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To understand the fanatic rejection of women's liberation in the Muslim world, one has to take into account the time factor. Most of us educated women have illiterate mothers. The conservative wave against women in the Muslim world is a defense mechanism against profound changes in both sex roles and the touchy subject of sexual identity.
Fatema Mernissi
Tags: Time Women World
When my wife and I met, I couldn't talk to her - and my defense mechanism is sarcasm. I belittle someone with verbal pokes and prods. I did it to her out of complete awe. When friends introduced us, I said 'Hi' - and turned my back. Later, I called my mom and best friend and said, 'I think I just met my wife.'
Mike Vogel
Tags: Best Mom Think
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We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.


Manuel Puig
Tags: Power Our Should
If budget planning requires gathering information from people who may not always have the incentive to disclose that information, then the principles of mechanism design can definitely be of use in such planning.
Eric Maskin
Tags: Design People Who
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I think people under age 55 come to Vegas with a certain sense of irony.


Penn Jillette
Tags: Age People Think
Why do we have U.S. attorneys? Because we need a mechanism to make sure people obey the laws that we pass, for societal reasons.
Kenneth Langone
The irony is, the advertising industry knows everyone hates what they produce. This is why they keep looking for new ways to force people to stay tuned.
Simon Sinek
Tags: People New Why
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I love the French for their sarcasm, their irony. I love them for their bad moods.


Marjane Satrapi
Tags: Them Love I Love
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Sundance was started as a mechanism for the discovery of new voices and new talent.


Robert Redford
I have survivor skills. Some of that is superficial - what I present to people outwardly - but what makes people resilient is the ability to find humour and irony in situations that would otherwise overpower you.
Amy Tan
Tags: You People Would
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.


Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Any swagger is just defense. When you're reminded so much of who you are by people - not a fame thing, but with my size, constantly, growing up - you just either curl up in a corner in the dark or you wear it proudly, like armor or something. You can turn it on its head and use it yourself before anybody else gets a chance.
Peter Dinklage
Tags: Chance You People
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My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.


Maurice Sendak
Tags: Humor Always Very
Journalism is a flawed profession, but it has a self-correcting mechanism. The rule of journalism is: talk to everybody.
Lawrence Wright
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The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news.


Daniel Kahneman
Tags: Give Bad News
For me, it's a real shock to see American mainstream films. I can't see these films because it's always the same thing to me. This is very American. Violence is very American, and I can't understand these films. Why do they use violence? To show what? Masculinity? To show fear? Defense? What are you showing with all this violence?
Javier Camara
Tags: Fear You Me
The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches.
Antonin Scalia
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Bad Religion has never been about criticizing people who are Christian. But we've always been about pointing out the irony and contradictions in Christian theology and the more extreme versions of Christians that seek to challenge modern secularism.
Greg Graffin
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The defense of marriage is the defense of freedom. Neither of which is obsolete.


Nancy Pearcey
United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a supreme irony.
Richard Holbrooke
Tags: Peace World Going