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• I don't spend my time perusing message boards to find out what people think about me or if people think my songs are good or if people love that lyric or this or that. I just want to be happy with it myself - and if other people like it, that's great.

  Ben Gibbard

  Song, Thinking, People

  "The Meaning of Life". www.pastemagazine.com. April 10, 2008.

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• Unfortunately, throughout the housing crisis we've seen innocent homeowners who have been victims of shady mortgage lenders and unscrupulous individuals who have used a down market to line their own pockets at the expense of others. This bill is designed to send a message by revising our laws to ensure criminals are brought to justice and that law enforcement has the tools to uncover these fraudulent schemes and go after the bad actors. Criminals should be put on notice that ripping off homeowners and taxpayers won't be tolerated.

  Chuck Grassley

  Law, Justice, Enforcement

  "Congress Targets Mortgage Fraud: Justice for Victims, Jail for the Guilty". Tri-State Defender, February 12, 2009.

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• You want to make decisions that are meaningful to you, and that are going to continue to enhance you being who you really are and what your message to the world is, and everybody has one. The real important thing is to know what that message is and how you want to carry that forward.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Meaningful, Real, Decision

  Source: collider.com

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• The message of reconciliation, of nation-building, of granting amnesty, indemnity, has struck a powerful, favorable chord. And people can understand that we're here not for purposes of retribution but to forget the past and to build our country.

  Nelson Mandela

  Country, Powerful, Past

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• You don't let a guy put his hand on your chest, and put his foot on the ball and look into your eyes and tell you a bedtime story. No. sorry. He controlled the ball on his chest, step on it, look, see if someone was in the stands, take a coffee, turn, call his family, no one was answering, left a message, and then thought "Oh, I might cross the ball." He crossed it and they scored.

  Thierry Henry

  Sorry, Coffee, Eye

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• We must work our destiny in our own way and present to the world an economic system based on true Islamic concept of equality of manhood and social justice. We will thereby be fulfilling our mission as Muslims and giving to humanity the message of peace which alone can save it and secure the welfare, happiness and prosperity of mankind.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Islamic, Destiny, Giving

  Speech at the opening ceremony of the State Bank of Pakistan, Karachi, July 1, 1948.

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• Why is the human skull as dense as it is? Nowadays we can send a message around the world in one-seventh of a second, but it takes years to drive an idea through a quarter-inch of human skull.

  Charles Kettering

  Years, Ideas, Skulls

  "Boss Ket: A life of Charles F. Kettering". Book by Rosamond McPherson Young, p. 194, 1961.

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• Pat Buchanan... was fired by MSNBC for doing nothing more than voicing his rock-solid conservative thoughts on the otherwise failing network... The real message of the left is intolerance, zealotry, bigotry and hate. The left has no use for the First Amendment or the rest of the Constitution unless it fits their multicultural, euro-socialist agenda, which is failing all across Europe and everywhere it is practiced.

  Ted Nugent

  Real, Hate, Rocks

  Washington Times, February 20, 2012.

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• Make no mistake, the point of cutting the personal income tax and the capital gains cut is to send an unmistakable message to business leaders.

  Bill Richardson

  Mistake, Cutting, Income

  "New Mexico cuts taxes to stimulate economy". www.upi.com. February 19, 2003.

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• Ah, books." Ziegler, smiling, came up behind me. "They bob like corks on an ocean. Float between worlds, messages in bottles.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Book, Ocean, World

  Robert Charles Wilson (2000). “The Perseids and Other Stories”, p.128, Macmillan

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• Friends told me that the latest trend, at least in Europe, is public sex. They showed me some clips, and they're terrifying. A couple enters a streetcar, half-full, simply takes a seat, undresses, and starts to do it. You can see from surprised faces that it's not staged. It's pure working-class suburb. But what's fascinating is that the people all look, and then they politely ignore it. The message is that even if you're together in public with people, it still counts as private space.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Sex, Couple, Europe

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• When we are shown scenes of starving children in Africa, with a call for us to do something to help them, the underlying ideological message is something like: "Don't think, don't politicize, forget about the true causes of their poverty, just act, contribute money, so that you will not have to think!

  Slavoj Žižek

  Children, Thinking, Poverty

  Slavoj Žižek, Slavoj Zizek (2011). “Living in the End Times”, p.4, Verso

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• When you're on a submarine you're usually underwater for months at a time, and you don't get to Skype or make phone calls. When you get messages, they're maybe two sentences. They're very short.

