“ We believe that peace is not just signed papers, but rather a contract between generations for the building of a more promising and less threatening future. ”
- King Hussein I- Copy
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“ What we have now is a university town grafted onto a declining industrial city. The standard of living here is not going to be as great. ”
- James Connolly- Copy
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“ I can be intimidating, but not within the confines of a film shoot. ”
- Jeanne Moreau- Copy
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“ I don't think it's any fun, even if you are one of the most respected authors in the world like Margaret Atwood, to keep being nominated and not win. ”
- Kazuo Ishiguro- Copy
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“ As the work proceeded we found that the western end of the cutting receded under the slope of the rock, and thus was partly roofed over by the overhanging rock. ”
- Howard Carter- Copy
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“ Genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum. ”
- Charles Spencer- Copy
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“ They appear to have had a higher voter turnout in Iraq than we did in our recent federal elections, and we didn't have terrorists threatening to kill our families if we voted. ”
- Conrad Burns- Copy
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“ Great writers arrive among us like new diseases — threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible. ”
- Craig Raine- Copy
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“ Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better. ”
- King Whitney Jr.- Copy
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“ Man should not be in the service of society, society should be in the service of man. When man is in the service of society, you have a monster state, and that's what is threatening the world at this minute. ”
- Joseph Campbell- Copy
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“ The Great Black Things that have loomed against the horizon of my life, threatening to devour me, simply loomed and nothing more. The things that have really made me miss my train have always been sweet, soft, pretty, pleasant things of which I was not in the least afraid. ”
- Elbert Hubbard- Copy
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“ Oddly, I've been brought into a conflict the town is facing now. A pharmacy chain is threatening to demolish four historic houses near the one I grew up in to build a drive-thru superstore. The money they're offering is beyond anyone's expectations, yet the town could cannibalize its heritage and never quite recover. ”
- Bill Pullman- Copy
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“ If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want… well, that's where you're right. But-and I am only saying this because I care-there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing. ”
- Val Kilmer- Copy
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“ New drugs and surgical techniques offer promise in the fight against cancer, Alzheimer's, tuberculosis, AIDS, and a host of other life-threatening diseases. Animal research has been, and continues to be, fundamental to advancements in medicine. ”
- Daniel Akaka- Copy
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“ We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms. ”
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin- Copy
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“ To the United States, the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators. ”
- Lewis H. Lapham- Copy
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“ The ocean, whose tides respond, like women's menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid in which human life begins, the ocean on whose surface vessels can ride but in whose depth sailors meet their death and monsters conceal themselves… it is unstable and threatening as the earth is not; it spawns new life daily, yet swallows up lives; it is changeable like the moon, unregulated, yet indestructible and eternal. ”
- Adrienne Rich- Copy
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“ The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism. ”
- Elizabeth Hardwick- Copy
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“ Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular — not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately… ”
- Walter Lippmann- Copy
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