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Since the 1960s, we have seen the failure of the melting pot ideology. This ideology suggested that different historical, cultural and socioeconomic…
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Power, after all, is not just military strength. It is the social power that comes from democracy, the cultural power that comes…
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I have never known what is Arabic or English, or which one was really mine beyond any doubt. What I do know,…
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Theory is taught so as to make the student believe that he or she can become a Marxist, a feminist, an Afrocentrist,…
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Ideas, cultures, and histories cannot seriously be understood or studied without their force, or more precisely their configurations of power, also being…
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Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost…
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Density, complexity, and historical-semantic value that is so strong as to make politics possible... Gramsci's insight is to have recognised that subordination,…
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The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States.
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Orientalism can be discussed and analyzed as the corporate institution for dealing with the Orient—dealing with it by making statements about it,…
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Uninformed and yet open to appeals for justice as they are, Americans are capable of reacting as they did to the ANC…
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Beginning is not only a kind of action. It is also a frame of mind, a kind of work, an attitude, a…
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Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder…
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Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation.
— Bashar al-Assad
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Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.
— David Bowie
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I don't like confrontation.
— Terry Bradshaw
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Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly,…
— Abdallah II
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I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that come to…
— Jimmy Carter
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I have several times made a poor choice by avoiding a necessary confrontation.
— John Cleese
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The test of a civilized person is first self-awareness, and then depth after depth of sincerity in self-confrontation.
— Clarence Day
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Confrontation simply means meeting the truth head-on.
— Mike Krzyzewski
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The cross stands as a mystery because it is foreign to everything we exalt- self over principle, power over meekness, the quick…
— Ravi Zacharias
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Gog and Magog are at work in the Middle East.... The biblical prophecies are being fulfilled.... This confrontation is willed by God,…
— George W. Bush
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If Christian people work together, they can succeed during this decade in winning back control of the institutions that have been taken…
— Pat Robertson
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The most spectacular UFO incident in Indonesia occurred when during the height of President Sukarno's confrontation against Malaysia, UFOs penetrated a well-defended…
— Cael Sanderson
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