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When I became White House press secretary, there were other limitations that were thrust upon me. Bill Clinton was under pressure to appoint women to visible positions. I was 31, I'd never worked in Washington. Was I ready for this large and visible job? Still he wanted the credit. So he gave me the job but diminished the job.


Dee Dee Myers


#became #bill #bill clinton #clinton #credit

The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or rather, to be more exact - of the northern hemisphere's towns, fields, and the people who have developed our civilization.


Alva Myrdal


#civilization #course #devastating #developed #drifting

The Nuclear Security Summit was President Obama's initiative born out of his vision to leave behind a safer, more prosperous world for the future generation.


Lee Myung-bak


#born #future #generation #his #initiative

Literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.


Morris Raphael Cohen


#both #distressing #frequency #idols #literature

Look at Ayatollah Khomeini's revolution and the slogans that they used: anti-imperialism; anti-colonialism; the struggle of the have-nots against the haves; the state monopoly over economy, which was very much patterned after the Soviet Union. All of these things did not come out of Islam. Islam is not that developed.


Azar Nafisi


#against #come #developed #did #economy

People would react to books by authors like James and Austen almost on a gut level. I think it was not so much the message, because the best authors do not have obvious messages. These authors were disturbing to my students because of their perspectives on life.


Azar Nafisi


#austen #authors #because #best #books

The biggest crime in Nabokov's 'Lolita' is imposing your own dream upon someone else's reality. Humbert Humbert is blind. He doesn't see Lolita's reality. He doesn't see that Lolita should leave. He only sees Lolita as an extension of his own obsession. This is what a totalitarian state does.


Azar Nafisi


#blind #crime #does #dream #else

Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.


Gloria Naylor


#her #missed #old #she #sometimes

The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.


Nagarjuna


#cause #down #driven #every #inevitable

So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts.


Nagarjuna


#encourage #others #own #praise #their






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