China cannot lead or be recognized as a leader unless it is viewed as abiding by universal standards for human freedom.
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DON YAEGER Martin Luther King was a misguided leader. He worked to be recognized as the leader of black America...
JIM BROWN Ours is an abiding faith in the cause of human freedom. We know it is God's cause.
THOMAS E. DEWEY It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained; . . . the individual who has not staked his o...
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GEORGE W. BUSH But we know that freedom cannot be served by the devices of the tyrant. As it is an ancient truth th...
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER We should all be able to live as human beings - and to be recognized as such by the societies we liv...
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ANAIS NIN any special authorities granted by you or your board that may be viewed as problematic.
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SHLOMO AVINERI Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only exten...
CHRISTOPHER HILL I hope we are improving by our standards. Whether we are improving by your standards or American sta...
GEORGE YEO Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and jo...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and jo...
DAVID CHAMBLESS Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and jo...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Given his emphasis on human freedom it is no wonder why some champion Kierkegaard as the father of e...
MARK A. TIETJEN Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free... Men cannot ...
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MAUREEN JOHNSON There is no force that can put an end to the human quest for freedom, and China will, in the end, be...
LIU XIAOBO As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility...
ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility...
ARNOLD TOYNBEE For us, universal values such as justice, morality and peace cannot be disputed and it is for this r...
ROBERT KOCHARIAN If it doesn't cure cancer or solve inner city poverty, it'll be [viewed as] a disaster.
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LEONARDO SANABRIA China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China so...
DALAI LAMA A dwell is place of a man's pride and his foundation to be a leader. Without it he cannot lead nor c...
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GEORGE BERNARD SHAW ...it may fairly be doubted if any political tyranny ever imposed on its people such a fear, such a ...
MARK SULLIVAN When narcissism is viewed as good; good is viewed as narcissism.
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GLEN BARCLAY A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
AMIRI BARAKA A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
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DEAN BAKOPOULOS Death is not scary enough and not so sweet life of the human foot leaves gentility.
IMAM ALI (AS) It is a lie.
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GLORIA BERGQUIST Automakers need a consistent national policy for fuel economy, and national fuel economy standards c...
GLORIA BERGQUIST reaffirms our role as the lead for human intelligence.
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GARY LOCKE It is my opinion that human history can make no sense unless evil doings are recognized for what the...
SIMON CONWAY MORRIS You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.
SAM RAYBURN As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.
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MARK SULLIVAN He viewed it as a job that had to be done.
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DENNIS SMITH The US, in fact, is to blame for this gap as the Muslim world cannot tolerate its double standards.
EKMELEDDIN IHSANOGLU A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded.
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MARY RITTER BEARD Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it.
MARY RITTER BEARD It would be viewed as cooperation with the investigation.
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HAROLD BLOOM Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage eve...
HAROLD BLOOM The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent.
HAROLD BLOOM Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overh...
HAROLD BLOOM But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we h...
HAROLD BLOOM Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.
HAROLD BLOOM So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets h...
HAROLD ACTON Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.
HAROLD KUSHNER The whole brunt of the media and the government is to encourage people to be highly competitive and ...
HAROLD PINTER We do not intend to part from the Americans and we do not intend to be satellites. I am sure they do...
HAROLD MACMILLAN A Foreign Secretaryand this applies also to a prospective Foreign Secretaryis always faced with this...
HAROLD MACMILLAN My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel...
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