“ The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. ”
- Henry Kissinger- Copy
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“ We have to stress our conservative credentials and emphasize that we are the natural, national alternative to the Liberals. Clearly the Alliance has shown it can't break out of its Western box. The Alliance is at single-digit support in three quarters of the country. ”
- Peter MacKay- Copy
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“ We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols. ”
- Jacques Lacan- Copy
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“ Papa continually emphasizes how much remains unexplained. With the other psychoanalytic writers, everything is always so known and fixed. ”
- Anna Freud- Copy
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“ I think it is important for youth to grow up giving back to humankind, and West Bank enjoys getting behind the school and supporting them. ”
- Joyce Chapman- Copy
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“ What I emphasize is for people to make choices based not on fear, but on what really gives them a sense of fulfillment. ”
- Pauline Rose Chance- Copy
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“ I want to emphasize that the issue of nuclear weapons in the DPRK must be solved. ”
- Christopher Hill- Copy
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“ President Bush has been careful in his statements specifically about Iraq to emphasize that we are on a long, winding and sometimes deadly road. ”
- Marvin Olasky- Copy
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“ The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it. ”
- Henry Kissinger- Copy
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“ I have always suspected that correctness is the last refuge of those who have nothing to say. ”
- Friedrich Wasiman- Copy
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“ The wisdom of all ages and cultures emphasizes the tremendous power our thoughts have over our character and circumstances. ”
- Liane Cordes- Copy
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“ ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them. ”
- Ludwig Wittgenstein- Copy
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“ Zen is mind-less activity, that is, Mind-ful activity, and it may often be advisable to emphasize the mind, and say, Take care of the thoughts and the actions will take care of themselves. ”
- R. H. Blyth- Copy
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“ Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news. ”
- James Reston- Copy
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“ The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect. ”
- Esther Dyson- Copy
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“ To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers. ”
- Paul Klee- Copy
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“ As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it… you cannot do everything. ”
- Phillips Brooks- Copy
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“ You really don't want a president who is a football fan. Football combines the worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings. ”
- George Will- Copy
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“ Football combines the two worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings. ”
- George F. Will- Copy
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“ I'm going to stay in the race. I really can't believe that any campaign, or should I say any candidate, is going to make a decision to stay in or get out on how they do in a straw poll. And I emphasize the word straw. This is a wonderful, Republican Party fund-raiser for the state of Iowa. ”
- Dan Quayle- Copy
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“ Entertainment today constantly emphasises the message that things are wonderful the way they are. But there is another kind of cinema, which says that change is possible and necessary and it's up to you. ”
- Wim Wenders- Copy
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“ One of the things that keeps you from dropping them in the nearest volcano is that you had to work too hard to get them. You had to cry, you had to scream, you had to sweat, you had to cuss out health care officials, and when that's all over with, you'll be willing to put up with a lot more from your kids. ”
- Barbara Hall- Copy
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“ I have always suspected that too much knowledge is a dangerous thing. It is a boon to people who don't have deep feelings; their pleasure comes from what they know.... But this only emphasizes the difference between the artist and the scholar. ”
- Margaret Anderson- Copy
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“ FLY-SPECK, n. The prototype of punctuation. It is observed by Garvinus that the systems of punctuation in use by the various literary nations depended originally upon the social habits and general diet of the flies infesting the several countries. These creatures, which have always been distinguished for a neighborly and companionable familiarity with authors, liberally or niggardly embellish the manuscripts in process of growth under the pen, according to their bodily habit, bringing out the sense of the work by a species of interpretation superior to, and independent of, the writer's powers… ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world, void of national bias, race, hate, and religious prejudice. There should be no indulgence in undue eulogy of the Negro… ”
- Merle Woo- Copy
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“ We have to be careful in this era of radical feminism, not to emphasize an equality of the sexes that leads women to imitate men to prove their equality. To be equal does not mean you have to be the same. ”
- Eva Burrows- Copy
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“ We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it. ”
- Carl Rowan- Copy
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