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There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.
Family traditions are more than arguments with the dead, more than collections of family letters you try to decipher. A tradition is…
Cynics who say power is all that counts in politics forget that power without ideas is just improvisation.
The reason that the Croats want a state of their own is that they fear being cut into little pieces by the…
If you get the access to see history happen, do you understand the history when it does happen? And the answer to…
Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.
If I am not elected, I imagine that I will ask Harvard to let me back.
How do you keep war accountable to the American people when war becomes invisible and virtual?
To defeat evil, we may have to traffic in evils: indefinite detention of suspects, coercive interrogations, targeted assassinations, even pre-emptive war.
There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers.
In academic life, false ideas are merely false and useless ones can be fun to play with. In political life, false ideas…
I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge historical turning…

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Ever since I had my first child I have been passionate in my commitment to preserve our precious resources for my children… — Kyra Sedgwick
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Given my experience, I believe there are three compelling reasons why the death penalty should be replaced. (1) The criminal justice system… — George Gascon
If we cannot make a profit, that means we are committing a sort of crime against society. We take society's capital, we… — Konosuke Matsushita
In academic life, false ideas are merely false and useless ones can be fun to play with. In political life, false ideas… — Michael Ignatieff
Trust and integrity are precious resources, easily squandered, hard to regain. They can thrive only on a foundation of respect for veracity. — Sissela Bok
If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature.... — John Burroughs
As we peer into society's future, we -- you and I, and our government -- must avoid the impulse to live only… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Let us be good stewards of the Earth we inherited. All of us have to share the Earth's fragile ecosystems and precious… — Kofi Annan
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I've often heard people say life is too short. In knowing that, how can you afford to waste any of the most… — Rashida Rowe

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