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“I thanked the President [George W. Bush] for the steadfastness and resolve with which he's tackling the very complicated problems in the Middle East and Iraq, as well as the Israel-Palestinian issue.... It's critical for us in Southeast Asia that America does that.... because it affects America's standing in Asia and the world, and also the security environment in Asia because extremists, the jihadists, watch carefully what's happening in the Middle East and take heart, or lose heart, depending on what's happening.”

“With this recitation of paraphernalia and detritus, O'Brien manages to encapsulate the experience of an army and of a particular war, of a mined and booby-trapped landscape, of cold nights and hot days, of soaking monsoons and rice paddies, and of the possibility of being shot, like Ted Lavender, suddenly and out of nowhere: not only in the middle of a sentence but in the midst of a subordinate clause.”

War Night Middle Possibility Particular Cold Shots Army Hot Sentences Manage Landscape Midst Trapped Rice Subordinates Clauses Soaking Lavender Hot Days Cold Night Monsoons Recitation Paddy

Author:Francine Prose

“One of the most insidious consequences of the present burden of personal income tax is that it strips many middle class families of financial reserves & seems to lend support to campaigns for socialized medicine, socialized housing, socialized food, socialized every thing. The personal income tax has made the individual vastly more dependent on the State & more avid for state hand-outs. It has shifted the balance in America from an individual-centered to a State-centered economic & social system.”

“Don't seek approval. This may be the toughest suggestion for you to follow -- and the most important. Whether you'te a teenager seeking approval from your peers, a middle-aged parent seeking the approval of your kids, or a man or woman seeking the approval of a partner, it all amounts to the same thing. You're giving your personal power away every time you seek validation from someone else for who you are.”

Men Giving May Important Kids Parent Middle Amount Who You Are Seeking Partners Teenager Approval Peers Suggestions Validation Middle Aged Personal Power

Author:T. J. MacGregor

“If the men of the Middle Ages... lived in filth and discomfort, it was not for any lack of ability to change their mode of life; it was because they chose to live this way, because filth and discomfort fitted in with their principles and prejudices, political, moral, and religious.... It was in the power of medieval... craftsmen to create armchairs and sofas that might have rivaled in comfort those of today”

Ifs Men Way Might Age Today Political Religious Ability Moral Principles Middle He Man Comfort Prejudice Middle Ages Discomfort Medieval Filth Sofas Craftsman Armchairs Ability To Change

Author:Aldous Huxley

“Writing the middle of a novel is a lot like driving through Texas. You think it's never going to end, and the scenery looks the same.”

Thinking Writing Looks Ends Novel Middle Driving Texas Scenery

Book:How to Write Killer Fiction: The Funhouse of Mystery & the Roller Coaster of Suspense

Source: How to Write Killer Fiction: The Funhouse of Mystery & the Roller Coaster of Suspense

“We need a Republican Party that shows up on the South side of Chicago and shouts at the top of our lungs, 'We are the party of jobs and opportunity! The GOP is the ticket to the middle class.”

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Author:Rand Paul

“You will not really have durable peace without a proper security structure in the Middle East.”

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Author:Mohamed ElBaradei

“I grew up in a conservative household. That was the life of the time in Egypt: a conservative, middle-class household.”

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Author:Mohamed ElBaradei

“On Easter, the Pope asked for peace in the Middle East. There are two groups the Pope has to contend with - Jewish people and Muslims. They couldn't wait to hear his suggestions.”

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Author:Conan O'Brien

“Today President Obama is in the Middle East. He met the new king of Saudi Arabia. Obama also met Saudi Arabia's first lady, the second lady, third lady, and fourth lady.”

Firsts Today President Middle Kings Mets Thirds East President Obama Middle East Fourth Arabia Saudi Arabia Saudis First Lady

Author:Conan O'Brien

“Hillary Clinton wrote an Op-Ed for a paper in Iowa about her plans to help the middle class. Middle-class Americans said, 'Why didn't you just say that in a speech?' and she said, 'Because I charge $200,000 for a speech.'”

Said Helping Class Plans Middle Speech Paper Clinton Middle Class Iowa

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“Things were very different back in 1992. There was unrest in the Middle East, we had a gridlocked Congress, and everybody was talking about Bill Cosby.”

Different Talking Middle Bills Congress East Middle East Unrest

Author:Craig Ferguson

“Democracy is a request from a War Board, in the middle of a morning in the middle of a war, wanting to know what democracy is.”

Knows War Morning Democracy Middle Boards Request

Author:E. B. White

“By May, 1st, 1937, there should not be one single church left within the borders of Soviet Russia, and the idea of God will have been banished from the Soviet Union as a remnant of the Middle Ages, which has been used for the purpose of oppressing the working classes.”

