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Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and other issues and provided we use a mix of targeted incentives and sanctions to narrow these differences. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#american #american interests #both #china #dialogue

I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death. ↗

— Eben Alexander

#believed #brain #death #described #escaped

If it is widely assumed that the new President cannot move forward simply because of a narrow victory, there can easily develop a sense of unease and uncertainty, adversely affecting every sector of American society, our economy and the perception of other nations. ↗

— Richard V. Allen

#affecting #american #american society #assumed #because

For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#combined #energy #more #narrowness #nothing

I'm not trying to be evasive, but when I say yes and no, I say 'yes' because there are narrow-minded people that won't look past the logo and 'no' because 'American Idol' put me in front of millions of people and I would not have a career without 'Idol.' ↗

— Bo Bice

#american idol #because #career #evasive #front

The people who actually do things always suffer the slings and arrows of those who don't. ↗

— Craig Bruce

#always #arrows #people #slings #suffer

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#compass #ever #found #happiness #immediately

No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It nearly killed me. I think, in a way, it did kill me. ↗

— Truman Capote

#bones #cold #did #down #ever

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#hardens #hurt #makes #narrow #often

I love Italian food but that's too generic a term for what's available now: you have to narrow it down to Tuscan, Sicilian, and so on. ↗

— Lee Child

#down #food #generic #i #i love