Boaz Ganor Quotes
Islamist-jihadist terrorism-a plague that has spread to almost every corner of the world-creates painful dilemmas for the peoples and decision makers who confront it. Its rapid, shape-shifting advance has sometimes confounded efforts to comprehend its origins, motives, and aims. Its sophistication in exploiting liberal values poses challenges and difficulties for the Western world, and for liberal democratic states in general, in attaining effective and balanced counter-terrorism policies.
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The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank.
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I can easily connect with the prepubescent dork I spent much of my life being.
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In 2007 I was at Facebook, and we looked at some of the social networks in Asia, and they were full of games.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
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If Asian America exists, it is because of systemic racism.
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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
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Take one flower that you like and get lots of them. And don't try to 'arrange' them. It's surprisingly hard to do a flower arrangement the way a florist does one. Instead, bunch them all together or put them in a series of small vases all down the table.
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I've always looked old for my age.
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I don't want to dog the NFL.
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I can't wait until we get to the stage where we don't have to explain anymore.
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The religious ideal of Israel was the theocracy. But the theocracy meant the complete penetration of the national life by religious morality. It meant politics in the name of God.
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I switch off lights like a maniac. I drive at reasonable speeds so that I don't waste petrol.
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As a friend once pointed out, the crotchety dowagers do tend to get all the best lines. That may be why I have so many of them in my books.
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Successful nations make a point of trying to learn from their neighbors. The Arab world has been taught over generations only to hate theirs.
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I am a big fan of Chad Johnson. I think that I would compare myself to him as well.
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I loved old movies as a kid, so I always watched old movies.
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The fate of Syria hangs in the balance, but it is entirely possible that the fall of the Assad regime will result in anarchy and cause Syria to turn into a second Afghanistan, a base for anti-Israel terrorism.
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For me, going vegan was an ethical and environmental decision. I'm doing the right thing by the animals.
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The right decision is the wrong decision if it's made too late.
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He could make our decision easy - one way or another.
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Islamist-jihadist terrorism-a plague that has spread to almost every corner of the world-creates painful dilemmas for the peoples and decision makers who confront it. Its rapid, shape-shifting advance has sometimes confounded efforts to comprehend its origins, motives, and aims. Its sophistication in exploiting liberal values poses challenges and difficulties for the Western world, and for liberal democratic states in general, in attaining effective and balanced counter-terrorism policies.
