Russell Banks Quotes
The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War.
Russell Banks
Quotes to Explore
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I can't hear music. I don't understand it. It's so above and beyond me.
Cam Gigandet
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We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.
Tad Williams
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I used to, like, hit for a half hour and then go eat Cheetos the rest of the day, come out and drill forehands. Now I'm really trying to make it happen, being professional, really going for it, and I miss my Cheetos.
Andy Roddick
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Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of the judgment.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I thought one only had to speak Latin through one's nose and bite off the end.
Charlotte Mary Yonge
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There may be some things we think will make the bill better, ... It certainly will be in consultation with the White House. But, you know, the president set the limit and I think that's what we're going to work for.
Dennis Hastert
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{The cleansing of spiritual contamination} is accomplished by offering one's talent, resources, and life to the world.
Lao Tzu
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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me, writes in order to have no face.
Michel Foucault
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I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able to transform men into animals. I did not make use of this capability, because I believed I could not justify an intervention of this kind in the life of another person.
Wolfgang Hildesheimer
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I completely trust Gloria Vanderbilt. I have always found her very honest.
Michael Lindsay-Hogg
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We can drift along as though there were still a cold war, wasting hundreds of billions of dollars on weapons that will never be used, ignoring the problems of people in this country and around the world, being one of the worst environmental violators on earth, standing against any sort of viable programs to protect the world's forests or to cut down on acid rain or the global warming or ozone depletion. We can ignore human rights violations in other countries, or we can take these things on as true leaders ought to and accept the inspiring challenge of America for the future.
Jimmy Carter
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In general I saw my job as the first president whose full term would be served after the Cold War in a global information society where we were interdependent but not integrated. And therefore, we were vulnerable to the worst, and able to seize the best, of what's going on in the world.
Bill Clinton
