Judith Butler Quotes
Obama's failure to close Guantanamo is yet another instance where the rhetoric of democratic and constitutional rights proved not useful for his international relations, relations which are always pursued in ways that continue to link and fortify securitarian power with the opening of new markets.
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I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do.
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Most pitchers fear losing their fastball, but since I don't have one, I have nothing to fear but fear itself.
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As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book.
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I'm very happy and very excited when my adrenalin is going.
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I am so looking forward to it. I made sure I had a strong foundation before I became pregnant and I think that's the most important thing. There were a lot of things that I wanted to do personally so that when the time came, I really knew who I was and could be the best mother.
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I'm a very outgoing person so I like girls who are not afraid to be themselves. I'm not a shy person.I like conversations and I'm a really big sucker for personality.
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Environmental justice is the movement to ensure that no community suffers disproportionate environmental burdens or goes without enjoying fair environmental benefits.
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No one can cross the boundary into another -- for the simple reason that no one can gain access to himself
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On his daughter, Ava: She is a relief from all the stress in my life; everyday she does something new and it is so amazing.
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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
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Men's minds are given to change in hate and friendship.
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Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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God has entrusted me with myself. No man is free who is not master of himself. A man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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{The cleansing of spiritual contamination} is accomplished by offering one's talent, resources, and life to the world.
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The human will is an amazing thing. Time after time, it has triumphed against unbelievable odds.
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Well, as you know, we're working through a difficult period in our financial markets right now as we work off some of the past excesses. But the American people can remain confident in the soundness and the resilience of our financial system.
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Europe has a set of primary interests, which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves, by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.
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If we all took a little more time to get to know people, I think it would change the whole temperament of the world.
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Obama's failure to close Guantanamo is yet another instance where the rhetoric of democratic and constitutional rights proved not useful for his international relations, relations which are always pursued in ways that continue to link and fortify securitarian power with the opening of new markets.
