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The U.N. guards the vital principles entrenched in its charter, notably the sovereign equality of states and the inadmissibility of interference in their internal affairs.… — Shashi Tharoor
We may lay it down as an incontestible axiom, that, in all the operations of art and nature, nothing is created; an equal quantity of… — Antoine Lavoisier
Newspapers and magazines have been valuable to us precisely because they apply filters to information, otherwise known as editing, and often the Internet seems valuable… — Michael Specter
The state can be a force for good. The Rule of law is absolutely essential to a good life. God has instituted government and leaders… — Dave Brat
I am in no way different from anyone else, that my predicament, my sense of aloneness or isolation may be precisely what unites me with… — Franz Wright
We can never intimidate and discourage the people who voice their words with courage. The essence of freedom rests precisely here - in the freedom… — Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
Mexico has perhaps, in some ways, a good practice, in which it has officials devoted precisely to hold those children, to retain those children that… — Enrique Pena Nieto
There is a calculus, it turns out, for mastering our subconscious urges. For companies like Target, the exhaustive rendering of our conscious and unconscious patterns… — Charles Duhigg
As we grow, we lift our gaze higher and higher, and then sometimes we are brought to our knees, but all is not lost; what… — Michael Leunig
Precisely because white denial has long trumped claims of racism, people of color tend to underreport their experiences with racial bias rather than exaggerate them. — Tim Wise
Sometimes, it is precisely when you discover that you are living very happily that you suddenly find yourself in danger. To be happy means to… — Siegfried Lenz
The charge of being ambiguous and indefinite may be brought against every human composition, and necessarily arises from the imperfection of language. Perhaps no two… — Oliver Ellsworth
In the area of national security, I urge the swift passage of an anti-terrorism law that will protect rather than subvert, enhance rather than weaken,… — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
It is precisely because the issue raised by this case touches the heart of what makes individuals what they are that we should be especially… — Harry A. Blackmun
Now multitudes of root words are identical in the American languages over vast areas some of them with precisely the same senses, and others with… — John W. Dawson
It means that the silver coins of the United States at whatever ratio is fixed, and I want the present ratio that we have now,… — Richard Parks Bland
I do not pretend to know precisely what is on foot there; but I think it pretty evident that there is a very free communication… — Benjamin F. Wade
But The Same Sea is set precisely in this Israel, which never makes it to the news headlines anywhere. It is a novel about everyday… — Amos Oz
It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the conditions… — Breyten Breytenbach
Four hundred million in India, and millions everywhere, have told you, precisely, that the colored people are not going to die for anybody: they are… — Paul Robeson

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