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• I guess if I'd had any sense, I'd have been a little scared [to register to vote] - but what was the point of being scared? The only thing they could do was kill me, and it kinda seemed like they'd been trying to do that a little bit at a time since I could remember.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Trying, Littles, Scared

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• All of this is on account we want to register [sic], to become first-class citizens, and if the Freedom Democratic Party is not seated now, I question America. Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave where we have to sleep with our telephones off the hooks because our lives be threatened daily because we want to live as decent human beings - in America?

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Party, Home, Sleep

  Testimony Before the Credentials Committee, Democratic National Convention, delivered 22 August 1964

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• Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.

  Lewis Mumford

  Mom, Baby, People

  LEWIS MUMFORD (1961). “THE CITY IN HISTORY”

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• Costs merely register competing attractions.

  Frank Knight

  Risk, Cost, Competing

  Frank H. Knight (2012). “Risk, Uncertainty and Profit”, p.159, Courier Corporation

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• It is possible to conceive conflict as not necessarily a wasteful outbreak of incompatibilities, but a normal process by which socially valuable differences register themselves for the enrichment of all concerned.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Healing, Differences, Normal

  Mary Parker Follett, Pauline Graham (1996). “Mary Parker Follett--prophet of management: a celebration of writings from the 1920s”, Harvard Business Press

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• Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Black, Granddaughter, Elbows

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.153, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• I have made tremendous efforts to work in a darker register and express the sinister and tragic quality of the place, given my natural tendency to work in light and pale tones.

  Claude Monet

  Light, Effort, Quality

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• God's call doesn't register in a vacuum; only a person who is committed to doing God's will can receive a call.

  Thomas Hale

  Vacuums, Missionary, Committed

  Thomas Hale (1995). “On Being a Missionary”, p.18, William Carey Library

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• It's impossible for me to feel like there's only one way to do a thing. There's nothing wrong with having one way of doing it, but I think it's a bad habit. I believe in range. Like, there's a lot of tunes that I play all the time-sometimes I hear 'em in a different register. And if you don't have complete freedom, or you won't let yourself get away from that one straight line, oh, my goodness, that's too horrible to even think about.

  Wes Montgomery

  Believe, Thinking, Play

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• Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Time, Calendars, Fool

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• In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom; but he who reflects not, never reaps; has no harvest from it, but carries the burden of age without the wages of experience; nor knows himself old, but from his infirmities, the parish register, and the contempt of mankind. And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing.

  Edward Young

  Age, Action, Life Is

  Edward Young, John Doran, James Nichols (1854). “The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.: Revised and Collated with the Earliest Editions. To which is Prefixed A Life of the Author”, p.489

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• I put my energy into writing songs. I have to carve out a living somehow doing this, and licensing is one way. It's hard to register what's "too much" for other people. I don't watch TV, so it's tough for me to gauge. I just take it as it comes, and don't put a whole lot of thought into it.

  Iron & Wine

  Song, Writing, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Without infringing on the liberty we so much boast, might we not ask our professional Mayor to call upon the smokers, have them register their names in each ward, and then appoint certain thoroughfares in the city for their use, that those who feel no need of this envelopment of curling vapor, to insure protection may be relieved from a nuisance as disgusting to the olfactories as it is prejudicial to the lungs.

  Harriot Kezia Hunt

  Cities, Names, Liberty

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• No doubt hard work is a great police agent. If everybody were worked from morning till night, and then carefully locked up, the register of crime might be greatly diminished. But what would become of human nature? Where would be the room for growth in such a system of things? It is through sorrow and mirth, plenty and need, a variety of passions, circumstances, and temptations, even through sin and misery, that men's natures are developed.

  Arthur Helps

  Morning, Hard Work, Passion

  Sir Arthur Helps (1848). “Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse Thereon”, p.55

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• It is a psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind; that is, we must register a vow with ourselves, we must make our resolution with vigor, with faith that we can do the thing we want to do; we must register our conviction with such intensity that the great creative forces within us will tend to realize them. Our impressions will become expressions just in proportion to the vigor with which we register our vows to accomplish our ambitions, to make our visions realities.

  Orison S. Marden

  Ambition, Reality, Expression

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• Like the brief doomed flare of exploding suns that registers dimly on blind men's eyes, the beginning of the horror passed almost unnoticed; in the shriek of what followed, in fact, was forgotten and perhaps not connected to the horror at all.

  William Peter Blatty

  Eye, Men, Sun

  William Peter Blatty (2011). “The Exorcist: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• People were threatened, folks was put in jail just because we wanted people to try to register to vote.

  Unita Blackwell

  Jail, People, Trying

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• Antoninus diffused order and tranquility over the greatest part of the earth. His reign is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history; which is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

  Edward Gibbon

  Order, History, Littles

  Edward Gibbon, Francis Parkman, William H. Prescott, Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Modern Library Essential World History 4-Book Bundle: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged); Montcalm and Wolfe; History of the Conquest of Mexico; The Naval War of 1812”, p.117, Modern Library

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• Tomorrow is Election Day. That's the day we Americans wake up, consider our options, and then remember we didn't register to vote.

  Conan O'Brien

  Wake Up, Tomorrow, Election

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• "Madam," replied Mr. Micawber, "it is my intention to register such a vow on the virgin page of the future."

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Interesting, Pages

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.475

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• The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates.

  George Jackson

  Reading, Black, Savages

  George Jackson (1970). “Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson”, Chicago Review Press

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• Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to now have to cajole people to register and to vote.

  Jesse Jackson

  Winning, People, Vote

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2012.

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• Jane Francklyne, born in 1565, had lived for less than a month. She left very little behind. She was buried in the Ecton churchyard, but her father would hardly have paid a carver to engrave so small a stone. If not for the parish register, there would be no record that this Jane Francklyne had ever lived at all. History is what is written and can be found; what isn't saved is lost, sunken and rotted, eaten by the earth.

  Jill Lepore

  Father, Records, Earth

  Jill Lepore (2013). “Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin”, p.16, Vintage

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• Your choices have psychological consequences. The way you choose to deal with reality, truth, facts - your choice to honor or dishonor your own perceptions - registers in your mind, for good or for bad, and either confirms and strengthens your self-esteem or undermines and weakens it.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Self Esteem, Reality, Choices

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• I worked at a local country club that I never belonged to. I did random tasks in the pro shop and supposed to be in charge of the register, but that didn't go so well. They quickly realized I was better with people, not computers.

  Shelley Hennig

  Country, People, Tasks

  "When I Was 17: Shelley Hennig". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. April 19, 2012.

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