"The more that we choose not to talk about domestic violence, the more we shy away from the issue, the more we lose."
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"Poets often have a conscious awareness that they are struggling with the daimonic, and that the issue is their working something through from the depths which push the self to a new plane."
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"The true story is that black people need to tell their history. Very few films are made by black people about slavery. That itself is a crime because slavery is a very important historical event that has held our people hostage. Forget white people's role in it. In the end what's important is black people remain and live with the scars and psychological issues."
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"People are dangerous. If they're able to involve themselves in issues that matter, they may change the distribution of power, to the detriment of those who are rich and privileged."
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"All religions issue bibles again Satan, and say the most injurious things against him, but we never hear his side."
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"I became a filmmaker because I wanted to deal with issues that intrigued me, that I thought were pertinent, that would start dialogue."
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"The more time goes on, the closer I am to the ground. I've been exposed to so many issues and people living under different pressures. It's helped me realize that a lot of glamorous things that people prioritize really don't matter."
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"Any issue, including political, economic and religious activities human beings pursue in this world, should be fully understood before we pass our judgement. Therefore, it is very important to know the causes. Whatever the issue, we should be able to see the complete picture. This will enable us to comprehend the whole story."
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"Any so-called leader who does not take this issue (climate change) seriously or treats it like a joke is not fit to lead"
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"I am confident that we will one day end the scourge of modern slavery, because I believe in those committed to this issue."
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"I think we can provide common-sense approaches to the issue of illegal guns that are ending up on the streets. We can make sure that criminals don't have guns in their hands. We can make certain that those who are mentally deranged are not getting a hold of handguns. We can trace guns that have been used in crimes to unscrupulous gun dealers that may be selling to straw purchasers and dumping them on the streets."
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"There is too much illustrating of the news these days. I look at many editorial cartoons and I don't know what the cartoonists are saying or how they feel about a certain issue."
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"In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard - the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - exchanging views only with the Pope, and speaking publicly only through carefully written missives on doctrinal issues."
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"Most people who are activists and are concerned about issues get their information from sources which reinforce their opinions and give them the facts that they want to hear."
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"So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government; and so to resist force, employed for its destruction, by force, for its preservation."
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"Technology has an incredible role to play in enabling of policy issues."
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"You won't hear me saying I have no body issues because I wouldn't be human if I didn't."
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"Speculative stock movements are carried too far in both directions, frequently in the general market and at all times in at least some of the individual issues."
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"In other words, the market is not a weighing machine, on which the value of each issue is recorded by an exact and impersonal mechanism, in accordance with its specific qualities. Rather should we say that the market is a voting machine, whereon countless individuals register choices which are the product partly of reason and partly of emotion."
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"For 99 issues out of 100 we could say that at some price they are cheap enough to buy and at some price they would be so dear that they would be sold."
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