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Unfortunately, the United States and a few other governments have used the war on terrorism as a way of violating human rights. I am referring to the case of the Guantánamo Bay prisoners. This violation of the rights of prisoners has been so unbelievable that the United Nations has reminded the United States repeatedly that the treatment of prisoners should take place according to the preestablished conventions of the United Nations.

Shirin Ebadi

War, Rights, Government

Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. August 2, 2004.

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When I'm ninety-five and it's 'This is Your Life' time, they'll still be referring to me as 'ex-Beatle'...it does have it's advantages. It's still the best way to get a good table at a resturant.

Ringo Starr

Doe, Tables, Way

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Fascist is not just an epithet. Fascist is a proper noun that means a specific thing. It`s a real thing. It`s not always referring to ancient history.

Rachel Maddow

Real, Mean, Nouns

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The most significant moment will be when we stop referring to the hiring of qualified women (and racial, ethnic and religious minorities) as significant. In other words, when qualified people are hired without regard to race, gender, ethnicity, religious or other differentiating characteristics, that will be the most significant, indeed momentous, event of all.

Amy Trask

Religious, Race, Ethnicity

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When the Constitution declares that 'all men are created equal,' it is not referring to intelligence, good looks, good humor, height, weight, or income. It is talking about certain rights, 'inalienable', in that they cannot be taken away.

Elisabeth Elliot

Taken, Men, Rights

Elisabeth Elliot (2007). “The Mark of a Man: Following Christ's Example of Masculinity”, p.21, Revell

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The whole culture of wearing flags on our lapel and saying 'we' when referring to the United States and, even the 'shock and awe' of the initial stages, it was just too jubilant and just a little uncomfortable.

Katie Couric

Flags, Littles, United States

"The Nefarious 'We'" by Jonah Goldberg, www.freerepublic.com. September 25, 2007.

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If you call yourself a non-believer, you're referring to disbelief in something, and you're acknowledging that there is something to believe in or not.

William Friedkin

Believe, Disbelief, Ifs

Interview with The A.V. Club, film.avclub.com. September 9, 2007.

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By saying that someone becomes the owner of something, we are referring to a market transaction, while by saying that something is a good belonging to someone, we emphasize the fact that it has been incorporated into the world of someone, of which it has become an integral part.

Michel Callon

World, Facts, Owners

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The international community faces ever growing phenomena that transcend borders. I am specifically referring to terrorism, transnational organized crime, the global drug problem, corruption, traffic in persons, sexual exploitation, trafficking of children and adolescents, and smuggling of arms, among others.

Ollanta Humala

Children, Community, Drug

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.. the word ecology, coined by the German biologist and philosopher Ernst Haeckel (initially as oecology) in 1866. derives from the Greek oikos, "referring originally to the family household and its daily operations and maintenance." The term ecology is therefore intended to refer to the study of the conditions of existence that pertain to, and the interactions between, all the entities that make up our larger, cosmic household here upon earth.

Warwick Fox

Greek, Maintenance, Earth

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When I say 'The Hunger For More', it could be referring to more success. It could be more money, or respect, more power, more understanding. All of those things lead up to that hunger for more, because my more isn't everybody else's more. I feel like I made it already, because I got already what everybody on the corners of the neighborhood I grew up in is striving to get. God forbid anything happen to me, my family is straight. So anything that happens after this is just me progressing as a person.

Lloyd Banks

God, Understanding, Progress

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, arent we really referring to the spreading economic and military might of the US?

Fredric Jameson

Military, Economic Globalization, Might

Fredric Jameson (2009). “Valences of the Dialectic”, Verso Books

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A tease is a con. You press a spot because you know that it can be pressed, and while the sucker is feeling the pleasure or the pain resulting from the pressure, you take something from him. ...A flirt doesn't do that. A flirt does a dance within the context of giving pleasure. Referring to this, referring to that. And suddenly, following the references, you find a little surprise. Nothing enormous. Nothing like 'Feed on me.' Nothing like that. Something small with a bow on it. It's a pleasure. A surprise, and a *gift*.

George W. S. Trow

Pain, Flirting, Giving

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To me, these biblical stories are just so many fish stories, and I'm not specifically referring to Jonah and the whale. I need indisputable proof of anything I'm asked to believe.

W. C. Fields

Believe, Biblical, Whales

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In karate, hitting, thrusting, and kicking are not the only methods, throwing techniques and pressure against joints are included … all these techniques should be studied referring to basic kata

Gichin Funakoshi

Technique, Kicking, Hitting

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When somebody talks about home, you have to listen carefully so you know exactly which one the person is referring to.

NoViolet Bulawayo

Home, Persons, Knows

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Some pretty senior young individuals in and around the Cabinet should share the responsibility for talking up an election and referring publicly on the radio to where the risk lies.

David Winnick

Senior, Lying, Responsibility

"Labour critics blame Balls and Alexander" by Jo Revill, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2007.

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As the former dissident Vladimir Bukovsky once remarked – referring to the Russian proverb to the effect that you cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs – he had seen plenty of broken eggs, but never tasted any omelette.

Margaret Thatcher

Eggs, Broken, Former

"Statecraft".

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The ancient Hebrews had a word for this awareness of the importance of things. They called it kavod. Kavod originally was a business term, referring to the heaviness of something, which was crucial in weights and measures and the maintaining of fairness in transactions. Over time the word began to take on a more figurative meaning, referring to the importance and significance of something.

Rob Bell

Weight, Maintaining, Fairness

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Sanctification is not to be understood here as a separation from ordinary use or consecration to some special use, although this meaning is often present in Scripture, sometimes referring to outward and sometimes to inward or effectual separation.

William Ames

Special, Ordinary, Inward

William Ames (1968). “The marrow of theology”

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I saw them; there is nothing beautiful about them, just that they are a little higher than the others. Referring to one of the oldest and loveliest groves of redwoods, showing insensitivity to their magnificence.

Ronald Reagan

Beautiful, Tree, Littles

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Have you ever realized that you can give things to God that are of value to Him? Or are you just sitting around daydreaming about the greatness of His redemption, while neglecting all the things you could be doing for Him? I'm not referring to works which could be regarded as divine and miraculous, but ordinary, simple human things - things which would be evidence to God that you are totally surrendered to Him.

Oswald Chambers

Simple, Greatness, Giving

Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.122, Discovery House

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Referring to the NFL Players' Association: I have one thing to say about the union: It's like Christopher Columbus. He didn't know where he was going. He didn't know where he was when he got there. He lost two-thirds of his ships along the way. And he did it with someone else's money.

Matt Bahr

Player, Nfl, Two

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At another location, we found barrels of chemical material that was intended for use as biochemical weapons. Everyone talks about there being no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, but they seem to be referring to completed nuclear bombs, not the many deadly chemical weapons or precursors that Saddam had stockpiled.

Chris Kyle

Mass Destruction, Iraq, Nuclear

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Why is it so difficult to assemble those things that really matter in life and to dwell among them only? I am referring to certain landscapes, persons, beasts, books, rooms, meteorological conditions, fruits.

James Salter

Book, Lizards, Matter

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