William Dwight Whitney Quotes
Aristocracy and exclusiveness tend to final overthrow, in language as in politics.William Dwight Whitney
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The President's post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
I think culture precedes politics, and I think the attempts to try and legislate people's behavior... isn't going to be productive until the culture decides what they want to achieve.
Foster Friess -
Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
Vera Brittain -
Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.
Jack Germond -
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
A. J. Liebling -
I loved everything about Spain - the people, the language, and the food!
Karlie Kloss
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I follow politics very closely. I read several newspapers every day.
Fernando Botero -
The major international appeal for 'House of Cards' was kind of a surprise because it's a very American show. What we learned is that American politics is very American, but greed and corruption and all of that is very global.
Ted Sarandos -
Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.
Galileo Galilei -
Ralph Miliband was a socialist intellectual of great integrity. He belonged to a generation of socialists formed by the Russian revolution and the Second World War, a generation that dominated left-wing politics for almost a century.
Tariq Ali -
The relations between rhetoric and ethics are disturbing: the ease with which language can be twisted is worrisome, and the fact that our minds accept these perverse games so docilely is no less cause for concern.
Octavio Paz -
The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.
J. Michael Straczynski
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Language that is designed to dehumanize has consequences.
Maajid Nawaz -
As Assistant Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, a constant concern for me is having our veterans dragged into partisan politics.
Tammy Duckworth -
Enter politics, and you enter the glass house; there are no secrets and no places to hide.
Nancy Gibbs -
There's a nastiness out there that wants to harm me with words. These are my enemies - the ideologues, the populists, the columnists who don't like the fact that I take them on toe-to-toe. What I try to do is tell the truth. It's not the coin of the realm in politics.
Ed Koch -
The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.
H. Rap Brown -
Theatricality is a concept. It's not a specific language.
Gael Garcia Bernal
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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.
Lou Holtz -
I can already feel myself getting fed up with boys and I haven't had anything to do with them yet" - Georgia Nicolson
Louise Rennison -
I was a good soldier in the British Army. I was born in a very, very poor family. And I enlisted to escape hunger. But my officers were Scottish and they loved me. The Scots are good, you know.
Idi Amin -
I am a glutton for a beautiful hotel. I am so easily smitten by high thread counts.
Gail Simmons -
Aristocracy and exclusiveness tend to final overthrow, in language as in politics.
William Dwight Whitney