Molly Ivins Quotes
If you really wanted to settle down the Middle East, if what you wanted was change in the Middle East, it is perfectly obvious that the first step is resolving the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.
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The thing about women playing boys is that we're not going to age, and we're not going to go through puberty in the middle of a long-running series.
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Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.
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The social system grows rigid but the productive forces continue to expand, and conflict ensues between the forces of production and the social conditions of production.
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The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.
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There is only one conflict in Ukraine today and it is between the regime and the people.
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Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.
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People on both sides of any conflict believe they are right, whether it's on a TV show or in the real world.
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Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.
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Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
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That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in.
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Without trust, the most essential element of innovation - conflict - becomes impossible.
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We developed a system in Romania that was very successfully continued for a number of years, but I don't know if it was because of some conflict in the organisation or whether there was government interference... but somehow, they have forgotten the importance of raising gymnasts to be ready for every Olympics.
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When the problems in Northern Ireland started, it was not a question of Protestantism or Catholicism, because the Catholic church was the only church at that time-it was a nationalist conflict.
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The fact is, employees cannot make breakthroughs if they can't openly and honestly disagree with their peers and their leader. Indeed, great leaders don't just permit conflict; they actively try to elicit it from reluctant employees as well.
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One of the greatest fears of the Arab world is a direct conflict between Israel and the Islamic State.
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For many child soldiers, war and violence are all they have ever known. If we don't take it upon ourselves to show them an alternative, then they're going to be soldiers forever, and they'll continue to be recruited and to participate in violence if another conflict starts five or 10 years down the road.
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Everybody wants to talk about sectarian conflicts of the war in Iraq, but the fact of the matter is, Sunnis have lived with Shias in harmony more in the confines of Iraq, in that land, than they have been in conflict. That's an historical fact.
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We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.
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The worst place to be is in the middle. When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.
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Where we're not wrong or where the cost of settling is so much that it is totally disproportionate to the harm or the error that we made, we're not going to settle.
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I wanted to make photographs that were immediate and revealing - different from traditional portraiture that called for formal distance between artist and subject.
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I always tell my employees, the busier it gets, the slower you should cook. When you run around like a crazy person, that's when things go wrong.
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If you really wanted to settle down the Middle East, if what you wanted was change in the Middle East, it is perfectly obvious that the first step is resolving the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.
