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• Abortion, however, is a big threshold issue for me because the dominant majority of people in my state are pro-choice. I ran as a pro-choice Democrat, and she fills Sandra Day O'Connor's shoes, and they are critical shoes.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Shoes, Issues, People

  "New Questions on Miers' Roe Views / She Reportedly Says She Doesn't Recall Ever Discussing Case" by Carolyn Lochhead, www.sfgate.com. October 18, 2005.

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• The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust

  Brennan Manning

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Suffering

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• To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Respect, Men, Our Time

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• Everyone is motivated a little or a lot to do something or nothing. Motivation is the internalized drive toward the dominant thought of the moment. By definition, motivation is "motive in action."

  Denis Waitley

  Motivation, Definitions, Littles

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• Almost all men are born with every passion to some extent, but there is hardly a man who has not a dominant passion to which the others are subordinate. Discover this governing passion in every individual; and when you have found the master passion of a man, remember never to trust to him where that passion is concerned.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Passion, Men, Remember

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• Everyone feels some jealousy, some anger, and some hostility. Don't feel guilty. But to allow them to become dominant expressions of your way of life is off the wall.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Wall, Buddhism

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• Literature deeply stands opposed to the dominant value system-the one that rewards money and power. Writers are on the other side-they make us sympathetic to ideas and feelings that are of deep importance but can’t afford airtime in a commercialized, status-consciou s, and cynical world.

  Alain de Botton

  Ideas, Cynical, Feelings

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• Sex is a sideshow in the world of the animal, for the dominant color of that world is fear.

  Robert Ardrey

  Sex, Fear, Animal

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• The dominant expression of a child is gravity.

  Bret Harte

  Children, Expression, Childhood

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• The law exists for a reason. There is a dominant American culture that people used to want to preserve. That's going by the wayside, too. But if it's now okay for an illegal alien to practice law in California, then can anybody else who's broken the law get a law license? And if not, why not?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Law, Practice, California

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• At a certain point, even if the one alpha male is dominant, at a certain point there's a younger lion that is stronger, and everyone knows it.

  Josh Lucas

  Stronger, Males, Lions

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• If intellectual curiosity, professional pride, and ambition are the dominant incentives to research, then assuredly no one has a fairer chance of gratifying them than a mathematician.

  G. H. Hardy

  Ambition, Pride, Science

  G. H. Hardy, C. P. Snow (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.80, Cambridge University Press

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• He was so dominant. Bobby was the greatest defenseman who ever played the game as far as I'm concerned. I believe in my heart he changed the face of the game.

  Phil Esposito

  Believe, Heart, Hockey

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• To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

  Theodore White

  Friendship, Courage, Bullying

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• Charles Beard warned us that governments-inc luding the government of the United States-are not neutral, that they represent the dominant economic interests, and that their Constitutions are intended to serve these interests.

  Howard Zinn

  Government, United States, Beard

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• The Australian Government's decision to take on the dominant funding role for the entire public hospital system is designed to: end the blame game; eliminate waste; and to shoulder the funding burden of the rapidly rising health costs of the future.

  Kevin Rudd

  Government, Games, Decision

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

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• When I grew up, you needed to have straight hair. It's symbolic of needing to be like everyone else, needing to look like everyone else. And what that meant was looking like the dominant ruling class in America.

  Anne Roiphe

  Hair, Class, America

  "Anne Roiphe's Lust, Passion, and Very Good Memory". Anne Roiphe's Lust, Passion, and Very Good Memory, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 15, 2011.

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• Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.

  Ayn Rand

  Philosophy

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• The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant in the history of mankind to be rejected as mere illusion. There seems to be no reason, then, to accept the normal level of human experience as fact and reject its other levels as mystical and emotional.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Religious, Acceptance, Emotional

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal (2000). “The religious thought in Islam”

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• The dominant feeling of the battlefield is loneliness.

  William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim

  Military, Loneliness, Feelings

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• I'm not allowing my perspective to be dictated by the dominant culture.

  Holly Near

  Perspective, Culture, Allowing

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• Wine lovers have known for centuries that decanting wine before serving it often improves its flavor. Whatever the dominant process, the traditional decanter is a rather pathetic tool to accomplish it. A few years ago, I found I could get much better results by using an ordinary kitchen blender.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Wine, Years, Kitchen

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• Sight is not absolutely essential in this process, but we use sight because it is the dominant sense. It's easiest to interrupt the flow of thought in sense perception and move the mind beyond sense perception with sight.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Sight, Perception

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• Amongst Women concentrated on the family, and the new book concentrates on a small community. The dominant units in Irish society are the family and the locality. The idea was that the whole world would grow out from that small space.

  John McGahern

  Book, Space, Ideas

  "The whole world in a community" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2002.

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• I never minded giving my opinions. They are just opinions, and I had studied music and I had strong feelings. I was happy for my opinions to join all the other opinions. But you have to be prepared for what comes back, especially if you don't agree with the dominant mythology.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Strong, Others Opinions, Giving

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