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• It is not government's job to mandate responsibility on our behalf. We have the intelligence and good sense to make wise consumption choices for ourselves and our children. It is up to us to do what is best for our health and our children's health.

  Michael Dean Crapo

  Wise, Jobs, Children

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• We don't believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans.

  George W. Bush

  Believe, Humor, Decision

  "The 2000 campaign: The Texas Governor; Bush Says That the Bottom Line on Gore's Proposals Would Consume the Surplus" by Alison Mitchell, www.nytimes.com. September 7, 2000.

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• It is better for me to die in behalf of Jesus Christ, than to reign over all the ends of the earth.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Jesus, Earth, Reign

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• Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Prayer, Humor

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.96, Courier Corporation

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• No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.

  Martha Beck

  Self Esteem, Loss, Arrows

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• Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.

  W. H. Auden

  Forgiveness, Party, Unique

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• I'm always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters.

  Ben Stiller

  Character, Comedy, Endure

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• I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Soldier, Acting, Convinced

  Siegfried Sassoon (1983). “Siegfried Sassoon's long journey: selections from the Sherston memoirs”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.

  William James

  Heart, Errors, World

  William James (1956). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human Immortality”, p.19, Courier Corporation

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• The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.

  Shakti Gawain

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Risk

  Shakti Gawain (2015). “The Shakti Gawain Essentials: 3 Books in 1: Creative Visualization, Living in the Light & Developing Intuition”, p.238, Mango Media Inc.

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• My fellow Americans, this is an amazing moment for me. To think that a once-scrawny boy from Austria could grow up to become governor of the state of California and then stand here... then stand here in Madison Square Garden and speak on behalf of the president of the United States - that is an immigrant's dream. It is the American dream.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Dream, Growing Up, Motivation

  "Schwarzenegger: No country more welcoming than the USA". Arnold Schwarzenegger's speech at the Republican National Convention in New York City, edition.cnn.com. August 31, 2004.

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• Love thy neighbor as thyself: Do not do to others what thou wouldst not wish be done to thyself: Forgive injuries. Forgive thy enemy, be reconciled to him, give him assistance, invoke God in his behalf.

  Confucius

  Love, Forgiveness, Spiritual

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• Simply be who you are, do what you do best, be where you are called by joy, and let life work its magic on your behalf.

  Alan Cohen

  Joy, Be Who You Are, Magic

  Alan Cohen (2006). “Relax Into Wealth: How to Get More by Doing Less”, p.144, Penguin

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• Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women.

  Nora Ephron

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  "What graduation speeches can teach you about life" by Natasha Lunn, www.redonline.co.uk. April 15, 2015.

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• As a result of the Stratfor hack, some of the dangers of the unregulated private intelligence industry are now known. It has been revealed through Wikileaks and other journalists around the world that Stratfor maintained a worldwide network of informants that they used to engage in intrusive and possibly illegal surveillance activities on behalf of large multinational corporations.

  Jeremy Hammond

  Wikileaks, World, Surveillance

  "Jeremy Hammond Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison". www.huffingtonpost.com. November 15, 2013.

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• You cannot speak on behalf of a nation when you have no mandate to do so.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

  Speak, Mandates, Nations

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• The head of the CIA, it seems to me, would think long and hard before he admitted that former employees of his had been involved in the murder of the President of the United States-even if they weren't acting on behalf of the Agency when they did it.

  Jim Garrison

  Thinking, Agency, Long

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• The very purpose of a knight is to fight on behalf of a lady.

  Thomas Malory

  Fighting, Knights, Purpose

  Sir Thomas Malory (1962). “Le morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the legends of the Round Table”, Signet

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• We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Blow, Men, Diversity

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.50, Jerome K. Jerome

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• Obeying instructions I should never dare to disregard, expressing, also, my own firm conviction, I rise in behalf of the State of New York to propose a nomination with which the country and the Republican party can grandly win.

  Roscoe Conkling

  Country, New York, Party

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• People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.

  George Eliot

  People, Bravery, Might

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2694, Delphi Classics

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• If a fellow wants to be nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mailman to somebody on his behalf.

  Charles Kettering

  Business, Want, Mail

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• When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals.

  Clara Zetkin

  Men, Voice, Silent

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• All that I can tell you is, that I used my humble powers to the uttermost, and raised my voice in behalf of Human Rights in general, and the elevation and Rights of Woman in particular, nearly all my life.

  Ernestine Rose

  Humble, Rights, Voice

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• Scripture makes it clear to me that there is an obligation to speak out on behalf of those being persecuted.

  Frank R. Wolf

  Speaks Out, Scripture, Obligation

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