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• According to the oral tradition of Witches, we were once the priests and priestesses of a peasant Pagan religion. Members of this secret sect met at night beneath the full moon, for these were the "misfits" and "outcasts" who did not fit into mainstream society. Little has changed over the centuries and the Witchcraft community still embraces individuals frequently rejected in mainstream society. These include gays, lesbians, transgendered individuals, and other people with the courage to live their lives authentically in accord with who they are inside their hearts, minds, and spirits.

  Raven Grimassi

  Heart, Gay, Moon

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• The best critical consideration of the inherent weakness of a federation of states in which the law of the federation has to be enforced on the states who are its members is contained in the Federalist Papers.

  Kenneth Waltz

  Law, Weakness, Paper

  Kenneth N. Waltz (2013). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.186, Columbia University Press

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• It is as absurd to expect members of philosophy departments to be philosophers as it is to expect members of art departments to be artists.

  Leo Strauss

  Art, Philosophy, Philosopher

  Leo Strauss, Hilail Gildin (1989). “An Introduction to Political Philosophy: Ten Essays”, p.317, Wayne State University Press

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• All in all it's a pretty great day for major league sports. At long last they've decided that gay people are fit to be included in their elite club-one that's already allowed in adulterers, wife-swappers, gamblers, cheaters, rapists, racists and slaughterers of man. Those who've abused spouses, drugs, alcohol, family members and animals. Congratulations, gay athletes. Are you sure you want to hang out with these people?

  Jon Stewart

  Change, Sports, Congratulations

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• We must now surrender to the obligation to understand and to care. We must surrender ourselves to becoming conscious, thinking members of the human race. We must put down the temptation to powerlessness and surrender to the questions of the moment.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Knowledge, Thinking, Race

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• The thing about collaborators is that you don't know you are one whereas as a member of the resistance, you do. [In WWII,] the worst cases of collaboration weren't among the real collaborators, that official militia, but among the people at large, who were collaborators without knowing it, by a sort of laxity, an apathy.

  Paul Virilio

  Real, Knowing, People

  "Pure War". Book by Paul Virilio and Sylvère Lotringer, 2008.

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• Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness.

  Leo Strauss

  Greatness, Democracy, Ears

  Leo Strauss (1995). “Liberalism Ancient and Modern”, p.5, University of Chicago Press

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• There can be no justification to admit, in any way, the use of armed forced to intervene in the internal affairs of a WTO [Warsaw Treaty Organization] member country. The solving of domestic problems belongs exclusively to the Party and people of each country and any kind of interference can only do harm to the cause of socialism, friendship and collaboration among the socialist countries.

  Nicolae Ceausescu

  Country, Party, Socialist Countries

  Commencement address at the Romanian Military Academy August 14, 1968. "The Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia, 1968: Forty Years Later". Book by M. Mark Stolarik, 2010.

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• I have not come to seek place, nor to interfere with the business and calling of those men who have borne the burden since the death of Joseph. I throw myself at your feet, and wish to be one of your number, and be a mere member of the Church, and my mere asking to be baptized is an end to all pretensions to authority.

  Oliver Cowdery

  Men, Feet, Numbers

  "Report to Presidents Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, Willard Richards and the Authorities of the Church", statement upon requesting rebaptism in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, April 5, 1849.

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• For most countries, serving the UN's objectives has never seemed worth even the smallest of risks. Member nations do not want a large, reputable, strong and independent United Nations, no matter their hypocritical pronouncements otherwise. What they want is a weak, beholden, indebted scapegoat of an organization, which they can blame for their failures or steal victories from.

  Roméo Dallaire

  Country, Strong, Independent

  "Shake Hands with the Devil". Book by Roméo Dallaire, 2003.

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• No attempt of any kind must be made at rescuing members of ships sunk, and this includes picking up persons in the water and putting them in lifeboats, righting capsized lifeboats, and handing over food and water. Rescue runs counter to the most primitive demands of warfare for the destruction of enemy ships and crews. Be hard, remember that the enemy has no regard for women and children when he bombs German cities.

  Karl Donitz

  Running, Children, Cities

  Orders issued on September 17, 1942. "The Trial of the Germans". Book by Eugene Davidson, p. 406, 1997.

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• We have switched from defense to offense and in this battle all the members of the Hamas leadership are legitimate targets.

  Tzachi Hanegbi

  Battle, Defense, Target

  Public radio, March 23, 2004.

