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If a British government experienced such a long and persistent resistance to domestic policy in England, then that policy would almost certainly be changed... We have asserted that we are political prisoners, and everything about out country - our arrests, interrogations, trials, and prison conditions - show that we are politically motivated.

~Bobby Sands

Topics: About Almost Arrest British Certainly Changed Conditions Country Domestic England Everything Experienced Government Long Motivated Our Out Persistent Policy Political Politically Prison Prisoners Resistance Show Then Trials Would

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The destinies of the two races in this country are indissolubly linked together, and the interests of both require that the common government of all shall not permit the seeds of race hate to be planted under the sanction of law.

~Bobby Scott

Topics: Both Common Country Destinies Government Hate Interests Law Linked Permit Planted Race Races Require Sanction Seeds Shall Together Two

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In 1967 I entered Harvard as a freshman, confident - in the way that only 17-year-olds are - that I could change the world. My major was African Studies, and my plan was to travel to Tanzania, where President Julius Nyerere was creating a government based on democracy and socialism.

~Bonnie Raitt

Topics: African Based Change Change The World Confident Could Creating Democracy Entered Freshman Government Harvard Julius Major Only Plan President Socialism Studies Travel Way Where World

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When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.

~Bono

Topics: Associates Commodities Corrupt Government Hoard Hospitals Instead Like Minerals Ministers Nation Oil One Or Two Precious Profits Properly Schools Taxes Them Two

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Government must start to look at mobile infrastructure as a critical national resource and not just a resource for tax dollars.

~Borje Ekholm

Topics: Critical Dollars Government Infrastructure Just Look Mobile Must National Resource Start Tax

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Six months after I was born, we moved to Ghana. The first five years of my life were there. In 1982, when there was a coup d'etat, my family left because the government was overthrown, and my dad was involved in politics.

~Bozoma Saint John

Topics: After Because Born Coup Dad Family First Five Ghana Government Involved Left Life Months Moved My Life Politics Six Were Years I Was Born

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Ten-year-old boys move differently than middle-aged women, who move differently than athletic guys, who move differently than government bureaucrats.

~Brad Bird

Topics: Athletic Boy Bureaucrats Differently Government Guys Middle-Aged Move Than Who Women

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Good intentions often get muddled with very complex execution. The last time the government tried to make taxes easier, it created a 1040 EZ form with a 52-page help booklet.

~Brad D. Smith

Topics: Complex Created Easier Execution Form Get Good Good Intentions Government Help Intentions Last Last Time Make Often Taxes Time Tried Very

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If you're in a city where there's no clear startup community, the goal is not raise a bunch of money to fund a nonprofit; the goal is not get your government involved. The goal is start finding the other entrepreneurial leaders who are committed to being in your city over the next 20 years.

~Brad Feld

Topics: Being Bunch City Clear Committed Community Entrepreneurial Finding Fund Get Goal Government Involved Leaders Money Next Nonprofit Other Over Raise Start Startup Where Who Years You Your

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While I'd like to be able to simply do all of my financings with a handshake or, possibly, on a napkin written in crayon, I also wish I had a herd of unicorns surrounded by rainbows, a balanced U.S. government budget, and agreement on how to address the debt ceiling issue.

~Brad Feld

Topics: Able Address Agreement Also Balanced Budget Ceiling Debt Debt Ceiling Government Had Handshake Herd How Issue Like Possibly Rainbows Simply Surrounded U.s. Government While Wish Written

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