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I think that when you have audacity, you will get polarization.
Lee Daniels / Film Actor
Audacity
Polarization
Thinking
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It's about polarization. You're trying to stir up something in your audience.
Leslie Odom, Jr. /
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Stir
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There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization.
Brad Henry / Former Governor Of Oklahoma
Polarization
Surrender
Too Much
Stake
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Hatred, anger, and violence can destroy us: the politics of polarization is dangerous.
Rahul Gandhi / Indian Political Leader
Anger
Dangerous
Hatred
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Violence
Destroy
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My father provided some very important guidance in how we deal with conflict and polarization.
Bernice King / Minister
Conflict
Guidance
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The rotation of the polarization plane is extraordinarily small in all gases, thus also in sodium vapour.
Pieter Zeeman / Physicist
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Rotation
Sodium
Vapour
Extraordinarily
Gases
Plane
Thus
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As the polarization in D.C. spreads, the people willing to come to the middle find less and less acceptance.
Pete Gallego /
Acceptance
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Spreads
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There's peacetime and there's wartime, and you don't need polarization on wartime issues. You need polarization on all other issues.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali / Activist
Polarization
Wartime
Peacetime
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While many people overseas envy Korea's development, it is true that society has many problems such as economic polarization and a low birthrate.
Chey Tae-Won /
Envy
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Overseas
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Press critics worry that the rise of media polarization threatens the foundation of credible, common information that American politics needs to thrive.
John Harwood /
American Politics
Common
Credible
Critics
Foundation
Information
Media
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Thrive
Worry
Rise
Press
Threatens
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I'm a fan of polarization. If you make something that is palatable to everybody, it's like making vanilla ice cream, and I think we have enough of that.
Chris Stapleton / Musician
Cream
Ice
Ice Cream
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Vanilla
Fan
Making
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From the extreme political polarization that is everywhere - there's so much suffering going on - so many people are really thirsty to feel good about something.
Jonathan Van Ness /
Feel Good
Polarization
Thirsty
Extreme
So Many People
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In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties.
Thomas E. Mann /
American Politics
Competition
Decline
Ideological
Party
Polarization
Political
Political Parties
Two
Addition
Characterized
Parties
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I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality.
Azar Nafisi / Writer
America
Attention
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Soul
Superficiality
Talk
Paying
Undermine
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Americans have become more atomized by education, income, and political leanings. That polarization has meant sharply increased antipathy toward people with different beliefs.
Annie Lowrey /
Antipathy
Different Beliefs
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Beliefs
Sharply
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It bothers me when I look at Israeli society, on the divisiveness in it, and to polarization. I'm not just talking about left-right... but how individuals behave towards each other.
Benny Gantz /
Behave
Israeli
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Bothers
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In every society, manufacturing builds the lower middle class. If you give up manufacturing, you end up with haves and have-nots, and you get social polarization. The whole lower middle class sinks.
Vaclav Smil / Professor
Manufacturing
Middle Class
Polarization
Builds
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At the start of his second term, one wonders less about Obama's fitness than his willingness: Why doesn't he do more to build and maintain the relationships required to govern in era of polarization?
Ron Fournier / Journalist
Fitness
Eras
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Term
Willingness
Wonder
Obama
Govern
Maintain
Wonders
Relationships
Required
Second Term
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Technology is causing a set of seemingly disconnected things - shortening of attention spans, polarization, outrage-ification of culture, mass narcissism, election engineering, addiction to technology.
Tristan Harris /
Technology
Addiction
Attention
Culture
Disconnected
Election
Engineering
Mass
Narcissism
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Attention Spans
Causing
Set
Seemingly
Shortening
Spans
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With the polarization of points of view around significant political and social issues, sports is a place where people can sort of talk about something together. And I think that is important to people.
John Skipper /
Sports
Polarization
Significant
Social Issues
View
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Some Republicans gave up on winning the African-American vote, looking the other way or trying to benefit politically from racial polarization. I am here today as the Republican chairman to tell you we were wrong.
Ken Mehlman / American Political Figure
African American
Chairman
Polarization
Today
Vote
Winning
Benefit
Wrong
Republicans
Gave
Racial
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I agree that it is not just the extremists who harbor bad thoughts or engage in bad acts, but they are usually the source of the polarization and try to keep education and communication of the main stream from moving forward.
Joichi Ito / Entrepreneur
Education
Communication
Agree
Moving
Moving Forward
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Trying
Acts
Try
Bad
Engage
Extremists
Forward
Harbor
Main
Thoughts
Stream
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The polarization of Congress; the decline of civility; and the rise of attack politics in the 1980s, the 1990s, and the early years of the new century are a blot on our political system and a disservice to the American people.
Edward Brooke / Former United States Senator
Century
Civility
Congress
Decline
Disservice
Polarization
Politics Political People
Rise
American People
Attack
Blot
Early Years
Political System
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If Clinton is elected or if Trump is going to get elected, I think the polarization in Congress will be greater than ever. Nothing is going to get done. It is going to be so ugly, so partisan, so back-biting. Well what if you elect a couple of Libertarians?
Gary Johnson / Former Governor Of New Mexico
Clinton
Congress
Couple
Greater
Polarization
Trump
Ugly
What If
Elect
Libertarians
Partisan
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I think in our time, you know, so much of the information we get is pre-polarized. Fiction has a way of reminding us that we actually are very similar in our emotions and our neurology and our desires and our fears, so I think it's a nice way to neutralize that polarization.
George Saunders / Writer
Desire
Fiction
Information
Nice
Our Time
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Reminding
Thinking
Desires
Emotions
Fears
Neutralize
Nice Way
Similar
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If Greece had gone through a very normal political life, I may have not been in politics. But just the fact that I lived through huge upheavals and very difficult struggles and polarization and the barbarism of dictatorships - that made me feel that we had to change this country.
George Papandreou / Former Prime Minister Of Greece
Barbarism
Country
Greece
Normal
Polarization
Political
Political Life
Struggle
Dictatorships
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We - America - have to move past the ideology, the tribalism, that grips this country. As ridiculous as this sounds, I believe 'Black Panther,' the film, could help us do that if it addresses issues of tribal polarization and, by extension, racism, xenophobia, and homophobia in an entertaining, non-preachy way.
Christopher Priest /
Xenophobia
Entertaining
Ideology
Polarization
Racism
Believe I Believe Past
Extension
Grips
Panther
Tribal
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The 2012 presidential campaign's turn away from the classic, straight-up, American election - where the candidate who gets the most votes nationwide wins - is another sad reminder of the extreme political polarization distorting today's politics. No one talks about a 50-state strategy for winning the presidency these days.
Juan Williams / Journalist
Classic
Election
Polarization
Political
Presidency
Presidential
Strategy
Winning
Extreme
Campaign
Candidate
Distorting
Nationwide
Reminder
Talks
Votes
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As the 2012 elections approach the finish line, the chatter among columnists and political reporters is about upcoming books that take readers inside the campaigns, cutting-edge efforts to micro-target voters on Internet social applications, the enormous money flowing through super-PACs, and extreme political polarization.
Juan Williams / Journalist
Book
Campaigns
Chatter
Cutting
Effort
Enormous
Finish Line
Polarization
Reporters
Voters
Extreme
Applications
Elections
Efforts
Finish
Readers
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