"My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative."
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"Currently intellectuals in Western Europe and North America are extremely demoralized and shaken by the rise of a virulent conservative tendency (which some have even joined)."
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"...so mankind is now trapped by the failure of its energies and by the depletion of those natural resources that men have plundered wantonly."
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"Dr Urbino did not agree: in his opinion a Liberal president was exactly the same as a Conservative president, but not as well dressed."
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"Hinduism has become a conservative religion and, therefore, a mighty force because of the swadeshi spirit underlying it."
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"On some issues, I'm a staunch Conservative — like curtailing greenhouse gas emissions so that we can Conserve the environment."
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"I always like to make sense of things that, in theory, would not make any sense together. It's true that the core of Calvin Klein has been . . . I don't want to say conservative, but real clothes that are worn by everybody."
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"I think 2-D animation disappeared from Disney because they made so many uninteresting films. They became very conservative in the way they created them. It's too bad. I thought 2-D and 3-D could coexist happily."
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"No generation has a free hold on this earth. All we have is a life tenancy-with a full repairing lease."
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"I'm also very much aware that it is you who brought democracy to Chile, you set up a constitution suitable for democracy, you put it into effect, elections were held, and then, in accordance with the result, you stepped down."
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"The main problems are insufficient diversification and the failure to pick age-appropriate strategies - that is, more aggressive when you're younger, and more conservative when you approach retirement. But even then you have to invest for growth."
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"If there was a reason why he preferred the liberal tendency to the conservative one (also held to by many of his circle), it was not because he found the liberal tendency more sensible, but it more closely suited his manner of life."
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"Americans are conservative. What they want to conserve is the New Deal."
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"Sometimes he even embarrassed the company by phrases suggesting that there was some difference between a Liberal and a Conservative."
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"Boom and bust is a term that applied to the Conservative years and two of the worst recessions in history."
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"[ Republican Party] is correctly described as a "radical insurgency" by one of the leading conservative commentators, Norman Ornstein."
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"Afghanistan is a rural nation, where 85 percent of people live in the countryside. And out there it's very, very conservative, very tribal - almost medieval."
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"People who oppose Obama are said to be racists - so I guess I'm a racist."
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"I hadn't expected to be kidnapped today or I'd have worn something more conservative."
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"I was a romantic, messy thinker. I was raised with very conservative beliefs, but that was a long time ago."
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