Harold Ford, Jr. Quotes
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Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition.
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One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.
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Cynicism is something which has become symbolic of imperial policy.
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I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States.
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As digital communications have multiplied, and NSA capabilities with them, the agency has shifted resources from surveillance of individual targets to the acquisition of communications on a planetary scale.
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Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources.
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So if we are really concerned about generating more taxes, we ought to be investing in our people, not taking away the kinds of resources that contribute to their ability to become greater taxpayers in this country.
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The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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My wife and I have a tradition of popcorn and videos with our kids on Friday evenings.
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I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.
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Americans have long recognized the need to protect our public lands and their vast resources.
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I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision... is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive.
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In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.
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I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.
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Our policy on the annexation of Crimea, which we consider illegal, will stay.
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The air of the English is down-to-earth. They care about details; there's a tradition, but there's also a counter-culture: the younger generation versus the older generation and so on. But then that's well blended into a happy balance and crystallised into common sense.
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Energy is one of the most precious battlefield resources, but it is risky and expensive to deliver in combat zones.
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The piddling ignoramuses who deny that there is a distinct, discernible, objective western tradition are just woozy literati.
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If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.
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Knowledge is pleasure as well as power.
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You're only awake when you realise you're awake and when you're dreaming, it is just as real, whatever happens is just as real - whether you actually do die in a dream or fulfil whatever you're doing in a dream, it's, there's nobody to tell me it isn't as real as this now, because how do you know?
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Bright and illustrious illusions! Who can blame, who laugh at the boy, who not admire and commend him, for that desire of a fame outlasting the Pyramids by which he insensibly learns to live in a life beyond the present, and nourish dreams of a good unattainable by the senses?
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One bipartisan policy tradition is to deny Americans the use of our own resources.
