To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size. The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern. I do not suppose that Henry Ford would find much difficulty in running Andorra or Luxembourg on a socialistic basis. He has already more men on his pay-roll than their population. It is conceivable that a syndicate of Fords, if we could find them, would make Belgium Ltd. or Denmark Inc. pay their way. But while nationalization of certain industries is an obvious possibility in the largest of states, I find it no easier to picture a completely socialized British Empire or United States than an elephant turning somersaults or a hippopotamus jumping a hedge.
J.B.S. Haldane in Possible Worlds
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To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size.
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The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern.
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I've had more than 12,000 emails from the United States. It's not easy in the United States to find out the email address of a British parliamentarian.
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Our nation's immigration policy has been of top concern in recent years, and for good reason. With between eight and twelve million illegal aliens in the United States, it is obviously a problem out of control.
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The race problem in the United States is the type of unpleasant problem which we would rather do without but which refuses to be buried.
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Letter to A Friend
The problem is, friend of mine
Somewhere along the way
You became...
Somehow,
Important to me.
The problem with that is..
There is a problem with that
And, I don't want to contemplate what it could mean.
So,
I push at it.
And
Shove it away.
I stomp on it
Trying to make it..
While
Simultaneously
Afraid it will break.
This
Whatever
It is..
I know we've been dancing around it
The giant pink elephant in the room.
But,
It can't be me..
Won't be.
You'll have to take that first giant step.
And, please..
Make it an obvious one.
Because all this tip toeing around it
Has me confused.
What if I have the audacity to assume too much?
What if I'm reading into some harmless fun?
What if it's all in jest?
The problem, you see
Is I may want it to be..
And, I'm afraid of where all this may
Or
May not lead.
The problem is, friend of mine
I miss you, when you aren't around.
And think of you and the time we spent..
And, wish I was there all over again.
The problem is, friend of mine
I seriously don't know what to do..
In this situation that is
Or isn't
With this unspoken thing
This tug of war
With me and you.
poem by Rabia Minhas
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Further, not only the United States, but the French, British, Germans and the United Nations all thought Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction before the United States intervened.
quote by Jim Gerlach
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I would like to tell our American, British and Spanish friends that the Iraqi crisis is not a problem between the United States and France, but between those who want to move forward in the logic of war and the international community.
quote by Dominique de Villepin
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One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.
quote by Barack Obama
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Really Got A Problem
Rick astley & mark king
Here we are
Riding high
Weve some so far
We can touch the sky
So why cant we live together
Cant we be friends
Why must we fight our brothers
Til the bitter end
(chorus)
We really got a problem
We dont know how to fix yeah
There aint no reason for staying
We just cant do it
Talk to me
Scream and shout
Trust in me
We can work it out
We all know the world keeps turning
One day at a time
Easier lessons for leaving
We just couldnt find
(repeat chorus)
So why cant we live together
Cant we be friends
Why must we fight our brothers
Til the bitter end
Ooh yeah
Wont you trust in me
I know we can make it yeah
I close my eyes and look inside
For a picture of how it should be
And I wonder if you could see what I see
Would you ever choose to live the way you do
We really got a problem
We dont know how to fix bdum yeah
There aint no reason for staying
We just cant do it
We really got a problem
We dont know how to fix bdum yeah
I know we got the pieces
But they just dont fit
We really got a problem
We dont know how to fix
I know we got the pieces
We just cant do it
song performed by by Rick Astley
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Fascism is a worldwide disease. Its greatest threat to the United States will come after the war, either via Latin America or within the United States itself.
quote by Henry A. Wallace
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Contrast the United States with any country on the face of the earth today and ask yourself whether the situation of the United States is not the best to be found.
quote by Henry Cabot Lodge
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If this liberal potential is properly channeled, we may expect the area of freedom of the United States to increase. The problem is to spend up our rate of social invention in the service of the welfare of all the people.
quote by Henry A. Wallace
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Hale had answered when the President of the United States can't go to a city of the United States and be protected, we've come to a very difficult time in our nation's history, and encouraged him to come.
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I was quite ready to accept certain restrictions on the United States. After all, there was a great dollar shortage. It was quite clear that the more prosperous Europe became, the more business there would be in the United States.
quote by W. Averell Harriman
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Whoever has inhabited the United States must have perceived that in those parts of the Union in which the Negroes are no longer slaves the have in no wise drawn nearer to the whites. On the contrary, the prejudice of race appears to be stronger in the states that have abolished slavery than those where it still exists and nowhere is it intolerant as in those states where servitude has never been known.
quote by Alexis de Tocqueville
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The Constitution of the United States allows us to change; I don't have a problem with that.
quote by Lee Greenwood
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I have no desire to be president of the United States. Zero desire. I don't think that I would be electable. And there are far too many people that are far smarter than me to be president. I'd like to find one with some honor and integrity. I haven't seen them yet, but they'll show up.
quote by Glenn Beck
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An Open Book
Read my life like an open book
These stanzas paint a picture
If you were given a single look
Would you find truth in these scriptures?
I see graves full fast
While the economy dives
Were run by our cash
What a sunrise
I'm sick of this place
I won't believe lies!
I don't know what to do
The problem is I think too much and
There's always a second guess
What's the problem?
Something to prove?
I digg myself deeper
I crave her touch
But she knows I'm not the best
Now I don't know what to do
Cuz now I see I drink too much
What a mess I've made
I'll need a sponge
poem by ryan Cravatta
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Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.
quote by Robert Orben
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