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• I want to tell you though, I'm having the absolute best birthday ever. Last night -- this was so sweet, it means a great deal
  to me -- the other cult members got together and they all took me out to see Star Wars.

  David Letterman

  Sweet, Stars, War

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• We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. I will not attempt to prove that Congress has no power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member upon this floor knows it. We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.

  Davy Crockett

  Giving, Balance, Charity

  "The Unconstitutional Congress" by Stephen Moore, www.hoover.org. April 01, 1995.

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• I've come to learn that the best time to debate family members is when they have good in their mouths.

  Kenneth Cole

  Inspirational, Mouths, Debate

  Kenneth Cole (2003). “Footnotes: What You Stand for is More Important Than what You Stand in”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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• In the days of Joseph [Smith] it was considered a great privilege to be permitted to speak to a member of Congress, but twenty-six years will not pass away before the Elders of this Church will be as much thought of as the kings on their thrones.

  Brigham Young

  Kings, Years, Passing Away

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• I'm not a member of an organized party. I'm a Democrat.

  Will Rogers

  Party, Politics, Democrat

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• Some reformers may urge that in the ages distant future, patriotism, like the habit of monogamous marriage, will become a needless and obsolete virtue; but just at present the man who loves other countries as much as he does his own is quite as noxious a member of society as the man who loves other women as much as he loves his wife. Love of country is an elemental virtue, like love of home.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Home, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (1897). “American ideals and other essays, social and political”

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• After man there would be the mighty beetle civilisation, the bodies of whose members the cream of the Great Race would seize when the monstrous doom overtook the elder world. Later, as the earth's span closed, the transferred minds would again migrate through time and space -- to another stopping place in the bodies of the bulbous vegetable entities of Mercury. But there would be races after them, clinging pathetically to the cold planet and burrowing to its horror-filled core, before the utter end.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Men, Vegetables, Civilization

  H. P. Lovecraft (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft (Illustrated)”, p.1404, Delphi Classics

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• Now they always accuse me of carrying around a sledge hammer with which to pound the church members. Yes sir, I do pound them, every time I come down, I knock one of the halfway fellows out of the doorway, and every time I knock one out I get a sinner in.

  Mordecai Ham

  Religion, Church, Hammers

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• The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters, - a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man. Man is thus metamorphosed into a thing, into many things. The planter, who is Man sent out into the field to gather food, is seldom cheered by any idea of the true dignity of his ministry. He sees his bushel and his cart, and nothing beyond, and sinks into the farmer, instead of Man on the farm.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Land, Ideas

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.175

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• I don't want to paint myself as some kind of saint - that would be laughable - but I do think I've been able over the years to write humanely about subjects who are controversial and even contemptible. I've profiled pedophiles, stalkers, serial rapists, prison gang members and corrupt politicians.

  Robert Draper

  Writing, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The service members don't ask much of us. They ask to be well trained. They ask to be well equipped and they ask to be well led. And if something should happen to them, they ask that we take care of their families.

  Brian Whitman

  Care, Should, Wells

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• The appropriate place to really render honors, and to acknowledge the sacrifice that somebody has made is at the gravesite. And it's at the gravesite because that's where friends and family can be. That's where members of the military unit can gather.

  Brian Whitman

  Military, Sacrifice, Honor

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• I am going around British secondary schools, as a gay man talking about my life, and encouraging schools to get rid of homophobic bullying and to care for their gay members of staff and their gay students.

  Ian Mckellen

  Bullying, School, Gay

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• No society can function as a society, unless it gives the individual member social status and function, and unless the decisive social power is legitimate.

  Peter Drucker

  Giving, Individual, Social

  Peter F. Drucker (2011). “The Future of Industrial Man”, p.28, Transaction Publishers

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• Received as I am by the members of a legislature the majority of whom do not agree with me in political sentiments, I trust that I may have their assistance in piloting the ship of state through this voyage, surrounded by perils as it is; for if it should suffer wreck now, there will be no pilot ever needed for another voyage.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Political, Suffering, Majority

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.838, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I have really got it into my head to try to be United States Senator, and, if I could have your support, my chances would be reasonably good. But I know, and acknowledge, that you have as just claims to the place as I have; and therefore I cannot ask you to yield to me, if you are thinking of becoming a candidate, yourself. If, however, you are not, then I should like to be remembered affectionately by you; and also to have you make a mark for me with the Anti-Nebraska members down your way.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Thinking, Yield, Support

  Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Carl Schurz, Joseph Choate, Francis F. Browne (2017). “LINCOLN – Complete 7 Volume Edition: Biographies, Speeches and Debates, Civil War Telegrams, Letters, Presidential Orders & Proclamations: Including the Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt & 3 Biographies: The Every-day Life of the President, Lincoln by Carl Shurz and Abraham Lincoln by Joseph H. Choate”, p.796, Madison & Adams Press

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• I was blessed to have family members who encouraged me to pursue my dreams. Whether it is your parents, or your uncles or your aunts or even the neighbor down the road, it's important that kids have someone who encourages them to chase their rainbow.

  Dolly Parton

  Family, Dream, Uncles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation.You choose a Member indeed; but when you have chosen him, heisnotthe Member for Bristol, but heisa Member of Parliament.

  Edmund Burke

  Parliament, Bristol, Assembly

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• It has been calculated by the ablest politicians that no State, without being soon exhausted, can maintain above the hundredth part of its members in arms and idleness.

  Edward Gibbon

  Arms, Exhausted, Politician

  Edward Gibbon (1831). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire”, p.61

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• Crowds can be frightening. They have a way of impressing the low, base taste upon their members. Watching the way thousands of people in his audience could not think for themselves, could not find the courage to allow their ordinary feelings of decency and taste to prevail, I understood better how demagogues are possible.

  Roger Ebert

  Thinking, People, Feelings

  Roger Ebert (2013). “I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie”, p.110, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Members of Congress are like the voters in one respect -- they want to go with the winners.

  Ralph Nader

  Want, Voters, Winner

  Ralph Nader (2011). “"Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!"”, p.257, Seven Stories Press

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• No farmer-sportsman group is stronger than the ties of mutual confidence and enthusiasm which bind its members.

  Aldo Leopold

  Ties, Stronger, Groups

  Aldo Leopold, J. Baird Callicott, Eric T. Freyfogle (2001). “For the Health of the Land: Previously Unpublished Essays And Other Writings”, p.189, Island Press

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• The average prison term for a convicted murderer in America is 6.5 years. The average tenure for a member of Congress is 13 years. We've got it backwards. We are giving early release to the wrong criminal class.

  Pat Robertson

  Average, Years, Class

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• Even if a civil society were to be dissolved by the consent of all its members (e.g., if a people inhabiting an island decided to separate and disperse throughout the world), the last murderer remaining in prison would first have to be executed, so that each has done to him what his deeds deserve and blood guilt does not cling to the people for not having insisted upon this punishment; for otherwise the people can be regarded as collaborators in his public violation of justice.

  Immanuel Kant

  Blood, Punishment, Islands

  Immanuel Kant, Mary J. Gregor (1999). “Practical Philosophy”, p.474, Cambridge University Press

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• It's a sad thing to contemplate, but I'm the last surviving cast member of 'The African Queen.'

  Theodore Bikel

  Queens, Lasts, Casts

  "EXCLUSIVE: Theodore Bikel Reminisces on The African Queen" by Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. March 23, 2010.

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