Martin Jacques quote: "In 1975, the Americans suffered a spectacular military defeat at the hands of North Vietnam and the Vietcong, with U.S. helicopters seeking to rescue leading U.S. personnel from the tops of buildings as Vietnamese guerrillas closed in on the centre of Saigon."

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In the aftermath of 9/11 and in the build-up to the invasion of Iraq, few questioned the idea that t...
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Blair - except at the edges - was a Thatcherite. Brown, in contrast, regarded Thatcherism as somethi...
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There has always been something less than wholesome about New Labour. But Blair for a long time had ...
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Ever since Pele's extraordinary talents blessed the world of football, black footballers have be...
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If the truth be told, we are a society that is dripping in racism. This is not in the least surprisi...
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Just six years into the 21st century, one can say this is not shaping up to be anything like an Amer...
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Globalisation has obliterated distance, not just physically but also, most dangerously, mentally. It...
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If the Age of Sport has been all champagne and roses hitherto, then expect our love affair with its ...
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One of the characteristics of New Labour - and Miliband is irredeemably of that species - is that, i...
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Never underestimate the ability of political leaders to misread history on a monumental scale. The i...
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Although one of the key justifications for the Vietnam war was to prevent the spread of communism, t...
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In my experience, there are plenty of bad middle-class parents: those who put their own lives and ca...
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Already 2008 has proved a tumultuous year in terms of global perceptions of China, and there are sti...
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More than 90% of Chinese believe themselves to be Han. Of course, such a vast population is derived ...
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There are a host of ethnic minorities in China, but they often have a weak sense of identity and are...
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Neoconservatism in all its pomp conceived - in the Project for a New American Century - that, follow...
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Our ascendancy of the past two centuries - first Europe and then the U.S. - has bred a western-centr...
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The fact that television and tourism have made the whole world accessible has created the illusion t...
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Following the end of the Cold War, there was much discussion concerning the point of NATO. In the ev...
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In its heyday, the car was an expression of technical flair and design genius: the original Mini, th...
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The American model was celebrated by Thatcherites and New Labour alike, California worshipped as the...
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It is not an accident that developing countries - virtually the whole of East Asia, for example - vi...
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The world is fortunate - for the time being, at least - that it has an American president in Obama w...
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I admired Margaret Thatcher - while abhorring much of what she offered - because she was so clearly ...
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The starting point for understanding the deterioration in the relationship between the U.S. and Russ...
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The question is not whether Tibet should be independent but the extent of the autonomy that it is al...
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The election of Shinzo Abe as the leader of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic party and now prim...
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The fact that the Bush administration, and those in Europe who have followed its 9/11-inspired agend...
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The era when the United States was the dominant global power is steadily coming to an end, and it mu...
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China's Internet will continue to be policed and controlled, information filtered, sites prohibi...
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The Internet has been seen in the West as the quintessential expression of the free exchange of idea...
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Move beyond the educated elite, and the great majority in most countries outside Europe don't sp...
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Since the election of Shinzo Abe as the new Japanese prime minister, by reputation a fervent nationa...
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In Formula One, the car can make a difference in a way that a driver cannot. Whereas Michael Schumac...
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At the heart of globalisation is a new kind of intolerance in the West towards other cultures, tradi...
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The two ethnic groups that remain fundamentally different from the Han Chinese - in terms of history...
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There is a profound hypocrisy - and deep historical ignorance - when Europeans complain about the pr...
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Two European nations emerged with credit from the Iraq disaster: France and Germany. Both had the co...
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Stuart Hall was an utterly unique figure. Although he arrived at the age of 19 from Jamaica and spen...
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My guess is that good and bad parenting is spread fairly evenly across different social groups. But ...
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Blair's support for the Americans should not be seen as an aberration; on the contrary, it is cl...
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I'm used to it because we had the same thing in Ottawa whenever Montreal or Toronto came in our buil...
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I thought we showed a lot of tenacity coming back in the second period. Fatigue from last night may ...
JACQUES MARTIN

