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• Censure is a limp noodle across the wrist of the president. I think the way we vote on the articles will express the way we feel stronger than any censure vote.

  Larry Craig

  Thinking, President, Stronger

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• Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Book, 4th Of July, Men

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1816-1826”, p.210, Cosimo, Inc.

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• What is guilt? Guilt is the pledge drive constantly hammering in our heads that keeps us from fully enjoying the show. Guilt is the reason they put the articles in Playboy.

  Dennis Miller

  Funny, Humor, Guilt

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• Every article I see is dope this, junkie that, whiskey this - that ain't my title.

  Layne Staley

  Dope, Titles, Whiskey

  "Alice in Chains: To Hell and Back". Interview with Jon Wiederhorn, www.rollingstone.com. February 8, 1996.

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• Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

  H. L. Mencken

  Party, Past, Political

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• How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Inspirational, Faith, Thinking

  "The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations". Book by Robert Andrews, Columbia University Press, p.104, 1989.

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• I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book.

  Jackie Collins

  Book, Inspiration, Thinking

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• I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Clothings, Persons

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• No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Government, Atheism, Belief

  Jeremy Bentham (1843). “The Works of Jeremy Bentham”, p.92

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• Somebody did an article in one of the newspapers saying that at that time I had the most visibility of any actor around. Kind of nice, you know, when that thing was happening.

  Gavin MacLeod

  Nice, Actors, Visibility

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• Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.

  Robert Collier

  Death, New Beginnings, Simple

  Robert Collier (1948). “The Secret of the Ages”

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• Non-violence is the article of faith.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Peace, Violence

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• Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Jogging, Lasts

  Defense against charge of sedition, Shahi Bag, India, 18 Mar. 1922

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• Fascism is not an article for export.

  Benito Mussolini

  Fascism

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• There was an interesting article in Los Angeles Magazine about women directors. A woman director makes one bad independent film and her career is over. Guys tend to get an opportunity to learn from their mistakes.

  Dick Wolf

  Mistake, Independent, Opportunity

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• To the extent that these advanced weapons or their components are treated as articles of commerce, perhaps for peaceful uses as in the Plowshare program, their cost would be well within the resources available to many large private organizations.

  Herman Kahn

  Organization, Peaceful, Use

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• Well when I was young, when I was very young, when I was a little boy I don't remember the music I heard, but there was an article in the Brooklyn Daily written by my Aunt about how I could choose phonograph records.

  Elliott Carter

  Aunt, Boys, Records

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• The Soul of man is made an article of merchandize by his fellow man and can such a land be happy? No! Happyness does not dwell in any land that is scard by the blighting curse of Slavery.

  Ezra Cornell

  Men, Land, Soul

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• I really try not to read the tennis articles, because a lot of times they're guessing at how a player is feeling, and I like to keep myself kind of open minded about how I'm feeling, rather than have someone else explain to me what's going on.

  Jim Courier

  Player, Tennis, Feelings

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• The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them.

  Floyd Abrams

  Block, Government, Trying

  "First Amendment Attorney Floyd Abrams Talks with CFIF’s Corporate Counsel About Three Decades of Free Speech". "Your Turn", www.cfif.org. June 15, 2005.

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• That all who have ever been born men from the beginning of creation, and are deceased, are either in heaven or in hell, follows from those things which have been said and shown in the preceding article, namely, that Heaven and Hell are from the human race.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Men, Race, Heaven

  Emanuel Swedenborg (2012). “Last Judgment: Are We Living in the End of Days?”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• If I read the articles about me, and I didn't know me, I would think I was Satan.

  Jack Abramoff

  Thinking, Satan, Know Me

  "Jack Abramoff's School Days" by Timothy Noah, www.slate.com. April 27, 2005.

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• Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.

  John Ruskin

  Giving Up, Men, Titles

  1880 Open letter to EnglishTrades Unions, 29 Sep.

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• Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.

  Ian Anderson

  Blue, Denim, Awful

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• Many of the critics today get airline tickets, hotel accommodation, bags, beautiful photographs, gifts and other expenses paid by the distributors, and then are supposed to write serious articles about the movie.

  Wim Wenders

  Beautiful, Writing, Bags

  "'The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain'". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

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