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Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand - the one doing the important job - unnoticed.

~David K. Shipler

Topics: Affairs Doing Dramatic Drawn Eye Flourishes Foreign Hand Important Job Leaving Like Magician Other Performing Sometimes Unnoticed Watching

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Affairs of state tend to drive most presidents toward the center on both foreign and domestic policy, no matter where on the political spectrum they begin, and especially so in the areas of intelligence and law enforcement.

~David K. Shipler

Topics: Affairs Area Begin Both Center Domestic Drive Enforcement Foreign Intelligence Law Law Enforcement Matter Most Policy Political Presidents Spectrum State Tend Toward Where

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The real danger to Britain is a foreign policy that is isolationist in Europe and therefore weak in the rest of the world.

~David Miliband

Topics: Britain Danger Europe Foreign Foreign Policy Policy Real Rest Therefore Weak World

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Foreign policy is inseparable from domestic policy now. Is terrorism foreign policy or domestic policy? It's both. It's the same with crime, with the economy, climate change.

~David Miliband

Topics: Both Change Climate Climate Change Crime Domestic Economy Foreign Foreign Policy Inseparable Now Policy Same Terrorism

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Although most Christian churches advocate some sort of mission to non-Christians, no Jewish group advocates a mission to non-Jews. Proselytization seems to be foreign to Judaism.

~David Novak

Topics: Advocate Although Christian Churches Foreign Group Jewish Judaism Mission Most Seems Some Sort

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Even this vein of writing is so foreign to me that I am amazed.

~David O. Selznick

Topics: Am Amazed Even Foreign Me Vein Writing I Am

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I am proud of the fact that the U.K. is an open trading country. I welcome inward investment such as that of Nissan, and the takeover of struggling British companies by foreign companies who turn them around, as in the case of Jaguar Land Rover. I also accept that job losses sometimes have to occur to restore failing companies to health.

~David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury Of Turville

Topics: Accept Also Am Around British Case Companies Country Fact Failing Foreign Health Investment Inward Job Land Losses Occur Open Proud Restore Rover Sometimes Struggling Takeover Them Trading Turn Welcome Who I Am

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I am not in favour of the takeover of excellent and strategically important British companies by struggling foreign firms whose actions are fuelled by tax avoidance, and who want to asset-strip the intellectual property of the British company and then dismember it.

~David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury Of Turville

Topics: Actions Am Avoidance British Companies Company Excellent Favour Foreign Important Intellectual Intellectual Property Property Strategically Struggling Takeover Tax Then Want Who Whose I Am

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People ask if I miss it, but they don't understand that American culture is so ubiquitous that there's nothing to miss. I don't see myself moving back. It's not that I hate the United States. I just always thought it would be a shame not to live in a foreign country.

~David Sedaris

Topics: Always American American Culture Ask Back Country Culture Foreign Foreign Country Hate Just Live Miss Moving Myself Nothing People See Shame States Thought Understand United United States Would Ubiquitous

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I have no problem with people having plastic surgery. But I do find it bizarre we think it's OK for women to have a foreign body put into them just for the sake of looking like Pamela Anderson.

~Davinia Taylor

Topics: Anderson Bizarre Body Find Foreign Having Just Like Looking No Problem Ok People Plastic Plastic Surgery Problem Put Sake Surgery Them Think Women

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