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• If a catastrophic event wipes out a large portion of House members, America needs to know this body, elected by the people, will be quickly and legally reconstituted and will continue to function.

  Charles W. Pickering

  America, People, House

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• People would do well to ask themselves how many of their ambitions and aspirations derive from the type of economic system they inhabit and the insecurity and exhaustion it creates, and question the sense and purpose of a society where control of a large portion of life is abdicated under contract in the labour market, and where immense creativity and potential is stifled by the need to do difficult and repetitive tasks in order to earn a wage.

  Tony Benn

  Creativity, Ambition, Order

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• Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.

  Criss Jami

  Leadership, Liars, Lying

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.45, Criss Jami

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• Let me just be candid: My party is full of racists. And the real reason a considerable portion of my party wants President Obama out of the White House  has nothing to do with the content of his character, nothing to do with his competence as commander-in-chief and president, and everything to do with the color of his skin. And that's despicable.

  Colin Powell

  Real, Party, Character

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• Chris Lighty was a huge portion of my actual career. It's difficult to adjust to not have someone around that's in your life, in your life.

  Curtis Jackson

  Careers, Difficult, Huge

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• I explain to you, exactly and truly, how we are circumstanced. A greater portion of our means is unavailable, consisting of a house in S. Springfield and some wild lands in Iowa. Notwithstanding my great and good husband's life was sacrificed for his country, we are left to struggle in a manner...of life undeserved. Roving Generals have elegant mansions showered upon them, and the American people leave the family of the Martyred President to struggle as best they may! Strange justice this.

  Mary Todd Lincoln

  Country, Husband, Struggle

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• On the one hand, there is no reason that a black person needs to live a portion of his or her life being concerned about the people of color around him. On the other hand, if you don't you're crazy.

  Henry Hampton

  Crazy, Hands, Color

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• What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small.

  Richard Mentor Johnson

  Religious, Rights, Government

  "Discovering the American Past: A Look at the Evidence, Volume I: To 1877". Book by William Bruce Wheeler, Volume 2, p. 149, January 1, 2011.

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• That portion of reality that can be composed within a frame can be understood.

  Robert Breault

  Photography, Reality, Understood

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• It is only after a fair portion of one's life that one really knows what are the things that matter, the things that will remain until the end.

  Esther Meynell

  Past, Matter, Ends

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• The Church has been reproached with endeavouring to appropriate to itself all those professorships in our Universities which are connected with science: it is however certain that the larger portion of these ill-remunerated offices have been filled by clergymen.

  Charles Babbage

  Office, Church, Clergymen

  Charles Babbage (1851). “The Exposition of 1851, Or, Views of the Industry, the Science, and the Government, of England”, p.225

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• Any given man sees only a tiny portion of the total truth, and very often, in fact almost ... perpetually, he deliberately deceives himself about that little precious fragment as well.

  Philip K. Dick

  Truth, Men, Littles

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.193, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The membership of our party is necessarily a small portion of the Chinese people. Only if that small portion reflects the opinions of the majority of the people's, and only if it works for their interests can the relationship between the people and the party be healthy.

  Mao Zedong

  Party, People, Healthy

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• The most perfect philosophy of the natural kind only staves off our ignorance a little longer: as perhaps the most perfect philosophy of the moral or metaphysical kind serves only to discover larger portions of it. Thus the observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours to elude or avoid it.

  David Hume

  Philosophy, Ignorance, Perfect

  David Hume (1793). “Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects”, p.31

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• You will find that there is no other difference of opinion as regards any portions of the Universe, except that the philosophers believe in the Eternity of the Universe and we believe in the Creation. Note this.

  Maimonides

  Believe, Differences, Opinion

  Moses Maimonides (2012). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.310, Courier Corporation

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• The domestic life of most classes is relatively shabby, as compared with the éclat of that overt portion of their life that is carried on before the eyes of observers.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Eye, Class, Domestic Life

  Thorstein Veblen (2012). “The Theory of the Leisure Class”, p.77, Courier Corporation

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• A large portion of Christ's miracles of love were wrought at the urgent request of parents for their suffering children. Is that ear gone deaf to-day? Will He not do for our children's souls what He did for the bodies of the ruler's daughter, and the dead youth at Nain?

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Daughter, Children, Parent

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 66, 1895.

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• The military forces of the revolutionary adversary are diffuse. One is never sure whether one has destroyed them unless one is ready to destroy a large portion of the population, and this usually conflicts with the political aim of the war and hence also violates a fundamental Clausewitzian principle.

  Anatol Rapoport

  Military, War, Political

  "Cloning Terror: The War of Images, 9/11 to the Present" by William John Thomas Mitchel, (p. viii), 2011.

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• One of the most important axioms is, that as the quantity of any commodity, for instance, plain food, which a man has to consume, increases, so the utility or benefit derived from the last portion used decreases in degree. The decrease in enjoyment between the beginning and the end of a meal may be taken as an example.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Taken, Men, Important

  William Stanley Jevons (1973). “Papers and correspondence of William Stanley Jevons”

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• Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul will be consigned to eternal torment in the never-ending subterranean barbecue if you fail to follow the whacky edicts of one particular set of puckered dogwhistles or another. You may recall from the great movie Strange Days that a "dogwhistle" is a guy whose asshole is so tight that when he farts, only dogs can hear him.

  L. Neil Smith

  Dog, Guy, Soul

  "The Bad Guys". April 28, 2009.

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• There are many cases of these algebras which may obviously be combined into natural classes, but the consideration of this portion of the subject will be reserved to subsequent researches.

  Benjamin Peirce

  Class, Research, May

  "Linear Associative Algebra" by Benjamin Peirce, (p. 119), 1882.

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• In the long run, though, the greatest IT risk facing most companies is more prosaic than a catastrophe. It is, simply, overspending. IT may be a commodity, and its costs may fall rapidly enough to ensure that any new capabilities are quickly shared, but the very fact that it is entwined with so many business functions means that it will continue to consume a large portion of corporate spending.

  Nicholas G. Carr

  Running, Fall, Mean

  "Why IT Doesn't Matter Anymore". hbswk.hbs.edu. June 09, 2003.

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• A man might well pray that he may not taboo or curse any portion of nature by being buried in it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, May, Might

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.120, Xist Publishing

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• The only true gifts are a portion of yourself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  True Gifts

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• The delightful study of the Psalms has yielded me boundless profit and ever-growing pleasure; common gratitude constrains me to communicate to others a portion of the benefit, with the prayer that it may induce them to search further for themselves.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Gratitude, Prayer, Benefits

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1870). “The Treasury of David: Spurgeon's Classic Work on the Psalms”, p.12, Kregel Academic

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