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Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
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I firmly believe that the reputation of any country which is capable of defending the life and dignity of its citizens, and… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
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Now one of the changes that must come to Africa is the idea of limited rule, I mean in term of how… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
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Obama is clearly a narcissist in the non-scientific use of the word. He is so self-involved, you see it from his rise.There’s… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior... we shall not really… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
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Since we can no longer rely on the company for security, it must come from within. For people who know who they… — Joe Tye Copy Share Image
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The only shape in which equality is really connected with justice is this - justice presupposes general rules. If these general rules… — James Fitzjames Stephen Copy Share Image
It’s clearly established in terms of training, provision of bomb-making experts, training of people with respect to chemical and biological warfare capabilities,… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
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The president [of American research institute] can act as the CEO and make a firm decision about the long-term development of the… — Henry Rosovsky Copy Share Image
The reason inflation was brought down to manageable levels, by the time of Ronald Reagan's re-election, was directly attributable to Jimmy Carter's… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
People are being really picky about the upcoming election. I read that Americans do not want the next president to be a… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
The southern German has the imagination and emotionality to subscribe to a fanatic ideology, but he is ordinarily inhibited from excesses by… — Arthur Seyss-Inquart Copy Share Image
In terms of playing ability there is nothing to choose between number one and 100. Instead, it's a question of who believes… — Novak Djokovic Copy Share Image
I had a lot of issues with the genre, and I probably even had issues with the whole idea of genre. I… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Novel writing is a kind of private pleasure, even if nothing comes of it in worldly terms. — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image