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• MPC, Moving Picture Company, they're really excellent, they did the majority of the effects.

  Ridley Scott

  Moving, Brilliant, Excellent

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• Now, so, if you want to blame someone for wasteful spending, the Republicans are in the majority.

  Chaka Fattah

  Blame Someone, Want, Republican

  "CNN Crossfire", www.cnn.com. February 8, 2005.

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• When you're in the minority, it doesn't matter what you're agenda is, you're not going to have the degree of freedom that you have as a member of the majority.

  Tom Daschle

  Degrees, Minorities, Agendas

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• I certainly think that 10 to 20 years from now, clearly the majority of veterinarians will be women.

  Richard Adams

  Thinking, Years, Veterinarian

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• One on God's side is a majority.

  Wendell Phillips

  God, Sides

  Speech on John Brown, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1 Nov. 1859 See Coolidge 2; Douglass 7; Andrew Jackson 7; John Knox 1; Thoreau 9

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• ...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.

  Harper Lee

  Integrity, Tkam, Killing Others

  Christopher Sergel, Harper Lee (1995). “The Play of To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.20, Heinemann

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• I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn't be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year's resolution is not to bark back.

  Tucker Carlson

  Motivational, New Year, Knowing

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• The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

  Honore de Balzac

  Funny, Marriage, Witty

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• One man with courage is a majority.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Motivational, Success, Courage

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• The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Minorities, Literature, Always Wrong

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• What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

  John Stuart Mill

  Men, Inability, Belief

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• This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand.

  Louise Slaughter

  Independent, House, Abuse

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• The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.

  George Steiner

  Biographies, Oblivion, Gray

  George Steiner (1974). “In Bluebeard's Castle: Some Notes Towards the Redefinition of Culture”, p.87, Yale University Press

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• I am going to hold serve the majority of the time. It is nice to have a little time to return serve.

  Pete Sampras

  Sports, Nice, Littles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.18, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see religious and political fanaticism among Muslim groups in Germany.

  Otto Schily

  Love, Religious, Peace

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• Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day.

  Barbara Boxer

  Waiting, Reform, Looks

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• When I refuse to obey an unjust law, I do not contest the right of the majority to command, but I simply appeal from the sovereignty of the people to the sovereignty of mankind.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Law, People, Justice

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2001). “Democracy in America”, p.107, Penguin

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• The majority prove their worth by keeping busy. A busy life is the nearest thing to a purposeful life.

  Eric Hoffer

  Life Is, Busy, Prove

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom.

  Lydia M. Child

  Reality, Wish, Important

  Letter to the Advocates of Woman's Suffrage, 1870.

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• The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.

  Stendhal

  Fashion, Horse, Men

  Stendhal (1957). “Love”, Merlin Pr

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• Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Presidential, Innovation, Slender

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1808-1816”, p.31, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A majority of this country opposes this war, a majority of this country never voted for this administration.

  Michael Moore

  Country, War, Administration

  "GOP convention protest covers miles of New York", edition.cnn.com. August 30, 2004.

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• The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell.

  James Whistler

  Stories, May, Folks

  James M. Whistler (2012). “The Gentle Art of Making Enemies”, p.106, Courier Corporation

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• Unfortunately, our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority.

  Vic Snyder

  Hurt, Views, Patriotism

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