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• It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car.

  Merle Haggard

  Song, Car, Sound

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• When Glenda Jackson reveals that she has never been in a relationship with a man in which he hasn't raised his fists to her, I don't know whether this tells us more about the contemporary male or about Glenda Jackson.

  Auberon Waugh

  Men, Males, Fists

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• Flowers... that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of years been the heritage of children - honored as the jewelry of God only by them - when suddenly the voice of Christianity, counter-signing the voice of infancy, raised them to a grandeur transcending the Hebrew throne, although founded by God himself, and pronounced Solomon in all his glory not to be arrayed like one of these.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Children, Flower, Clouds

  "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater". Book by Thomas de Quincey, 1821.

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• I was raised to believe that everybody has a responsibility to their community and I use the word very loosely. It's a big community. If I get recognized in the middle of the Sinai Desert I have a big community.

  Mary Travers

  Believe, Responsibility, Community

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• I was raised with the notion that it was OK to ask questions, and it was OK to say, I'm not sure. I believe, but I'm not quite so certain about the resurrection.

  Peter Jennings

  Believe, Resurrection, Certain

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• We turn now over the debate of the proposed Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero....The controversy has raised profound questions about religious tolerance and prejudice in the United States.

  Christiane Amanpour

  Religious, Zero, Islamic

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• It has long been a fact familiar to geologists, that, both on the east and west coasts of the central part of Scotland, there are lines of raised beaches, containing marine shells of the same species as those now inhabiting the neighbouring sea.

  Charles Lyell

  Beach, Marine, Scotland

  Sir Charles Lyell (1863). “The Geological Evidence of the Antiquity of Man”, p.47

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• I was raised by a single mother and I've been in a 10-year relationship with my girlfriend. My whole life I've been surrounded by women.

  Jon Hamm

  Mother, Girlfriend, Years

  "'People really needed convincing that they wanted me'". Interview With Chrissy Iley, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2008.

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• I was raised in a tribal situation, among cannibal people.

  William P. Young

  People, Situation, Cannibal

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• I was born to a single mom and raised by her and my grandparents.

  Anthony Foxx

  Mom, Grandparent, Born

  Anthony Foxx's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

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• Jazz was born out of the whiskey bottle, was raised on marijiana, and will expire on cocaine.

  Artie Shaw

  Bottles, Jazz, Whiskey

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• I was raised on a dairy farm and ate plenty of meat and eggs until about twenty years ago. I started doing nutritional research, and a decade pr so after that my family made some major dietary changes. I'm just paying attention to what the data are telling me: The scientific evidence came first.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Years, Data, Eggs

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• Where I was raised a woman's word was law. I ain't quite outgrowed that yet.

  Zane Grey

  Law

  Zane Grey (2015). “Riders of the Purple Sage”, p.12, Xist Publishing

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• We are all giants, raised by pygmies, who have learned to walk with a perpetual mental crouch.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Giants, Walks, Perpetual

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• We were raised right in the heart of the Bogside. Everything was so bad at the time that Mammy would bring us to the pantomime, circus, concerts because we were so confined at home.

  Bronagh Gallagher

  Home, Heart, Circus

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was born and raised a Christian and I still adhere to those principles.

  Dee Snider

  Christian, Principles, Born

  Dee Snider (2013). “Shut Up and Give Me the Mic”, p.341, Simon and Schuster

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• Anti-Tax fetishist Grover Norquist owns a bust of Ronald Reagan, who raised taxes 11 times.

  John Fugelsang

  Taxes, Grover

  Twitter post from Nov 20, 2012

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• I was raised on the internet.

  Lena Dunham

  Internet

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• All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised.

  Mark Twain

  Kings, Ornery, Way

  Mark Twain, Classics HD (2015). “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: by Mark Twain (Illustrated and Unabridged)”, p.137, Classics HD

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• Wherever the Government does not emanate...from the people, the principle of the Government, the esprit de corps, the point of honour, in all those connected with it, and raised by it to privileges above the law and above humanity, will be hatred to the people.

  William Hazlitt

  Government, Law, People

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• Civil libertarians have raised concerns that some of the Patriot Act's provisions infringe on Constitutional rights. Those concerns are not supported by the facts.

  Roger Wicker

  Rights, Libertarian, Facts

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• My father said it himself in an interview many years ago: 'Husband and wife failed, but mother and father didn't.' I've got a life that really matters to me, and that's because of the way I was raised. My ethics are high because my parents did a great job.

  Jakob Dylan

  Mother, Jobs, Husband

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• I was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii

  Steve Case

  Hawaii, Born, Honolulu

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• I wasn't raised to be into promoting myself.

  Michael Heizer

  Promoting

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• The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.

  Carl Bernstein

  May, Information, Pressure

  "An A-Z of cultural terms". The Guardian, June 3, 1992.

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