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• The appalling crackdown that we witnessed in Hama and other Syrian cities on 30 and 31 July only erode the regime's legitimacy and increase resentment. In the absence of an end to the senseless violence and a genuine process of political reform, we will continue to pursue further EU sanctions.

  William Hague

  July, Cities, Political

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• To speak specifically of our problem with the Muslim world, we are meandering into a genuine clash of civilizations, and we're deluding ourselves with euphemisms. We're talking about Islam being a religion of peace that's been hijacked by extremists. If ever there were a religion that's not a religion of peace, it is Islam.

  Sam Harris

  Talking, Civilization, Islam

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• I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.

  Jim Harrison

  Race, Michigan, Mississippi

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. June 7, 2004.

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• Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Rights, Two, Deep Thought

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• Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Inspiring, Focus, Way

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• It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Real, Struggle, School

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• Leadership that exploits and sacrifices young people on the altar of its goals is nothing more than raw, demonic power. Genuine leadership is found in ceaseless efforts to foster young people, to pave the way forward for them.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Sacrifice, Way Forward, People

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• To make films like 'X-Men' work commercially - and also have some class - is one of the hardest things there is to do. I want to be seen to be able to cross lots of genres and still be 'fair dinkum,' as we say in Australia, which means genuine and true and, well, unique.

  Hugh Jackman

  Mean, Unique, Men

  "Hugh Jackman's Essential Truth". parade.com. April 26, 2009.

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• What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

  William James

  Men, Rewards And Recognition, Facts

  William James (2008). “The Letters of William James”, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Philosophy, Greek, Religion

  "The Real Thomas Jefferson".

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• The best way to begin genuine bipartisanship to make America stronger is to work together on the real crises facing our country, not to manufacture an artificial crisis to serve a special interest agenda out of touch with the needs of Americans.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Real, America

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• Sometimes it is hard to sing and dance at the same time but I would rather be off and be real and genuine about it to my fans.

  Kesha

  Inspirational, Dance, Real

  "Britney Spears should be ashamed of her miming, says rising star Ke$ha". Daily Record Interview, www.dailyrecord.co.uk. March 3, 2010.

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• I don't think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust, jealousy, anger; those are all quite easy. But actual, genuine warmth? I don't think you can fake it.

  Keira Knightley

  Jealousy, Fake People, Anger

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• One person alone can't do anything as important as bringing genuine democracy to a country.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Country, Democracy, Important

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• Sometimes films ignore other points of view because it's simpler to tell the story that way, but the more genuine and sympathetic you are to different points of view and situations, the more real the story is.

  Ang Lee

  Real, Views, Stories

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• A lot of people resent that I've been in someone's life for 50 years. Why shouldn't people have an affection for me and what I've done? Didn't I have to be genuine for them to buy into what I did? There are children who grow up today who will not have that when they're 55 years old. With whom will they have it? Name an example for me.

  Jerry Lewis

  Children, Growing Up, Years

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• One of the reasons MSNBC is plummeting is that I, not long ago, refused to play any content from them. I figured, why? I mean, it's genuine depraved partisan politics insanity, genuine extremist radical ignoramuses on that network.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mean, Long Ago, Play

  FaceBook post by Rush Limbaugh from Nov 20, 2013

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• You need to believe in yourself and what you do. Be tenacious and genuine.

  Christian Louboutin

  Believe, Needs, Tenacious

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• I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music.

  John Lydon

  Mean, Roots, Culture

  "Johnny Rotten Praises Battling Bands, Trashes Internet Liars". Interview With Liot Van Buskirk, www.wired.com. September 3, 2007.

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• Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.

  Horace Mann

  Death, Fear, Pride

  Horace Mann (1872). “Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...”, p.211

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• A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots.

  Jose Marti

  Men, Roots, Radical

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• I'd like to talk about free markets. Information in the computer age is the last genuine free market left on earth except those free markets where indigenous people are still surviving. And that's basically becoming limited.

  Russell Means

  People, Age, Earth

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• These, too, seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.

  Felix Mendelssohn

  Soul, Misunderstood, Ambiguous

  Felix Mendelssohn's letter to Marc-Andre Souchay (October 15, 1842) as quoted in "Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from 1833 to 1847" edited by Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Dr. Carl Mendelssohn Bartholdy (pp. 313-314), 1863.

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• Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.

  Henry Miller

  Philosophy, Facts, Action

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.93, New Directions Publishing

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• The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere.

  Maria Mitchell

  Sex, Vanity, Flattery

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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