Spheres Quotes - Page 24

• America's security and prosperity didn't work unless other nations were also secure, and prosperous. There had to be something in it for them, so we weren't looking simply to grab territory, or widen our sphere of influence, or anything like that. We wanted to make the world a better place, and get very rich in the process.

  Daniel Fried

  America, World, Sphere Of Influence

  Source: www.politico.com

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• It is well known that Russia has many interesting and promising developments in the military-technical sphere. We are ready to deliver the needed equipment and ready for joint cooperation in arms production with Brazilian specialists. This is an area that is very closely linked to high technology in general. In this respect, we hope to develop closer cooperation between the scientific communities in our two countries.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Military, Technology

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• Realism as a foreign policy doctrine means basically you don't care about values; you consider them a luxury, and it leads to a kind of acquiescence in spheres of influence. Now, spheres of influence sound good if you're a graduate student, or a certain kind of - an academic with a certain habit of mind. But in fact, spheres of influence don't work out very well, certainly not for the victims, and there are always victims.

  Daniel Fried

  Mean, Luxury, Work Out

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I think [there's] the opportunity for - I almost said President Clinton, and soon I will - but for Hillary Clinton to address that, and for the public sphere to address that in a way that they haven't. We started a conversation in the last few years on race that we desperately needed to have.

  Joss Whedon

  Opportunity, Thinking, Race

  "Joss Whedon Explains Why Donald Trump Is America’s Scariest Big Bad". Interview With Patrick Caldwell, www.motherjones.com. November 1, 2016.

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• Governments throughout the English-speaking sphere are creating and then ratcheting the torque on "hate-speech" laws with frightening eagerness.

  Jim Goad

  Hate, Government, Law

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• There's so many different styles and facets of the 360-degree musical sphere to listen to. From tribal to classical music, it's all there. If the bottom was to sag out of that, for God's sake, help us all.

  Jimmy Page

  Musical, Style, Degrees

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• There are capitalist states which consider themselves cheated, during previous redivisions of
  spheres of influence, territories, sources of raw materials, markets, etc., and which would again desire to redivide them to their own advantage.

  Joseph Stalin

  Desire, Raw Materials, Sphere Of Influence

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• What does it mean then to live with one another? It can be unhappy, it can be wretched, it can be ambivalent, it can even be full of antagonism, but all of that can play out in the political sphere without recourse to expulsion or genocide. And that is our obligation, to stay in the sphere with whatever murderous rage we have, without acting on it.

  Judith Butler

  Mean, Play, Political

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• I certainly don't mean to suggest that all investigative journalism prior to 9/11 in the US was praiseworthy. But there were more examples to which one could point, and there were at last some activist photographers who understood that getting information into the public sphere in spite of military censorship was a right and obligation within democracy. That strain in war journalism did nearly vanish during that time.

  Judith Butler

  Military, War, Mean

  Interview with Cihan Aksan and Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. October 11, 2013.

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• It's an incredibly limited sphere those tabloids have, isn't it? Basically, they can accuse people of being gay and they can accuse people of taking drugs, but they can't get any more sensational without entering into the realm of incredibly bad taste.

  George Michael

  Gay, People, Drug

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• To look at long term trends in our economy, in our society, in the international sphere and using my best judgment, shape policies that will serve the American people, keep them safe, keep our economy growing, put people back to work.

  Barack Obama

  Long, People, Looks

  Remarks by President Obama and Chancellor Merkel of Germany in a Joint Press Conference, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 17, 2016.

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• We have wide-ranging joint projects in the nuclear energy sphere, logistics, machine building and trade as a whole [with China].

  Vladimir Putin

  Nuclear, Machines, Logistics

  Source: www.rt.com

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• This is not only a matter of relations between Russia and the United States. In my view, any restrictions in the economic sphere that are dictated by considerations of political expediency are extremely harmful for the world economy as a whole. This destroys unity and the rules of the game.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Views, Games

  Source: www.rt.com

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• We should use this public sphere and redefine - beyond China's borders - what a government is allowed to do, where its powers end and where the realm of a citizen's privacy begins.

