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MEMRI allows an audience far beyond the Arabic-speaking world to observe the wide variety of Arab voices speaking through the media, schoolbooks,…
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A world without the United Nations or with a paralyzed United Nations would be far more costly to all of us and…
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Bureaucracies have a natural tendency not to cooperate, coordinate or consolidate with each other. They won't cooperate with each other - unless…
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I think history is continuous. It doesn't begin or end on Pearl Harbor Day or the day Lyndon Johnson withdraws from the…
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Know something about something. Don’t just present your wonderful self to the world. Constantly amass knowledge and offer it around.
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In diplomacy, as in life itself, one often learns more from failures than from successes. Triumphs will seem, in retrospect, to be…
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There is a split between Muslims who want to practice their faith in peace and tolerance with other religions and other people,…
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I still believe in the possibility of the United States, with all its will and all its strength, and I don't just…
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Our enemy is Al Qaeda and its allies, people who have publicly said they wish to attack the United States again, people…
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United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a supreme irony.
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The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.
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The controlled chaos is one way to get creativity. The intensity of it, the physical rush, the intimacy created the kind of…
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The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.
— James A. Baldwin
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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop.
— James Buchan
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Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
— Thomas Aquinas
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Can a physicist visualize an electron? The electron is materially inconceivable and yet, it is so perfectly known through its effects that…
— Wernher von Braun
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When something enters your life that is so big and so non-negotiable as catastrophic illness, you either go in denial for a…
— Michael J. Fox
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Knowledge does not mean mastering a great quantity of different information, but understanding the nature of mind. This knowledge can penetrate each…
— Matthieu Ricard
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The most effectual means of preventing the perversion of power into tyranny are to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Angels are intelligent reflections of light, that original light which has no beginning. They can illuminate. They do not need tongues or…
— John of Damascus
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Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.
— Emil Nolde
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One of the most important responsibilities of leaders in any setting - including business organisations - is to tell us our own…
— Hugh Mackay
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Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don't want…
— David Foster Wallace
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