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Therefore, I feel convinced that any political picture can be changed to suit the needs of the powers that be. — Thor Heyerdahl
Since the end of the Cold War two main nuclear powers have begun to make big reductions in their nuclear arsenals. Each of them is… — Joseph Rotblat
In spite of this fact, the Western powers have never given sufficient importance to the Muslim world. They have always been inclined to treat it… — Aly Khan
Our second remark is, that the office is of divine appointment, not merely in the sense in which the civil powers are ordained of God,… — Charles Hodge
But he said Blanket Hill should be a national monument. And so we came out of his chambers feeling, though while we had lost to… — William Kunstler
Furthermore, it is not distorting history to say that it was largely through the efforts and propaganda of our International Federation that the government of… — Leon Jouhaux
What he has done for women is final: he gave to their service the best powers of his mind and the best years of his… — Millicent Fawcett
The instant the Government was organized, at the very first Congress, the Northern States evinced a general desire and purpose to use it for their… — Robert Toombs
Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers.… — Yancy Butler
Thus, the forces and value systems that are most threatened by this shift are becoming the most coherent and are rising to the top as… — Paul Hawken
It is our duty to see that our future citizens are well born; that they are properly nourished, and are reared in that environment most… — Arthur Capper
Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original… — William Bennett
It was both necessary and desirable for us to be so strong at sea that no Sea Power could attack us without risk, so that… — Bernhard von Bulow
If only Queen Elizabeth II had the intellectual, political and linguistic skills of Queen Elizabeth I, many people would support giving her some of the… — A. N. Wilson
There has been talk of lack of consensus, but we all know that this is the veto of foreign powers, the intolerable situation in our… — Rafael Correa
Liberal Democrats in government will not follow the last Labour government by sounding the retreat on the protection of civil liberties in the United Kingdom.… — Nick Clegg
We owe the government taxes. We owe our creditors interest. What do these powers owe us? — Anna Deavere Smith
There is no doubt that the second President Bush inherited a very serious terrorist threat, though not such a threat as had been represented by… — Conrad Black
Israel expanded beyond its original boundaries only because the Arab powers attacked Israel and the U.N. demarcation unsuccessfully in 1948. The endless caterwauling about the… — Conrad Black
The whole nuclear-arms-control and non-proliferation policy of the nuclear powers is a fraud: The Americans could not prevent the Soviets from replicating their weaponry, and… — Conrad Black

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