Should May Has Beens Ideas Age Used Purpose Left Church Class Middle Unions Russia Gods Will Borders Soviet Working Class Soviet Union Middle Ages Remnants Soviet Russia

Author:Joseph Stalin

“We all die in the end, but there's no reason to die in the middle.”

Ends Reason Dies Middle No Reason

Author:David Mamet

“The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.”

States Humor Funny Nations Middle Borders Eastern Quarrels

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“If I hurt somebody's feelings, I go right to them and talk to them and explain what happens. Sometimes I'm mad at myself because I left a pitch in the middle. It's big when you leave a pitch in the middle. When I make that mistake, it's frustrating for me. I have to think about what I did wrong and go to the next step.”

Ifs Thinking Sometimes Feelings Bigs Happens Next Left Hurt Mistake Steps Middle Mad Frustrating Next Steps

Author:Carlos Zambrano

“There is no more a 'political middle' than there is a family in America with 2.3 children. People with opinions take sides. Contrary to what you've heard, it's actually more important to stand for something than it is for everybody to 'just get along'.”

People Children Important America Political Sides Opinion Heard Middle Contrary Stand For Something

Author:Ann Coulter

“The Gods occupy the loftiest regions, men the lowest, the demons the middle region...They have immortality of body, but passions of the mind in common with men.”

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Author:Saint Augustine

“What happened is that in the middle of my life I went away and in my own sense of hubris, pride, cynicism, thought, I am an autonomous being in the world, I can control things, I am God.' But my experiment at being God failed! And they do have a great saying in AA: 'Get down off the cross, we need the wood!' And the important thing is to realise you are not the centre of the universe, you are not God.”

World Needs I Can Important Universe My Own Happened Middle Humour Pride Crosses Important Things Woods Experiments Realising Cynicism Centre Hubris Autonomous

Author:John Waters

“Cut off my head, and singular I am, Cut off my tail, and plural I appear; Although my middle's left, there's nothing there! What is my head cut off? A sounding sea; What is my tail cut off? A rushing river; And in their mingling depths I fearless play, Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.”

Play Left Parent Sound Forever Cutting Sea Middle Rivers Depth Fishes Boat Fearless Lakes Fishing Tails Sweetest Rushing Mute Mingling

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“Iraq's invasion of Kuwait is a case of bad men doing wrong things for wicked reasons. This is the full-sized or standard purebred evil and is easily recognized even by moral neophytes. Other malignities-drugs in America, famine in Africa and everything in the Middle East-are more complex. When combating those evils people sometimes have trouble deciding whom to shoot.”

Source: Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer

“We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.”

I Can Night Sports Talking Practice Middle Quarterback Middle Of The Night

Author:Dan Marino

“Everyone has a budget, I don't care who you are. But they said if we are in a pennant race in the middle of the summer they are going to get some help with added payroll.”

Ifs Said Helping Care Sports Race Middle Summer Who You Are Don't Care I Don't Care Budgets They Said Payroll

Author:Dusty Baker

“Under the old social philosophy which had governed the Middle Ages, temporal, and therefore all economic, activities were referred to an eternal standard. The production of wealth, it distribution and exchange were regulated with a view to securing the Christian life of Christian men. In two points especially was this felt: First in securing the independence of the family, which can only be done by the wide distribution of property, in others words the prevention of the growth of a proletariat; secondly, in the close connection between wealth and public function.”

“Under the old philosophy which had governed the high Middle Ages things had been everywhere towards a condition of Society in which property was well distributed throughout the community, and thus the family rendered independent.”

Wells Philosophy Age Politics Community Economy Middle Conditions Independent Property Liberalism Middle Ages

Book:The Crisis Of Civilization

Source: The Crisis Of Civilization

“In the course of the twenty-first century what may be called the "capital wage" could be added to the labor wage and the social wage, so that middle-class Americans - not merely an affluent minority - might derive income from three sources rather than just two.”

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Author:Michael Lind

“I think Christine and Chad are on the opposite extremes of the spectrum. Christine is a model victim, and Chad is a model perpetrator, and Howard is closer to the middle.”

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Author:Neil LaBute

“I was in the middle of a crossroads, which is a nice way of saying crisis, physically, emotionally and spiritually. You know the physical part. We just talked about it.”

Knows Way Nice Middle Crisis Crossroads

Author:Star Jones

“We had the boy's name picked out, but we didn't have a girl's. When he turned out to be a boy, we were so relieved. Literally, in the middle of contracting and pushing, and with my wife being drugged - out and half - lucid, we were still coming up with names.”

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Author:Paul Reiser

“You don't know whether he's thought through how this is going to affect the Middle East.”

