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Politics in Turkey are taken more seriously than they are at home. It was only quite recently that they executed a Prime Minister. We dream of it, but they act.
~ Graham Greene
It's funny, everyone seems to ask me that in the last few days.
~ Gregory David Roberts
I think that consciousness has always been the most important topic in the philosophy of mind, and one of the most important topics in cognitive science as a whole, but it had been surprisingly neglected in recent years.
~ David Chalmers
I suppose what's happened recently has confirmed suspicions I voiced in the book, and I think made clearer some of those things that I point out. For instance I have a section of the book where I talk about the possibility of torture.
~ Peter Singer
If you say it was the "last" time, it might well turn out to be the last. What you meant was "the most recent time I was here".
~ Paulo Coelho
I've been watching American baseball on television for a long time, but it was only in recent years that, realistically, I've been thinking about playing here.
~ Hideki Matsui
Tras los recientes acontecimientos, uno se pregunta si la macroeconomía es la especialidad de algún economista.
~ Steven D. Levitt
One of the more fatuous remarks I've heard in recent days is that 'My Life,' Clinton's autobiography, is too long and, at almost 1,000 pages, short it is not. But this man was for eight years the President of the most powerful country on earth.
~ Alastair Campbell
Our failure in recent years has not been the failure of the people to meet the challenges placed before them, but rather the failure of both our great political parties to place those challenges honestly and courageously before the people, and to trust the willingness of the people to do the things that really need to be done.
~ biden joe vi
Old Castro remembered bits of hideous legend that paled the speculations of theosophists and made man and the world seem recent and transient indeed.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Belief in eternal hell-fire was an essential item of Christian belief until pretty recent times. In this country, as
~ Bertrand Russell
I had some wonderful dreaming meetings. I can't tell you specifically what they've been in the recent months. In the past they've been verbal kinds of messages that he needed to give me. Now they're more dreams of his presence.
~ Judy Collins
God honored and blessed America as few nations in history. However, in recent years the nation has been moving away from its religious heritage.
~ Billy Graham
What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death.
~ George Pierce Baker
Then he saw that in gun-colored ink on the inside of her left arm, she bore the recent history, in five digits, of her life, her family, and the world. He
~ Michael Chabon
In many ways the recent history of the Ukraine can be seen as an intensified version of the history of our era. Most of the political issues are familiar to us. Most of the methods used to meet those issues are also familiar. Events in the Ukraine prefigured events through the rest of the world...
~ Michael Moorcock
If you love a medium made of software, there's a danger that you will become entrapped in someone else's recent careless thoughts. Struggle against that.
~ Jaron Lanier
am in revolt against the recent fashion of attaching so much weight to political ideology. For the last fifty years, we have paid too much attention to political differences, just as we used to pay too much attention to religious differences.
~ Helen MacInnes
For tolerance (and you must remember this when you grow older), is of very recent origin and even the people of our own so-called modern world are apt to be tolerant only upon such matters as do not interest them very much.
~ Hendrik Willem van Loon
This American Government,-what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I'm a very recent convert to the gay scene. I went to a party a couple of years ago and met a very nice man who took me under his wing and started taking me out to clubs. It was a revelation.
~ Matt Lucas
The geysers and hot springs of the Yellowstone are another proof of recent volcanic activity.
~ Ellsworth Huntington
The BBC TV programme 'Back In Time For Dinner' doesn't just have one of the cleverest titles ever. It is a more-than-usually-serious attempt to recreate the recent past, the day before yesterday.
~ Peter Hitchens
This is laid down with a groove funkier and blacker than anything Prince of Michael Jackson--or any other black artist of the recent years for that matter--has come up with.
~ Bret Easton Ellis