  Jessy Schram

  Phones, Two, Phone Calls

  "Jessy Schram Talks Falling Skies, Last Resort And Once Upon A Time". Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. June 12, 2012.

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• The message of this band [All Time Low] is go out and do what you want to do and believe in yourself and that it's okay to do that. It's okay to be who you are.

  Alex Gaskarth

  Believe, Be Who You Are, All Time Low

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• Every single person is unlike anyone else. Therefore, in creating a portrait of someone... we must look carefully to catch that particular unique quality. In fact, we can neglect nothing because everything we select or do sends a message to the observer.

  Alton Tobey

  Unique, Creating, Quality

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• So now, how did God produce this world?... The fable is that he breathed upon us. In his breath, his wind, came moisture and things began to grow... a message of hope. Nothing physical. How do you intend for your breath to become a work of art? The only way I can see it is that you prevent your breath from becoming a structure. As soon as your breath takes on the form of a room, you are a carpenter; you're not God.

  Milton Resnick

  Art, Wind, Moisture

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• We cannot sanction the view that the Constitution, while solicitous of the cognitive content of individual speech, has little or no regard for that emotive function which, practically speaking, may often be the more important element of the overall message sought to be communicated.

  John Marshall Harlan II

  Often Is, Views, Justice

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• Let no preacher in a little church think that he has no audience for his message. An unseen audience of multitudes compass him about! Let no Christian who sins in the dark think that he is unobserved. He is compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses! Assuredly in Heaven they know what goes on on earth.

  John R. Rice

  Christian, Dark, Thinking

  John R. Rice (1941). “Tears in Heaven”, p.13, Sword of the Lord Publishers

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• I had looked forward
  to old age as a time
  of quietness, a time to draw
  my horizons about me,
  to watch memories ripening
  in the sunlight of a walled garden.
  But there is the void
  over my head and the distance
  within that the tireless signals
  come from. And astronaut
  on impossible journeys
  to the far side of the self
  I return with messages
  I cannot decipher.

  R. S. Thomas

  Memories, Distance, Journey

  "Between Here and Now" by R. S. Thomas, ("The New Mariner", p. 99), 1981.

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• Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it. By continually pushing the message that we have the right to gratification now , consumerism at its most expansive encouraged a demand for fulfillment that could not so easily be contained by products.

  Ellen Willis

  Art, Demand, Pushing

  Ellen Willis (2011). “Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music”, p.221, U of Minnesota Press

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• The tragedy is not that nonviolence did not work against the Nazis, but that it was so seldom utilized... The churches as a whole were too docile or anti-semitic, and too ignorant of the nonviolent message of the Gospel, to act effectively to resist the Nazis or act in solidarity with the Jews.

  Walter Wink

  Ignorant, Tragedy, Church

  "Engaging the Powers: Discernment and Resistance in a World of Domination". Book by Walter Wink (pp. 254-256), 1992.

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• Perhaps the central reason that Ahmadinejad's message, and the hundreds of thousands of voices echoing his call throughout the world, are so dangerous is because the Free World is making precious little effort to assert its own message.

  Caroline Glick

  Voice, Effort, World

  "Live from NY’s 92nd Street Y Continues". www.vaildaily.com. October 07, 2007.

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• Following the invention of writing, the special form of heightened language, characteristic of the oral tradition and a collective society, gave way to private writing. Records and messages displaced the collective memory. Poetry was written and detached from the collective festival.

  Harold Innis

  Memories, Writing, Collective Memory

  Harold Adams Innis (2007). “Empire and Communications”, p.31, Rowman & Littlefield

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• When someone speaks we ought to get three things out of the message. First and least important (but still very important), we ought to get what is said. Second, and more important, we ought to have a spiritual experience. Third, and most important, we should keep the commitments we make to ourselves.

  Henry D. Moyle

  Spiritual, Commitment, Important

  Paraphrased in "Food Storage" by Vaughn J. Featherstone, www.lds.org. April 1976.

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• Foreigners are sending messages to the planets. We are sending rice and cereals to our dead fore-father through the Brahmins. It is a wise deed?

  Periyar E. V. Ramasamy

  Wise, Father, Cereal

  Collected works of Periyar E.V.R., p. 511, 2005.

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