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The subject of human rights in China confounds absolute pronouncements. -- Evan Osnos
I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements. -- Penelope Lively
Though public pronouncements of Israeli officials emphasize peace and mutuality, unilateralism actually drives Israeli actions. -- Douglas Feith
Madonna was so flamboyant in terms of her look, her style, her public pronouncements, her religious taboo-smashing. -- Rob Sheffield
No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square. -- Louise Bogan
Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion. -- Christopher Lasch
The United States government approaches patient choice in medication as Singapore does free speech: its pronouncements sound reasonable and tolerant until you threaten its prerogatives. -- Virginia Postrel
One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen. -- Robert A. Heinlein
I became intrigued with colour theory. The absurd pronouncements of the Colour Institute, a group that decides what colours are hot each year or season, amused me. -- John Barton
Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds. -- Rene Daumal
We have to replace our focus on personalities with a focus on ideas so that the opinionated and self-serving pronouncements and forms of cyber-bullying are replaced by thoughtful dialogue and open-minded conversation. -- Anthony Carmona
But like a born actor who only really wants to direct, Gingrich has always been unsatisfied with what he's brilliant at. He can't still his hunger to deliver grand pronouncements on life, liberalism, conservatism, religion and whatever else swims into his consciousness. -- John Podhoretz
Though public pronouncements of Israeli officials emphasize peace and mutuality, unilateralism actually drives Israeli actions. -- Douglas Feith
There's very little solid research on readership, yet people make pronouncements about it all the time. -- Robert Hass
Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science. -- Edward Abbey
Science should leave off making pronouncements: the river of knowledge has too often turned back on itself. -- James Jeans
A compilation of what outstanding people said or wrote at the age of 20 would make a collection of asinine pronouncements. -- Eric Hoffer
All modern U.S. presidents are perforce politicians, prisoners of their past pronouncements, their party, their constituency, and their colleagues. -- Tony Judt
[Civil right leaders]themselves in their pronouncements will tell you they need white allies, they need white help, they need white this. -- Malcolm X
I'm suspicious of full-replacement programs - that is, pronouncements that one way of doing something will entirely supplant another, and that in fact we have to hurry the replacement along. -- Nicholson Baker
I don't think theory adds to criticism. (Methodology does, for better or worse.) Theory's function is to make criticism self-conscious, maybe even a little sheepish, about its ex cathedra pronouncements. -- Paul Fry
I will raise up prophets to make conflicting pronouncements that inevitably will be garbled in transcription, resulting in mutually exclusive definitions of orthodoxy from which the open-minded will flee in dismay. -- Sheri S. Tepper

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