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Defenders of the status quo will argue that this system has served us well over the centuries, that our parliamentary traditions have combined stability and flexibility and that we should not cast away in a minute what has taken generations to build.

~Ferdinand Mount

Topics: Argue Away Build Cast Centuries Combined Defenders Flexibility Generations Minute Our Over Parliamentary Quo Served Should Stability Status Status Quo System Taken Traditions Us Well Will

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I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict.

~Frank B. Kellogg

Topics: Alliance Been Broaden Centuries Conditions Conflict Does Inevitably Know Military Peace Produce Reliance War

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Adequate defense has been the catchword of every militarist for centuries.

~Frank B. Kellogg

Topics: Adequate Been Centuries Defense Every

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Some people criticize the faithful for getting involved in politics, but it's important to remember that down through the centuries, people motivated by their faith have done many important things. Martin Luther King Jr. - motivated by his faith - brought about an end to segregation in our country.

~Frank Wolf

Topics: About Brought Centuries Country Criticize Done Down End Faith Faithful Getting His Important Important Things Involved King Luther Many Martin Martin Luther Martin Luther King Martin Luther King Jr Motivated Our People Politics Remember Segregation Some Some People Things Through

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Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.

~G. M. Trevelyan

Topics: Anything Been Cannot Centuries Done Enough God Ignorant Impossible May Never Person Someone Tell Thing Very Waiting Young Young Person

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An ambitious, surreal tale of the love between a young Arab girl sold into marriage and the orphan boy she adopts, 'Habibi' spans multiple eras of conflict and change, stretching the lifetimes of its two protagonists over many centuries.

~G. Willow Wilson

Topics: Adopt Ambitious Arab Between Boy Centuries Change Conflict Eras Girl Lifetimes Love Many Marriage Multiple Orphan Over Protagonists She Sold Spans Stretching Surreal Tale Two Young

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I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.

~Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Topics: About Alone America Break Centuries Cliches Fought Latin Latin America Must Nothing Other Our Outsiders Over Problems Reality Superpowers Through Try Us Ways

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The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past several centuries.

~Gary Becker

Topics: Also Analyze Centuries Changes Cultures Families Family Family Structure Modern Only Other Past Several Structure Those Tries Western

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Over the centuries, religion has become institutionalized, and in the process encrusted with elaborate hierarchies, top-heavy bureaucracies, highly specialized roles and reflexive routines.

~Gary Hamel

Topics: Become Centuries Elaborate Highly Over Process Religion Roles Routines Specialized

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Everybody has done something about Marco Polo. It's the tiredest, most trite and worked-over subject in the world, and that was why it appealed to me, because I wanted to do something really new and different about something that had been worked over all these centuries, and I think I did.

~Gary Jennings

Topics: About Appealed Because Been Centuries Did Different Done Everybody Had Me Most New Over Polo Really Something Subject Think Trite Wanted Why Worked World I Think

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