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• The only solution to the violence problem in America is a return to traditional parental involvement. This should be encouraged by every elected official. Also, the abandonment and neglect of children by their parents should have civil consequences.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Children, America, Parent

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• Novels usually evolve out of 'character.' Characters generate stories, and the shape of a novel is entirely imagined but should have an aesthetic coherence.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Character, Stories, Shapes

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• So long as I'm Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you've served us - because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Jobs, Military

  Second Democratic Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 6 September 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina

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• We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare.

  Barack Obama

  Principles, Bills, Healthcare

  Address on Signing Health Care Reform Bill into Law, delivered 23 March 2010, Washington, D.C.

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• When you lose something in your life, stop thinking it's a loss for you... it is a gift you have been given so you can get on the right path to where you are meant to go, not to where you think you should have gone.

  Suze Orman

  Gratitude, Grateful, Loss

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• Everyone should have the same opportunity, and in many areas that's not the case because programs are built around the elite.

  Bobby Orr

  Opportunity, Program, Cases

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• The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

  William Osler

  Teacher, Age, Three

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.326, Duke University Press

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• I like going to Burning Man, for example. That's an environment where people can try out different things. I think as technologists we should have some safe places where we can try out some new things and figure out what is the effect on society, what's the effect on people, without having to deploy kind of into the normal world.

  Larry Page

  Men, Thinking, People

  "Google CEO Larry Page Wants A Totally Separate World Where Tech Companies Can Conduct Experiments On People". Article by Jay Yarow, www.businessinsider.com. May 16, 2013.

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• I came to office promising major ethics reform to end the culture of self-dealing. And today, that ethics reform is a law. While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor's office that I didn't believe our citizens should have to pay for. That luxury jet was over-the-top. I put it on eBay.

  Sarah Palin

  Believe, Self, Ebay

  Republican Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 3 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.

  Gilbert Parker

  Men, Thinking, Law

  Gilbert Parker “The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker”, Library of Alexandria

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• Our foremost priority is the removal of poverty, hunger and malnutrition, disease and illiteracy. All social welfare programmes must be implemented efficiently. Agencies involved in the delivery of services should have a strong sense of duty and work in a transparent, corruption-free, time-bound and accountable manner.

  Pratibha Patil

  Strong, Agency, Welfare Programs

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• Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.

  Pope John Paul II

  Pain, War, Catholic

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• I think kids should have a mentor and a role model, but that they shouldn't take one person's opinion to be what we call final assessment or judgment about how life is supposed to be.

  Sean Paul

  Kids, Thinking, Assessment

  "Reasoning with Sean Paul". Interview with Laura Gardner, jahworks.org. October 01, 2002.

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  Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

  Haile Selassie

  Procrastination, Voice, Evil

  1963 Address to a special session of the UN General Assembly, 4 Oct, making him the first head of state to address both that organization and the League of Nations.

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• I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age.

  Charlie Sheen

  Birthday, Guy, Age

  Interview with David Rensin, www.playboy.com. April 15, 2011.

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• God bless you if you have one child, but I don't think anybody should have just one child. Everybody needs a sibling. I have siblings, and I have so many amazing, precious memories with my siblings. I don't know what I would do if I had been an only child.

  Sherri Shepherd

  Children, Memories, Sibling

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• Basketball is a team game. But that doesn't mean all five players should have the same amount of shots.

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Team, Mean

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• I am opposed to anybody making a decision for you or me or anybody else about what health care plan we should have.

  Arlen Specter

  Health, Decision, Care

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• A Woman is naturally more helpless than the other Sex; and a Man of Honour and Sense should have this in his View in all Manner of Commerce with her.

  Richard Steele

  Sex, Men, Views

  Richard Steele (1729). “The Spectator”, p.272

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• To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.

  Stendhal

  Respect, Men, Sight

  Stendhal (1967). “On Love”

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• We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  School, Equality, Ideas

  Speech to the United Parents Association, as quoted in "The New York Times", April 6, 1958.

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• Once you have done with school, you realise that it is just a smaller version of life, and really I have felt that I should have been an adult since I was aged about five.

  Kristen Stewart

  School, Adults, Done

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• Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Relationship, Drama, Book

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• I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Talent, Born, Composing

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• A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

  William Strunk, Jr.

  Writing, Drawing, Machines

  The Elements of Style ch. 2 (1918)

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