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Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin's 'Courant', it no longer requires a dystopic imagination to wonder who will have the dubious distinction of publishing America's last genuine newspaper. Few believe that newspapers in their current printed form will survive.

~Eric Alterman

Topics: After America Appearance Believe Centuries Current Distinction Dubious Few Form Franklin Genuine Imagination Last Longer Newspaper Newspapers Printed Publishing Requires Survive Three Who Will Wonder

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Philosophers and theologians have argued for centuries over the morality of targeted assassinations - a technique that the Israelis use with some frequency - without ever reaching anything approaching consensus.

~Eric Alterman

Topics: Anything Approaching Argued Centuries Consensus Ever Frequency Israelis Morality Over Philosophers Reaching Some Targeted Technique Theologians Use Without

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America is the only nation in the world based on an idea - freedom and self-government - so if we don't understand that idea and what sacrifices were made to win that freedom and keep it for over two centuries, how can we possibly continue to keep it?

~Eric Metaxas

Topics: America Based Centuries Continue Freedom How Idea Keep Made Nation Only Over Possibly Sacrifices Self-Government Two Understand Were Win World

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Art goes beyond politics. Even if there are writers who are involved in politics, eventually, in one or two centuries, it's not their politics which is going to count, but the fact of having given life to feelings, of having created characters and made a living work of art.

~Eugene Ionesco

Topics: Art Beyond Centuries Characters Count Created Even Eventually Fact Feelings Given Goes Going Having Involved Life Living Made One Or Two Politics Two Which Who Work Writers

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Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.

~Eugenio Montale

Topics: After Centuries Comedy Creative Did Divine Height Produce Prose Strangely

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In a city that worships the new and the sleek, the street market at Da Jing Road is willfully out of step. It is a splendid jumble of centuries, full of sizzling pot stickers and bleating cell phones, pungent rice wine and bullfrogs as plump as softballs.

~Evan Osnos

Topics: Cell Cell Phones Centuries City Full Market New Out Phones Pot Rice Road Splendid Step Street Wine Worships

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Over the centuries, Chinese bureaucrats perfected the dark arts of emptiness to such an extent that when they deliver speeches these days, they often recite verbatim speeches that they have previously delivered, with the sparest of adjustments.

~Evan Osnos

Topics: Adjustment Arts Bureaucrats Centuries Chinese Dark Days Deliver Delivered Emptiness Extent Often Over Recite Speeches

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In 2006, I entered the presidential palace in the main square of La Paz as the first indigenous president of Bolivia. Our government, under the slogan 'Bolivia Changes,' is committed to ending the colonialism, racism and exclusion that many of our people lived under for many centuries.

~Evo Morales

Topics: Bolivia Centuries Changes Colonialism Committed Ending Entered Exclusion First Government Indigenous La Lived Main Many Our Our People Palace People President Presidential Racism Slogan Square

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In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.

~Ezra Pound

Topics: Centuries Curse Earlier Illiteracy In Print Inability Just Monetary Our Our Time Plain Print Read Time

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Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean share a cultural heritage based on centuries of common history. And what is more, we share the same values and world view. We believe in a world order that is based on cooperation, on regionalism, on multilateralism.

~Federica Mogherini

Topics: America Based Believe Caribbean Centuries Common Cooperation Cultural Europe Heritage History Latin Latin America More Order Same Share Values View World World View

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