GRE Analytical Writing - Issue Topics

GRE Analytical Writing - Issue Topics

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Unlike great thinkers and great artists, the most effective political leaders must often yield to public opinion and abandon principle for the sake of compromise.
The best way to understand the character of a society is to examine the character of the men and women that the society chooses as its heroes or its heroines.
We learn through direct experience; to accept a theory without experiencing it is to learn nothing at all.
As societies all over the world have more and more access to new information, the effects on life-long learning can only be positive.
People are too quick to take action; instead they should stop to think of the possible consequences of what they might do.
Rituals and ceremonies help define a culture. Without them, societies or groups of people have a diminished sense of who they are.
The way people look, dress, and act reveals their attitudes and interests.
You can tell much about a society's ideas and values by observing the appearance and behavior of its people....
Progress is best made through discussion among people who have contrasting points of view.
Most people choose a career on the basis of such pragmatic considerations as the needs of the economy, the relative ease of finding a job, and the salary they can expect to make.
Hardly anyone is fre...
Any decision-whether made by government, by a corporation, or by an individual person-must take into account future conditions more than present conditions.

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