Quotes 4261 till 4280 of 11267.
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In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.
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In a well-functioning democracy, people frequently encounter topics and points of view that they did not specifically select but from which they learn. Those encounters can change minds and, even, the course of lives.
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In a world filled with hate, prejudice, and protest, I find that I too am filled with hate, prejudice, and protest.
From ghetto to glory: the story of Bob Gibson (1968) -
In a world of plenty, no one, not a single person, should go hungry. But almost 1 billion still do not have enough to eat. I want to see an end to hunger everywhere within my lifetime.
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In a world with no systems, with chaos, everything becomes a guerilla struggle, and this predictability is not there. And it becomes almost impossible to save lives, educate kids, develop economies, whatever.
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In Africa, you often see that the difference between a village where everybody eats and a village where people starve is government. One has a functioning government, and the other does not. Which is why it bothers me when I hear people say that government is the enemy. They don't understand its fundamental role.
Independent Magazine (March 2007) -
In all societies, it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest; not that the highest are always the best, but because, if disgusted there, we can descend at any time; but if we begin with the lowest, to ascend is impossible.
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In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and kill each other cell by cell.
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In America everybody is of opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors.
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In America most of us are still afraid of any literature which is not a glorification of everything American, a glorification of our faults as well as our virtues.
Lezing bij aanvaarden Nobelprijs 12-12-1930 -
In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.
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In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.
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In America, there's a very long tradition of a comic strip that comes in newspapers, which is not true all over the world. To sell papers, they put color comics in.
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In America, we have long stood by the principle that the protections of the law are not meant just for some.
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In an examination those who do not wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.
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In an urban area, you're not going to be an hour away from another post office.
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In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.
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In any case, decisions on troop levels in the American system of government are not made by any general or set of generals but by the civilian leadership of the war effort.
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