
"The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill."
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"The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous."
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"But the simple truth is that we've lost control of our own borders, and no nation can do that and survive."
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"Let's end the unworkable marijuana prohibition and put our money where our mouth is. Let's solve the problems like border crime. We can do it with pot legalization."
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"Opening our borders to a flood of illegal immigrants is deliberate ... It's time to impeach; and on behalf of American workers and legal immigrants of all backgrounds, we should vehemently oppose any politician on the left or right who would hesitate in voting for articles of impeachment."
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"A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence."
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"I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders."
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"Well, I think we need to have attrition by enforcement. We need to secure our borders. We need to enforce our laws."
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"Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders."
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"I have Algerian, Turkish, Swedish, Spanish blood: I feel like a citizen of the world. Life and cinema don't have borders."
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"It takes so little, so infinitely little, for a person to cross the border beyond which everything loses meaning: love, convictions, faith, history. Human life -- and herein lies its secret -- takes place in the immediate proximity of that border, even in direct contact with it; it is not miles away, but a fraction of an inch."
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"Information is the oxygen of the modern age."
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"Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier."
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"Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try to smuggle it back across the border. Any poem I get written down feels like contraband to me."
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"Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else's religion, but he'll accept his gold."
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"Cemeteries have always had a lure for me. They are well kept, free from ambiguity, logical, virile, and alive. In cemeteries you can summon up courage and arrive at decisions, in cemeteries life takes on distinct contours -- I am not referring to the borders of the graves -- and if you will, a meaning."
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"We are defined not by our borders but by our bonds."
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"A nation without borders is no nation at all."
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"I feel like if you're in Jersey, you have to be a Jersey Devils fan. Anybody born within the confines of the border of the state of New Jersey, I feel, should be a Jersey Devils fan."
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"The Refugee Convention of 1951 was a major breakthrough, outlining the rights of those displaced across borders as well as the legal obligations of states to protect them."
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"Languages are jealous sovereigns, and passports are rarely allowed for travellers to cross their strictly guarded borders."
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