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In the long run, global politics are bound to become increasingly uncongenial to the concentration of hegemonic power in the hands of a single state.… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
It follows that America's primary interest is to help ensure that no single power comes to control this geopolitical space and that the global community… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past,… — Clifford D. Simak
We have been civilized for a thousand millennia. We have histories of hundreds of those millennia. We have tried everything. Anarchism, in all its forms,… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Well used are those cruelties (if it is permitted to speak well of evil) that are carried out in a single stroke, done out of… — Niccolo Machiavelli
The challenges I have facedâ€”among them material poverty, chronic illness, and being raised by a single motherâ€”are not uncommon, but neither have they kept me… — Sonia Sotomayor
I had learned, from years of experience with men, that when a man really desires a thing so deeply that he is willing to stake… — Napoleon Hill
The giants of the race have been men of concentration, who have struck sledge-hammer blows in one place until they have accomplished their purpose. The… — Orison Swett Marden
One good thing about California is we have quite a broad-based economy. We provide more fruits and vegetables and produce to the United States than… — Meg Whitman
I didn't have any desire I might have had 10 years ago to shoot every single word that I wrote. — Paul Thomas Anderson
My life, the most truthful one, is unrecognizable, extremely interior, and there is no single word that gives it meaning. — Clarice Lispector
I don't want awards, I want my daughter. I wouldn't exchange a single eyelash of my daughter for the whole world. — Malala Yousafzai
Even a single lamp dispels the deepest darkness. — Mahatma Gandhi
Who are you, reader, reading my poems an hundred years hence? I cannot send you one single flower from this wealth of the spring, one… — Rabindranath Tagore
I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them a single word: Home. — Mahmoud Darwish
Everybody thinks theyll never get married at your age. You think you can go on all your life being single, but you suddenly find out… — Alan Sillitoe
For a single girl in London, luck isn't always a glass slipper that fits. Sometimes luck is a splash of mud from a passing bus. — Elizabeth Jane Howard
Words have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbits and enter a wider magnetic field. No one… — David Lehman
They [Japanese whalers] haven't produced a single peer-reviewed international scientific paper in 23 years. — Paul Watson
Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very… — E T A Hoffmann

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