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“Beijing would indeed consider vetoing any American effort to sanction Iran at the Security Council.”
Source : "Coming to Terms with China" by Chalmers Johnson, www.motherjones.com. March 16, 2005.
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“Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.”
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“By identifying with the powerful, the disempowered achieve a measure of safety, at least for a moment. By doing the bidding of those in power, they become a necessary part of the system, useful so long as they serve to contain the stirrings and strivings of the oppressed. By making the rules and values of their oppressor their own, they separate themselves from the rest of their group and, temporarily at least, assuage the pain of their stigmatized status.”
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“It is hard to see how one could begin to develop a quantum-theoretical description of brain action when one might well have to regard the brain as "observing itself" all the time!”
Source : Roger Penrose (2016). “The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics”, p.821, Oxford University Press
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“Give me a scotch, I'm starving.”
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“Shakespeare is forever coming into our affairs -- putting in his oar, so to speak -- with some pat word or sentence.”
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“I don't believe that if I came out as bisexual the world will change. But it's really important for people to be truthful about who they are and fight for equality. We need to help the world usher itself into the next phase.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“If family religion were duly attended to and properly discharged, I think the preaching of the Word would not be the common instrument of conversion.”