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When the Jewish people, after nearly 2,000 years of exile, under relentless persecution, became a nation again on 14 May 1948 the 'fig tree' put forth its first leaves. Jesus said that this would indicate that He was 'at the door,' ready to return.
Hal Lindsey
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I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.


Menander
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I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.
Noam Chomsky
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I'll order anything that has the word 'fig' or 'crusted' in the menu description.


Michael Carbonaro
People react differently to hearing 'Procedure X has a 70 percent chance of survival' and 'Procedure Y has a 30 percent chance of death.' Phrased that way, people flock to Procedure X, even though the numbers are the same.
Paul Kalanithi
To Westerners, the students at Tiananmen may have given an impression of a solid and energetic consensus against dictatorship and for democracy, but they were an egotistical and fractious lot, riven by disagreements over tactics and money.
Pankaj Mishra
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When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.


Harry S Truman
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One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.


Maria Montessori
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What you had at the time was a dictatorship with the team owners.


Ted Lindsay
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An intellectual's weapon is writing, but sometimes people react as if it were a firearm. A writer can do a lot to change the situation, but as far as I know, no dictatorship has fallen because of a sonnet.
Mario Benedetti
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We have gone through everything as a nation - partition, dictatorship, and even anarchy.


Fatos Nano
If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.
Narendra Modi
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Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.


Fran Lebowitz
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I want a pit crew... I hate the procedure I currently have to go through when I have car problems.


Dave Barry
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Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.
Harry Seidler
From the early 1960s to the mid-1980s - the era of military dictatorship when South Korea was rebuilding itself from a postwar economic basket case to a humming, modern nation - military schools were the track of choice for ambitious young men.
Kim Young-ha
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It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
A. N. Wilson
The Chief Whip's job is trying to make sure that the Government - and MPs elected as part of the governing party - deliver the promises that they were elected on. That's a healthy part of the democratic process.
Geoff Hoon
It's somewhat of a normal procedure sometimes when you have a knee drained... so long as it's not something you have to do every game.
James Worthy
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I represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic party.


Paul Wellstone