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• For me, a really radical position for journalism to take is to stop being cynical. Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.

  Joe Klein

  Cynical, Journalism, Cynicism

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• Horizontal hostility may be expressed in sibling rivalry or in competitive dueling which wrecks not only office tranquility or suburban domesticity but also some radical political groups and, it must be sadly said, some women's liberation groups. ... [it is] misdirected anger that rightly should be focused on the external causes of oppression.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Sibling, Office, Political

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• I call myself a radical conservative. What's that? Well, let's analyze it. Go to the dictionary. Radical: One who gets to the roots of things. And I'm a conservative because I want to conserve the green of the grass, the potability of drinking water, the first amendment of the Constitution and whatever sanity we have left.

  Studs Terkel

  Drinking, Roots, Water

  "What I've Learned: Studs Terkel" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. November 6, 2008.

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• America is conservative in fundamental principles... but the principles conserved are liberal and some, indeed, are radical.

  Gunnar Myrdal

  America, Principles, Fundamentals

  Gunnar Myrdal (1995). “Black and African-American Studies: American Dilemma, the Negro Problem and Modern Democracy”, p.7, Transaction Publishers

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• Life didn't just happen to them. They experienced life at a deeper level than I had ever experienced it. I had been a radical, a left-wing politico, and meeting the Indian people made me realize that the politics of the left and the right were so much less important than the politics of the heart and the spirit.

  Larry Brilliant

  Heart, Wings, People

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• Your liberals and radicals all want to govern. They want to try it their way- to show that people will be happier if the power is wielded in a different way or for different purposes. But how do they know? Have they ever tried it? No, it's merely their guess.

  B. F. Skinner

  People, Trying, Different

  B. F. Skinner (1974). “Walden Two”, p.181, Hackett Publishing

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• The violent radicals do not legitimately represent the overwhelming majority of the world's Muslims.

  Gijs de Vries

  Majority, World, Violent

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• Radicals are only to be feared when you try to suppress them. You must demonstrate that you will use the best of what they offer.

  Frank Herbert

  Trying, Use, Offers

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.31, Penguin

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• Radical changes of identity, happening suddenly and in very brief intervals of time, have proved more deadly and destructive of human values than wars fought with hardware weapons.

  Marshall McLuhan

  War, Identity, Weapons

  "Laws of Media: The New Science". Book by Marshall McLuhan, co-written with Eric McLuhan, p.97, 1988.

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• Those who expect radical changes in policy and direction are mistaken and lost. The government of the fourth republic will build on what was undertaken by previous governments and will continue with all good things.

  Jakaya Kikwete

  Government, Republic, Radical Change

  "Tanzania's New President Sworn in". news.bbc.co.uk. December 21, 2005.

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• Every movement has radicals. But the important thing is that the radicals are not the leaders.

  Warren Farrell

  Leader, Important, Movement

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• The most radical thing we can do is connect people to one another. That starts conversations toward a vision for change.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  People, Vision, Conversation

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• A radical is one who speaks the truth.

  Charles August Lindbergh

  Truth, Freedom, Speak

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• Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are.

  Niels Bohr

  Spiritual, Rebel, Aim

  "The World of the Atom". Book by Henry Abraham Boorse and Lloyd Motz, January 21, 1966.

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• Radical feminists have been making the pitch that justice demands that men and women be given an equal opportunity to make it to the top in the workplace.

  Rick Santorum

  Opportunity, Men, Justice

  Rick Santorum (2014). “It Takes a Family: Conservatism and the Common Good”, p.87, Open Road Media

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• Radical constructivism, thus, is radical because it breaks with convention and develops a theory of knowledge in which knowledge does not reflect an 'objective' ontological reality.

  Paul Watzlawick

  Reality, Doe, Break

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• There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work.

  Ken Livingstone

  Equality, Law, Needs

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• Because it is a radical act of freedom, creative achievement is a heroic process that requires, in all its permutations, specific strengths of character.

  Robert Grudin

  Freedom, Creativity, Character

  Robert Grudin (1990). “The Grace of Great Things: Creativity and Innovation”, Ticknor & Fields

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• Things like radical generosity and audacious faith are not produced when we focus on them, but when we focus on the gospel.

  J. D. Greear

  Generosity, Focus, Audacious

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• Storytellers, by the very act of telling, communicate a radical learning that changes lives and the world: telling stories is a universally accessible means through which people make meaning.

  Chris Cavanaugh

  Life Changing, Communication, Mean

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• To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair inevitable.

  Raymond Williams

  Despair, Inevitable, Convincing

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• A real sacrifice involves a radical change in the character of a game which cannot be effected without foresight, fantasy, and the willingness to risk.

  Leonid Shamkovich

  Real, Character, Sacrifice

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• A man's liberal and conservative phases seem to follow each other in a succession of waves from the time he is born. Children are radicals. Youths are conservatives, with a dash of criminal negligence. Men in their prime are liberals (as long as their digestion keeps pace with their intellect). The middle aged run to shelter: they insure their life, draft a will, accumulate mementos and occasional tables, and hope for security. And then comes old age, which repeats childhood - a time full of humors and sadness, but often full of courage and even prophecy.

  E. B. White

  Running, Children, Sadness

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• Viewed from the genuine abolition ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed tardy, cold, dull, and indifferent; but measuring him by the sentiment of his country, a sentiment he was bound as a statesman to consult, he was swift, zealous, radical, and determined.

  Frederick Douglass

  Country, Zealous, Dull

  Frederick Douglass, Philip Sheldon Foner, Yuval Taylor (1999). “Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.621, Chicago Review Press

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• As I have said so often before, the long memory is the most radical idea in America...

  Utah Phillips

  Memories, Ideas, America

  "The Long Memory". CD by Utah Phillips and Rosalie Sorrels, 1996.

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