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• My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters.

  William Standish Knowles

  Matter, My Family, Family Background

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• We may have different backgrounds, but we believe in the same dream that says this is a country where anything's possible. No matter who you are. No matter where you come from.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Dream, Country

  Second Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 25 January 2011, Washington, D.C.

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• Giving is a universal opportunity. Regardless of your age, profession, religion, income bracket, and background, you have the capacity to create change.

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

  Opportunity, Giving, Age

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• I really don’t feel exclusiveMy ambition instead, perhaps because of my peasant-worker background, is to look at the world with others, not as an aristocratic intellectual.

  Ermanno Olmi

  Ambition, Intellectual, Looks

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• I think that what most surprises anybody who goes into politics from even a modestly cerebral background is the vulgarity of much of the cut and thrust of politics.

  Chris Patten

  Cutting, Thinking, Vulgarity Is

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• People prefer to be with people like themselves. For all the celebration of "diversity," it's sameness that dominates. Most people favor friendships with those who share similar backgrounds, interests and values. It makes for more shared experiences, easier conversations and more comfortable silences. Despite many exceptions, the urge is nearly universal. It's human nature.

  Robert J. Samuelson

  People, Diversity, Silence

  "A Tyranny of True Believers" by Robert Samuelson, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 6, 2008.

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• I think 75% of the population of Great Britain are probably still de-churched. It's the younger end, the 25%, the merging generation, who have no church background at all.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Thinking, Church, Generations

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• A lot of people don't know that my background is completely classical. For a while there, I was all about Molière and the Greeks and Brecht and Tennessee Williams.

  Katy Mixon

  People, Greek, Tennessee

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to start painting in the social background on a scale which eventually became panoramic.

  Jonathan Coe

  Book, Political, Ambitious

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• To end the crisis [of gun violence], we have to regulate -or, in the case of handguns and assault weapons, completely ban -the product. We are far past the [point] where registration, licensing, safety training, background checks, or waiting periods will have much effect on firearms violence.

  Josh Sugarmann

  Past, Gun, Assault Weapons

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• Much of life becomes background, but it is the province of art to throw buckets of light into the shadows and make life new again.

  Diane Ackerman

  Art, Light, Shadow

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of the Senses”, p.9, Vintage

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• I brought a picture with me that I had at home, of a girl in a swing with a castle and pretty blue bubbles in the background, to hang in my room, but that nurse here said the girl was naked from the waist up and not appropriate. You know, I've had that picture for fifty years and I never knew she was naked. If you ask me, I don't think the old men they've got here can see well enough to notice that she's bare-breasted. But, this is a Methodist home, so she's in the closet with my gallstones.

  Fannie Flagg

  Girl, Home, Thinking

  Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.19, Random House

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• The tragedy in the lives of most of us is that we go through life
  walking down a high-walled lane with people of our own kind, the
  same economic situation, the same national background and
  education and religious outlook. And beyond those walls, all
  humanity lies, unknown and unseen, and untouched by our
  restricted and impoverished lives.

  Florence Luscomb

  Religious, Wall, Lying

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• IF THE TRUE MEASURE OF A BOOK is to be found in the perfume that remains behind when all the words have been forgotten then, for Beyond Recovery, it is this quality of honesty, openness and surrender which communicates itself in the words and between them, administering not just to the mind but to the background of Awareness.

  Rupert Spira

  Honesty, Book, Recovery

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• Order is not sufficient. What is required, is something much more complex. It is order entering upon novelty; so that the massiveness of order does not degenerate into mere repetition; and so that the novelty is always reflected upon a background of system.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Science, Order, Doe

  Alfred North Whitehead, David Ray Griffin (1978). “Process and reality: an essay in cosmology”, Free Pr

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• Very close by the CMS shops, hidden about a quarter mile away in the woods, was the prison's rifle range. Correctional officers could spend quality time with their firearms down there, and the hammering of multiple rounds was typical background noise during our workdays. There was something unsettling about toiling away for a prison while listening to your jailers practice shooting you.

  Piper Kerman

  Background Noise, Practice, Listening

  Piper Kerman (2010). “Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison”, p.166, Spiegel & Grau

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• There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish, but it's certainly present in the early work.

  Chaim Potok

  Religious, Strong, Diminish

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• ..I think there is less cynicism about human rights than there was. The work we are doing is part of the overall pattern of human development, whatever the political system, whatever the country, whatever the cultural background, whatever the religion.

  Martin Ennals

  Country, Thinking, Rights

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• Everyone, no matter what their cultural background, has a right to discover the sacred in nature; to heal and be redeemed spiritually by nature; and to revere the ancestors. We are all haunted and saved by our memories.

  Martha Brooks

  Memories, Sacred, Matter

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• THE WRITER can get free of his writing only by using it, that is, by reading oneself. As if the aim of writing were to use what is already written as a launching pad for reading the writing to come. Moreover, what he has written is read in the process, hence constantly modified by his reading. The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets.

  Edmond Jabes

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• Opening our borders to a flood of illegal immigrants is deliberate ... It's time to impeach; and on behalf of American workers and legal immigrants of all backgrounds, we should vehemently oppose any politician on the left or right who would hesitate in voting for articles of impeachment.

  Sarah

  Voting, Borders, Politician

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• He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not only does the punishment not fit the crime, but the mandatory minimums don't give judges any discretion to look at the background of the case, to read into the specifics of the case. I don't know a judge who really is in favor of the mandatory minimums.

  Carly Simon

  Years, Punishment, Giving

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• My background with Cummings was rehearse, rehearse, rehearse, but Tuesday liked to walk in and do the scene. I must say that she was really wonderful. Aggravating, but wonderful.

  Dwayne Hickman

  Aggravation, Tuesday, Wonderful

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• The look that passes between Jeffrey and Kimber right then feels like it requires a swell of cheesy music in the background. Aw, I think. Baby brother's in love. I also find this kind of gross.

  Cynthia Hand

  Baby, Brother, Thinking

  Cynthia Hand (2011). “Unearthly”, p.112, Egmont UK

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• Sometimes in a relationship, we can be so caught up in our feelings for the other person that we squeeze God into the background. It becomes a confusing, emotional mess and we wonder why God isn't giving us more direction, when all the while He is there waiting to be allowed back into first place in our hearts. Only when He is truly in first place are we ready for a God-written love story.

  Leslie Ludy

  Heart, Emotional, Giving

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