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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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A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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There is the kiss of welcome and of parting, the long, lingering, loving, present one; the stolen, or the mutual one; the…
— Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting all the…
— William Shakespeare
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There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and…
— Aldous Huxley
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For each thorn, there's a rosebud... For each twilight - a dawn... For each trial - the strength to carry on, For…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman; scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.
— Colley Cibber
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There is nothing that Nature has made necessary which is more easy than death; we are longer a-coming into the world than…
— Seneca the Younger
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A chord, stronger or weaker, is snapped asunder in every parting, and time's busy fingers are not practiced in re-splicing broken ties.…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Adieu! 'tis love's last greeting, The parting hour is come! And fast thy soul is fleeting To seek its starry home.
— Pierre-Jean de Beranger
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Death's not a separation or alteration or parting; it's just a one-handled door.
— Stevie Smith
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...of two simple men I saw today on the pier in the midst of the crowd, parting the parting of dear friends,…
— Walt Whitman
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Forever, and forever, farewell, Cassius! If we do meet again, why, we shall smile; If not, why then this parting was well…
— William Shakespeare
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