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I've always had questions about how things work and why it was that way. From all kinds of perspectives, from the physical to the spiritual. ”
Unfortunately, the international community is not ready to deal with Iran's repeated provocations. ”
Israel's relations with the United States are a cornerstone, and without them, we cannot make our way in the current global climate. ”
Sport is an international phenomenon, like science or music. ”
I've always said that the more coordinated the efforts of the international community are, the better it will be for democracy in Burma. ”
I was heartened that people everywhere want certain basic freedoms, even if they live in a totally different cultural environment. ”
I think the blues is the best literature that we as blacks have created since we've been here. I call it our 'sacred book.' What I've attempted to do is to mine that field, to mine those cultural ideas and attitudes and give them to my characters. ”
The blues are important primarily because they contain the cultural expression and the cultural response to blacks in America and to the situation that they find themselves in. And contained in the blues is a philosophical system at work. And as part of the oral tradition, this is a way of passing along information. ”
The biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box. The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional wisdom in a given field. ”
Our health-care morass is like the problems of global warming and the national debt - the kind of vast policy failure that is far easier to get into than to get out of. Americans say that they want leaders who will take on these problems. ”