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• Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Book, Reading, Mind

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• One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Running, War, Rulers

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• Rampant technolgy eliminates luxury, but not by declaring privilege a human right; rather, it does so by both raising the general standard of living and cutting off the possibility of fulfilment.

  Theodor Adorno

  Life, Cutting, Luxury

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.119, Verso

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• So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Architecture, Modern, Preaching

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1970). “The Future of Architecture”

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• It is not a question of religion, or of creed, or of party; it is a question of declaring and maintaining the great American principle of eternal separation between Church and State.

  Elihu Root

  Party, Atheism, Church

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• If the preaching of our ministers and the practice of our parishioners do not have the same effect on people that Jesus had, then we must not be declaring the same message that Jesus did.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Practice, People

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.5, Penguin

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• Step into this moment, because it is the only one you have right now. It is not wasted or thrown away. The divine opportunity could be stolen unless you tell yourself it is here right now; available to you this moment, to make of it anything you choose. Why not choose this moment, right now, to be available to yourself by declaring, I AM GOOD! . . . . The richness of the present is here. The fullness of now is present. If you are not here now, it means you could be missing the love, joy, peace and brand-new ideas that are here right now.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Mean, Opportunity, Ideas

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• When friends enter a home, they sense its personality and character, the family's style of living - these elements make a house come alive with a sense of identity, a sense of energy, enthusiasm, and warmth , declaring: "This is how we are; this is how we live."

  Ralph Lauren

  Home, Character, House

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• I shall content myself with merely declaring my firm conviction that, for the seeker who would live in fear of God and who would see Him face to face, restraint in diet both as to quantity and quality is as essential as restraint in thought and speech.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Food, Quality, Essentials

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.21, A&C Black

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• I am much more likely to care about someone trying to be funny and give them some credit for whatever he or she did that was remotely funny than I am to be mused by somebody declaring this isn't funny, that isn't funny, this sucks. If you want to write humor, you're going to have to get used to that.

  Dave Barry

  Writing, Giving, Trying

  Source: www.writersdigest.com

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• Allah has tailor made the test for each and every one of us and none of us will be given something which we can't bear. I am given something that I can bear and you are given something that YOU can bear. The tests won't be the same for you and me. This is why suicide is the a great wrong because by suicide you're basically declaring, 'Oh Allah this is too much, I can't take it anymore!

  Bilal Philips

  Suicide, Tailors, Tests

  FaceBook post by Dr. Bilal Philips from Aug 13, 2013

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• By declaring yourself a leader, you're taking initiative and moving into a role of influence in a lively and vital network that's changing the world. We're changing the world, first by changing ourselves and then by touching the world as changed beings. We believe the change in us catalyzes change in others. So in changing the world, we're choosing to be the change we wish to see in the world. By taking on this leadership role, you are choosing to be the change too.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Moving, Believe, Leader

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• There is a cultural norm on the left of being afraid to declare victory, which is related to the binary of reform/revolution. Whereas reformists are winning small gains, revolutionaries don't want people to be satisfied with those small victories because they worry this will lead to acceptance of the bigger picture of capitalism domination, and so they find a way to turn every victory into a defeat. In the book, I call for a culture of declaring victory wherever we can.

  Cynthia Kauffman

  Book, Acceptance, Winning

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Sometimes things need to get really bad before they can ever get better. Really bad can become untenable if enough people get sick of it. That was a big thing about why I ended up taking part in that rally [against police brutality] and ended up voicing my opinion and declaring what side I was standing on.

  Quentin Tarantino

  People, Sick, Police

  "Q&A: Tarantino on the battles behind 'The Hateful Eight'". Associated Press Interview, www.dailymail.co.uk. December 22, 2015.

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• On this question of war, three things are to be considered. First, the right of declaring it: secondly, the expense of supporting it: thirdly, the mode of conducting it after it is declared.

  Thomas Paine

  War, Three, Firsts

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…”, p.224, e-artnow

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• Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it.

  Alain de Botton

  Book, Done, Remains

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• We need to focus on destroying ISIL, but we shouldn't be the ones declaring that [Bashir] Assad must go.

  Martin O'Malley

  Focus, Needs, Isil

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Any move by Israel to end the conflict with the Palestinians by unilateral moves - such as annexing the West Bank, delinking Gaza and declaring that there be no further diplomatic process - will lead to strong regional and global reactions, as well as intensify efforts at the UN and in civil society to brand Israel as an outlaw state dangerous to regional and world peace and guilty of criminal behavior.

  Richard A. Falk

  Strong, Moving, Israel

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Constraint theory asks: What is the price for doing this? Now one way around constraint theory is declaring your enemy crazy. Crazy and stupid are not concepts used in forecasting. When people say they're really stupid or they're crazy, that's laziness. That means I don't want to think through their position or about what they're really going to do.

  George Friedman

  Stupid, Crazy, Mean

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I am challenging Ezer Weizman to accept the democratic state where both of us can live in this democratic state. What confederation? No. One democratic state. He declared one offer, I am declaring the other offer. With two communities.

  Yasser Arafat

  Two, Community, Challenges

  Source: www.nybooks.com

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• We're at a historical juncture: A growing number of people are declaring what has been achieved over the past decades in Europe to be wrong. They want to return to the nation-state. Sometimes there is even a blood and soil rhetoric that for me is starkly reminiscent of the interwar years of the past century, whose demons we are still all too familiar with.

  Martin Schulz

  Past, Blood, Years

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Both India and Pakistan have a long history of deploying rhetorical strategies to skirt the issue of plebiscite or complete secession of the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir. When feeling particularly belligerent Pakistan cries itself hoarse declaring the legitimacy of plebiscite held under United Nations auspices in J & K; India responds just as aggressively by demanding the complete withdrawal of Pakistani troops from the territory of pre-partition J & K; or, in a moment of neighborly solicitude, for conversion of the LOC to a permanent International border.

  Nyla Ali Khan

  India And Pakistan, Issues, Rhetorical Strategies

  "The Hidden Tragedy of Kashmir". Interview with Souad Sharabani, www.counterpunch.org. September 15, 2016.

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• I am not sure that I know enough about the pre-history of 9/11 to agree or disagree. But I did think at the time that the [George W.] Bush administration took a number of cues from the Israeli government, not only by drawing on and intensifying anti-Arab racism, but by insisting that the attack on US government and financial buildings was an attack on "democracy" and by invoking "security at all costs" to wage war without a clear focus (why the Taliban?), and by suspending both constitutional rights and the regular protocol for congressional approval for declaring war.

  Judith Butler

  War, Thinking, Rights

  Interview with Cihan Aksan and Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. October 11, 2013.

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• Montaigne is wrong in declaring that custom ought to be followed simply because it is custom, and not because it is reasonable or just.

  Blaise Pascal

  Reasonable, Ought, Customs

  Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1859). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.186

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• The New York Post quoted Senator Hillary Clinton saying that she would never run for President, declaring "That is not something I'm going to be doing. "Which in Clinton talk means "I will be President in three years.

  Tina Fey

  Running, New York, Mean

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