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" There are some people whose opinion I value and respect and it would be very bothersome if I forfeited their respect. But the general public? I'm not preoccupied with the opinions of others. "
Conrad Black
Others
Opinion
Value
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" Eastern Muslim countries, such as Indonesia and Malaysia, are relative success stories, as they are not afflicted by the Arab heritage of retreat and humiliation at the hands of the French, Spanish, British, Turks, and Persians. "
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" All the other members of the U.N. were admitted, at the outset or subsequently, but Israel was created by the U.N. as a Jewish state, on the motion of Stalin's ambassador, seconded by President Truman's. "
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" The U.S. prosecution service is eating at the soul of the American republic. It is an absolute danger to everyone. "
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" The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder in fruitless assaults on Israel, even as the surrounding Arab powers distract the Arab masses with the red herring of Israel while retarding their countries with their repression and corruption. "
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" Israel expanded beyond its original boundaries only because the Arab powers attacked Israel and the U.N. demarcation unsuccessfully in 1948. The endless caterwauling about the 1967 borders is rubbish. "
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" The American legal industry is a medieval guild in which the prosecutors, bar, and bench join hands to ensure that legal invoices are paid, no matter how excessive. "
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" The greenhouse effect of carbon-dioxide emissions does produce gentle warming if it is not counteracted by unpredictable natural phenomena, but it cannot be measured directly against the volume of such emissions. "
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" Although his personality is generally quite agreeable, Mr Murdoch has no loyalty to anyone or anything except his company. "
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Anything
Personality
Company
" For decades, I have been a militant anti-declinist in terms of America's place in the world. "
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Decades
Place
" I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy. "
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Sympathy
Seek
Never
" At least 80 percent of American prisoners are grossly over-sentenced. The Supreme Court knows this, but shows scant concern for this human side of criminal justice. "
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Justice
Supreme Court
" I am a passport-carrying citizen of the E.U. "
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Citizen
Am
I Am
" I always keep a firewall between my own travails and my perception of public-policy issues; otherwise I would retain no credibility as a commentator. "
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Perception
My Own
Keep
" The United States is a proud, determined, hard-working, talented, patriotic nation and people, and it is not over-extended in the manner of empires of the past that took over the lands of others and eventually collapsed under the weight of the over-ambitious hegemon. "
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Empires
Past
People
" A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical. "
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Knowledge
Outside
Moral
" I don't have any shame. "
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Shame
Any
" Rupert Murdoch is probably the most successful media proprietor and operator in history. "
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Most
History
Media
" Economics is half psychology and half Grade Three arithmetic, and the U.S. does not now have either half right. "
Conrad Black
Psychology
Now
Economics
" I am proud of being in a U.S. federal prison and surviving it. "
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Being
Surviving
Proud
" I'm not a xenophobe - I think immigration is a good thing for most countries - but they transmute the foibles of their native tongues into English in a way that's difficult to figure out. "
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Difficult
Good
Way
" There is no doubt that the second President Bush inherited a very serious terrorist threat, though not such a threat as had been represented by the totalitarian Great Powers, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. "
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Union
Doubt
Great
" I don't go around trying to stir up foreign wars. "
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Trying
Around
Foreign
" There is a legitimate concern about wealth distribution in the United States, but the answer is not to scapegoat any individual who makes over $200,000 per year and to try to sell the fraud that the government can equitably take the money of those who have earned it and give it to those who haven't. "
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Wealth
Fraud
Government
" All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation. "
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American
Prisons
" I do not at all have the mind of a bully... in my mind bullies are intolerant of contrary opinion, domineering and rather cowardly. I would hope that none of those terms could be fairly used in describing me. "
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Bully
Me
Mind
" Given the genocidal belligerence of Iranian threats against Israel, it is hard to take issue with Israel's right to preemptive self-defense. "
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Right
Take
Self-Defense
" The balance between faith and reason is for the determination of each individual, and of the people as a whole, not of unauthorized government officials uttering impious humbug as they arbitrarily try to define that balance. "
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Faith
Determination
Balance
" The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it is espoused by a lot of rich, pious hypocrites who want to share only enough to avoid widespread starvation, mob violence, and government seizure of more of their incomes. "
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Government
Mob
" Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their party entered and had effectively lost, before Nixon salvaged a non-Communist South Vietnam while effecting a complete American withdrawal. "
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War
Off