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Lying offshore, ready to act, the presence of ships and Marines sometimes means much more than just having air power or ship's…
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I want to scare the hell out of the rest of the world.
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You can be sure that the American spirit will prevail over this tragedy.
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We are not going to dwell on those things that divide us. We are going to rejoice in those things that keep…
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Terrorism really flourishes in areas of poverty, despair and hopelessness, where people see no future
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The root cause of poverty is social injustice and the bad government that abets it
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Poverty arises and persists where corruption is endemic and enterprise is stifled, where basic fairness provided by the rule of law is…
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When we are debating an issue, loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think I'll like it or not. Disagreement,…
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Look for intelligence and judgment and, most critically, a capacity to anticipate, to see around corners. Also look for loyalty, integrity, a…
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We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we've done this as recently as the last…
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I can think of nothing that Saddam Hussein can do diplomatically (to avoid war). I think that time is now over. He's…
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My responsibility, our responsibility as lucky Americans, is to try to give back to this country as much as it has given…
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I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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For me or a Bruce Springsteen to sit up in our ivory towers and make comments about racism, well, were not really…
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Even ivory towers need central heating.
— Breyten Breytenbach
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I'm not a believer in putting designers off in an ivory tower. They need to have a voice at the table so…
— Chuck Jones
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The ivory tower of the artist may be the only stronghold left for human values, cultural treasures, man’s cult of beauty.
— Anais Nin
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Many live in the ivory tower called reality; they never venture on the open sea of thought.
— Francois Gautier
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I am an idealist. I often feel I would like to be an artist in an ivory tower. Yet it is imperative…
— W. Eugene Smith
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Authentic thinking, thinking that is concerned about reality, does not take place in ivory tower isolation, but only in communication. If it…
— Paulo Freire
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Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory
— Benoit Mandelbrot
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I don't want to become an ivory tower filmmaker. That sounds peculiar, but I want to be a mainstream filmmaker. I want…
— Peter Greenaway
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Only recently serious research into the relationship between photography and art has taken place. Why has it been so long in coming…
— Aaron Scharf
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Strategy should evolve out of the mud of the marketplace, not in the antiseptic environment of an ivory tower.
— Al Ries
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