Mustafa Akyol Quotes
The Arab Spring has heightened the ideological tension between Ankara and Tehran, and Turkey's model seems to be winning.
Mustafa Akyol
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There are times that you have a plot in your head, but then you find that the characters don't want to do that. When you're looking at the story from the outside, you can create whatever twists and turns you want. But when you're writing, you're inside the characters' heads, and you see that they may be motivated to do something different.
Ramez Naam
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There is always anxiety before a competition and it was no different for me today. It was only in the third round, with about 40 targets left, that I realised I could match the world record score.
Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
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It is a very great mistake, common to counsel, and especially to young counsel, to consider that a decision of any court must necessarily command the respect of another.
Samuel Freeman Miller
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To some people, Common Core means what it actually is, which is a set of standards. That's not necessarily most people. To other people, Common Core is a new curriculum that's been implemented at their school that they don't understand. It's applying new teaching tools.
Brown Campbell
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God was feeling sardonic the day He created the Universe. So it's rather up to at least one man every few centuries to pop up and come just as close to making him swallow his laughter as possible.
L. Ron Hubbard
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The silvery tree opens to an empty sky - maybe it is better that I am not your husband.
Anna Akhmatova
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A great Empire, like a great Cake, is most easily diminished at the Edges.
Benjamin Franklin
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The sneaking arts of underling tradesmen are thus erected into political maxims for the conduct of a great empire; for it is the most underling tradesmen only who make it a rule to employ chiefly their own customers. A great trader purchases his good always where they are cheapest and best, without regard to any little interest of this kind.
Adam Smith
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As you get older, the physical abilities decrease, which is particularly frustrating because your brain gets so good! So as you are becoming less technically or physically able, younger dancers are emerging who need the space to perform.
Deborah Bull
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And old affront will stir the heart Through years of rankling pain.
Jean Ingelow
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I thought, 'I loved Batman, I loved Spider-Man, I love all these characters, but Catwoman is really different from any other one.'
Denise Di Novi
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Give light and people will find the way.
Ella Baker
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I used to go to the Church of the Harvest, right off Adams and La Brea. There was a pastor there who had the best big choir and the best band. He would start praying, and the music would start playing and just make people feel so good, you could break out of whatever you were going through. Soft music can have that effect, too.
Ty Dolla Sign
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I feel like I'm nothing without wildlife. They are the stars. I feel awkward without them.
Bindi Irwin
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When I was at university in the Fifties, Latin America was full of dictators. Trujillo was the emblematic figure because, of course, of his cruelty, corruption, extravagance, and theatricalities.
Mario Vargas Llosa
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Squash has the credentials to become an olympic event and our goal is to see the sport in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. We are working towards this and will keep trying even if our bid is not successful.
Jahangir Khan
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The vast majority of Muslims are moderates working for a better future and seeking a peaceful life.
Ahmed Zewail
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A globalist is a person that wants the globe to do well, frankly not caring about the country so much. You know, we can't have that.
Donald Trump