Where the costs of entry are minimal, there is a wide avenue of opportunity for those with little or...
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Now, I know it's a widespread assumption in the West that as countries modernize, they also west...
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The Chinese state is constructed in an entirely different way from western states. Unlike European s...
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Without doubt, Malaysia is the great economic star of the Muslim world.
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When Europe dominated, there were no or few feedback loops. Or, to put it another way, there were fe...
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We played a lot more 5-on-5. That was good to see. I think we're adjusting and adapting.
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The U.S. might enjoy overwhelming military advantage, but its relative economic power, which in the ...
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For 200 years, the dominant powers have also been the colonial powers: the European countries, the U...
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The election of the nationalist Chen Shui-bian as president in 2000 and his re-election in 2004 was ...
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If one wanted to find a modern symbol of personal freedom, the motor car is right there near the top...
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We're all starting together, ... starting our conquest to become an elite team.
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Just as the Japanese pioneered a new form of manufacturing - lean production and quite new standards...
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The cost to Tata of purchasing Land Rover and Jaguar may have been small, but its wider symbolic sig...
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In my experience (I am the lone father of an eight-year-old boy who lost his mother when he was one ...
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Sim competed hard tonight. He was really on the puck and really hungry.
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He's very responsible both ends of the ice. He's a smart player. He's a competitor. He's a complete ...
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Koizumi was not rooted in Japan's rightwing nationalist tradition: he was a pragmatist and a pop...
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One of the extraordinary features of the Blair government has been its slavish support for the centr...
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Israel is the agent and surrogate of the United States and as such is treated entirely differently f...
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The World Cup is not just a great global sporting event, it is also inscribed with much deeper cultu...
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I think when you look at our record in December at home, it's a real good indication that we've take...
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It's two points closer to a playoff spot. And it's gaining some credibility and confidence.
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That's the kind of play I expect of him, getting involved at both ends of the ice. His play has real...
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He's showing a lot of leadership that way. We need him. He's one of our more talented players; a pla...
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I don't think this is a big problem in the NHL. But I think it's good to have this. You need to have...
JACQUES MARTIN

Their last three goals were missed assignments.
JACQUES MARTIN

It doesn't put more pressure. We know that we have to win some games on the road to keep pace. You h...
JACQUES MARTIN

We know we have to win some (road) games to keep pace. Whether playing at home or on the road, you'v...
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We're taking too many penalties and they're penalties we deserved. We have to learn what we can a...
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There may be little practical difference between a Ford Mondeo and a BMW three series, but in terms ...
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I am inclined to believe that this is the land God gave to Cain.
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I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would b...
JACQUES DERRIDA

Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.
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After being boxed in by man and his constructions in Europe and the East, the release into space is ...
JACQUES BARZUN

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool...
JACQUES PREVERT

Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible. If they wanted to diminish their chances of jo...
JACQUES CHIRAC

When the Canadian confederation took place in 1867, a lot of people in Quebec said, 'Could we ha...
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I sometimes think it ironic for an ex-seaman, longshoreman, truck driver, policeman, bus driver, etc...
BRIAN JACQUES

We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qua...
JACQUES MARITAIN

Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.
JACQUES CHIRAC

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
JACQUES PREVERT

The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was ...
JACQUES DERRIDA

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their q...
JACQUES MARITAIN

Experience is the cane of the blind.
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Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit ...
BRIAN JACQUES

Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning t...
JACQUES DERRIDA

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.
JACQUES DERRIDA

Authority and power are two different things: power is the force by means of which you can oblige ot...
JACQUES MARITAIN

I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable...
JACQUES MARITAIN

When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of ...
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A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.
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Within the university... you can study without waiting for any efficient or immediate result. You ma...
JACQUES DERRIDA

Our relatives are ours by chance, but we can choose our friends.
JACQUES DELILLE

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
JACQUES MARITAIN

For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to unde...
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In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a ...
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Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.
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Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
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We see societies establishing themselves, nations forming themselves, which in turn dominate over ot...
JACQUES TURGOT

Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen an...
JACQUES ATTALI

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
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How would you like a job where when you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people bo...
JACQUES PLANTE

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realiti...
JACQUES BARZUN

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the c...
JACQUES BARZUN

God is becoming bitter, he envies man his mortality.
JACQUES RIGAUT

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends
JACQUES DELILLE

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
JACQUES BARZUN

Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps...
JACQUES BARZUN

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realit...
JACQUES BARZUN

Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
JACQUES DELILLE

God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.
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What's the point of havin' a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?
JEPH JACQUES

Teaching is not a lost art, but regard for teaching is a lost tradition.
JACQUES BARZUN

In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already mode...
JACQUES DERRIDA

Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.
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Everybody has a right to be defended, and every lawyer has a duty to defend people accused. And my o...
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In philosophy, you have to reckon with the implicit level of an accumulated reserve, and thus with a...
JACQUES DERRIDA

I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap.
JACQUES DERRIDA

It is good for society to have this introspection.
JACQUES VERGES

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social...
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What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?
JACQUES LACAN

The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a ...
JACQUES DERRIDA

For everyday, we like Beaujolais, Grenache or Syrah, and we like a lot of it! It's a family trad...
JACQUES PEPIN

When I pair food and wine, I start with the food. If I have a beautiful roasted bird, I might choose...
JACQUES PEPIN

When I was a child, we always had wine on the table, no matter how simple the meal. The wine had no ...
JACQUES PEPIN

I was chef to the French Presidents between '56 and '59, finished with de Gaulle, and during...
JACQUES PEPIN

My mother likes what I cook, but doesn't think it's French. My wife is Puerto Rican and Cuba...
JACQUES PEPIN

I have an immigrant story. Most people come here for economic reasons, or religious reasons, or raci...
JACQUES PEPIN

I am a glutton. I'll eat whatever is there. Pizza. I love hot dogs anywhere. I've got nothin...
JACQUES PEPIN

I taped my first series for PBS in 1982 at WJCT-TV in Jacksonville, Florida. The show, called 'E...
JACQUES PEPIN

You can't escape the taste of the food you had as a child. In times of stress, what do you dream...
JACQUES PEPIN

I say: If you don't know how to cook, I'm sure you have at least one friend who knows how to...
JACQUES PEPIN

Most people who came here came for economic reasons or sometimes for religious or political reasons....
JACQUES PEPIN

My palate is simpler than it used to be. A young chef adds and adds and adds to the plate. As you ge...
JACQUES PEPIN

If you have extraordinary bread and extraordinary butter, it's hard to beat bread and butter.
JACQUES PEPIN

You have no choice as a professional chef: you have to repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat until it becom...
JACQUES PEPIN

Basically, I go to the local farmer's market and decide to what to cook then, depending on what ...
JACQUES PEPIN

All the great chefs I know - Thomas Keller, Jean-Georges Vongerichten - they are technicians first.
JACQUES PEPIN

This is what a family is all about - one another, sitting around the table at night. And it's ve...
JACQUES PEPIN

Just because I am a chef doesn't mean I don't rely on fast recipes. Indeed, we all have mome...
JACQUES PEPIN

The idea of old was to conform yourself to a style of cooking, it was not to create a style of cooki...
JACQUES PEPIN

Great cooking favors the prepared hands.
JACQUES PEPIN

I tell a student that the most important class you can take is technique. A great chef is first a gr...
JACQUES PEPIN

There is no ageism or 'youthism' when it comes to freedom of speech. We are all citizens.
JACQUES PARIZEAU

The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person ...
JACQUES DELORS

Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt demo...
JACQUES CHIRAC

I cooked at the White House for Easter, last year, with Michelle Obama. But it more had to do with c...
JACQUES PEPIN

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.
JACQUES MARITAIN

I wrote about a bird that cleaned a crocodile's teeth. The story was so good that my teacher cou...
BRIAN JACQUES

You cannot eat a cluster of grapes at once, but it is very easy if you eat them one by one.
JACQUES ROUMAIN

Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing...
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Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If you go higher, thing...
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marmfloxes
BRIAN JACQUES

The more 'otter it is, the more 'otter otters likes it
BRIAN JACQUES

Aha! Today I shall become an author! And I will auth and auth and auth and make a squillion dollars,...
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Friar Hugo, old friend, brace yourself. I am the bearer of tragic news!"

