Word: ironic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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America's most respected drug pushers have flooded the media with advertisements urging smokers and nonsmokers to iron out their differences by talking to each other and respecting each others' "rights." This is ridiculous. Students should not have to apply moral suasion to their smoking peers to get them to comply with the law. Official reprimands and, if necessary, Ad Board discipline are appropriate for those who recklessly endanger the health of their peers...
...beginning of the 20th century, when traditional empires began to crumble, it seemed that Russia would follow suit. But then, by iron, blood and ideology, the Russian Revolution welded the state together just when it was on the verge of disintegration. The result was what might be called a revolutionary empire...
Reflections was well received by liberal intellectuals abroad. A kindred voice had reached them from behind the Iron Curtain -- and from a member of a profession that in America was dominated by "hawks." On the other hand, my criticism of Soviet society appealed to conservatives, and everyone seemed pleased by my comments on the environment, my humanitarian concerns and my scenarios for the future...
...achievement and maintenance of the dictatorship of the proletariat is impossible without a party which is strong by reason of its iron discipline. But iron discipline in the Party is inconceivable without unity of will, without complete and absolute unity of action on the part of all members of the Party. This does not mean, of course, that the possibility of conflicts of opinion is thereby precluded....But after a conflict of opinion has been closed, after criticism has been exhausted and a decision arrived at, unity of will and unity of action of all Party members are the necessary...
...must never be forgotten that nothing that is really great in this world has ever been achieved by coalitions...And thus the folkish state above all will never be created by the compromising will of a folkish working confederation, but soley by the iron will of a single movement that has fought its way to the top against...