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Israel will not transfer Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza District to any foreign sovereign authority, [because] of the historic right of our nation to this land, [and] the needs of our national security, which demand a capability to defend our State and the lives of our citizens."
menachem begin— Iron Wall, p. 356)
The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee.
jean cocteau— As quoted in An Encyclopedia of Quotations About Music (1981) by Nat Shapiro, p. 130
We'll be the hardest-hitting football team on the West Coast. Those who don't want to hit people, we'll help them transfer.
jerry glanville— David Albright, Glanville looking for a little more action at Portland State, ESPN.com, August 9, 2007.
Interference between universes at the quantum level means that information transfer takes place between them.
james p. hogan— Ch. 1 (Paths to Otherwhere (1996))
The transfer of three shillings and sixpence a day to every labourer would not increase the quantity of meat in the country. There is not at present enough for all to have a decent share. What would then be the consequence?
thomas malthus— Chapter V, paragraph 3, lines 5-8
The Internet will not become a money machine until the banking industry figures out how to transfer money for free so you can charge USD 0.005 (half a cent) for some simple service like, say, reading a newspaper article you have searched for. With today's payment system, the cost of the transfer of the funds completely dwarf the cost of the service paid for. … This situation, however, is what acutely prevents the Internet from taking off as a network for paid services.
erik naggum— Re: is it ok if I quote?
1. A person who acquires a holding in accordance with the principle of justice in acquisition is entitled to that holding.2. A person who acquires a holding in accordance with the principle of justice in transfer, from someone else entitled to the holding, is entitled to the holding.3. No one is entitled to a holding except by (repeated) applications of 1 and 2.
Robert Nozick— Ch. 7 : Distributive Justice, Section I, The Entitlement Theory, p. 151
Now we are proud that the government has moved from the class of the exploiters to the class of the people who were being exploited. And in the great name of the same class, I raise this nation's flag which is a strong symbol of this transfer.
nur muhammad taraki— Speech during the presentation of the new national symbols, October 19, 1978.
Don't think it is easy for anyone to be forced to live abroad, far from his country, colleagues, wife and children. But sometimes I think, maybe if I am far away I will spare them difficulties and problems. I would transfer the danger to somewhere else and I would not involve those I love.
gebran tueni— Interview with LBC television station
A non-violent revolution is not a program of seizure of power. It is a program of transformation of relationships, ending in a peaceful transfer of power.
Mohandas K. Gandhi— Non-violence in Peace and War, 1948.
A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
edward bulwer-lytton— Speech in the House of Commons, on the Reform Bill (1866).
With support from institutions like the United Nations as well as the donor community, governments can strengthen their national technological and scientific capacities by devising policies to link up to research networks, encourage technology transfer, and build indigenous capabilities through education and collaborative projects.
talal abu-ghazaleh— May 23, 2005, at the Eighth Session of the UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development, Palais de Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
Mandingo is racist trash, obscene in its manipulation of human beings and feelings, and excruciating to sit through in an audience made up largely of children, as I did last Saturday afternoon. The film has an "R" rating, which didn't keep many kids out, since most came with their parents... if [Chicago] believes Mandingo should be shown to children, then there are no possible standards left and the only thing to do is transfer the censors to the parks department, where they can supervise paper?plate? throwing contests.
roger ebert— Review of Mandingo (25 July 1975)
The notion that we can transfer our guilt and sufferings to some other being who will bear them for us is familiar to the savage mind. It arises from a very obvious confusion between the physical and the mental, between the material and the immaterial.
james frazer— Chapter 55, The Transference of Evil
Constitutionally, gentlemen, you have the president, the vice president and the secretary of state, in that order, and should the president decide he wants to transfer the helm to the vice president, he will do so. As for now, I'm in control here, in the White House, pending the return of the vice president and in close touch with him. If something came up, I would check with him, of course.
alexander haig— March 30, 1981, after Ronald Reagan was hospitalized. [1]
The introduction of a substantial Government transfer tax on all transactions might prove the most serviceable reform available, with a view to mitigating the predominance of speculation in the United States.
john maynard keynes— Book 4, Chapter 12, Section 6, p. 160 (Tobin Tax?)
Since property here exists in the form of stock, its movement and transfer become purely a result of gambling on the stock exchange, where the little fish are swallowed by the sharks and the lambs by the stock exchange wolves.
karl marx— Vol. III, Ch. XXVII, The Role of Credit, p. 440
Put baldly, globalization has been nothing less than a mechanism for a massive transfer of wealth from poor to rich in other words, exactly what it is was designed to be.
david mcnally— Chapter 2, Globalization - It's Not About Free Trade, p. 47
Secure web servers are the equivalent of heavy armored cars. The problem is, they are being used to transfer rolls of coins and checks written in crayon by people on park benches to merchants doing business in cardboard boxes from beneath highway bridges. Further, the roads are subject to random detours, anyone with a screwdriver can control the traffic lights, and there are no police.
gene spafford— Web Security & Commerce (O'Reilly, 1997, S. Garfinkel & G. Spafford), pp 9.
Dislike of another’s opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.
john lancaster spalding— p. 180 (Aphorisms and Reflections (1901))
A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
edward bulwer-lytton— Speech in the House of Commons, on the Reform Bill (1866).
When a transfer of matter to or from a system is also possible, the system may be called an open system.
— Frank Henry MacDougall (1939). Thermodynamics and chemistry?. p.134
The transfer of three shillings and sixpence a day to every labourer would not increase the quantity of meat in the country. There is not at present enough for all to have a decent share. What would then be the consequence?
— Chapter V, paragraph 3, lines 5-8 (An Essay on The Principle of Population (First Edition 1798, unrevised))
Put baldly, globalization has been nothing less than a mechanism for a massive transfer of wealth from poor to rich in other words, exactly what it is was designed to be.
— Chapter 2, Globalization - It's Not About Free Trade, p. 47
The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history , yet common in our country. With a simple oath, we affirm old traditions and make new beginnings .
— George W. Bush, inaugural address (20 January 2001)
That's where all the foreign aid (which might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries) went as well. The U.S. government still squanders about $20 billion a year this way, and European governments spend proportionally even more; it's all gone straight down a giant rathole.
— Douglas Casey, Opportunity in Mozambique (1996)
The enclosure of the commons inaugurates a new ecological order : Enclosure did not just physically transfer the control over grasslands from the peasants to the lord. Enclosure marked a radical change in the attitudes of society towards the environment.
— Ivan Illich, in Silence is a Commons (1982)
