"You have to be involved in terms of what's happening in your local neighborhood and what issues are there."
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"We will not duck the tough issues, we will lead."
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"Every single social and global issue of our day is a business opportunity in disguise."
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"The reason for teaching history is not that it changes society, but that it changes pupils; it changes what they see in the world, and how they see it.... To say someone has learnt history is to say something very wide ranging about the way in which he or she is likely to make sense of the world. History offers a way of seeing almost any substantive issue in human affairs, subject to certain procedures and standards, whatever feelings one may have."
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"There's just no more compelling a story, no more compelling an issue, no more compelling a locus of human suffering than Sudan."
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"Life magazine ran a page featuring me and three other girls that was clearly the precursor of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues"
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"Today, the issue isn’t quantity of food as much as it is quality-whether kids are getting enough protein and other nutrients to fully develop."
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"The most prominent place in hell is reserved for those who are neutral on the great issues of life."
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"I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them."
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"The Holy Ghost is the Spirit of the Lord, and issues forth from himself, and may properly be called God's minister to execute his will in immensity."
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"The issue presented is whether the Federal Constitution confers a fundamental right upon homosexuals to engage in sodomy, and hence invalidates the laws of the many States that still make such conduct illegal, and have done so for a very long time.... Respondent would have us announce, as the Court of Appeals did, a fundamental right to engage in homosexual sodomy. This we are quite unwilling to do."
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"There's one thing that I've liked over the years when I've promoted bodybuilding and fitness and my movies and politics and issues and so on is to stay focused."
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"Unless you are addressing the issues people are concerned about and contributing positive direction, they'll never support you. The first thing the enemy tries to do is isolate revolutionaries from the masses of people, making us horrible and hideous monsters so that our people will hate us"
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"Violence against women and lack of intervention and man's inhumanity to man and this kind of atrocities are going on. These are big issues of our times, we must speak about them, we must learn how to better understand how these things happen so we can address them."
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"The efficient use of energy is as much an issue for Saudi Arabia, with its huge natural resources, as it is for all countries. Increased efficiency makes sense environmentally, but also economically."
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"Managers thinking about accounting issues should never forget one of Abraham Lincoln's favorite riddles: How many legs does a dog have, if you call a tail a leg? The answer: Four, because calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg."
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"The world wasn't a more tolerant place when I was a young man. Rather, they simply sidestepped all the issues."
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"It wasn't until after I'd been around Timothy Leary, Aldous Huxley and Alan Watts, that I started to reflect about issues like the evolution of consciousness."
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"I believe that great weirdness stalks the universe. That's not the issue with me, but it is not tacky. It is not tacky."
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"If you hear me out, I believe you'll discover that what motivates me more than any other issue is the defense of everyone's rights."
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