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The international community doesn't cast a vote here. Gabonese people do, so I am accountable to them. They are the ones to give me my job or take it away. So this is what is really important to me. ”
Our elephants are under siege because of an illegal international market that has driven ivory prices in the region up significantly. I call upon the international community to join us in this fight. ”
Turkey shares Europe's fundamental values of democracy and the rule of law. ”
A country which has a population 99% as their faith in Islam can also be a country which are subscribing to the universal values of the E.U. ”
Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the fruits they bear: as a man begets a man, and a beast a beast, that society of men which constitutes a government upon the foundation of justice. ”
The truth is, man is hereunto led by reason which is his nature. ”
The common Notions of Liberty are not from School Divines, but from Nature. ”
I like all those painters who loved and had a strong feeling for nature. ”
On the spiritual theory, man consists essentially of a spiritual nature or mind intimately associated with a spiritual body or soul, both of which are developed in and by means of a material organism. ”
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. ”