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The notion that we won the war against Iraq is like saying we won a war against Arizona. I mean, the fact of the matter is it's not that big of a country. Nobody, I don't think, had any notion that we would do anything but win it.
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The often cruel behavior of Christians toward unbelievers and even toward dissenters among themselves is shocking evidence of the function of that image in relation to values and behavior.
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The poem is a form of texting... it's the original text. It's a perfecting of a feeling in language - it's a way of saying more with less, just as texting is.
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The poem is the literary form of the 21st century. It's able to connect young people in a deep way to language... it's language as play.
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The real solution is to improve the incomes of the poor and provide their children with decent education.
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The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything.
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The reason that minorities and women don't have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign finance rules are so skewed as to make it very difficult for non-traditional candidates to raise the money necessary to get elected.
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The recounting of a life is a cheat... even our own stories are obscenely distorted.
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The seeds of death get lost in the mess that God made us.
De zelfmoord van de meisjes (2008) -
The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before.
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The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power.
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The time has to be right and the heart willing.
De zelfmoord van de meisjes (2008) 49 -
The women's movement is taking a different form right now, and it is because it has been so effective and so successful that there's a huge counter movement to try to stop it, to try to divide women from one another, to try to almost foment divisiveness.
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The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.
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There are a number of steps that we can take to reinvigorate and rebuild the economic and the physical infrastructure of our country and then to rebuild us, frankly, on a spiritual level.
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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
De stenen dagboeken (2008) 82 -
There are so many opportunities that I could've gotten before if I had just took a little more of a risk.
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There is a certain oddity to Larry Fink having problems in Washington. He is a strong Democrat who has close ties to President Obama and has often been rumored as set to take a big administration job, such as Secretary of the Treasury.
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There is one plot point in one of the 'D'Arnath' books that I don't think I handled as well as I could have. Am I going to tell you which one? No way!
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