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- Nov 07, 2020
Dismantling Quotes
Tearing down, and what gets built after.
The first line resists erasing history outright while still allowing room to reject parts of it, and the Chinggis Khaan line underneath notes how much faster conquest is than the democracy that's meant to follow.
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- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
We know that dismantling old oppressive regimes is a great deal faster and easier than building new flourishing democracies. Chinggis Khaan once said, 'It was easier to conquer the world on horseback than to dismount and govern.' True validation of democracy lies less in what we tear down, and more in what we build.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
What Republicans have done in my view is that they are systematically dismantling a sense of community in America.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Basically, Trump's significant first moves have been twofold. To marginalize the media, and to start dismantling the federal government.
- Mirror
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being born in Cuba, a country where freedom of speech is non-existent, it's startling to observe how Venezuela, where I was happily raised, is fast becoming Cuba's mirror image: Dismantling of fundamental democratic rights deserved by its people and citizens of the world.
- Black And White
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- Nov 07, 2020
By dismantling the narrow politics of racial identity and selective self-interest, by going beyond 'black' and 'white,' we may construct new values, new institutions and new visions of an America beyond traditional racial categories and racial oppression.
- Cold War
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since the end of the Cold War two main nuclear powers have begun to make big reductions in their nuclear arsenals. Each of them is dismantling about 2,000 nuclear warheads a year.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must seek to persuade member states and institutions that better regulation in Europe does not mean cutting health and safety in the workplace, nor does it mean dismantling social standards.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
A reality that is electronic... Once everybody's got a computer terminal in their home, to satisfy all their needs, all the domestic needs, there'll be a dismantling of the present broadcasting structure, which is far too limited and limiting.
- Extensive
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- Nov 07, 2020
We see an extensive program of dismantling state institutions... These are ingredients for catastrophe.
- Federal Judge
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- Nov 07, 2020
One day after laying a wreath at the tomb of Martin Luther King Jr., President Bush appoints a federal judge who has built his career around dismantling Dr. King's legacy.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm taking a philosophy class and regretting it with everything in me. I'm taking one college class per semester. Philosophy is studying what you already know and dismantling it. I thought it would be right up my alley. I can't tell you how much it's not me.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
The systematic dismantling of reproductive rights, much like the takedown of collective bargaining, has been taking place in full view.
- Divisions
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- Nov 07, 2020