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• Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure--wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.

  Sinclair Lewis

  War, Race, Hatred

  Sinclair Lewis (1995). “Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott”, p.143, Penguin

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• Covertly invest into non-White areas, invest in ghetto abortion clinics. Help to raise
  money for free abortions, in primarily non-White areas. Perhaps abortion
  clinic syndicates throughout North America, that primarily operate in
  non-White areas and receive tax support, should be promoted.

  Margaret Sanger

  Ghetto, America, White

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• What passion cannot music raise and quell!

  John Dryden

  Music, Passion, Piano

  A Song for St. Cecilia's Day st. 2 (1687)

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• Punning is an art of harmonious jingling upon words, which, passing in at the ears, excites a titillary motion in those parts; and this, being conveyed by the animal spirits into the muscles of the face, raises the cockles of the heart.

  Jonathan Swift

  Art, Animal, Ears

  Jonathan Swift (1803). “The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift ...”, p.125

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• The most interesting acquaintanceship I have struck up here is that of Colonel Lapinski. He is without doubt the cleverest Pole - besides being an homme d'action [man of action] - that I have ever met. His sympathies are all on the German side, though in manners and speech he is also a Frenchman. He cares nothing for the struggle of nationalities and only knows the racial struggle. He hates all Orientals, among whom he numbers Russians Turks, Greeks, Armenians, etc., with equal impartiality.... His aim now is to raise a German legion in London.

  Karl Marx

  Hate, Struggle, Men

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• Kids are great. You can teach them to hate what you hate and, with the Internet and all, they practically raise themselves.

  Homer

  Hate, Kids, Internet

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• Raise high the roof-beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.

  Sappho

  Men, Beam, Roof

  "Sappho: Memoir, Text, Selected Renderings, and a Literal Translation".

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• Builders, raise the ceiling high, Raise the dome into the sky, Hear the wedding song! For the happy groom is near, Tall as Mars, and statelier, Hear the wedding song!

  Sappho

  Song, Sky, Mars

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• When all the other animals, downcast looked upon the earth, he [Prometheus] gave a face raised on high to man, and commanded him to see the sky and raise his high eyes to the stars.

  Ovid

  Stars, Eye, Animal

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• Lower rates of taxation will stimulate economic activity and so raise the levels of personal and corporate income as to yield within a few years an increased - not a reduced - flow of revenues to the federal government.

  John F. Kennedy

  Yield, Government, Years

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• It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now Cutting taxes now is not to incur a budget deficit, but to achieve the more prosperous, expanding economy which can bring a budget surplus.

  John F. Kennedy

  Running, Cutting, Long

  Address to the Economic Club of New York, delivered 14 December 1962, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York

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• Let's tell the truth. Mr. Reagan will raise taxes, and so will I. He won't tell you. I just did.

  Walter F. Mondale

  Telling The Truth, Taxes

  "A Good Man’s Good Fights" by Joel K. Goldstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 30, 2010.

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• The Congress will push me to raise taxes, and I'll say no, and they'll push, and I'll say no, and they'll push again and I'll say to them, read my lips, no new taxes.

  George H. W. Bush

  Lips, Congress, Taxes

  1988 Republican National Convention Acceptance Address, delivered 18 August 1988, Superdome, New Orleans, LA

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• I always thought the real violence in Hollywood isn't what's on the screen. It's what you have to do to raise the money.

  David Mamet

  Real, Hollywood, Violence

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• In the Native American tradition... a man, if he's a mature adult, nurtures life. He does rituals that will help things grow, he helps raise the kids, and he protects the people. His entire life is toward balance and cooperativeness. The ideal of manhood is the same as the ideal of womanhood. You are autonomous, self-directing, and responsible for the spiritual, social and material life of all those with whom you live.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Spiritual, Kids, Native American

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• No woman should be authorized to stay at home and raise her children. Society should be totally different. Women should not have that choice, precisely because if there is such a choice, too many women will make that one.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Children, Home, Choices

  "Sex, Society, and the Female Dilemma". Interview with Betty Friedan, The Saturday Review (pp. 12-21), June 14, 1975.

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• He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wish, Energy, May

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• I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies

  June Allyson

  Inspiring, Baby, Stay Strong

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• So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed. If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.

  William Faulkner

  Honesty, Lying, Men

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• I stand before you and the world humbled by this recognition and uplifted by the honour of being the 2004 Nobel Peace Laureate. As the first African woman to receive this prize, I accept it on behalf of the people of Kenya and Africa, and indeed the world. I am especially mindful of women and the girl child. I hope it will encourage them to raise their voices and take more space for leadership.

  Wangari Maathai

  Girl, Children, Voice

  Wangari Maathai's Nobel lecture at the City Hall in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2004.

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• I started thinking about what it would be like to raise my family in my hometown. I looked at other teams, but I wasn't going to leave Miami for anywhere except Cleveland. The more time passed, the more it felt right. This is what makes me happy.

  LeBron James

  Team, Thinking, Cleveland

  "LeBron: I'm coming back to Cleveland" by LeBron James, www.si.com. July 11, 2014.

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• I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway

  Anne McCaffrey

  Happened

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• That which is to be most desired in America is oneness and not sameness. Sameness is the worst thing that could happen to the people of this country. To make all people the same would lower their quality, but oneness would raise it.

  Stephen Samuel Wise

  Country, Oneness, America

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• There are glances of hatred that stab, and raise no cry of murder.

  George Eliot

  Pain, Hatred, Cry

  George Eliot (1871). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.14

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• Divorce Myths: 1. When love has gone out of a marriage, it is better to get divorced. 2. It is better for the children for the unhappy couple to divorce than to raise their children in the atmosphere of an unhappy marriage. 3. Divorce is the lesser of two evils. 4. You owe it to yourself. 5. Everyone's entitled to one mistake. 6. God led me to this divorce.

  R. C. Sproul

  Christian, Children, Couple

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