Country Quotes (Page 184)

Amartya Sen Economist, Philosopher

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"80 percent of the export of armament in the world comes from the G8 countries. [The] United States alone exports about 50 percent of the world's armament, [for] which, of course, there has to be buyers, and the buyers are very terribly keen, very often military dictator[s] or sometimes not military dictator[s] but for military purposes. But the sellers are also promoting this trade. And two thirds of the arm exports go to developing countries. I'm in favor of putting a control on it, a ban on it."

Country Two Military

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Amartya Sen Economist, Philosopher

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"There may be countries [where] there's no gender inequality in schooling, even in higher education, but [where there is] gender inequality in high business. Japan is a very good example of that. You might find cases in the United States where at one level women's equality has progressed tremendously. You don't have the kind of problem of higher women's mortality as you see in South Asia, North Africa, and East Asia, China, too, and yet for American women there are some fields in which equality hasn't yet come."

Country United States Japan

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Amartya Sen Economist, Philosopher

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"Women had always been thought of as looking after the family when men go and earn an income and they're the bread earner and so on. So there is a kind of generation of inequality, [and], on top of the fact, women have pregnancies and periods, [and] when the children are very small, there are greater demands on their time. So one way or another women have had a pretty rough deal in the past, and there's no reason why that should continue, and any country that has tried to remedy that has succeeded in doing so."

Children Country Pregnancy

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Amartya Sen Economist, Philosopher

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"Japan became an imperialist country in many ways, but that was much later, after it had already made big progress. I dont think Japans wealth was based on exploiting China. Japans wealth was based on its expansion in international trade."

Thinking Country Japan

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Amartya Sen Economist, Philosopher

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"I think one big thing about the United States is that the American population, they may be excited about Iraq or one thing or another, but basically has had a great deal of interest in humanitarian causes both within the country and abroad. Even when they criticize the mechanism to which it flows."

Thinking Country Iraq

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Amartya Sen Economist, Philosopher

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"South Korea from a country that had relatively little primary education became close to universal literacy in the course of 25, 30 years, in a way trying to replicate what Japan had done earlier. They were learning to some extent from the Japanese experience too. So I think, in a sense, the East Asians were following a path, which all other countries including South Asia could follow but chose not too."

Thinking Country Korea

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Amartya Sen Economist, Philosopher

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"Every time you have an opportunity of opening a school, its fee and funding is really relatively small in comparison with the big expenditure, which is basically quote unquote defense. I think if there were fees, progress could be very much faster. But for that we need not only the government in different countries to understand it but the society to put pressure on it, the parents to understand that their desire to have their children educated can actually be realized, and it could make a dramatic difference."

Children Country School

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Amartya Sen Economist, Philosopher

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"The higher education has always appealed to the South Asian social leaders across all the countries in South Asia. But primary education has been neglected. The oddity, by the way, is if you look at the contrast in India, there are some areas like Kerala where there's a long history of educational development."

Country Educational Oddities

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Amos Bronson Alcott Philosopher, Educator

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"Like birds of passage, the instincts drift the soul adventurously beyond the horizon of sensible things, as if intent on convoying it to the mother country from whence it had flown."

Country Mother Bird

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Amos Lee Musician

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"Country artists have advantages all over the place. The radio support is incredible. The fanbase is rabid, all over."

Country Artist Support

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Andrew Cohen Psychologist

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"Hopefully, America will really get a sense of how justice can be served in this country. And hopefully, they'll forget the Simpson trial."

Country America Umpires

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Andy Kennedy Politician

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"It's just the way we've chosen to deal with it. What's there to talk about The reality is that we're undermanned in a lot of areas. We're in the best league in the country. We don't have to read the paper to know that all the teams we play are quality teams."

Country Reality Team

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Andy Warhol Artist, Filmmaker

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"Free countries are great, because you can actually sit in somebody else's space for a while and pretend you're a part of it. You can sit in the Plaza Hotel and you don't even have to live there. You can just sit and watch the people go by."

People Country Space

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Andy Warhol Artist, Filmmaker

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"I've been invited to the White House about five times. I think the greatest thing would be if they actually invited everybody to the White House every night... they'd just take about 500 people a night. Everybody would just love this country because it's so thrilling to go there. It really is."

Thinking Country Night

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Ang Lee Director, Producer

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"I grew up pretty much prevented from knowing anything from Communist China except that they were the bad guys that stole our country."

Country Guy Knowing

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Angus King Politician

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"We are at this moment where what concerns me is that we're all so caught up in Donald Trump, James Comey, and David Kushner, and Mike Flynn, that it's in danger of overwhelming the real story, which is what the Russians did and tried to do. I contend that it was the most serious attack on our country since September 11, 2001. It was deliberate, it was sophisticated, it was conscious, and it was in some ways successful."

Real Country Successful

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Anne Bronte Author

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"I still preserve those relics of past sufferings and experience, like pillars of witness set up in travelling through the valve of life, to mark particular occurrences. The footsteps are obliterated now; the face of the country may be changed; but the pillar is still there, to remind me how all things were when it was reared."

Country Past Suffering

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Anthony Bourdain Chef, Author, Television Personality

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"I'm not trying to explain other cultures, or to give a fair and balanced account of a country, or the top ten things you need to know. I'm not trying to spread world peace and understanding. I'm not an advocate or an activist or an educator or a journalist. I'm out there trying to tell stories the best I can."

Giving Country Other Cultures

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Anthony Bourdain Chef, Author, Television Personality

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"Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don't speak the language and haven't been before - that's really satisfying to me. I like that."

Country Order Breakfast

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Anton Chekhov Playwright, Short Story Writer

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"From here, far away, people seem very good, and that is natural, for in going away into the country we are not hiding from people but from our vanity, which in town among people is unjust and active beyond measure."

Country Cities Pride

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