Word: vacuums
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...idea of the thinking liberal assumes the existence of perfect ideological independence. This is a falsehood. Our political views are not created in a vacuum. Our personal beliefs are influenced by the values of our families and communities, our educations and our personal experiences. To pretend, as the thinking liberals do, that one's view have evolved entirely free of bias is to commit an act of dishonesty. To idealistically proclaim that we can, through the cult of rationality, break free of these biases is to exhibit the most extreme naivete...
...advertising. He owes much of his dazzling political ascendancy to the fact that he is one of the few top businessmen untainted by Italy's bribes-for-contracts scandal, which during the past two years has implicated more than 5,000 leading statesmen and businessmen and left a vacuum at the heart of Italian politics...
...trifurcating centralized political power into the executive, legislative and judicial branches, the Founders intended only the first two partake of the creative, dialectical process of law-making. The sole charter of the judicial branch, by contrast, was (and in theory-remains) to interpret the law in a political vacuum, outside the purview of such pesky political concerns as lobbyists or voters. Judges are not policy-makers. They are professional interpreters invested with the challenge of studying leather-bound volumes, not the latest Gallup poll...
...been simply worn out from overuse. The movie does not even attempt to reupholster the cliches. How many more times can Japanese characters be depicted as fanatical samurais or as bonsai-loving mystics before the laughs run out? Or how about the lumbering rookie who hails from the cultural vacuum of Midwestern farmland? And the proctology jokes...
Perhaps it might be nice if people could evaluate all arguments in a vacuum. But this is entirely irrelevant, because it will never happen. In the structure of human discourse, messenger and message are inextricably linked, for better or for worse...