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• The physical life of an individual person is limited, but the life of the masses united as an independent social-political organism is immortal. Only when an individual becomes a member of this community can he acquire the immortal social-political life.

  Kim Jong Il

  Independent, Community, Political

  "Theory of the Immortal Social-Political Body". 1986.

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• The New Testament was not produced as a single work issued by an authoritative Church for the instruction of its members. The four Gospels were composed in different times and places over perhaps a third of a century, and for a time circulated separately among a number of other narratives of our Lord's life (of which the newly discovered fragment of an unknown gospel may have been one).

  Frederic G. Kenyon

  Numbers, Church, Different

  "The Story Of The Bible" by Frederic G. Kenyon. Ch. X, The Position Today, p. 133, 1949.

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• Politics is rather the creation of the best possible polity out of the deep inner needs of its citizenry - who are only some of its members.

  Mark Kingwell

  Needs, Creation, Citizenry

  Mark Kingwell (2000). “The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age”, p.38, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Bassett was a member of parliament and a cousin on my father's side of the family. My father delivered him and it became plain in later days that he must have dropped him.

  David Lange

  Cousin, Father, Sides

  David Lange (2005). “My life”, Viking Adult

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• Our editor came to work today in a vibrant pink shirt. Vibrant. Several members of staff have had to go home sick.

  Eddie Mair

  Home, Editors, Sick

  PM Newsletter, August 2006.

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• Mengistu seemed to symbolize the revolution. He was the baria, the slave who overthrew the master, the member of the conquered tribe who got even with the conquerors, the poorly educated son of a servant who rose against the intellectual elite.

  Mengistu Haile Mariam

  Son, Rose, Intellectual

  "Ethiopia: Empire in Revolution". Book by David Ottaway and ‎Marina Ottaway, 1978.

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• An optimist is somebody who thinks our various political and social systems, schools and churches, support groups and Boy Scout troops, jury trials and congressional committees, are on the up-and-up. That they are intended for the benefit of the members. The reality is that they are designed to keep everyone in line.

  Jack McDevitt

  School, Boys, Reality

  "Odyssey". Book by Jack McDevitt, 2006.

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• By the standards of honest, if unorthodox, accounting, government workers don't pay taxes, but are paid out of taxes. In other words, they pay taxes out of money confiscated from taxpayers, who, in turn, pay taxes twice: on their own income and on the income of members of the bureaucracy. At the very least, this should disqualify state workers from voting.

  Ilana Mercer

  Government, Voting, Unorthodox

  "Life in the Oink Sector". www.wnd.com. September 25, 2009.

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• Any Organized social group is always a stratified social body. There has not been and does not exist any permanent social group which is "flat" and in which all members are equal.

  Pitirim Sorokin

  Groups, Doe, Body

  Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin (1998). “Social Mobility”, p.12, Taylor & Francis

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• Above all, every member of the university has an obligation to permit free expression in the university. No member has a right to prevent such expression. Every official of the university, moreover, has a special obligation to foster free expression and to ensure that it is not obstructed.

  C. Vann Woodward

  War, Expression, Special

  "Free Expression, Peaceful Dissent, and Demonstrations". Report of the Committee on Freedom of Expression at Yale, catalog.yale.edu. January 1975.

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• Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) the President of the United States is authorized to present, on behalf of the Congress, a gold medal of appropriate design to the family of the late Honorable Leo J. Ryan in recognition of his distinguished service as a Member of Congress and the fact of his untimely death by assassination while performing his responsibilities as a Member of the United States House of Representatives.

  Leo Ryan

  Responsibility, America, Design

  "Act Awarding Leo Ryan Congressional Gold Medal". United States Congress, H.R. 3348 Public Law 98 - 159, November 18, 1983.

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• As his colleagues have noted in their tribute to him, it was typical of Leo Ryan's concern for his constituents that he would investigate personally the rumors of mistreatment in Jonestown that reportedly affected so many from his district. Leo Ryan is the 88th recipient of a Congressional Gold Medal and only the 4th Member of Congress to receive this high honor from his colleagues.

  Leo Ryan

  Honor, Gold, Rumor

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• Sistani’s office refuses the replacement of the law because it is not an Iraqi demand but it is a political demand to please some sides.

  Ali al-Sistani

  Party, Law, Office

  "Top Iraqi Shi'ite cleric rejects Baathist law". www.reuters.com. April 2, 2007.

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