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Kb Inspirational Quotes (282)

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In its attempt to crush the Black Panthers, the FBI engineered frequent arrests on the flimsiest of pretexts.
Alexander Cockburn
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Nothing can inspire religious duty or animation but religion.
Alexander Cockburn
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No one believes for a moment the embargo will prompt the Iraqi people to rise against Saddam Hussein.
Alexander Cockburn
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They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard.
Alexander Cockburn
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There is never finality in the display terminal's screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the touch of a key. The significance of the past, as expressed in the manuscript by a deleted word or an inserted correction, is annulled in idle gusts of electronic massacre.
Alexander Cockburn
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Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or whether it is now part of Malaysia and should be called Sri Lanka.
Alexander Cockburn
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A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.
Alexander Cockburn
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The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.
Alexander Cockburn
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A just war is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.
Alexander Cockburn
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The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.
Alexander Cockburn
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So much for the crusade against drugs . . . all America is actually doing is consolidating its position as the biggest dealer in addictive and lethal substances on the planet, waging war on all rivals, whether they take the form of the Thai domestic tobacco industry or the Colombian cocaine cartels.
Alexander Cockburn
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When the film was presented in New York, the distributor reproduced the fountain scene on a billboard as high as a skyscraper. My name was in the middle in huge letters, Fellini's was at the bottom, very tiny. Now the name of Fellini has become very great, mine very little.
Anita Ekberg
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A comedy is just a tragedy interrupted, I once said. Do you finish with the kiss or when she opens her eyes to tell him she loves him and sees blonde hairs on his collar?
Alan Ayckbourn
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I think of a plot, I think of an idea, and then I wonder, How can I get that onto the stage? . . . Whatever devices you use should always be there to serve the theme. If the theme has been overtaken by the device, then something's wrong.
Alan Ayckbourn
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He really is terribly heavy going. Like running up hill in roller skates.
Alan Ayckbourn
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If you are flattering a woman, it pays to be a little more subtle. You don't have to bother with men, they believe any compliment automatically.
Alan Ayckbourn
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The darker the subject, the more light you must try to shed on the matter. And vice versa.
Alan Ayckbourn
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As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human race.
Alan Ayckbourn
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Cats names are more for human benefit. They give one a certain degree more confidence that the animal belongs to you.
Alan Ayckbourn
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Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.
Alan Ayckbourn
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The American mass media have achieved what American political might could not: World domination.
Akbar S. Ahmed
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The possibility of a war under the current circumstances is not far-fetched and there is some evidence for that.
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
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Im not satisfied with the progress of the work, but I am happy that the talks are going on. It might have a negative effect if the United States joins.
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
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When al-Qaeda was on the run from Afghanistan crossing through Iran, some were arrested and they are imprisoned. Some of them are charged with some actions in Iran.
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
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