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• We went into Iraq because Iraq posed a threat to the stability of the region and was engaged in the process of trying to develop weapons of mass destruction and had links to terrorists.

  Frank Carlucci

  Mass Destruction, Iraq, Trying

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• Every day I'm trying to be more humble and how do you do that? I guess, every day, we have mass. Every day, I pray the rosary. That's what I do.

  Jim Caviezel

  Humble, Trying, Rosary

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• I always believed in God, I would go to mass most of the time, but I had no idea of the calling to holiness.

  Jim Caviezel

  Ideas, Calling, Holiness

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• There is no question in my mind that we live in one of the truly bestial centuries in human history. There are plenty of signposts for the future historian, and what do they say? They say 'Auschwitz' and 'Dresden' and 'Hiroshima' and 'Vietnam' and 'Napalm.' For many years we all woke up to the daily body count on the radio. And if there were a way to kill people with the B Minor Mass, the Pentagon-Madison Avenue axis would have found it.

  Erwin Chargaff

  Death, Science, Axes

  Erwin Chargaff (1977). “Voices in the labyrinth: nature, man, and science”, Harper San Francisco

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• We ask the great masses of India to be patient a short time longer, while the cause of freedom is being fought out, not because we want to delay, but because the hard facts of war make a complete change impossible at the moment.

  Stafford Cripps

  War, India, Delay

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• Overall, I think any opportunity to expose people to art on a mass level - to have some kid in Oklahoma say to his mother, "I want to be an artist" - is a good thing.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Mother, Art, Kids

  Interview with Kimberly Brooks, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 12, 2010.

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• If terrorists succeeded in using a weapon of mass destruction against the U.S. or one of our allies, it would likely have catastrophic consequences for our cherished republican form of government.

  Tommy Franks

  Government, Mass Destruction, Allies

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• I don't want to get hung up on what 'people,' that nebulous mass, think about me. That's the way to unhappiness, I think.

  Monica Ali

  Thinking, People, Want

  "Ali's in wonderland" by Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2003.

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• The development of weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to carry them would be a very destabilizing effect, should Iran be able to accomplish that.

  Richard Armitage

  Mass Destruction, Iran, Would Be

  "Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. July 14, 2003.

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• The problem with much of the debate over this issue is that we confuse two separate matters: immigration policy (how many people we admit) and immigrant policy (how we treat people who are already here). What our nation needs is a pro-immigrant policy of low immigration. A pro-immigrant policy of low immigration can reconcile America's traditional welcome for newcomers with the troubling consequences of today's mass immigration. It would enable us to be faithful and wise stewards of America's interests while also showing immigrants the respect they deserve as future Americans.

  Tom Tancredo

  Wise, Two, America

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• ... a faceless mass, waiting for handouts.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Waiting, Politics

  Ronald Reagan, Mark J. Green, Gail MacColl (1983). “There he goes again: Ronald Reagan's reign of error”, Pantheon

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• The concept of an independent system is a pure creation of the imagination. For no material system is or can ever be perfectly isolated from the rest of the world. Nevertheless it completes the mathematician's "blank form of a universe" without which his investigations are impossible. It enables him to introduce into his geometrical space, not only masses and configurations, but also physical structure and chemical composition. Just as Newton first conclusively showed that this is a world of masses, so Willard Gibbs first revealed it as a world of systems.

  Lawrence Joseph Henderson

  Independent, Science, Space

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• The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.

  Marya Mannes

  Communication, People, Political

  Marya Mannes (1964). “But Will it Sell?”

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• Taxation according to income is the most effective instrument yet devised to obtain just contribution from those best able to bear it and to avoid placing onerous burdens upon the mass of our people.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  People, Income, Taxation

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1935, Volume 4”, p.271, Best Books on

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• It's about businesses nervous about taking on school leavers because of a mass of red tape. It's about health and safety regulations and green fines.

  Nigel Farage

  School, Safety, Green

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• Before Katrina, it was a longstanding tradition in our country for political officials to wait until the last minute to warn, to take action, to evacuate. No more. With Irene, you had mass evacuations - mandatory ones - issued days ahead of time. That was the right thing to do.

  Russel Honore

  Country, Waiting, Political

  "A general talks storm lessons since Katrina". Interview with Ashley Fantz, www.cnn.com. August 29, 2011.

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• Literacy is part of everyday social practice - it mediates all aspects of everyday life. Literacy is always part of something else - we are always doing something with it. Its what we choose to do with it that is important. There are a range of contemporary literacies available to us - while print literacy was the first mass media, it is now one of the mass media.

  David Barton

  Reading, Media, Practice

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• I'm not a mass-appeal artist.

  Amos Lee

  Artist, Appeals

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• I don't think women's prisons are environments for dance routines, and I don't think mass murder is humorous.

  Natalie Merchant

  Humorous, Thinking, Prison

  "Natalie Merchant: mother superior" by Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. July 08, 2010.

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• There are some things that money can't buy: peace of mind, for starters, and lean muscle mass. Neither the Queen of England nor the founder of Microsoft can put in an order for either one.

  Victoria Moran

  Queens, Order, Mind

  "The Case for Turning ‘Spa’ into a Verb" by Victoria Moran, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 11, 2011.

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• I think the internal combustion engine will disappear from the streets of our cities in the next thirty years because transportation will be mass transportation, or probably electrical power.

  Gaylord Nelson

  Thinking, Cities, Electrical Power

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• Starvation and disease are the original weapons of mass destruction. When you burn fields and kill animals, people are left vulnerable.

  James Nachtwey

  Animal, Mass Destruction, People

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• A journalist also needs to be disciplined, and so do I. I am, essentially, lazy. Without discipline I'd be just a mass of gummy bears on the sofa instead of on book tour with my eighth novel.

  Louise Penny

  Book, Discipline, Lazy

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• Cliches and stereotypes such as "beatnik" or "hippie" have been invented for the antitechnologists, the antisystem people, and will continue to be. But one does not convert individuals into mass people with the simple coining of a mass term.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Hippie, Simple, People

  Robert M. Pirsig (2009). “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• The theoretically unrestricted right to develop power, to wage war against other states, is antisocial and is doubly dangerous, because the state as a mass entity represents a low moral and intellectual level.

  Christian Lous Lange

  War, Intellectual, Levels

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