Raymond Bonner Quotes
The Philippines is a country in which a man of morals can't be president, in which a politician who hasn't been linked to any wrongdoing isn't assumed to be honest, but merely better at hiding his corruption.
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Home court changes everything. If you have home court, you're expected to win.
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I'd like to scale back the television. I'm constantly told that I'm over-exposed, and I don't want to end up like Carol Vorderman.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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All the reasons that have made software so successful are beginning to happen with hardware. So much can be done so quickly, prototyped so rapidly, and the costs are so low.
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Novels are longer than life.
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All of my life I have stayed away from violence and the instruments of violence, and have seen a legal, democratic struggle as the only means to achieve change.
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Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?
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Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
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The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?
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Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.
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There is no room on the federal bench for a judge who does not treat all people as equal before the law.
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I'm intrigued by people who are super adept at manipulating their own image. We all do it to a certain extent.
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I don't have to be making a lot of money or living in a fancy house.
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I play drums and guitar, I snowboard, I do martial arts and acrobatics. I go to the movies every Friday.
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The mark of one who loves God and saints is sacrifice.
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My career only took off because of one football game. I thought it was funny. 'Playboy' called and offered me a cover just like that. I turned them down initially, because I was nervous about it and my boyfriend at the time didn't want me to do it, but they kept coming back, so I eventually said yes.
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Among twenty snowy mountains, The only moving thing Was the eye of the blackbird.
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'The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish.'
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If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.
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Border collies predate the British Kennel Club. They've been bred consistently for 100 years. They're the last working dogs in the world, with some minor exceptions. Bench shows, dog shows have ruined the other breeds, like the hunting dogs. Border collies are peasant dogs, and that's protected them.
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Donald Trump will be the next president, the 45th President of the United States. And it will be up to him to set up a team that he thinks will serve him well and reflect his policies. And those who didn't vote for him have to recognize that that's how democracy works. That's how this system operates.
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The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.
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Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.
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The Philippines is a country in which a man of morals can't be president, in which a politician who hasn't been linked to any wrongdoing isn't assumed to be honest, but merely better at hiding his corruption.
