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No matter what's happening in the Middle East - the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment - the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.
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I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.
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The stronger person is not the one making the most noise but the one who can quietly direct the conversation toward defining and solving problems.
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Whenever you have a proclamation of being chosen, it's always a self-defining process. It's always the people who are chosen who say they are chosen. They never say that about the other. If you're going to say, "I'm chosen," it loads you with a very heavy burden.
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[the virtues] cannot exist without Prudence. A proof of this is that everyone, even at the present day, in defining Virtue, after saying what disposition it is [i.e. moral virtue] and specifying the things with which it is concerned, adds that it is a disposition determined by the right principle; and the right principle is the principle determined by Prudence.
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Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.
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American poetry is always about defining oneself individually,claiming one's right to be different and often to break taboos.
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Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life.
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Personal privacy is a closely held American value.
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It's important to recognize that you can't have 100 percent security and also then have 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience.
