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• Where are the gains for religious freedom and human rights to justify all the bombings, invasions and wars we have conducted in the lands from Libya to Pakistan - to justify the losses we have endured and the death and suffering we have inflicted?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Death
  • Freedom
  • Religious

• The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • People
  • World
  • Today

• I should say many things. Mexico has been one of the losers of the 20th century. We tried many different alternatives to development and unfortunately we have 40 percent of the population poor; we have a per capita income that is extremely low.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Different
  • Development
  • Percent

• I absolutely welcome a full investigation into the for-profit schools because I think a majority of them are predatory.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Think
  • Because
  • Welcome

• Since 1989, we have been deploying on an average of every 18 months.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Been
  • Average
  • Months

• My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.

  

  Page McConnell
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Guitar

• Anything that instills a sense of hope will at least temporarily help treat depression.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • Help
  • Hope
  • Depression

• When I was 10 years old, that nuclear spark hit me. Whatever it may be, I really don't know what it was about nuclear science, but whatever it was that triggered that interest, it stuck. I went after that one with a passion.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Science
  • Know
  • Passion

• I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.

  

  Gabriel Luna
  • Small
  • Team
  • Basketball

• Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Life
  • Quality
  • Quantity

• As I lay so sick on my bed, from Christmas till March, I was always praying for poor ole master. 'Pears like I didn't do nothing but pray for ole master. 'Oh, Lord, convert ole master;' 'Oh, dear Lord, change dat man's heart, and make him a Christian.'

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Heart
  • Man
  • Change

• So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Earth
  • Just
  • saw

• Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Today
  • Discipline
  • Outside

• I got lost but look what I found.

  

  Irving Berlin
  • Lost
  • Look
  • Found

• The relationships we have with people are extremely important to success on and off the job.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Important
  • Job

• I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Writing
  • Bad
  • Been

• I'm into Gucci a lot, like vintage '70s everything. I'm into Versace.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Everything
  • Vintage
  • Gucci

• What you see is what you get.

  

  Van Morrison
  • You
  • See
  • Get

• No matter whether it's someone from the political left or right, we just need a voice to stand up and defend animal rights.

  

  Brigitte Bardot
  • Up
  • Political
  • Animal

• Things shouldn't hinge on so very little. Sneeze and you're highway carnage. Remove one tiny stone and you're an avalanche statistic. But I guess if you can die without ever understanding how it happened then you can also live without a complete understanding of how. And in a way that's kind of relaxing.

  

  Miriam Toews
  • Understanding
  • Stones
  • Highways

• My mom played tennis for, like, six hours a day and went to college on a tennis scholarship, because that was the way she could go to school. So they instilled in me the idea that you have to work hard for the things you want in life and never complain.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Life
  • Work
  • School

• It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.

  

  Dee Hock
  • Different
  • Wisdom
  • Trust

• To see an older woman play a little boy on stage completely blasted open my perception to what it meant to act. That was it for me.

  

  Andrea Suarez Paz
  • Boy
  • Perception
  • Act

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  Baden Powell
  • Wisdom
  • Boy
  • Boys