"Back when George W. Bush was identifying his……" — Serge Schmemann
"Back when George W. Bush was identifying his Axis of Evil, it struck me that a longer and more instructive list could be compiled of the Axis of the Humiliated (or Insulted and Injured, to borrow from Dostoevsky)."
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16 Quotes by Serge Schmemann
Serge Schmemann has 16 quotes on this site.
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Every time some spoiled European soccer millionaire complains about the blaring vuvuzelas, I want them to blare louder.
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Soccer is a great game, and the rich variety of styles and passions that come with being truly global makes…
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What Paris has done right is to make it awful to get around by car and awfully easy to get…
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The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information.
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In some circles Stalin has in fact been making a comeback. His portrait hangs above the dashboard of trucks, a…
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Newspaper reporting is really storytelling. We call our articles 'stories,' and we try to tell them in a way that…
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The lesson for the next U.S. president: Raise the taxes on fuel. A lot.
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There are many roads to journalism. My feeling is that your best bet in college is to study the subjects…
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Definitely read a quality daily paper regularly, and use the Internet to check out the press around the world as…
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Our daily life is filled with electronic pianos, ring tones, the disembodied voice giving you your bank balance over the…
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Buyers of powerful cars place a high premium on the exhaust note, and manufacturers spend a lot of money getting…
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A history of perceived humiliation, after all, lurks behind many acts of terror. And competing narratives of victimhood and insults…
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More Axis Quotes
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We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis.
— Jeb Bush
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Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever…
— Thomas Carlyle
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To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself…
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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There has been one persistent theme through all Axis propaganda. This theme has been that Americans are admittedly rich, that…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world…
— Louise Bogan
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An amino acid residue (other than glycine) has no symmetry elements. The general operation of conversion of one residue of…
— Linus Pauling
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I've been playing the CNN Drinking Game, have you ever played that? Where you do a shot every time George…
— Doug Stanhope
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Whether it's the Axis of Evil, or the evils of eating meat, it is a concept that has all but…
— Corey Taylor
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What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and, therefore, were not all…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Count the day won, when the earth, turning on its axis, imposes no additional taxes
— Franklin P. Adams
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It could just be a shift on the axis.
— Unknown Author
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However, the small probability of a similar encounter [of the earth with a comet], can become very great in adding…
— Pierre-Simon Laplace
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