Majority Quotes - Page 18

• The majority of Western culture came out of Europe, which is not comparable to America. It came out of nation states based on geographical and ethnic foundations. America is based on principles, a very different kind of country.

  Milo Yiannopoulos

  Country, Europe, America

  Source: thestagblog.com

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• We all know of the dangers and inequities of the traditional digital divide: People who have good access tocomputer networks have a distinct advantage - in terms of both life opportunities and quality of life, I wouldargue - over the vast majority of the world's population that does not yet have good access to computernetworks. The "other" digital divide points to an increasingly unstable situation that has developed inlibrarianship as digital libraries have evolved and matured.

  Tom Peters

  Opportunity, People, Library

  Source: www.researchgate.net

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• Higher minimum wages, full-employment programs, early-childhood education: Those kinds of programs are, by design, universal, but by definition, because they are helping folks who are in the worst economic situations, are most likely to disproportionately impact and benefit African Americans. They also have the benefit of being sellable to a majority of the body politic.

  Barack Obama

  Impact, Design, Childhood

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• If you look at countries like South Africa, where you had a black majority, there have been efforts to tax and help that black majority, but it hasn't come in the form of a formal reparations program.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Effort, Black

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• I'm not so optimistic as to think that you would ever be able to garner a majority of an American Congress that would make those kinds of investments above and beyond the kinds of investments that could be made in a progressive program for lifting up all people.

  Barack Obama

  Optimistic, Thinking, People

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• It's just disgusting that in this society, the majority of students in art school are women, but they amount to less than 30% of what is shown in museums. That has not changed radically.

  Kiki Smith

  Art, School, Museums

  Source: crushfanzine.com

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• The surveillance revelations are critically important because they revealed that our rights are being redefined in secret, by secret courts that were never intended to have that role - without the consent of the public, without even the awareness of the majority of our political representatives.

  Edward Snowden

  Rights, Political, Secret

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• If I walk into a room of 500 people, my standard is, if I can't give 400 or 450 of you something, a language or a new way of seeing something, then I have failed. If I get 100 of you, I am a failure. I have to get a majority.

  Simon Sinek

  People, Giving, Way

  Source: advisor.tv

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• If you are going to ask me what I watch on TV, I would probably have to say the majority of it is stuff on SyFy or Discovery Channel or it's about ghost seekers.

  Boti Bliss

  Discovery, Stuff, Tvs

  Source: actionflickchick.com

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• Sunni are the majority of the [Syria], 60 to 65 percent. They've been ruled by [Bashar] Assad, who represents a minority Alawite element, which is about 12, 13 percent. And because of the choices Assad made, it's very difficult to see how you resolve this without buy-in from the Sunni world.

  John F. Kerry

  Choices, Minorities, Elements

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• I think, from a progressive point of view, to have a Democratic Congress and a Democratic White House, and to have spent the time on Obamacare, which had real benefits, 20 million insured, but not on inequality, was a major cost to the Democratic Party, costing them their majorities, but also a bit of a cost to the country, because it didn't address the fundamental issues that led to Donald Trump and that led to a lot of unhappiness, just the continued widening inequality.

  David Brooks

  Country, Real, Party

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We would take the same position as the majority of the world about this, including this issue where Prime Minister [Ariel] Sharon made a commitment to pull Israeli troops out of Gaza.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Commitment, Issues, Troops

  Source: www.gov.za

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• When [my father] reached his majority, he was the head of the family. Everybody depended upon him. He went into a very uptight appearance; he would wear Chesterfield coats to work, Homburg hats, really getting into the whole thing. He knew people like Oscar Levant. He loved New York. He wanted to live there.

  Paul Laffoley

  New York, Father, People

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• The worst experience any majority can have is that you convene and you look around and nothing's ready to go.

  Mitch McConnell

  Looks, Worst, Ready

  Source: www.rollcall.com

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• You listen to all the [Barack] Obama intelligence officials all saying ISIS will infiltrate that [immigrants] population. We have so many majority-Muslim countries that are not impacted, but the media insists on calling this a Muslim ban.

  Sean Hannity

  Country, Media, Isis

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• How do you think we have the home mortgage deduction? We have it because way back when it was determined that the American dream equaled home ownership. And everybody knows that the vast majority of the American people will never be able to write a check for a house. You have to finance it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Dream, Writing, Home

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Remember the vast majority of the Democrats as well as all the Republicans in the House of Representatives in Louisiana voted for my signature-piece of legislation in the house which was a bill, actually a bill for true civil rights. That there must be no discrimination against anyone on the basis of race in affirmative-action.

  David Duke

  Rights, Race, House

  "Dr. Duke on CNN: Hear the UNCENSORED FULL Interview Here". davidduke.com. January 5, 2015.

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• I've heard the term ["silent majority"], but for the last 20 years I really haven't heard the term. But I went to a rally in Alabama, and there were 31,000 people there, you've seen it, you've read about it. And I looked and I said, this is the silent majority. Though they weren't silent, because they want to see proper change, not [Barack] Obama change.

  Donald Trump

  Years, People, Alabama

  Source: www.economist.com

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• Now, ["silent majority"] hasn't been used in a long time because I guess it is associated somewhat with [Richard] Nixon. But honestly it's two words, that when you put together describe what is happening very well. There's a group of people, great people in this country that have been disenfranchised. Their country has been taken away from them.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Taken, Two

  "The Economist interviews Donald Trump". www.economist.com. September 3, 2015.

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• I came across an old story of mine that I'd written a decade ago. The main joke of the story is that a mother is telling her children about how she met their father online. The majority of memories the mother has all have to do with really funny links he sent her, a music download that she loved, etc. - and because of these superficial details she fell in love with the father. Reading it today, it's hardly a dystopian story; it's simply a realistic story about how people actually meet.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Mother, Memories, Children

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• [Students] are exposed to many things the majority of their teachers didn't encounter until much later in their growing up years.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teacher, Growing Up, Years

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

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• Jewish voters care. They want someone who's good on Israel and who's good on Jewish issues. But they also want somebody who's going to be pro-choice and pro-gun control and pro-gay rights. To the vast majority of the Jewish community, just being good on Israel or on Jewish issues is not enough.

  Charles Schumer

  Gay, Gun, Issues

  Source: www.questia.com

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• The share of wealth held by the minority is much greater than the share held by the majority. We have to draw our own conclusions from that and it has to change.

  Martin Schulz

  Minorities, Wealth, Share

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• As a matter of fact the majority of the Muslims living in our society are moderate people. But don't make the mistake that even though there are moderate and radical Muslims that there is a moderate or a radical Islam.

  Geert Wilders

  Mistake, People, Islam

  Source: www.parlementairemonitor.nl

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• 40, 50 years ago, Americans - the majority of Americans did not want to accept these Vietnamese refugees who they saw as completely foreign. Now there are new foreigners - Syrians and other people from the Middle East, people of Muslim backgrounds. And the sense among many Americans is, well, these people are completely different from us, and they're not like the Vietnamese who are much more assimilable. And I think that's very, very doubtful. I think that the majority of these new foreigners, if given the opportunity, will be able to assimilate and deal with American culture.

  Nguyen Viet Thang

  Opportunity, Thinking, Years

  "'The Refugees' Author Says We Should All Know What It Is To Be An Outsider". Interview with Ari Shapiro, wbgo.org. February 10, 2017.

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