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• Opening her eyes again, and seeing her husband's face across the table, she leaned forward to give it a pat on the cheek, and sat down to supper, declaring it to be the best face in the world.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Husband, Eye

  Charles Dickens (1868). “The Works of Charles Dickens ...”, p.260

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• The governor has a role in terms of declaring a state of emergency.

  Bob Buckhorn

  Roles, Emergencies, States

  "Starting Point with Soledad O'Brien", www.cnn.com. August 24, 2012.

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• My music is kind of laid back, it doesn't have super crispy, shiny production, and I'm not singing my heart out or whatever. But that whole idea of blogs declaring: "this is the new denomination for this sound" is ridiculous to me.

  Mac DeMarco

  Heart, Ideas, Singing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Very often people who admit the facts, who are willing to see that Mr. Rockefeller has employed force and fraud to secure his ends, justify him by declaring, 'It's business.' That is, 'it's business' has come to be a legitimate excuse for hard dealing, sly tricks, special privileges.

  Ida Tarbell

  Business, People, Special

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• The law rarely hesitates in declaring its own meaning; but the Judges are frequently puzzled to find out the meaning of others.

  William Blackstone

  Law, Judging, Puzzled

  Sir William Blackstone, John Fletcher Hargrave, George Sweet, Sir Richard Couch, William Newland Welsby (1852). “Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books : with an Analysis of the Work”, p.303

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• So far Unitarian realism claiming to possess positive knowledge about Ultimate Reality has succeeded only by excluding large areas of phenomena or by declaring, without proof, that they could be reduced to basic theory, which, in this connection, means elementary particle physics.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Mean, Reality, Connections

  Paul Feyerabend (2001). “Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction Versus the Richness of Being”, p.215, University of Chicago Press

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• There must be limits, somewhere, to the human footprint on this earth. When the whole of the world is reduced to nothing but human product, we will have lost the map that can show us how we got here, and can offer our spirits an answer when we ask why. Surely we are capable of declaring sacred some quarters that we dare not enter or possess.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Environmental, Earth, Sacred

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Small Wonder”, p.87, Faber & Faber

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• My modesty has prevented me from declaring from the house top that the message of non-co-operation, nonviolence and swadeshi is a message to the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  House, World, Messages

  Mahatma Gandhi (1966). “Socialism of My Conception”

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• What China would do, I cannot predict. China has all but given up the claim to the use of force, except in the circumstance of Taiwan declaring its independence. That is a huge step forward over what the situation was many years ago.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Years, Independence, Taiwan

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The state is a vast enterprise for declaring all sorts of things legal for itself that would be illegal for us.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Would Be, States, Illegal

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• This is an important distinction, because most of the modern philosophies that deny that we can know reality, and ultimately truth, make the mistake of constructing epistemological systems to explain how we know reality without first acknowledging the fact that we do know reality. After they begin within the mind and find they can't construct a bridge to reality, they then declare that we can't know reality. It is like drawing a faulty road map before looking at the roads, then declaring that we can't know how to get from Chicago to New York!

  Josh McDowell

  New York, Mistake, Philosophy

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• There can be no freedom for Africa without justice; and no justice without declaring war on Africa's poverty, disease and famine with as much vehemence as we remove the tyrant and the terrorist.

  Tony Blair

  War, Tyrants, Justice

  Address to Congress Accepting Congressional Gold Medal, delivered 17 July 2003, Joint Session of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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• The time has come in our society when I see great wisdom and purpose in a United States Constitutional amendment declaring that marriage is between a man and a woman. There is nothing in that proposed amendment that requires a criminal prosecution or that directs the attorneys general to go out and round people up, but it declares a principle and it also creates a defensive barrier against those who would alter that traditional definition of marriage.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Men, People, Principles

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• On October 31, 2004, the Minnesota Timberwolves offered Sprewell a 3-year, $21 million contract extension, substantially less than what his then-current contract paid him. Claiming to feel insulted by the offer, he publicly expressed outrage, declaring, “I have a family to feed If Glen Taylor wants to see my family fed, he better cough up some money. Otherwise, you're going to see these kids in one of those Sally Struthers commercials soon.

  Latrell Sprewell

  Kids, Years, October

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• A fellow who is always declaring that he's no fool, usually has his suspicions.

  Wilson Mizner

  Fool, Suspicion, Fellows

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• I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Believe, Food, Important

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• Flip-flopping is kind of an easy thing to identify. During a recent convention, we heard an irate Senator make an angry speech declaring that it is not what you say but, rather, what you do that counts. You flip-flop when you make promises and fail to fulfill them.

  Frank Lautenberg

  Promise, Speech, Flip

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• From the standpoint of modern political science the slave holders were right in declaring that liberty can be given only to those who have political capacity enough to use it, and they were also right in maintaining that two greatly unequal races cannot exist side by side on terms of perfect equality.

  Charles Edward Merriam

  Race, Two, Perfect

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• For only fools, fanatics, and mental cases can stand living at the highest pitch of soul; a sane person must be content with declaring that life would not be worth living without a spark of that mysterious fire.

  Robert Musil

  Fire, Soul, Sparks

  Robert Musil (2015). “The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic”, p.189, Pan Macmillan

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• If God has given graces to some good women, revealing to them something holy and good through His Holy Scriptures, should they, for the sake of the defamers of the truth, refrain from writing down, speaking, or declaring it to each other? Ah! It would be too impudent to hide the talent which God has given us, we who ought to have the grace to persevere to the end. Amen!

  Marie Dentiere

  Writing, Grace, Good Woman

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• On my fortieth birthday, rather than merely bore my friends by having anything as mundane as a midlife crisis I decided it might be more interesting to actually terrify them by going completely mad and declaring myself to be a magician.

  Alan Moore

  Mad, Interesting, Midlife

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• As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Men, Despotism

  Letter to Joshua F. Speed, 24 Aug. 1855

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• Humility is not just declaring that you are not God. It is deciding daily to not be God.

  Darrin Patrick

  Humility

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• Writing, therefore, is also an act of courage. How much easier is it to lead an unexamined life than to confront yourself on the page? How much easier is it to surrended to materialism or cynicism or to a hundred other ways of life that are, in fact, ways to hide from life and from our fears. When we write, we resist the facile seduction of theses simpler roads. We insist on finding out and declaring the truths that we find, and we dare to out those truths on the page.

  Jack Heffron

  Writing, Pages, Way

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• Science is advanced by proposing and testing hypothesis, not by declaring questions unsolvable.

  Nick Matzke

  Religion, Atheism, Hypothesis

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