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• I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.

  Sam Houston

  Rights, Presenting, Indian

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• Screw them. Yeah. But not literally. I'm not advocating promiscuity.

  Mark Hoppus

  Umpires, Yeah, Screws

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• Politics is a contest among people of diverse backgrounds and philosophies, advocating different solutions to common problems. The system only works when principled, energetic people participate.

  Bob Ehrlich

  Philosophy, People, Different

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• Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems.

  Arthur Erickson

  University, Courses, Fragmentation

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• If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it.

  Norman Cousins

  Believe, Fighting, Unesco

  "The United Nations: A Very Short Introduction". Book by Jussi M. Hanhimäki, 2015.

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• If more people were actively engaged in advocating their positions I think we'd have a better society.

  Jeb Bush

  Thinking, People, Engagement

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• It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Pistols, Strange, Influence

  Thomas Carlyle, James Anthony Froude (2012). “Reminiscences”, p.13, Cambridge University Press

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• I want to be an advocate for the people who don't have time to read the newspaper... or the money to make a political contribution.

  Richard Codey

  People, Political, Want

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• Without an advocate for the poor, without a new state of mind in America, the country lies on the brink of anarchy.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Country, Lying, America

  Louis Farrakhan (1993). “A Torchlight for America”, F C N Publishing Company

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• The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.

  Toni Morrison

  Self, Tests, Strange

  FaceBook post by Toni Morrison from Dec 20, 2010

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• Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.

  Arnold Bennett

  World, Opinion, Strange

  Arnold Bennett (2015). “The Title: A Comedy in Three Acts”, p.12, The Floating Press

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• There is a strong current in contemporary culture advocating ' holistic ' views as some sort of cure-all... Reductionism implies attention to a lower level while holistic implies attention to higher level. These are intertwined in any satisfactory description: and each entails some loss relative to our cognitive preferences, as well as some gain... there is no whole system without an interconnection of its parts and there is no whole system without an environment.

  Francisco Varela

  Strong, Loss, Views

  "From autopoiesis to neurophenomenology: Francisco Varela's exploration of the biophysics of being" by D. Rudrauf, Biol Res 36: 27-65, 2003.

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• I do have things I would like to see adopted on behalf of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people: they include the right to marry the individual of our choice; the right to serve in the military to defend our country; and the right to a job based solely on our own qualifications. I acknowledge that this is an agenda, but I do not think that any self-respecting radical in history would have considered advocating people's rights to get married, join the army, and earn a living as a terribly inspiring revolutionary platform.

  Barney Frank

  Country, Jobs, Military

  Barney Frank's Statement on the Inclusion of people who are Transgender in Antidiscrimination Protection Legislation, March 2008.

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• Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of force against individual men, in any form.

  Ayn Rand

  Peace, Philosophy, Men

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.47, Penguin

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• Americans are willing to go to enormous trouble and expense defending their principles with arms, very little trouble and expense advocating them with words. Temperamentally we are ready to die for certain principles (or, in the case of overripe adults, send youngsters to die), but we show little inclination to advertise the reasons for dying.

  E. B. White

  Political, Dying, Adults

  "The Thud of Ideas," The New Yorker, September 23, 1950.

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• I come from a pretty strange family.

  Illeana Douglas

  Strange

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• Since coming to Congress, I have been advocating for increased resources for research in the physical sciences and for the Department of Energy Office of Science in particular.

  Judy Biggert

  Office, Energy, Research

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• I have looked on scenery as a strange and on scenery more grand, but on scenery at once so strange and so grand I have never looked and probably never shall again.

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

  Strange, Scenery

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• Microsoft was not a mysterious, strange entity. You put your PC on and there's an ad for them.

  Jim Cramer

  Microsoft, Strange, Mysterious

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• In my writing with Extreme, there are heavy themes. The cover photo has me with a gun to my neck. I am not advocating suicide. I am taking the philosophy that man is the measure of his own fate.

  Gary Cherone

  Suicide, Philosophy, Writing

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• I'm not advocating for no guns. I like mine and am not about to give them up. But in this country, my uterus is more regulated than my guns. Birth control and reproductive health services are harder to get than bullets. What is that about? Guns don't kill people - vaginas do?

  Shannyn Moore

  Country, Gun, People

  "My Guns Are Less Regulated Than My Uterus" by Shannyn Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 27, 2012.

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• What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.

  Bernard Williams

  Humor, Would Be, World

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• For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.

  Lord Byron

  Funny, Truth, Fiction

  Don Juan canto 14, st. 101 (1823) See Chesterton 6; Twain 93

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• God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers.

  Paul Erdos

  Play, Numbers, May

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• I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Humility, Disease, Strange

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