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Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

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Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history. ↗

— Rahm Emanuel

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I can mourn internally, just be quiet about it. I have my moments but I'm not a real, expressive person, especially when it comes to like sadness. ↗

— Faith Evans

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Do I believe in the supernatural? Oh yes, certainly. I can't believe, I can't accept that you die and that's the end. Physically maybe it is a fact. But there's something about the mind that's more than that. ↗

— Terence Fisher

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What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it's not one particular set of sounds. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

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For the only way in which a durable peace can be created is by world-wide restoration of economic activity and international trade. ↗

— James Forrestal

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Any Mexican, would recognise that Mexico was abused, undervalued and downgraded in international circles, most of all by the United States. ↗

— Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

#circles #international #mexican #mexico #most

Public notice does not necessarily accord with internal fulfilment. ↗

— Michael Tippett

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If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

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We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

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