Damian Thompson Quotes
Experts now talk about the ‘nutrition transition’, in which populations in developing countries move straight from malnourishment to obesity.
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Western countries in particular can today no longer be separated from Muslim societies, because they have them within themselves. They are themselves internally globalized.
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I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways.
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In the schools of the Western countries, there is always the subject 'Religion.' The Classics are China's religion.
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Try and understand: cricket was played by Commonwealth countries only; now it has started in other countries as well, and I am proud of that.
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In some countries, no one knows who Idris Elba is.
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I've traveled to many countries in Africa, and to me, Benin felt the most hopeful.
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My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
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Let's say I'm on the policy wonk end of the spectrum. As much as I can dive into a briefing book and really work to master various subjects that come before my desk, I'm still not an expert on a huge amount of the stuff that we work on.
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Different countries have different kinds of financial structures.
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Clearly, countries expressed the wish to have more. But at least we have something to rely upon for the time being.
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Shall I tell you something I've been noticing? The mistrust this society has for women. All kinds of experts and officials are terrified because so many women are working. They really think that women have to be coerced into having babies and raising kids.
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The dogma of cultural relativism is challenged by the very people for whose moral benefit the anthropologists established it in the first place. The complaint the underdeveloped countries advance is not that they are being westernized, but that the westernization is proceeding too slowly.
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Many countries have food safety systems from farm to table. Everybody involved in the food supply is required to follow standard food safety procedures. You would think that everyone involved with food would not want people to get sick from it.
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We are jointly calling on both countries to refrain from further testing and to sign up unconditionally to the Non-Proliferation Treaty and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
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Many free countries have lost their liberty, and ours may lose hers; but, if she shall, be it my proudest plume, not that I was the last to desert, but that I never deserted her.
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I do a lot of reading, a lot of studying. I ask questions, I'll go out, travel these countries, I'll watch how their people live, and I learn.
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Elijah Muhammad teaches us the truth of God beautified the planet by separating everybody in different countries for themselves: Chinese in China, English in England, Puerto Ricans in Puerto Rico, Ethiopians in Ethiopia, Arabians in Arabia, Egyptians in Egypt, and Americans took that country and stole it away so there's always going to be trouble and chaos.
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Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals.
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You're in bad shape. It looks like you're developing a soul.
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Unity in faith is theocracy; unity in politics is fascism.
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Extreme picky eaters may have what's called Selective Eating Disorder. People with this experience physical and psychological discomfort over certain tastes, smells, textures.
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Interviews, when they are just simply an exercise in hearing what you want to hear, are of no interest. And many, many, if not most interviews have that character. The interviewer who comes in with a list of bullet points they're going to address one after the other. Interviews, properly considered, should be investigative. You should not know what you're going to hear. You should be surprised.
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Experts now talk about the ‘nutrition transition’, in which populations in developing countries move straight from malnourishment to obesity.
