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• The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence. The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.

  William S. Burroughs

  Love, Hippie, Flower

  William S. Burroughs (1989). “The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs”, Penguin Group USA

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• When we talk about justice in America we're really talking about justice brought about by the people, not by judges who are tools of the establishment or prosecutors who are are equally tools of the establishment or the wardens or the police officers.

  William Kunstler

  America, Talking, People

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• Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Doubt, Denial, May

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• The white establishment is now the minority.

  Bill O'Reilly

  White, Minorities

  Interview with Megyn Kelly, nation.foxnews.com. November 7, 2012.

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• The establishment of Zionist regime was a move by the world oppressor against the Islamic world.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Moving, Islamic, World

  "Iran's President Says Israel Must Be 'Wiped Off the Map'". "The World Without Zionism" conference, www.nytimes.com. October 26, 2005.

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• One of the many, many salutary aspects of Barack Obama's impending presidential nomination is the sea change his victory marks in the battle for the mind-set of the American foreign policy establishment.

  Eric Alterman

  Sea, Presidential, Mind

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• For it is no railways, roads, and power stations that give rise to industrial capitalism: it is the emergence of industrial capitalism that leads to the building of railways, to the construction of roads, and to the establishment of power stations.

  Paul A. Baran

  Giving, Construction, Building

  "The Political Economy Of Growth" by Paul A. Baran, Ch. 6, (p. 193), 1957.

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• The establishment of democracy on the American continent was scarcely as radical a break with the past as was the necessity, which Americans faced, of broadening this concept to include black men.

  James A. Baldwin

  Past, Men, Black

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• I am for free commerce with all nations; political connection with none; and little or no diplomatic establishment

  George Washington

  Political, Connections, Diplomatic Relations

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• We must realize that today's establishment is the new George III. Whether it will continue to adhere to his tactics, we do not know. If it does, the redress, honored in tradition, is also revolution.

  William O. Douglas

  Doe, Tactics, Today

  WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS (1970). “POINTS OF REBELLION”

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• Winning means some kind of approval of the Establishment which means people will more readily accept me, may be less frightened of me and other people who speak out.

  Jane Fonda

  Mean, Winning, Speaks Out

  "The Reading Eagle" Newspaper, April 16, 1972.

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• Accordingly, we find Euler and D'Alembert devoting their talent and their patience to the establishment of the laws of rotation of the solid bodies. Lagrange has incorporated his own analysis of the problem with his general treatment of mechanics, and since his time M. Poinsôt has brought the subject under the power of a more searching analysis than that of the calculus, in which ideas take the place of symbols, and intelligent propositions supersede equations.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Science, Intelligent, Ideas

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• Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence, and ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption; all of which facilitate the execution of mischievous projects.

  James Madison

  Religious, Ignorance, Liberty

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• It has been said by a certain general, that the first object in the establishment of an army ought to be making provision for the belly, that being the basis and foundation of all operations.

  Frederick The Great

  Army, Prussia, Foundation

  "Military Instructions". Article II: Of the Subsistence of Troops, and of Provisions, 1747.

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• Obviously I'm not there to pick up anybody, but I'm not afraid to hang out in a predominantly gay establishment.

  Adrien Brody

  Gay, Not Afraid, Hanging Out

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• But with regard to the material world, we can at least go so far as this;-we can perceive that events are brought about, not by insulated interpositions of Divine power, exerted in each particular ease, but by the establishment of general laws.

  William Whewell

  Science, Law, Events

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• My art is the way I reestablish the bonds that tie me to the universe.

  Ana Mendieta

  Art, Ties, Way

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• I do not need to establish a deep, lasting, time-consuming personal relationship with every student. What I must do is to be totally and nonselectively present to the student-to each student-as he addresses me. The time interval may be brief but the encounter is total.

  Nel Noddings

  Relationship, Education, Time

  Nel Noddings (1984). “Caring, a Feminine Approach to Ethics & Moral Education”, p.180, Univ of California Press

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• Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between church and State.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Atheist, Wall

  Reply to Nehemiah Dodge, Ephraim Robbins, and Stephen S. Nelson (committee of the Danbury, Conn., Baptist Association), 1 Jan. 1802

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• The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.

  Huey Newton

  Gun, Hands, Racism

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• I myself am a Buddhist, not a Christian. But I cannot help but think that if Christ ran a public establishment, it would be open to all, and He would be the last to refuse service to anyone. It is, simply put, the most un-Christian of notions.

  George Takei

  God, Christian, Religious

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• True, the initial ideas are in general those of an individual, but the establishment of the reality and truth is in general the work of more than one person.

  Willard Libby

  Reality, Ideas, Truth Is

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• I'm criticized by the feminists, by the Jewish establishment, by Canadian nationalists. And why not? I've had my pot shots at them. I'm fair game.

  Mordecai Richler

  Games, Feminist, Why Not

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• A lot of my idealism was frustrated by the end of the '60s because of the way things went with the assassinations and the sense that the political establishment was so fixed in its ways you couldn't change anything.

  David Talbot

  Change, Political, Frustrated

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• The law increasing and organizing the military establishment of the United States has been nearly carried into effect, and the Army has been extensively and usefully employed during the past season.

  Martin Van Buren

  Military, Army, Past

  Martin Van Buren (2018). “State of the Union Addresses of Martin van Buren”, p.40, BoD – Books on Demand

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