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Author:Chris Matthews

“Somehow in the middle of the L.A. trendiness, Boston conservation, New York chic and San Francisco intellectual mellow, there's a place where everything meets.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Ideally, you would live in an area that is not necessarily in the middle of the country, out in the woods, because you can isolate yourself there and get stuck in your own thoughts.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Economics is important because it's possible to buy the places that are necessary to live in relative inaccessibility and seclusion, or to move with a bit of style and chicness into the middle of civilization.”

Important Moving Success Bits Careers Middle Style Buddhism Civilization Economics Relative Seclusion

Author:Frederick Lenz

“At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late.”

Ends Literature Middle Late Bottom Saving Too Late Savings

Author:Hesiod

“But there are still many who continue to marvel at the wisdom of God in so planning the universe that big rivers run by great towns, and that death comes at the end of life instead of in the middle of it. Divest pleas ... of their semi-philosophic jargon, reduce his illustrations to homely similes, and he is marvelling at the wisdom of God who so planned things that the two extremities of a piece of wood should come at the ends instead of in the middle.”

Should Stills Two Ends Bigs Running Universe Pieces Atheism Middle Rivers Towns Woods Planning Simile Illustration End Of Life Jargon Philosophic Extremity Homely

Author:Chapman Cohen

“One of the most persistent fallacies about the Christian Church is that it kept learning alive during the Dark and Middle Ages. What the Church did was to keep learning alive in the monasteries, while preventing the spread of knowledge outside them... Even as late as the beginning of the nineteenth century, however, nine-tenths of Christian Europe was illiterate.”

“Christians have ... identified their opponents, whether Jews, pagans, or heretics, with forces of evil, and so with Satan... Nor have things improved since. The blood-soaked history of persecution, torture, murder, and destruction perpetrated in the name of religion is difficult to grasp, let alohne summarize, from the slaughter of Christians to the Crusades to the Inquisitiion to the Reformation to the European witchcraze to colonialization to today's bitter coflict in the Middle East.”

“In the middle 1970s an astronomer I admire put together a modest manifesto called "Objections to Astrology" and asked me to endorse it. I struggled with his wording, and in the end found myself unable to sign, not because I thought astrology has any validity whatever, but because I felt (and still feel) that the tone of the statement was authoritarian.”

Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“Obviously, if theism is a belief in a God and atheism is a lack of a belief in a God, no third position or middle ground is possible. A person can either believe or not believe in a God. Therefore, our previous definition of atheism has made an impossibility out of the common usage of agnosticism to mean "neither affirming nor denying a belief in God."”

Source: An Anthology of Atheism and Rationalism

“My wife and I are both Libertarian; she was a Democrat and I was a Republican, and we both met in the middle somewhere.”

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Author:Clint Eastwood

“We are going through historic times, and my vision is a world, first of all, in which America continues to be that one indispensable nation. Because we're taking care of our own people, because our economy is strong and our middle class is growing, and people feel like hard work is rewarded, and we are continuing to expand opportunity and diversity and tolerance and respect.”

“I went to a middle-class school, but my background is working class. I got the best of both worlds, I saw both classes, so I have a pretty fair idea of how people live and why they do it.”

People World Ideas School Class Saws Middle Fairs Backgrounds Middle Class Working Class Best Of Both Worlds

Book:David Bowie: The Last Interview

Source: David Bowie: The Last Interview

“In the sixties, in the middle sixties, suddenly comics became this hip thing, and college students and hippies were reading them. So I was one of them, and I started reading, basically it was the Marvel Renaissance at that point. It was all their new characters, Spiderman and the X-Men and the Fantastic Four.”

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Author:Trina Robbins

“We need an idiot middle ground, where we have to be honest and say, kids can be idiots and cops can be idiots.”

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Author:Greg Gutfeld

“We have a lot of problems in this country. It's going to put pressure on the budget and we're going to have to make some hard decisions. But the decisions we make are to prioritize the middle class.”

Country Hard Problem Decision Class Middle Pressure Budgets Middle Class Prioritize Decisions We Make Hard Decision

Author:David B. Axelrod

“We will stop Iran from becoming a nuclear power. We will stop that nuclear arms race that could happen in the Middle East. We will also make that Putin knows we have brigades in eastern Europe to make sure we deter his aggression. Peace through strength works.”

“Government spending is always a “tax” burden on the American people and is never equally or fairly distributed. The poor and low-middle income workers always suffer the most from the deceitful tax of inflation and borrowing.”

People Government Suffering Poor Middle Taxes Lows Workers Burden Spending Income Inflation Borrowing Deceitful Government Spending Tax Burden

Author:Ron Paul

“Not too isolated, not too many relationships, the middle, that's wisdom.”

Middle Isolated

Author:Confucius

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