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Since the 1960s, we have seen the failure of the melting pot ideology. This ideology suggested that different historical, cultural and socioeconomic…
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Power, after all, is not just military strength. It is the social power that comes from democracy, the cultural power that comes…
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I have never known what is Arabic or English, or which one was really mine beyond any doubt. What I do know,…
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Theory is taught so as to make the student believe that he or she can become a Marxist, a feminist, an Afrocentrist,…
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Ideas, cultures, and histories cannot seriously be understood or studied without their force, or more precisely their configurations of power, also being…
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Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost…
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Density, complexity, and historical-semantic value that is so strong as to make politics possible... Gramsci's insight is to have recognised that subordination,…
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The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States.
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Orientalism can be discussed and analyzed as the corporate institution for dealing with the Orient—dealing with it by making statements about it,…
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Uninformed and yet open to appeals for justice as they are, Americans are capable of reacting as they did to the ANC…
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Beginning is not only a kind of action. It is also a frame of mind, a kind of work, an attitude, a…
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Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder…
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I think that marriage is, dare I say it, between a man and a woman, hopefully for life and there are all…
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An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.
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I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man.…
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My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me.
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When faced with world problems - like hunger, overpopulation, nuclear weapons, the arms trade - you may be among those who are…
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As financial market players know, advantage comes from reacting to news first. The same thing is true for all companies. When you…
— David Meerman Scott
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When Prohibition was introduced, I hoped that it would be widely supported by public opinion and the day would soon come when…
— John D. Rockefeller
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Science in England is not a profession: its cultivators are scarcely recognised even as a class. Our language itself contains no single…
— Charles Babbage
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If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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If I have put the case of science at all correctly, the reader will have recognised that modern science does much more…
— Karl Pearson
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The country is now universally recognised as a nation on the move and takes its place amongst the successful economies in the…
— Ratan Tata
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It was a great step in science when men became convinced that, in order to understand the nature of things, they must…
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