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That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed…
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A central claim of the Bush administration's foreign policy is that the spread of democracy in the Middle East is the cure…
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But transitions from the politics of violence to democratic compromise are always messy.
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Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a…
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Canadians tend to be a bit more religious than most Europeans - though not more than the Poles or Ukrainians. Most important,…
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I love this country, but the union jack leaves me cold.
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Yet another thing Canadians and Europeans have in common is an obsession with the United States, and with distinguishing themselves from it,…
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To be in Florence is to reflect on Europe's intricate diversity - and its lost creativity.
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After saying yes to Turkey, the EU is having difficulty finding clear and consistent grounds for saying no to other, still more…
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The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities.
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One thing, however, I know with certainty: violence, or the direct threat of violence, of the kind we have seen in the…
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Nuclear proliferation - the proliferation of WMDs altogether - is one of the greatest dangers of our time.
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Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I'm of Filipino, Spanish, and Chinese descent, and was raised on Hawaii.
— Tia Carrere
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No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of necessity have…
— Franz Boas
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The United Nations and the Organization of American States have named 2011 as the International Year for People of African Descent. This…
— Hillary Clinton
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The international community cannot accept that whole communities are marginalized because of the color of their skin. People of African descent are…
— Ban Ki-moon
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The descent to Hades is the same from every place.
— Anaxagoras
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Happy in all that ragged, loose collapse of water, the fountain, its effortless descent and flatteries of spray...
— Richard Wilbur
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The descent into Hades is much the same from whatever place we start.
— Anaxagoras
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It is really laughable to see what different ideas are prominent in various naturalists' minds, when they speak of 'species'; in some,…
— Charles Darwin
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I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions…
— Mark Twain
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I am aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be denounced by some as highly irreligious; but he who…
— Charles Darwin
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Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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