Majority Quotes - Page 39

• Once upon a time supporters of the Steinitz-Tarrasch school had a very high opinion of a queen-side pawn majority. Modern strategy on the other hand categorically denies that such a majority is an independent factor of any importance.

  Alexander Kotov

  Queens, School, Independent

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• Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in the whole world as possessing a claim to obedience except the authority of the State. The majority of people in Europe obey nothing else.

  Simone Weil

  Men, Europe, People

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• Having plead guilty, I do not believe that I am any different than the vast majority of the members of Congress.

  Dan Rostenkowski

  Stupid, Humorous, Believe

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• The Houthi have local religious grievances, being Shiites in a majority Sunni land. But they are also agents of Shiite Iran, which arms, trains, and advises them. Their slogan - 'God is great. Death to America. Death to Israel' - could have been written in Persian.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Religious, Israel, Iran

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• Were anyone wondering how Sen. Harry Reid intended to manage life in the minority, it took one day of the 114th Congress to get the answer: Exactly as he did in the majority. Republicans would be wise to understand what he's up to.

  Kimberley Strassel

  Wise, One Day, Would Be

  "Closing Down Harry Reid's Circus" by Kimberley Strassel, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 9, 2015.

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• Illegal immigration is praised only by those who benefit directly from it, whether in the familial sense of inexpensive nannies, cooks, or gardeners; or in the corporate interest of cheap labor in the hospitality industries, agriculture, and construction; or in the political sense of new liberal constituents; or in the tribal sense of expanding the so-called La Raza base. But the vast majority of Americans accept that when federal law is ignored, chaos ensues.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Law, Agriculture, Political

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• The day after Republicans won solid majorities in the House and Senate, House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader-to-be Mitch McConnell outlined priorities for the newly elected Congress. High on the list is fundamental tax reform. In addition to overhauling the federal tax code, however, Congress should rein in the Internal Revenue Service.

  Cleta Mitchell

  Majority Leader, House, Priorities

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• [A] re-elected McConnell, with a Republican majority, would, he says, emulate his model of majority leadership - the 16 years under a Democrat, Montana'€™s Mike Mansfield. He, like McConnell, had a low emotional metabolism but a subtle sense of the Senate's singular role in the nation's constitutional equilibrium.

  George Will

  Emotional, Years, Roles

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• The Democratic line is that the Republican House does nothing but block and oppose. In fact, it has passed hundreds of bills only to have them die upon reaching the desk of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He has rendered the Senate inert by simply ensuring that any bill that might present a politically difficult vote for his Democratic colleagues never even comes to the floor.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Block, Majority Leader, House

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• Nowadays it is the fashion to pretend that no single individual is ever responsible for a successful advertising campaign. This emphasis on "teamwork" is bunkum - a conspiracy of the mediocre majority.

  David Ogilvy

  Teamwork, Fashion, Successful

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• There are some girls who are turned on by my body, and some others who are turned off. but for the majority i just use it as a conversation piece. like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd street would have a natural conversation piece. then when they get to talking to me they see i am not mean but gentle to them and thats all they want to know

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Girl, Mean, Bodybuilding

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• I think that the majority of messages are validating messages to confirm the survival of conscious. And many times that validation message is negative or sad.

  John Edward

  Thinking, Validation, Survival

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Equality is attainable as long as you are part of the majority.

  William James

  Long, Catchy

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• The fundamental principle of our constitution ... enjoins the sense of command, duty that the will of the majority shall prevail.

  George Washington

  Principles, Fundamentals, Constitution

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• The truth must essentially be regarded as in conflict with this world; the world has never been so good, and will never become so good that the majority will desire the truth.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Truth, Desire, World

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• Polls consistently show that the majority of Americans favour research using embryonic stem cells and yet politicians continue to pander to the outspoken religious minority that is hampering efforts to develop this potentially valuable technology.

  James D. Watson

  Religious, Technology, Cells

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• The American people are going to judge the majority party here today. If they go out here and vote for this rule that allows this provision to be stricken, they are voting against the men and women in the military of our country.

  Norm Dicks

  Country, Military, Party

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• Americans of our own time - minority and majority Americans alike - need the continued guidance that the Voting Rights Act provides. We have come a long way, but more needs to be done.

  Elijah Cummings

  Rights, Long, Voting

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• If there is a nuclear tactic being used here, I submit it is the use of that obstruction where a willful minority blocks a bipartisan majority from voting on the President's judicial nominees.

  John Cornyn

  Block, Voting, President

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• A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority populations.

  Alveda King

  Abortion, Population, Minorities

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• The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is - Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hero, Men, Keys

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.344

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• The majority of us do not enthrone God, we enthrone common sense. We make our decisions and then ask the real God to bless our God's decision.

  Oswald Chambers

  God, Real, Common Sense

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “The Highest Good / The Pilgrim's Song Book / Thy Great Redemption”, p.37, Discovery House

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• You have to give access to people with disabilities but there is no requirement to hire them. What I mean by affirmative obligation is that producers must take the necessary steps to include opportunities for people with disabilities and a vast majority of them do.

  Richard Masur

  Mean, Opportunity, People

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• The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong.

  Herbert Spencer

  Past, Facts, Blind

  Herbert Spencer (1864). “First Principles”, p.5

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• I have no doubt that given a real choice, the vast majority of Muslims and Arabs, like everyone else will choose a free society over a fear society.

  Natan Sharansky

  Real, Choices, Doubt

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