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Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty.

Joey Skaggs

Stories, Release, Duty

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No matter how many plots we uncover and disrupt, no matter how many terrorist organizations we degrade or destroy, another individual or group will rise to take their place.

Cofer Black

Organization, Groups, Plot

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So is it always nationalist to resist US globalization? The US thinks it is, and wants you to agree; and, moreover, to consider US interests as being universal ones.

Fredric Jameson

Thinking, Want, Globalization

Fredric Jameson (2009). “Valences of the Dialectic”, Verso Books

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Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our culture.

Charles W. Pickering

Responsibility, Media, Abuse

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Decline III, I funded myself, from the studio money. That, and I sold a lot of drugs. Kidding. Don't print that.

Penelope Spheeris

Drug, Decline, Print

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As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity also came into being.

Abdolkarim Soroush

Islamic, Ethnicity, Identity

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In all my years of performing, no audience member has ever actually assaulted me. I consider this to be the singular triumph of my performing career.

Rupert Holmes

Years, Careers, Triumph

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For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music.

Eugenio Montale

Sound, Speech, Firsts

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The individual organs follow the same pattern as the whole organism, i.e. they have their period of growth, of stationary, maximum activity and then of aging decline.

Wilhelm Ostwald

Growth, Patterns, Aging

"Chemistry: 1901-1921" by Nobel Foundation, (p. 166), 1966.

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The widespread diffusion of nuclear weapons would make many nations able, and in some cases also create the pressure, to aggravate an on-going crisis, or even touch off a war between two other powers for purposes of their own.

Herman Kahn

War, Two, Weapons

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Soap opera wouldn't be my first choice, but at this point in my life, I would consider a soap. It would allow me to act and still do other things with my life.

Joe Lando

Choices, Opera, Soap

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Last year, Congress gave the Department of Defense the authority to design a new civilian personnel system for its employees as part of the defense authorization bill.

Norm Dicks

Years, Design, Defense

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Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings

Henry Mayhew

Sake, Nightfall, Parks

Henry Mayhew (2012). “The London Underworld in the Victorian Period: Authentic First-Person Accounts by Beggars, Thieves and Prostitutes”, p.57, Courier Corporation

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The educational resources provided by a child's fellow students are more important for his achievement than are the resources provided by the school board.

James S. Coleman

Children, Educational, School

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Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, but more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace.

Paul Virilio

Fall, Science, Effectiveness

Paul Virilio (2005). “The Information Bomb”, p.2, Verso

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You could say people are living longer because of the decline in religion. Not many people believe in the hereafter, so they keep going.

Cyril Clarke

Believe, People, Never Quit

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One of the things I learned in law school is that there's nothing wrong or undesirable or dishonorable or destructive about amending the Constitution.

Adrian Cronauer

School, Law, Constitution

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The federal government seeks to control and regulate the Internet, but the last thing this Congress should be doing is trying to stifle public debate online.

Dennis Hastert

Government, Trying, Lasts

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On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.

Ignazio Silone

School, Men, Civilization

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As to my Title, I know not yet whether it will be honourable or dishonourable, the issue of the War must Settle it. Perhaps our Congress will be Exalted on a high Gallows.

Abraham Clark

War, Issues, Titles

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I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, and hitherto have denied us nothing which we have Asked for that Purpose.

Abraham Clark

Attention, Purpose, Pay

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Well, for starters, we have to do more to create demand for new technologies that can reduce our dependence on foreign oil and environmental degradation.

Sherwood Boehlert

Technology, Oil, Environmental

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I think I would much rather push the boundaries of the degradation that the characters face.

Dave Rowntree

Character, Thinking, Degradation

Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. April 17, 2006.

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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.

Fay Godwin

Responsibility, Greed, Degradation

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But it will be said that the husband provides for the wife, or in other words, he feeds, clothes and shelters her! I wish I had the power to make every one before me fully realize the degradation contained in that idea.

Ernestine Rose

Husband, Ideas, Clothes

Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). “Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader”, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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