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• I think declaring a no fly zone over foreign soil is tantamount to an act of war.

  Mike Lee

  War, Thinking, Soil

  "Sen. Mike Lee on Libya: 'If This Drags On There Will Be Calls for Withholding Funding'". Interview with David Weigel, www.slate.com. March 23, 2011.

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• No one made a decision to militarize the police in America. The change has come slowly, the result of a generation of politicians and public officials fanning and exploiting public fears by declaring war on abstractions like crime, drug use, and terrorism. The resulting policies have made those war metaphors increasingly real.

  Radley Balko

  Real, War, Drug Use

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• How do you define a poet? It's very simple. Anyone declaring that he is a poet, is a poet.

  Billy Cannon

  Simple, Poetry, Poet

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• Racism serves as the cutting edge of the most reactionary movements. An ideology that starts by declaring one human being inferior to another is the slope whose end is at Auschwitz.

  Ken Livingstone

  Cutting, Racism, Movement

  "This Is About Israel, Not Anti-Semitism". www.theguardian.com. March 04, 2005.

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• [Nietzsche's] definition of cruelty informs Artaud's own, declaring that all art embodies and intensifies the underlying brutalities of life to recreate the thrill of experience ... Although Artaud did not formally cite Nietzsche, [their writing] contains a familiar persuasive authority, a similar exuberant phraseology, and motifs in extremis.

  Antonin Artaud

  Art, Writing, Brutality

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• But come, hear my words, for truly learning causes the mind to grow. For as I said before in declaring the ends of my words: Twofold is the truth I shall speak; for at one time there grew to be the one alone out of many, and at another time it separated so that there were many out of the one; fire and water and earth and boundless height of air, and baneful Strife apart from these, balancing each of them, and Love among them, their equal in length and breadth.

  Empedocles

  Fire, Air, Water

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• Someone who says "I am busy" is either declaring incompetence (and lack of control of his life) or trying to get rid of you.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Trying, Busy, Incompetence

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.29, Random House

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• In 302, the Roman emperor Diocletian commanded "there should be cheapness," declaring, "Unprincipled greed appears wherever our armies ... march. ... Our law shall fix a measure and a limit to this greed." The predictable result of Diocletian's food price controls were black markets, hunger and food confiscation by his soldiers. Despite the disastrous history of price controls, politicians never manage to resist tampering with prices -- that's not a flattering observation of their learning abilities.

  Walter E. Williams

  Army, Law, Greed

  "Economics for the Citizen (Part 9)". capitalismmagazine.com. January 20, 2005.

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• It is a testament to our naïveté about culture that we think that we can change it by simply declaring new values. Such declarations usually produce only cynicism.

  Peter Senge

  Thinking, Vets, Culture

  "The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook". Book by Peter Senge, 1994.

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• It may seem strange, but Congress has never developed a set of goals for guiding Federal Reserve policy. In founding the System, Congress spoke about the country's need for "an elastic currency." Since then, Congress has passed the Full Employment Act, declaring its general intention to promote "maximum employment, production, and purchasing power." But it has never directly counseled the Federal Reserve.

  Wright Patman

  Wisdom, Country, Goal

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• Before what is sacred, people lose all sense of power and all confidence; they occupy a powerless and humble attitude toward it. And yet no thing is sacred of itself, but by my declaring it sacred, by my declaration, my judgment, my bending the knee; in short, by my conscience.

  Max Stirner

  Attitude, Humble, People

  Max Stirner (2012). “The Ego and His Own: The Case of the Individual Against Authority”, p.72, Courier Corporation

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• Learn to think in positive affirmations. Affirmations are any statements you make. Too often we think in negative affirmations. Negative affirmations only create more of what you say you don't want. Saying, “I hate my job,” will get you nowhere. Declaring, “I now accept a wonderful new job,” will open the channels in your consciousness to create that.

  Louise Hay

  Jobs, Hate, Thinking

  Louise L. Hay (1999). “You Can Heal Your Life Gift”, p.127, Hay House, Inc

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• The true gospelstands before the throne of God declaring, 'Jesus did it all.'