  Ai Weiwei

  Government, Borders, Citizens

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The Internet has established a public sphere and developed a pressure which the government can no longer ignore.

  Ai Weiwei

  Government, Pressure, Internet

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• India deliberately aggravated Sri Lanka's ethnic crisis. It destabilized Sri Lanka [by training and arming Tamil militants, including the Tigers] so that it could play a dominant role in bringing Sri Lanka within its sphere of influence.

  Velupillai Prabhakaran

  Sri Lanka, Play, Training

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• But since the end of the 1970s, at the beginning of the revolution in Iran under Khomenei, we have experienced a politicization of Islam. From the beginning, it had a primary adversary: the emancipation of women. With more men now coming to us from this cultural sphere, and some additionally brutalized by civil wars, this is a problem. We cannot simply ignore it.

  Alice Schwarzer

  War, Men, Iran

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• When people communicate freely, when labour force, goods, services and funds move freely as well, when there are no state dividing lines and when we have common legal regulation, for example, in the social sphere - all that is good enough, people should feel free.

  Vladimir Putin

  Moving, People, Lines

  "Sott Exclusive: Full unedited text of Vladimir Putin's interview with Charlie Rose: What CBS left out" by Harrison Koehli, www.sott.net. September 29, 2015.

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• The characteristic mark of this age of dictators, wars and revolutions is its anticapitalistic bias. Most governments and political parties were eager to restrict the sphere of private initiative and free enterprise.

  Ludwig von Mises

  War, Party, Government

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.480, VM eBooks

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• Could the best and kindest of us who depart from the earth have an opportunity of revisiting it, I suppose he or she (assuming that any Vanity Fair feelings subsist in the sphere whither we are bound) would have a pang of mortification at finding how soon our survivors were consoled.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Opportunity, Vanity, Feelings

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1848). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.256

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• Deep inside I feel that this world we live in is really a big, huge, monumental symphonic orchestra. I believe that in its primordial form all of creation is sound and that it's not just random sound, that it's music. You've heard the expression, music of the spheres? Well, that's a very literal phrase. In the Gospels, we read, "And the Lord God made man from the dust of the earth and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul." That 'breath of life' to me is the music of life and it permeates every fiber of creation.

  Michael Jackson

  Believe, Men, Dust

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• Never has the divide between the iPhone world and the politics world been so clear: I saw a bunch of people very well-served by their computers and telephones (very often Apple products) but undeniably shortchanged by our government-run cartel education system. And the tragedy for them - and for us - is that they will spend their energy trying to expand the sphere of the ineffective, hidebound, rent-seeking, unproductive political world, giving the . . .politicians. . .an even stronger whip hand over the Steve Jobses and Henry Fords - and we will be the poorer for it.

  Kevin Williams

  Running, Government, Hands

  "A Jobs Agenda". www.nationalreview.com. October 5, 2011 Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/279321.

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• Historically speaking, religious and conservative groups always wanted the control over the private sphere that impacts women most, as reflected by family law and women's access to resources and mobility. And often secular groups traded this for economic incentives and trade.

  Zainab Salbi

  Religious, Impact, Law

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• It [the free market] is an organizational way of doing things, featuring openness, which enables millions of people to cooperate and compete without demanding a preliminary clearance of pedigree, nationality, color, race, religion, or wealth. It demands only that each person abide by voluntary principles, that is, by fair play. The free market means willing exchange; it is impersonal justice in the economic sphere and excludes coercion, plunder, theft, protectionism, and other anti-free market ways by which goods and services change hands.

  Leonard Read

  Mean, Play, Race

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• Whether this will prove a blessing or a curse, will depend upon the use our people will make of the blessings which a gracious God hath bestowed on us. If they are wise, they will be great and happy. If they are of a contrary character, they will be miserable. Righteousness alone can exalt them as a nation. Reader! Whoever thou art, remember this: and in thy sphere practice virtue thyself, an encourage it in others.

  Patrick Henry

  Wise, Art, Character

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