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Self-proclaimed saviors and other outliers come and go throughout our political history. Occasionally, they're successful; most times, they're not. But the system has rebalanced toward the basic principles of tolerance, freedom and democracy that were set forth by the Founders.

~David Ignatius

Topics: Basic Come Come And Go Democracy Forth Founders Freedom Go History Most Occasionally Other Our Political Principles Set Successful System Throughout Times Tolerance Toward Were

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And each of these perspectives comes to the same conclusion, which is that our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics.

~David Korten

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Basic science provides long-term benefits for ourselves and our fragile planet and should be supported by all the world's societies.

~David Lee

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The commitment to literacy was constant on the part of African Americans. And the percentages of literacy by the end of the century, by 1900, basic literacy has galloped ahead. People believed that education, of course, was the turnstile for advancement.

~David Levering Lewis

Topics: Advancement African African Americans American Basic Believed Century Commitment Constant Course Education End Literacy Part People Ahead

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My basic philosophy is that no human being is a saint.

~David Maraniss

Topics: Basic Being Human Human Being Philosophy Saint

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This is a basic function of Congress to keep the government running. And so, what we ought not to do is play politics with those who have been affected by disasters.

~David Plouffe

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Honest discussions - even and perhaps especially on topics about which we disagree - can help us resist hypocrisy and arrogance. They can also help us live up to the basic ideals, such as liberty and justice for all, on which our country was founded.

~David Price

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Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.

~David Rockefeller

Topics: Basic Filling Innovations Involved Maintaining Needs Philanthropy Province Public Public Sector Quo Sector Simply Social Society Status Status Quo Transform Were

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Your basic, well-made novel by Ian McEwan or Jonathan Franzen just bores me silly.

~David Shields

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What we are doing is, rather than living on the interest of our basic biological capital, we're using up our capital, so we're dipping into our capital. We're using up what should be our children's and grandchildren's legacy.

~David Suzuki

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