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“It does surprise me that intelligent people in the 21st century could claim that if you respond to the terrorists with force, you spawn terrorism, but if you appease them, you somehow tame them. This argument, as I said, is very interesting, and very surprising.”

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Author:Meles Zenawi

“I find Chinese debates about their political system domestically, but also about China's claims in the international system, to be among the most original and surprising and exciting of our time. The starting point is a system that none of us had anticipated, which I call Leninist capitalism, but also obviously because it is the most important emerging power. The question of China's relations with the United States in particular, and the rest of the world in general, is the question of war and peace in the 21st century.”

“I believe that the biblical teaching is clear. It always contests political power. It incites to "counterpower," to "positive" criticism, to an irreducible dialogue (like that between king and prophet in Israel), to antistatism, to a decentralizing of the relation, to an extreme relativizing of everything political, to an anti-ideology, to a questioning of all that claims either power or dominion (in other words, of all things political), and finally, if we may use a modern term, to a kind of "anarchism" (so long as we do not relate the term to the anarchist teaching of the nineteenth century).”

“Louis B. Mayer is one of those with a claim to posessing the equation... he began to buy up nickelodeon arcades in the years before the First World War in and around Boston. He had noticed that people liked going into the dark to see the light... the appeal of the movies is beyond the sensible, rational or the hard-working. Going into the dark, afte centuries of progress in which mankind has staggered toward artificial light, smacks of delicious perversity.”

“The claim that American women are downtrodden and unfairly treated is the fraud of the century.”

Century Claims Treated Fraud American Woman Downtrodden

Book:Feminist fantasies

Source: Feminist fantasies

“I claim that every woman in this century and in our culture sphere who has ventured into male-dominated institutions - 'literature' and 'aesthetics' are such institutions - must have experienced the desire for self-destruction.”

Self Desire Culture Literature Century Destruction Claims Institutions Males Sexism Spheres Aesthetics Self Destruction

Author:Christa Wolf

“For centuries it was never discovered that education was a function of the State, and the State never attempted to educate. But when modern absolutism arose, it laid claim to everything on behalf of the sovereign power....When the revolutionary theory of government began to prevail, and Church and State found that they were educating for opposite ends and in a contradictory spirit, it became necessary to remove children entirely from the influence of religion.”

“We cannot proclaim this century the African Century and then ignore the AIDS pandemic, as some political leaders are apt to do. To claim this century the African Century is to declare war on AIDS.”

War Political Leader Century Claims Aids Political Leaders Pandemics

Author:Nelson Mandela

“Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as early as the eighteenth century without being clarified, is what we shall have to deal with first of all.”

Firsts Names Deals Century Pure Concepts Claims Various Phenomenon Phenomenology

Book:Husserl, shorter works

Source: Husserl, shorter works

“Presented with the claims of nineteenth-century racist anthropology, a rational person will ask two sorts of questions: 'What is the scientific status of the claims?' 'What social or ideological needs do they serve?'”

Needs Persons Two Asks Social Century Claims Rational Racist Ideological Anthropology Nineteenth Century

Book:For Reasons Of State

Source: For Reasons Of State

“Reading their letters and the First Amendment of the US Constitution, I infer that this nation's founders noted that religions have been at the center of great deal of trouble, so they precluded the US government from getting involved in religion, i.e. "... shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." Over the centuries, various religions have laid claim to various morals; consider the difficulties outsiders are having today in the Middle East, for example.”

“The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed.”

Years Government Century Taxes Years Ago Claims Experiments Income Socialist Twentieth Century Income Tax Tariffs

Author:Alan Keyes

“Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.”

May Century Claims Privilege Access Hinduism Atomic Bomb Nuclear Bomb Atom Bomb Vedas Atomic Weapons

Author:J. Robert Oppenheimer

“WHORES. Necessary in the nineteenth century for the contraction of syphilis, without which no one could claim genius.”

Century Genius Claims Nineteenth Century Contractions Syphilis

Author:Julian Barnes

“Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before the power of speech was arrived at. Perhaps that is why we are so subtly influenced by it. There are vague memories in our souls of those misty centuries when the world was in its childhood.' That's a rather broad idea,' I remarked. One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature,' he answered.”

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Author:Arthur Conan Doyle

“For nearly a century, the moral relativism of science has given faith-based religion--that great engine of ignorance and bigotry--a nearly uncontested claim to being the only universal framework for moral wisdom. As a result, the most powerful societies on early spend their time debating issues like gay marriage when they should be focused on problems like nuclear proliferation, genocide, energy security, climate change, poverty, and failing schools.”

“For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.”

Men Trying Has Beens States Law Force Century Crime Claims Constant Instinct Checks Penalties Persist Death Penalty Equilibrium Refinement

Book:Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays

Source: Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays

“Some books claim I have already clocked up a century of Grands Prix, but let me put the record straight. Australia will be my 100th start, and I aim to mark the milestone with a cracking performance. It could even be celebrated with a victory.”

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Author:Damon Hill

“While I can make no claim for having introduced the term "rugged individualism," I should be proud to have invented it. It has been used by American leaders for over a half-century in eulogy of those God-fearing men and women of honesty whose stamina and character and fearless assertion of rights led them to make their own way in life.”

Source: Challenge Liberty

“There was something horrifying in the realization that, in this twenty-first century of what we call 'civilization,' we have carved up what we claim is one world into 200 artificially created entities we call 'nations' and armed to apprehend or kill anyone who crosses a boundary.”

World Firsts Nations Century Civilization Crosses Claims Twenties Boundaries Realization Entity

Author:Howard Zinn

“Yes, deficits are a problem. I've been saying so for more than a quarter of a century now. But the problem is not the size of the deficit, it's the size of government's claim on our economy.”

Problem Government Economy Century Claims Size Budgets Quarters Deficit Quarter Of A Century Size Of Government

Book:Ronald Reagan

Source: Ronald Reagan

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