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		Sometimes people say to me, 'Well, what was the difference between Kosovo, which was a successful intervention, and Iraq and Afghanistan that have been so difficult?' And the answer is perfectly simple. In Kosovo, you have, after the removal of the loss of its regime, you had a process of political and economic reconstruction that took its part without the intervention of terrorism. If you had the intervention of terrorism, by the way, it would have been extremely difficult there - but we didn't.
	
	  Tony Blair Tony Blair
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		I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever.
	
	  Eunice Kathleen Waymon Eunice Kathleen Waymon
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		Roughly 1 in 6 Americans have Irish blood. I'd say it's probably safe to assume that the average Irish-American who only comes out on St. Patrick's Day has no idea of the sort of economic powerhouse Ireland has become.
	
	  Scott McClellan Scott McClellan
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		Therefore today we have an absolutely sufficient level of gold and foreign currency reserves in order to ensure economic stability and sustainable foreign trade turnover.
	
	  Vladimir Putin Vladimir Putin
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		Abortion happens because of economic circumstances.
	
	  Nat Hentoff Nat Hentoff
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		We cannot and should not stop people from migration. We have to give them a better life at home. Migration is a process, not a problem.
	
	  William L. Swing William L. Swing
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		No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of the questions investigated. Neither may a government determine the aesthetic value of artistic creations, nor limit the forms of literacy or artistic expression. Nor should it pronounce on the validity of economic, historic, religious, or philosophical doctrines. Instead it has a duty to its citizens to maintain the freedom, to let those citizens contribute to the further adventure and the development of the human race.
	
	  Richard Feynman Richard Feynman
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		Once again the Naderites were onstage attacking the Educational Testing Service - the organization which develops and administers the scholastic aptitude tests...the reason for the wax is that the E.T.S. tests persist in showing some people to be smarter than others. And if some people are smarter than others, there might actually be some justification for an economic system in which some people have more money and authority than others.
	
	  Daniel Seligman Daniel Seligman
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		We see that leaders in Western Europe [there are some debates of course, we also see that and analyse it all] stick to, I cannot say right or wrong ones, it always depends on someone's view, but I think, very pragmatic approaches in addressing economic issues.
	
	  Vladimir Putin Vladimir Putin
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		Real progress cannot be measured by money alone. We must ensure that economic growth contributes to our quality of life, rather than degrading it
	
	  Tony Blair Tony Blair
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		The thing I got to thinking about,' he said, 'is--what are the conditions that lead to larger portions of society being generous, humble, and selfless? While we have the conditions for economic opportunity here--and that is a blessing--do we have the conditions to learn how to self-regulate our own passions for the good of the whole?
	
	  Warren St. John Warren St. John
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		People who are very aware that they have more knowledge than the average person are often very unaware that they do not have one-tenth of the knowledge of all of the average persons put together. In this situation, for the intelligentsia to impose their notions on ordinary people is essentially to impose ignorance on knowledge.
	
	  Thomas Sowell Thomas Sowell