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“There can be no place in a 21st-century parliament for people with 15th-century titles upholding 19th-century prejudices.”

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I am formally accountable to the steering board of the PIC, and I meet with nine ambassadors from the PIC every week. I have…

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We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.

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It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile.…

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I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.

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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.

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The multinational corporations now developing budgets often bigger than medium-sized countries — these live in a global space which is largely unregulated, not subject…

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Now we are intimately locked together. You get swine flu in Mexico; it’s a problem for Charles de Gaulle Airport 24 hours later. Lehman…

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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

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I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.

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One of the great barriers to peace in the Middle East is that both sides, both Israel and the Palestinians, do not understand that…

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It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.

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I was told there would be riots in the streets, but there were no riots.

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Though my grandmother had picked up modern ideas in America, she still had some conflicting 19th-century Irish notions. She believed that daughters, educated though…

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Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much.

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“Washington was no politician as we understand the word," replied Ratcliffe abruptly. "He stood outside of politics. The thing couldn't be done today. The…

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Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of…

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Like the railroads that brought us together in the 19th century, these trails will bring us together in the 20th and 21st centuries. (at…

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By tracing the careers of the four members of the Philosophical Breakfast Club, Laura Snyder has found a wonderful way not just to tell…

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If you look back on the history of the 20th century, the 19th century or even to the ancien régime of the 18th, you will see that first people rebelled against the order of the things because of lack of liberty, and demanded more freedom. And when they got more freedom, they got frightened, and they desired more security for…

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If you look at that incredible burst of fantastic characters that emerged in the late 19th century/early 20th century, you can see so many…

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. . . Luddites were those frenzied traditionalists of the early 19th century who toured [England] wrecking new weaving machines on the theory that if they were destroyed . . . old jobs and old ways of life could be preserved . . . At certain times in his life each man is tempted to become a Luddite, for there…

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Take any writer you want in the 19th century: they wrote with quill pens, dipping a piece of goose feather in ink and writing.…

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There are real issues that the president Donald Trump and particularly Steve Bannon, his political adviser, are pushing. It's a vision, a rather dark…

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Adolescence was invented in the 19th century to enable middle-class families to keep their children out of sweatshops. But it has degenerated into a…

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