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The mishandling of the would-be airplane bomber Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab's visa is only the latest piece of evidence that the granting of visas should be taken away from the State Department. For the granting of visas - especially today, when terrorism is such a complex threat - is far closer to being a law-enforcement function.

~Elliott Abrams

Topics: Airplane Away Being Bomber Closer Complex Department Evidence Far Function Latest Only Piece Should State State Department Taken Terrorism Threat Today Visa Would-Be

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Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.

~Emile M. Cioran

Topics: Ardor Cannot Function Seduce Tolerance Young

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I will always fight for peace. But, unfortunately, it is war that drives us forward. It is war that makes the major turns. It makes Wall Street function; it makes all the bastards in the Balkans function.

~Emir Kusturica

Topics: Always Balkans Bastards Drives Fight Forward Function Major Makes Peace Street Turns Unfortunately Us Wall Wall Street War Will

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Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?

~Emma Goldman

Topics: Anything Criminal Function Glorified Indeed Morality More Mother Motherhood Our Picture Sacred Terrible Than Victim

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Whether people care enough about local news to pay for it is, sadly, an entirely different question than whether our democracy requires a strong watchdog function at the local level to ensure safeguards against abuse, chicanery, and outright dishonesty.

~Eric Alterman

Topics: About Abuse Against Care Chicanery Democracy Different Dishonesty Enough Ensure Entirely Function Level Local News Our Outright Pay People Question Requires Sadly Safeguards Strong Than Whether

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Ever since the Enlightenment, people thought that we were living in a rational universe. They thought that God was a mathematician and that the function of the scientist was to figure out the mathematical rules whereby the universe was created.

~Eric Kandel

Topics: Created Enlightenment Ever Figure Function God Living Mathematical Mathematician Out People Rational Rules Scientist Since Thought Universe Were Whereby

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I like to call it nighttime brain: the way your mind seems to function on a different frequency than it does during daylight hours - which can be good or bad but also can lead to unexpected epiphanies or experiences that wouldn't be the same at any other time of day.

~Erin Morgenstern

Topics: Also Any Bad Brain Call Day Daylight Different Does Experiences Frequency Function Good Hours Lead Like Mind Nighttime Other Same Seems Than Time Unexpected Way Which Your

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Workers do not strike every day, they cannot do that the way they function in the capitalist economy. The way they have to live by selling their labor power makes that impossible.

~Ernest Mandel

Topics: Cannot Capitalist Day Economy Every Every Day Function Impossible Labor Live Makes Power Selling Strike To Live By Way Workers

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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

~Ernst Fischer

Topics: Also Art Break Change Changeable Decay Faith Function Help Must Reflect Show Social Society Truthful Unless Wants World

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Economies typically do not function well in hyperinflation. The real value of government debt might disappear, but the economy is likely to disappear with it.

~Eugene Fama

Topics: Debt Disappear Economies Economy Function Government Likely Might Real Real Value Value Well

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