Bernard Dowiyogo Quotes
The United Nations cannot stand by and witness the destruction of the people of West Papua.
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I first saw Walter Hill's second film, 'The Driver,' as a teenager, late at night on the BBC, quite possibly sitting too close to the telly. Given that this 1978 slice of neo-noir takes place almost entirely in the dark streets of a deserted downtown L.A., it's really a perfect midnight movie.
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Because Republicans believe that the federal government is limited in its function-some have concluded that Republicans are somehow inherently insensitive to minority rights. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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The fights in future will not be over whether we ought to do something, but over how we ought to do it, and that's a reasonable debate.
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My name became known because I was, one might say accidentally the target of state repression and because so many people throughout the country and other parts of the world organized around the demand for my freedom.
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I've always said, 'I don't want to be irrelevant.'
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We need open minds and open hearts when we wrestle with the past and ask questions of it, and the answers it will provide are in nobody's pocket... We should let nobody tell us that they know all that it contains, or try to prescribe or constrain in advance what it has to tell us.
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It has been said that knowledge is power. We need to strengthen education systems so that young people can benefit from cultural diversity, and not be victimized by those who exploit differences.
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Passion, friendship, love, loyalty, trust . . . if you found the right person . . . you really could have it all.
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I believe it is my duty to share the gifts I have learned. How dare I have the tools for finding serenity and not share them with the world?
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Nobody wants to be a lawyer - it's hard work. But it was kind of my academic route.
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I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.
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Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive.
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The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.
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I came on the intro with 'The Rapture.' If you know what the rapture is, it's the coming of Jesus, and I had to take it off because of what happened...I had the destruction, the bombs, and...the world coming to a end, so it had to come off.
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The United Nations cannot stand by and witness the destruction of the people of West Papua.
