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In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.
Gertrude Stein
War
Time
Confidence
Peace
Country
Everybody
About
Only
Only Country
Knows
Always
Times
Just
Switzerland
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
Graham Greene
Love
Democracy
Peace
Hundred
Hundred Years
Brotherly
Had
Cuckoo
Years
Clock
Five
Did
Produce
Switzerland
I started going to exhibitions in Switzerland when I was 10 or 11. As a schoolboy, I would go every afternoon to see the long, thin figures of Giacometti.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Long
Every
Would
See
Schoolboy
Go
Exhibitions
Going
Afternoon
Figures
Switzerland
Thin
Started
We have so many rich people in Switzerland. They should take more responsibility for the general public. There is almost no tradition of philanthropy here anymore, unlike in the U.S.
Hansjorg Wyss
People
Responsibility
Rich
Philanthropy
Unlike
General
More
General Public
Take
Almost
Tradition
Anymore
Public
Rich People
Should
Many
Switzerland
Here
I went to see England against Switzerland at Wembley with my dad and brother, too. That was in 2008, Fabio Capello's first game in charge. Jermaine Jenas scored, and we won 2-1. I remember the national anthem was incredible. I sang it with pride - always do.
Harry Kane
Game
Pride
Remember
First
National
Too
Incredible
Charge
Brother
See
Always
Anthem
National Anthem
Won
Against
Sang
England
Dad
Switzerland
I grew up partially in Switzerland but mostly in Australia. I lived in Kakadu for a short time - it's an Aboriginal community. My best friend growing up was Aboriginal. She taught me so much.
Isabel Lucas
Time
Best
Me
Community
Best Friend
Aboriginal
She
Mostly
Friend
Up
Australia
Short
Taught
Grew
Short Time
Much
Growing
Lived
Growing Up
Switzerland
When I was 7, I went to school in Switzerland because everyone on my mom's side of the family lives there. Then we were back in Australia, in Queensland. That's where we had the chance to have lots of different animals. I spent a lot of time living in nature and building cubby houses in big old trees by the ocean.
Isabel Lucas
Time
Mom
Family
Nature
School
Old
Animals
Big
Building
Ocean
Living
Trees
Side
Back
Everyone
Spent
Had
Houses
Because
Were
Lot
Lots
Australia
Where
Different
Then
Lives
Switzerland
Chance
In 25 years of exile, I've never had a frozen account, either in Switzerland or elsewhere in the world.
Jean-Claude Duvalier
World
Elsewhere
Never
Had
Exile
Years
Account
Frozen
Either
Switzerland
I think the U.K. would be perfectly successful as a standalone country, part of the European marketplace like Norway and Switzerland but without the expensive E.U. bureaucracy.
Jim Ratcliffe
Country
Think
Marketplace
Would
Would-Be
Part
Perfectly
Like
Without
Bureaucracy
Expensive
Norway
Successful
European
Switzerland
I initially moved to Switzerland for work on an animated feature film, and have been here ever since.
John Howe
Work
Feature
Feature Film
Animated
Since
Been
Moved
Initially
Film
Ever
Switzerland
Here
I was having these terrible back pains, and then one day in Switzerland, things got very bad. My wife Maryanna called the hotel doctor, but I don't remember any of this, I was out of it. I had an operation, and I was nearly lost.
John Tavener
Day
Doctor
Remember
Wife
Lost
Back
One Day
Out
Bad
Having
Had
Hotel
Terrible
Operation
Got
Very
Any
Then
Pains
Switzerland
Nearly
Things
I'll put it frankly - Britain has more influence in China than Norway or Switzerland, with all respect for the other countries.
Jose Manuel Barroso
Respect
Other
Other Countries
Frankly
More
Put
Countries
Than
Norway
Influence
China
Switzerland
Britain
Norway or Switzerland are two marvelous countries, I very much admire, the most advanced countries in the world in fact with great qualities of life.
