- Nov 07, 2020
May Quotes
Words shaped by possibility and doubt.
These may quotes range from an honest admission of lingering insecurity carried from childhood, to a scientific point about how measurement affects what can be known about the past. Another notes that even the clearest concept only applies within limits. Related reflections continue in our April quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
But getting your party structure right may also be a precondition for getting your policies right.
- Strong
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- Nov 07, 2020
We may be in a tough time right now, but when we are in a tough time is when our movement gets really strong.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
While anti-immigrant and anti-E.U. parties across Europe may not take power anywhere in 2017, theirs is now a permanent and growing presence, leeching away support from centrist parties left and right.
- Question
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- Nov 07, 2020
While President Obama may not have ordered any surveillance of Trump or his advisors, the real question is whether he or Attorney General Loretta Lynch were aware of or approved of any surveillance of Trump and his staff during the campaign.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, ironically, as a tool of social control, rendering us passive with an analysis that overwhelms and paralyzes us.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't feel genres have helped me as an actor. Movies can be of any genre. But if you give me slapstick, I may not do it.
- Create
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- Nov 07, 2020
Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Force-backed humanitarianism, which relies on rational influence over events in other countries, may have been a more feasible project in the bipolar era of the Cold War, with its relatively defined and stable web of alliances and proxies.
- Dictatorship
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- Nov 07, 2020
To Westerners, the students at Tiananmen may have given an impression of a solid and energetic consensus against dictatorship and for democracy, but they were an egotistical and fractious lot, riven by disagreements over tactics and money.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many Indians and Israelis seem set to elect, with untroubled consciences, those who speak the language of torturers and terrorists. More disturbingly, these corrupted democracies may increasingly prove the norm rather than the exception.
- Islam
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- Nov 07, 2020