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• Free societies are hopeful societies. And free societies will be allies against these hateful few who have no conscience, who kill at the whim of a hat.

  George W. Bush

  Freedom, Hopeful, Hats

  George W. Bush “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, George W. Bush, 2004, Book 2, July 1 to September 30, 2004”, Government Printing Office

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• We need an ally of Mydogg's or Gentian's pretending to be among the most loyal allies of the king,' Brigan said. 'Shouldn't be so hard, really. If I shot an arrow out the window I'd probably hit on.

  Kristin Cashore

  Kings, Arrows, Needs

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.135, Penguin

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• The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally - not a 20 percent traitor.

  Ronald Reagan

  Time, Interesting, Traitor

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• Syria is Iran's only ally in the Arab world. It's their route to the sea.

  Mitt Romney

  Stupid, Iran, Sea

  TRANSCRIPT: Presidential debate on foreign policy at Lynn University, www.foxnews.com. October 22, 2012.

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• The walls between old allies on either side of the Atlantic cannot stand. The walls between the countries with the most and those with the least cannot stand. The walls between races and tribes; natives and immigrants; Christian and Muslim and Jew cannot stand. These now are the walls we must tear down. We know they have fallen before.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Christian, Country

  Address to the People of Berlin, delivered 24 July 2008, Victory Column

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• It would have been easier to fight alone with inadequate forces than to have to accept...responsibility for our ally's lack of fighting qualities and dubious loyalty.

  Albert Kesselring

  Loyalty, War, Responsibility

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• The crises of our time, it becomes increasingly clear, are the necessary impetus for the revolution now under way. And once we understand nature's transformative powers, we see that it is our powerful ally, not a force to feared our subdued.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Powerful, Way, Revolution

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• I am a stickler for good manners, and I believe that treating other people well is a lost art. In the workplace, at the dinner table, and walking down the street--we are confronted with choices on how to treat people nearly every waking moment. Over time these choices define who we are and whether we have a lot of friends and allies or none.

  Tim Gunn

  Art, Believe, People

  "Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work". Book by Tim Gunn, abcnews.go.com. September 7, 2010.

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• 'Feminist comedy,' practically an oxymoron, had a couple of good years after WWII. Chalk it up to the forced female autonomy that occurred during wartime, when Rosie the Riveter went to work in the factories, constructing the Allies' war machines while taking charge of the finances, the home, and the children.

  Grace Slick

  Children, Couple, War

  Grace Slick, Andrea Cagan (2008). “Somebody to Love?: A Rock-and-Roll Memoir”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• As I grew up, one of my strongest allies has been my sister.

  Patti Smith

  My Sister, Grew Up, Strongest

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• The whole point of Superman, as originally created, was to be the ally of those who had no other allies. It put that magnitude of power, the most powerful guy in the world, in the service of those who had no hope, no chance.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Powerful, Guy, World

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• I wasn't trying to be an outlaw writer. I never heard of that term; somebody else made it up. But we were all outside the law: Kerouac, Miller, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Kesey; I didn't have a gauge as to who was the worst outlaw. I just recognized allies: my people.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Law, People, Trying

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• That conclusion is inescapable, given the well-established evidence that voter-ID laws don't disenfranchise minorities or reduce minority voting, and in many instances enhance it, despite claims to the contrary by Mr. Holder and his allies. As more states adopt such laws, the left has railed against them with increasing fury, even invoking the specter of the Jim Crow era to describe electoral safeguards common to most nations, including in the Third World.

  Edwin Meese

  Law, Voting, Crow

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• Should I become President...I will not risk American lives...by permitting any other nation to drag us into the wrong war at the wrong place at the wrong time through an unwise commitment that is unwise militarily, unnecessary to our security and unsupported by our allies.

  John F. Kennedy

  War, Commitment, Risk

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• In the post-individualistic era, science and spirituality will become allies, and human beings will realize a vast potentiality now only dimly felt.

  Huston Smith

  Eras, Spirit, Realizing

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• Ignorance and arrogance are the artist's and entrepreneur's indispensable allies. She must be clueless enough to have no
  idea how difficult her enterprise is going to be and cocky enough to believe she can pull it off anyway."

  Steven Pressfield

  Business, Believe, Clueless

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• Why don’t I know You?” “Does anyone ever really know someone else?” “You think your cute,” she told him. “You think your gorgeous. But I’m the one guy here who knows better.” “So I’m not gorgeous?” Macey challenged. “Of course you are,” He started away, turned back at the last minute. “But I’m the guy who figured out that’s not all you are." — Double Crossed by Ally Carter

  Ally Carter

  Cute, Thinking, Guy

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• Force a hand, the voice warned, and it will fight you. But convince a mind to think as you want it to think, and you have an ally.

  Dan Brown

  Fighting, Thinking, Hands

  "Digital Fortress".

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• Chaos needs no allies, for it dwells like a poison in every one of us.

  Steven Erikson

  Poison, Needs, Chaos

  "Midnight Tides". Book by Steven Erikson, 2004.

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• An ally need not own the land he helps.

  Euripides

  Land, Justice, Needs

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”

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• The dismissal of any of these people would send a useful signal to U.S. allies that the president has the nerve - and self-awareness - to make a change.

  Bret Stephens

  Self, People, President

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• At every stage of spiritual growth, the greatest ally you have is your body.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Growth, Body

  Deepak Chopra (1997). “Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Quantum Alternative to Growing Old”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• What if free people could live secure in the knowledge that their security did not rest upon the threat of instant U.S. retaliation to deter a Soviet attack, that we could intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles before they reached our own soil or that of our allies?

  Ronald Reagan

  War, People, What If

  Ronald Reagan (2011). “An American Life: An Enhanced eBook with CBS Video: The Autobiography”, p.494, Simon and Schuster

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• We have no eternal allies, and we have not perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.

  Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

  Enemy, Politics, Politician

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• It is a pity that...the majority of feminists and their allies have stuck to the dead ground of "Me Decade" possessive individualism, an ideology that has more in common than it admits with the prehistoric right, which it claims to oppose but has in fact encouraged.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Abortion, Feminist, Majority

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