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" The Lumiere brothers first exhibited moving pictures in Paris in 1896. A year later, there was a private showing at the Yildiz palace in Istanbul. "
Tariq Ali
First
Paris
Pictures
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" The hostility between India and Pakistan has become a habit to which both the elites have become addicted. Any attempt towards a rational solution to real problems is denounced by chauvinists on both sides. "
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Habit
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Problems
" I don't regret what I did in the Sixties. I was young and took myself terribly seriously. In the Seventies, I spent too much time in inner-party factional disputes. "
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Seriously
Myself
Regret
" When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months. "
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Style
Women
October
" I think democracy is on the decline in the West. Ruling parties are the same: neo-liberalism at home and wars abroad. "
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Home
Democracy
Think
" The only continent where social movements have led to political parties that have pushed through serious social and political reforms is in South America. "
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Through
Serious
Political
" Western enthusiasm for democracy stops when those opposed to its policies are elected to office. "
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Enthusiasm
Office
Those
" For India, the links with the United States/Israel are the centrepiece of its foreign policy. "
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India
Policy
Foreign Policy
" Ralph Miliband was a socialist intellectual of great integrity. He belonged to a generation of socialists formed by the Russian revolution and the Second World War, a generation that dominated left-wing politics for almost a century. "
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Politics
Great
Integrity
" We were constantly appealing for funds from readers when I edited 'The Black Dwarf' in 1968-69. "
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Were
Dwarf
Edited
" The origins of Indian classical music, not unlike their western counterparts, lie in the Vedas, the ancient Hindu scriptures of 2,000 years ago. "
Tariq Ali
Lie
Ancient
Indian
" The only decent daily paper of record in France is the online 'Mediapart,' which exposes graft and corruption in high places and is feared by the establishment. "
Tariq Ali
Corruption
High
Paper
" The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence. "
Tariq Ali
Own
Identity
Weakness
" Anthony Powell was the most European of 20th-century British novelists. "
Tariq Ali
Most
European
Novelists
" In the calculus of western interests, there is no suffering, whatever its scale, which cannot be justified. Chechens, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis are of little importance. "
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Little
Whatever
Importance
" As a political current, Maoism was always weak in Britain, confined largely to students from Asia, Africa and Latin America. "
Tariq Ali
Political
Weak
Always
" As long as the Pentagon bankrolls the Pakistan army to fight its wars, and NATO troops remain in Afghanistan, there will be quarrels, charges of infidelity, a reduction in the household allowance, perhaps a separation - but a divorce? Never. "
Tariq Ali
Fight
Divorce
Army
" There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture. "
Tariq Ali
Years
Agreement
Culture
" Socially, the Cuban revolution created an education system and health service that remain the envy of much of the neo-liberal world. "
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Health
Revolution
Education
" Independence is the only way Scotland can realise its full political and cultural potential in the 21st century. "
Tariq Ali
Independence
Political
Way
" Young women and men who joined the far-left groups did so for the best of reasons. They wanted to change the world. Many fought against the stifling atmosphere in many groups. "
Tariq Ali
Change The World
Change
Women
" History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away. "
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Never
Away
Go
" An act of unilateral nuclear disarmament by a European power would have a much more lasting impact than all the sanctions under consideration. Sanctions, as we know from the example of Iraq, always affect the least powerful citizens the most. "
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Know
Powerful
Power
" In 1962, President Kennedy expanded an earlier trade embargo put in place by a predecessor, President Eisenhower, to a total economic blockade, which pushed the Cubans further in Moscow's direction. "
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Trade
Which
Place
" I am an atheist and do not know the meaning of the 'religious pain' that is felt by believers of every cast when what they believe in is insulted. "
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Cast
Pain
Meaning
" In January 1961, the United States severed diplomatic relations in response to Cuban nationalisation of U.S.-owned sugar plantations, banks and businesses. "
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United States
Cuban
January
" Power can shape 'truth,' but not forever. "
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Shape
Forever
Truth
" As a candidate, Obama projected himself as a new Reagan, above narrow party politics. He wanted to please all but has ended up annoying many. "
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Party
New
He
" In my eyes, a patriot is little more than an international blackleg. "
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Patriot
Eyes
Little
" Scandinavia was awash with Maoism in the '70s. Sweden had Maoist groups with a combined membership and periphery of several thousand members, but it was Norway where Maoism became a genuine popular force and hegemonic in the culture. "
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Culture
Membership
Genuine
" I do not accept the right of big powers to change governments as and when it affects their interests. "
Tariq Ali
Right
Change
Interests