Jose Manuel Barroso
Life
Great
World
Admire
Fact
Marvelous
Great Qualities
Advanced
Countries
Most
Qualities
Very
Norway
In Fact
Much
Switzerland
Two
I do not deny my German identity. But I also feel Swiss. Of my eight great-grandparents, seven were born Swiss. I have been living in Switzerland for more than 50 years.
Klaus Schwab
Living
Seven
Born
More
Feel
Also
Identity
Were
Been
Years
German
Deny
Than
Eight
Swiss
Switzerland
The Caribbean is great, but I also love the mountains as well. I'm a big skier, and I love spending time in Switzerland skiing. It really depends.
Lance Stroll
Love
Time
Great
Big
Mountains
Caribbean
Spending
Spending Time
Also
Well
Depends
Skier
Skiing
Really
Switzerland
I just got back from Switzerland, which I've never been to. I went to Switzerland and Amsterdam.
Linda Cardellini
Back
Never
Got
Been
Just
Which
Switzerland
Amsterdam
In 1996, I took advantage of some favourable circumstances to propose to the state of the Ticino Canton the foundation of the Academy of Architecture and, with it, an Italian-speaking university in Switzerland.
Mario Botta
Architecture
State
Took
Circumstances
Favourable
Some
Propose
Advantage
Academy
Foundation
Switzerland
University
I've lived for 10 years in Switzerland, so I speak German.
Martina Hingis
Speak
Years
German
Lived
Switzerland
That's one of the reasons I moved to Florida. Of course, the main reason is the weather and the training. But there's more jealousy in Switzerland because it's so little and they don't have so many athletes.
Martina Hingis
Jealousy
Training
Weather
Athletes
More
Main
Main Reason
Course
Because
Moved
Little
Reason
Reasons
Many
Switzerland
Florida
That day, my first day on the job, was September 11, 2001! I was actually being recognized by Switzerland the very day that the World Trade Center was hit.
Mercer Reynolds
Day
World
Job
First
September
Recognized
Trade
Very
Hit
Being
Center
Switzerland
Actually
World Trade
World Trade Center
Democratic self-government has manifestly brought benefits to India, Japan, Norway, Switzerland, South Africa, South Korea, and scores of nations all making their way in the world.
Michael Gove
World
Benefits
South Africa
Way
India
Brought
Democratic
Self-Government
Korea
Making
South
Scores
South Korea
Nations
Norway
Africa
Japan
Switzerland
I'm not talking about Russia in my music. I've never been to Russia. I'm not talking about Africa, Switzerland, China. I'm talking about me being American and growing up in a crazy world and helping to reflect all different sides of life.
Nas
Life
Music
Me
Crazy
World
Reflect
Not Talking
Crazy World
Sides
About
Russia
Never
Talking
Been
Up
American
Africa
Being
Different
China
Different Sides
Helping
Growing
Growing Up
Switzerland
In 1958, I decided that I was going to live in Europe permanently. So in 1959 I moved to Lugano, Switzerland.
Norman Granz
Live
Permanently
Going
Moved
Decided
Europe
Switzerland
To do so, we are creating a Fairness for Switzerland Committee that will not only disseminate some of the facts, but also protect a relationship that is important to all of us in North America.
Peter Munk
Relationship
Will
Important
Disseminate
Some
Only
Facts
Protect
Also
Fairness
North
North America
America
Committee
Us
Creating
Switzerland
I grew up in Switzerland, in this kind of rigidity. It was Protestant, and I was rather shy. That influenced me a lot.
Rene Burri
Me
Kind
Rigidity
Rather
Protestant
Lot
Up
Influenced
Grew
Switzerland
Shy
Every year, the World Economic Forum decides on a theme for its meeting of the world's elite in Davos, Switzerland. Usually, it's highfalutin nonsense that no one understands and everyone ignores.
Richard Quest
World
Year
Every
Meeting
Everyone
Economic
No-One
Understands
Nonsense
Decide
Theme
Ignores
Forum
Switzerland
Elite
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