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SERIAL, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through several issues of a newspaper or magazine.

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The most vital issue of the age is whether the future progress of humanity is to be governed by the modern economic and materialistic mind of the West or by a nobler pragmatism guided, uplifted and enlightened by spiritual culture and knowledge.

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If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.

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I'm not a single-issue person, but I spend so much time on Israel because it is so unfairly condemned around the world.

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Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it's pretty clear that it's an unsustainable underlying pattern.

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The term power comes from the Latin posse- to do, to be able, to change, to influence or effect. To have power is to possess the capacity to control or direct change. All forms of leadership must make use of power. The central issue of power in leadership is not Will it be used? But rather Will it be used wisely and well?

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Violence is bound sooner or later to exhaust itself but peace cannot issue out of such exhaustion.

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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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To look at the issue of life and abortion, actually we're moving in that direction where most Americans oppose most abortions.

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When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment, it's exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.

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Poltinus the Platonist proves by means of the blossoms and leaves that from the Supreme God, whose beauty is invisible and ineffable, Providence reaches down to the things of earth here below. He points out that these frail and mortal objects could not be endowed with a beauty so immaculate and so exquisitely wrought, did they not issue from the Divinity which endlessly prevades with its invisible and unchanging beauty all things.

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The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

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I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests.

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From eating meat arrogance is born, from arrogance erroneous imaginations issue, and from imagination is born greed; and for this reason refrain from eating meat.

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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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My administration is committed to a leadership role on the issue of climate change.

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I think we're at a place wherea woman's health is danger because of whether this family planning or contraception or any issues that relate to women's health, there's an assault on that in the Congress.

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The first thing anyone can do, about any issue, is get informed.

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I have one other issue I'd like to throw on the table. I hesitate to do it, but let me tell you some of the issues that are involved here. If we are dealing with psychology, then the thermometers one uses to measure it have an effect. I was raising the question on the side with Governor Mullins of what would happen if the Treasury sold a little gold in this market. There's an interesting question here because if the gold price broke in that context, the thermometer would not be just a measuring tool. It would basically affect the underlying psychology.

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Deal with difficult tasks while they are easy. Act on large issues while they are small.

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