Bernard Lewis Quotes
Islam does give human dignity, certainly. The point I wanted to make is that it is great foolishness to try to impose our notions of democracy. They have their own traditions.
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In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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I was not addicted to stealing in my youth, nor have ever been; yet such was the confidence of the Negroes in the neighborhood, even at this early period of my life, in my superior judgment, that they would often carry me with them when they were going on any roguery, to plan for them.
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Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.
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When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.
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I know what falling off the cliff means. I know from being considered a very bright kid to being considered like a moron and dropping out of school.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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I'm usually listening to Sirius Satellite in the morning. 'The Heat' usually plays good music.
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In this part of the world, Jews and Arabs will live together forever.
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All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
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I wasn't very ambitious as a child. I'm still not.
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I'm not sure the least educated members of the population are missing out on the advances in medical technology as much as they are adopting harmful behavioral habits that shorten their life.
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America thrived in the 20th century because we made high school free. We sent a generation to college. We cultivated the most educated workforce in the world.
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A good apology is like antibiotic, a bad apology is like rubbing salt in the wound.'
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The larger the German body, the smaller the German bathing suit and the louder the German voice issuing German demands and German orders to everybody who doesn't speak German. For this, and several other reasons, Germany is known as 'the land where Israelis learned their manners'.
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At first I didn't even realize she was pregnant. I kinda gotten used to her throwing up every time we had sex...
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Although we talk so much about coincidence we do not really believe in it. In our heart of hearts we think better of the universe, we are secretly convinced that it is not such a slipshod, haphazard affair, that everything in it has meaning.
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You looked so intense. Whatever you were saying, you seemed to mean it, and it wasn't amusing at all. Started quite a fashion. People keep looking for purpose now. Complicates everything.
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What I said was, the NSA does not voyeuristically pore through U.S. citizens' e-mails. I stand by that.
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We're told that they were zealots fueled by religious fervour…religious fervour and if you live to be a thousand years old will that make any sense to you? Will that make any goddamn sense?
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I'm advocating that American citizens interested in democracy should stay out of chain stores.
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For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.
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The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to oil, which gives the oil princes and sultans the power in the Mideast.
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Islam does give human dignity, certainly. The point I wanted to make is that it is great foolishness to try to impose our notions of democracy. They have their own traditions.
