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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Russia's main weaknesses are inflexibility and dependence on energy resources
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Critical thinking relies on content, because you can't navigate masses of information if you have nothing to navigate to.
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The wages of pedantry is pain.
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One bipartisan policy tradition is to deny Americans the use of our own resources.
