Dennis C. Blair Quotes
The Industrial Revolution caused a centuries-long shift in power to the West; globalization is now shifting the balance again.
Dennis C. Blair
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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
Oscar Wilde
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If our hard-earned liberty, our desire to be irreverent of the old and to question the new, can be reduced to one, basic and indispensable right, it must be the right to free speech.
Maajid Nawaz
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
J. G. Ballard
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
Xun Kuang
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I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.
Vin Diesel
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If you kill someone, it shows that you are afraid of that person.
Malala Yousafzai
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If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.
Ralph Adams Cram
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Even great actors shine brighter in the right atmosphere.
Caleb Deschanel
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
Oscar Wilde
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
Barbara Tuchman
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I get ideas for my books from people I know and what happens to them, from places I've been and what happens to me, and from things I read.
E. L. Konigsburg
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When a crowd rushes into your house without declaring its intention, it is, by definition, an invasion.
Viktor Orban
