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The world can therefore seize the opportunity (the Persian Gulf crisis) to fulfill the long held promise of a New World Order… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
You and I, as individuals, can, by borrowing, live beyond our means, but for only a limited period of time. Why, then,… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
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The mere stuffing of the mind with a knowledge of facts is not education. The mind must not only possess a knowledge… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was raised to believe that you had to do things better than white people in order to succeed. The old black… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
Certainly in order to understand the natural world one needs clarity, logic, and the capacity for theory building. But that understanding tends… — Talal Asad Copy Share Image
It may be observed, that provinces amid the vicissitudes to which they are subject, pass from order into confusion, and afterward recur… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
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In order to experience and understand what it means to be a Christian, it is always necessary to recognize a definite historical… — Johann Baptist Metz Copy Share Image
There are instances when we are like horses, we psychologists, and grow restless: we see our own shadow wavering up and down… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Canadian farmers are an essential part of the global food supply chain, and they should have been exempt from the carbon tax… — Leslyn Lewis Copy Share Image
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Democracy is not compatible with capitalism but is congruent with a version of democratic socialism in which the wealth, resources, and benefits… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
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Something of the severe hath always been appertaining to order and to grace; and the beauty that is not too liberal is… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
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A sagging economy, a soaring national debt, and an increasingly restive Congress pushed Obama to order troop reductions that are both deeper… — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
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