Alarm spread acr...
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A little (one) can sometimes see things in others that us older ones cannot because our judgement ge...
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BRIAN JACQUES

Any weapon is a good weapon as long as ye can use it with honor and skill.
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Wot Wot
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I have always had school sickness, as others have seasickness. I cried when it was time to go back t...
JACQUES DERRIDA

This June, I'll travel once again to the Food and Wine Magazine Classic in Aspen, Colorado. For ...
JACQUES PEPIN

Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture.
JACQUES DERRIDA

The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical...
JACQUES ELLUL

These irresponsible acts, which cannot have any justification whatsoever, are to be fully condemned....
JACQUES CHIRAC

After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what ...
JACQUES PEPIN

If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but com...
JACQUES DERRIDA

When I left to go into apprenticeship in 1949, it was only four years after the war, and people don&...
JACQUES PEPIN

You know, my parents had a restaurant. And I left home, actually, in 1949, when I was 13 years old, ...
JACQUES PEPIN

But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a gener...
JACQUES LACAN

Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn't beautiful, but she was more than beautiful.
JACQUES AUDIARD

When you are at home, even if the chicken is a little burnt, what's the big deal? Relax.
JACQUES PEPIN

It's sad that you don't see drivers being real people.
JACQUES VILLENEUVE

All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have f...
JACQUES LIPCHITZ

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature,...
JACQUES COUSTEAU

And now, the end is near,
And so I face the final curtain.
My friend, I'll say it clear, JACQUES REVAUX

(Propaganda) proceeds by psychological manipulations, character modifications, by creation of stereo...
JACQUES ELLUL

The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical...
JACQUES ELLUL

The links between the American government and the Iraqi government are so close that you cannot judg...
JACQUES VERGES

Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people w...
JACQUES LACAN

My presidential victory, if it had happened, would have been artificial in relation to the Socialist...
JACQUES DELORS

I enjoy walking my dog and completing crossword puzzles.
BRIAN JACQUES

I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe.
JACQUES DERRIDA

It's the first time I've seen any of my work done like this,
BRIAN JACQUES

I suppose there's a child inside me who wants to get out, ... A little baldy child with a beard. Ha!
BRIAN JACQUES

I still pinch meself when I wake up of a morning, ... Who ever thought I'd be a children's author --...
BRIAN JACQUES

Ah, 'tis a good strong yarn, about the sea, and all the legends that surround it,
BRIAN JACQUES

I use animals native to Great Britain, ... The animals have human traits, like the mole is a tiny, f...
BRIAN JACQUES

Kids are more drawn to animal characters than human, ... They know what a 'dirty rat' is.
BRIAN JACQUES

Any time I go into anything like this, I make sure, before I ever put pen to paper, that I've got th...
BRIAN JACQUES

Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious ins...
JACQUES LACAN

Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital d...
JACQUES BARZUN

The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the do...
JACQUES DERRIDA

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their...
JACQUES MARITAIN

The Christian should participate in social and political efforts in order to have an influence in th...
JACQUES ELLUL

In 1975, the Americans suffered a spectacular military defeat at the hands of North Vietnam and the Vietcong, with U.S. helicopters seeking to rescue leading U.S. personnel from the tops of buildings as Vietnamese guerrillas closed in on the centre of Saigon.

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In 1975, the Americans suffered a spectacular military defeat at the hands of North Vietnam and the Vietcong, with U.S. helicopters seeking to rescue leading U.S. personnel from the tops of buildings as Vietnamese guerrillas closed in on the centre of Saigon.

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