Thinking Quotes - Page 31

• The most fundamental attack on freedom is the attack on critical thinking skills. Comments display our universal failure to teach and value critical thinking, leaving the possibility open that both everything and nothing could be true.

  Travis Nichols

  Skills, Leaving, Fundamentals

  "Scratches in the Temple Wall". Interview with Paul Killebrew, logger.believermag.com. July 29, 2013.

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• I think that our society will not allow anyone to establish a dictatorship again in the future. [Mikhail] Saakashvili will fail.

  Irakli Okruashvili

  Our Society, Failing, Dictatorship

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• For many years, we have had these campaign finance reforms, and they have been failures. Money is more coursing through our system than ever before. Incumbents have used the laws to advantage themselves. And one of the reasons I think they have been failures is we have tried to crush down the money in places like the political parties, and it has squished out into opaque super PACs and sort of hidden channels.

  Mark Shields

  Crush, Party, Years

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Sometimes I think that I stay young and in touch with contemporary culture because of my children's interests. I'm so lucky to be surrounded by their talent and vibrancy.

  Polixeni Papapetrou

  Children, Lucky, Culture

  "Stories from the Other Side: Polixeni Papapetrou Exhibits at Jenkins Johnson Gallery, NYC". Interview with Caia Hagel, logger.believermag.com. April 29, 2013.

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• As far as population size goes, big is no longer important, and it can even be a drawback. In fact, the future belongs more to second-tier cities. Any place can become a world-class center today by finding an area in which it outperforms others, by thinking for the long term, by expanding its competitive abilities and by operating globally.

  Charles Landry

  Class, Cities, Long

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The term "national idea" is an unclear one. One might think of it as a widely shared understanding among a people as to the desired way of life in their country, an idea that holds sway over the population. A unifying concept like that can be useful, but should never be created artificially or imposed top-down by the powers-that-be.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Country, Top Down, Ideas

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Think of the war against terrorism. In my view, Washington's approach can be compared to a doctor constantly banging away at a tumor instead of removing it surgically.

  Bashar al-Assad

  War, Doctors, Views

  ""America Must Listen"". Interview with Martin Doerry, www.spiegel.de. September 24, 2006.

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• The whole religion of Islam is based on reward and punishment and reward and punishment, and it becomes a part of how you think of everything. Even yourself.

  Kumail Nanjiani

  Punishment, Religion Of Islam, Rewards

  Interview with Jane Marie, believermag.com. January 1, 2015.

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• I was on this path to becoming a computer-science guy, but I didn't like it. I got no joy from it. It was very, very scary. It was suffocating to think that I was just going to do this thing for the rest of my life.

  Kumail Nanjiani

  Guy, Joy, Scary

  Interview with Jane Marie, believermag.com. January 1, 2015.

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• I meet people who can't get healthcare for their families, people who are just distressed over what is happening in our country. So when somebody asks me, "How do you get up?" it really triggered in me the feeling that that's what I want us all to think about each other. How do we get up? How do we pull on our shoes, go out and deal with the problems America faces. That's what I intend to do as president.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Shoes, America

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I trust voters. Voters decide on whatever basis they think is important to them. I just want them to have a full range of information to make that decision.

  Hillary Clinton

  Decision, Important, Want

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• When you're president, you can't vote present. You have to make a decision. Sometimes it's a split second decision. You don't have time to think about it. You've got to actually decide.

  Hillary Clinton

  Decision, President, Splits

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I have the experience we need to make the changes we want and I think that's a winning case.

  Hillary Clinton

  Winning, Needs, Want

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• You're not always going to make the right decisions, but you have to be guided by what you think is important.

  Hillary Clinton

  Decision, Important, Right Decision

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Usually, we think that "good" loneliness is what we call "solitude," the choice of some alone-time. But I want to press on with the negative dimension, to look at ways in which a fundamental sense of being separated from others shapes who we are and why.

  Thomas L. Dumm

  Loneliness, Choices, Solitude

  Interview with Jill Stauffer, believermag.com. January 1, 2009.

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• I think we have replaced MTV. MySpace is more convenient. You can search for things, while MTV is just delivering things to you. On MySpace you can pick your own channel and go where you want.

  Tom Anderson

  Mtv, Want, Convenient

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I have done very little in my life except go to school and work for the CIA. Intellectually I think I did everything I could. Emotionally you always think you should have something more.

  Tyler Drumheller

  School, Should Have, Done

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think President George W. Bush contributed very directly to the fact that the status of America as the world's only superpower lasted for 20 years at most.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Years, America, President

  "The World According to Zbig". Interview with Charles Gati, www.politico.com. November 27, 2013.

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• What I think is so great about interviews, is when people cite inspirations.

  Jason Schwartzman

  Inspiration, People, Interviews

  "Egyptian Protest Slogans". Interview with Ross Simonini, believermag.com. September 1, 2011.

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• I would sooner want a strong partnership with the United States - even with (US President George W.) Bush, who I think is the worst president in a long, long time. I would sooner want a friendship with Bush than with (Russian President Vladimir) Putin.

  Bernard-Henri Levy

  Strong, Long, President

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In general, Europeans need to get a wider perspective on the problem of Islamism. Even if the Israel-Palestine question were solved - and I think and hope that one day soon it will be - this wouldn't stop one person from becoming a terrorist.

  Bernard-Henri Levy

  Israel, Perspective, One Day

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The reasons are likely rooted in religion. Playing around with God's creation is simply not allowed. Incidentally, in the past it was precisely the deeply religious people who said: Of course we're playing with God's creation, in fact we're perfecting it. This sort of thinking is frowned upon today.

  Hans von Storch

  Religious, Past, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think it's true that the more sanitized a person is, you can't really relate to that person.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Persons, Relate

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You don't want to just preach to people; you want to get them emotionally involved, and I think you do that with a wonderful human story about one person's struggle.

  Naomie Harris

  Struggle, People, Stories

  Interview with Jeffrey Wright, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 23, 2013.

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• I am always interested in affecting people in some way, making them think about particular areas of history that they have never thought about or that they may have thought about in one way and then changing their view.

  Naomie Harris

  Views, People, May

  Interview with Jeffrey Wright, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 23, 2013.

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