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We have received unconfirmed reports out of our embassy in Amman in Jordan that two Indonesian nationals, or precisely two Indonesian reporters ... have been… — Marty Natalegawa
The World Wide Web was precisely what we were trying to PREVENTâ€” ever-breaking links, links going outward only, quotes you can't follow to their origins,… — Ted Nelson
Itâ€™s dangerous to assume that because a person is drawn to holiness in his study that he is thereby a holy man. There is irony… — R C Sproul
A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take… — Richard Russo
Evidence is mounting that faith-based service programs are often more successful than other programs in correcting social problems. [It is wrong] for government to demand… — Ronald J. Sider
The great merit of gold is precisely that it is scarce; that its quantity is limited by nature; that it is costly to discover, to… — Henry Hazlitt
In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they… — Hugo Black
Left-wing zealots have often been prepared to ride roughshod over due process and basic considerations of fairness when they think they can get away with… — Margaret Thatcher
The Nuremburg trials were attacked at the time as 'victor's justice'. And this is precisely what they were - and were intended to be. — Margaret Thatcher
Just because I'm not forever by your side doesn't mean that's not precisely where I want to be. — Stephanie Laurens
Critics? How do they happen? I know how it happened to me. I would send a poem or story to a magazine and they would… — Leslie Fiedler
I felt that the decrepit state of these once magnificent buildings, with their broken gutters, walls blackened by rainwater, crumbling plaster revealing the coarse masonry… — W G Sebald
We still nurse a sense of our homogeneity and difference from others, and that's precisely what the European Union, in my view, should be doing… — Peter Sutherland
One who hates is a man holding a magnifying-glass, and when he hates someone, he knows precisely that person's surface, from the soles of his… — Hermann Broch
On Earth, we still have a beautiful atmosphere that precisely maintains a thermally driven climatic system that shelters, shields and sustains our natural treasures. — Jay Inslee
I am deeply distressed by what I only can call in our Christian culture the idolatry of the Scriptures. For many Christians, the Bible is… — Brennan Manning
There are an awful lot of people who despise government precisely because it opened the door for common citizenship for people of all races and… — Taylor Branch
My advice is precisely the advice my mother gave me. If you believe you have talent, the next thing you must have is determination. If… — Cass Elliot
Everything is full and pure at its source and precisely there, not outside. — Meister Eckhart
Ideas, cultures, and histories cannot seriously be understood or studied without their force, or more precisely their configurations of power, also being studied. — Edward Said

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