Recent Events Quotes

• News of Daniel's disappearance does not alarm me as it might have done a week ago. Given recent events, very little alarms me as it might have done a week ago. I feel as if my supply of alarm has been exhausted, at least temporarily.

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  Patricia C. Wrede

  Alarms   Events   Doe  

  Patricia C. Wrede, Caroline Stevermer (2012). “The Mislaid Magician: Or, Ten Years After”, p.122, Open Road Media

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• Recent events in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina have reaffirmed for me, however, the complete folly of any Republican strategy to increase black representation in the Republican Party by appeals based on race. Whatever the name- 'African American Outreach' or 'Black Republicans for Bush'- any effort to attract blacks or any other ethnic group to the Republican party, based on explicit or implicit appeals to race or ethnic identity, are not only a waste of time and resources, but are also misguided and potentially quite damaging to the nation.

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  Ward Connerly

  Party   Names   Race  

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• I don't demonize the downside. As we've seen in Egypt and Tahrir square and other recent event, the adhesiveness through [technology] kinds of communication is extraordinary. Interesting times we live in.

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  Anne Waldman

  Communication   Technology   Squares  

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• Fantasy plunders the well of our deepest selves for existent truth instead of creating new truths out of the illusory fabric of recent events or the flow of society.

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  Vera Nazarian

  Self   Creating   Events  

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• A key impact of recent events was a very persistent, if not permanent shock in the oil supply. This was caused as the oil industry hit geological boundaries, which meant that it could no longer maintain the historic growth rates in petroleum extraction.

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  Michael Kumhof

  Impact   Keys   Oil  

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• During a recent event at a restaurant called Tommy's Country Ham House in South Carolina, presidential candidate Ben Carson delivered a speech right after he lost his front tooth. Which still left him with more teeth than everyone combined at Tommy's Country Ham House.

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  Jimmy Fallon

  Country   Presidential   House  

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• On recent events in a New York hotel room: What happened was not just inappropriate, it was more than that, it was a fault; a fault toward my wife, my children, my friends but also a fault toward the French people who placed in me their hope for change.

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  Dominique Strauss-Kahn

  New York   Children   People  

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• It is Barack Obama who is at war with this country. Recent events prove it. This is not a cliche. It's not a figure of speech. Obama is at war with the U.S. economy.

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  Rush Limbaugh

  Country   War   Events  

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