"Too often in Washington we tend to see……" — Chuck Hagel
"Too often in Washington we tend to see foreign policy as an abstraction, with little understanding of what we are committing our country to: the complications and consequences of endeavors."
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Chuck Hagel
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45 Quotes by Chuck Hagel
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And this - this board was - was impanelled in 1951. And it's gone through ups and downs in how…
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(The) chain of command has failed over the years, obviously, for a lot of reasons.
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There has to be a reason and objective (to air strikes). What does it do to move the effort down…
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This current government in Iraq has never fulfilled the commitments it made to form a unity government with the Kurds,…
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History has shown that a country most effectively speaks with one voice. When nationally elected officials work together, build consensus,…
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If America is to succeed in responding to these 21st Century challenges, our political system cannot continue to bog down…
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We can't ... take that piece of reality in this business and set that aside and say, well, that doesn't…
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Desperate men do desperate things when you take hope away. And that's where the Palestinians are today.
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I’m a United States senator. I’m not an Israeli senator.
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The United Nations has a critical role to play in promoting stability, security, democracy, human rights, and economic development. The…
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I took an oath of office to the Constitution, I didn't take an oath of office to my party or…
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Palestinians caged up like animals.
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More Abstraction Quotes
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one of 249 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.
— Josef Albers
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That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.
— Sarah Caldwell
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
— Paul Cezanne
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So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.
— Deepak Chopra
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Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience,…
— Leo Buscaglia
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The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of…
— Evelyn Underhill
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The individual is the true reality of life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor…
— Emma Goldman
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The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.
— Piet Mondrian
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Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.
— Paul Gauguin
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The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
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Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal…
— George Boole
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It is astonishing that so simple a truth should ever have had an adversary; and it is one among a…
— Alexander Hamilton
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