  R. C. Sproul, Jr.

  Jesus, Thrones

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• For the decisions of our will are often so directly opposed to the decisions of our emotions, that, if we are in the habit of considering our emotions as the test, we shall be very apt to feel like hypocrites in declaring those things to be real which our will alone has decided.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Real, Hypocrite, Decision

  Hannah Whitall Smith (2009). “The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life”, p.89, Moody Publishers

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• Some people did not like this ceremonious style. But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Men, Japan

  "The Second World War, Volume III : The Grand Alliance". Book by Winston S. Churchill, chapter 32, 1950.

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• You may have noticed, as I have, that if ever you find yourself declaring emphatically and unequivocally that you will never do some one particular thing, chances are good that this is precisely what you will one day find yourself doing.

  Peg Bracken

  Finding Yourself, One Day, May

  Peg Bracken (1982). “A Window Over the Sink”, Avon Books

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• War was ... the chief or maybe the only source of patriotism, and many a politician, from prehistory up to this morning, unified a discontented citizenry by pointing out a national danger and declaring war on it.

  Barbara Holland

  Morning, War, Politician

  Barbara Holland (1999). “Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories”, Harcourt

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• For centuries, the mystics of spirit had existed by running a protection racket - by making life on earth unbearable, then charging you for consolation and relief, by forbidding all the virtues that make existence possible, then riding on the shoulders of your guilt, by declaring production and joy to be sins, then collecting blackmail from the sinners.

  Ayn Rand

  Running, Joy, Religion

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.124, Penguin

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• We thought a magazine, even a self proclaimed literary review, had to be involved in politics. We felt sex was healthy and made (then) bold use of fiction and graphics so declaring. We operated on a shoestring and still got our issues out on time. In short, we had a ball.

  Barney Rosset

  Sex, Self, Issues

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• We have no hesitation in declaring that we are a military nation- in the cause of Kodo and the highest morality.

  Sadao Araki

  Military, Causes, Morality

  "Behind the Japanese Mask" by Jesse Frederick Steiner, (p. 43), 1943.

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• To hold that Congress has general police power would be to hold that it may accomplish objects not intrusted to the general government, and to defeat the operation of the 10th Amendment, declaring that 'the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.

  Melville Fuller

  Government, People, Police

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• During the games of the Circus, he had, imprudently or designedly, performed the manumission of a slave in the presence of the consul. The moment he was reminded that he had trespassed on the jurisdiction of another magistrate, he condemned himself to pay a fine of ten pounds of gold, and embraced this public occasion of declaring to the world that he was subject, like the rest of his fellow-citizens, to the laws, and even to the forms, of the republic.

  Edward Gibbon

  Law, Games, History

  Edward Gibbon, J. B. Bury (2012). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Edited in Seven Volumes with Introduction, Notes, Appendices, and Index”, p.427, Cambridge University Press

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• We were all imitative. We all wandered in after Miss Edna St. Vincent Millay. We were all being dashing and gallant, declaring we weren't virgins, whether we were or not.

  Dorothy Parker

  Art, Missing, Entertainment

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• Intelligence is silence, truth is being invisible. But what a racket I make in declaring this.

  Ned Rorem

  Silence, Truth Is, Invisible

  Ned Rorem (2013). “The Later Diaries of Ned Rorem: 1961–1972”, p.65, Open Road Media

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• If an earthly king was to issue out a royal proclamation, on performing or not performing the conditions therein contained, the life or death of his subjects entirely depended, how solicitous would they be to hear what those conditions were? And shall not we pay the same respect to the King of kings and Lord of lords and lend an attentive ear to his ministers, when they are declaring, in his name, how our pardon, peace, and happiness may be secured?

  George Whitefield

  Kings, Names, Issues

  George Whitefield (1812). “Seventy-five Sermons on Various Important Subjects: In this Complete Collection is Included the Eighteen Sermons Taken in Short Hand by Mr. Gurney. And to which is Now Added, a Sermon of the Character, Preaching, &c. of the Rev. Mr. Whitefield”, p.412

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