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Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.

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• Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Policy
  • Foreign Policy

• Like the Elizabeth I play, Queen Elizabeth is a monarch who actually moves with the times. She gets new information, assimilates it, and changes in order the fit in with the way the world is moving. I admire that.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • World
  • She
  • Moving

• My goal isn't to shock.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Goal
  • Shock

• People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • People
  • Power
  • Together

• The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Good
  • Art
  • Interesting

• People in Tulsa are totally friendly; the crowds are very nice.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • People
  • Nice
  • Friendly

• I realize that I'm not going to be everybody's cup of tea, and that's okay. I think that's the point of music.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Music
  • Think
  • Tea

• Me calling out Roy Jones is disrespectful.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Me
  • Calling
  • Disrespectful

• After India and China, Indonesia was the biggest new nation-state to emerge in the mid-twentieth century.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • New
  • India
  • China

• All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Experience
  • Future
  • Earth

• It's harder for me to relate to people who don't have families that are loud and crazy.

  

  Alex Wolff
  • People
  • Crazy

• Monterey was the Maraschino cherry on top of the Sundae that was the '60s. It was totally unprecedented, and the audience was unprecedented in their joy.

  

  Art Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel
  • Joy
  • Cherry
  • Monterey

• If God sees that my spiritual life will be furthered by giving the things for which I ask, then He will give them, but that is not the end of prayer. The end of prayer is that I come to know God Himself.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • God
  • Giving

• Let there be no doubt that any failure by Iraq to comply with its obligations will lead to serious consequences, ... For it is only the credible threat of force which has brought Iraq this far today.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Today
  • Serious
  • Failure

• Talking about Korea, it has pretty high capital ratios at banks and maintains a good credit rating.

  

  Lee Myung-bak
  • Good
  • High
  • Pretty

• I think every time you take a female character, a black character, a Hispanic character, a gay character, and make that the point of the character, you are minimalizing the character.

  

  Len Wein
  • Time
  • Character
  • Black

• One aspect of politics too little acknowledged is that besides being jolly serious and all that, it is also a hugely enjoyable game for boys.

  

  Andrew Marr
  • Game
  • Serious
  • Boys

• Sometimes I think the Congress feels that if you only decided tomorrow to switch to wind power that in two years we'd be getting 80 percent of our electricity from wind power. It's nonsense. Normally it takes 20 to 30 years after a new technology is demonstrated and deployed before it powers even 15 or 20 percent of the grid. There's this long lag time, and we haven't even decided which directions to go.

  

  Paul R. Ehrlich
  • Long
  • Technology
  • Sometimes

• The obsessions of others are opaque to the unobsessed, and thus easy to mock. NASCAR, jazz, baseball, roses, poetry, quilts, fishing. If we're lucky, we all have at least one.

  

  Roberta Smith
  • Baseball
  • NASCAR
  • Obsessions

• Deny the world, defy the devil, despise the flesh, and delight yourself only in the Lord.

  

  Lady Jane Grey
  • World
  • Devil

• Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.

  

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