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• The Bolshevik slogans and ideas on the whole have been confirmed by history; but concretely things have worked out differently; they are more original, more peculiar, more varied than anyone could have expected.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Ideas, Peculiar, Expected

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• First, what does truth require? It requires us to face the facts as they are, not to involve ourselves in self-deception; to refuse to think merely in slogans. If we are to work for the future of the city, let us deal with the realities as they actually are, not as they might have been, and not as we wish they were.

  John F. Kennedy

  Truth, Reality, Thinking

  "Address at the Free University of Berlin". www.presidency.ucsb.edu. June 26, 1963.

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• Hillary Clinton is receiving criticism after telling a crowd to 'unlock their full potential,' because that line is commonly used by another possible candidate, Carly Fiorina. People said, 'You can't just steal someone's slogan like that!' And Hillary said, 'Yes we can!'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Yes We Can, People, Criticism

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• What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Self, Democracy, Atheism

  W. Somerset Maugham (1939). “Christmas Holiday”

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• Rand Paul is officially running for president. He even revealed his campaign slogan, which is 'Defeat the Washington machine. Unleash the American dream.' It's hard to tell if he's running for president or doing an infomercial for Bowflex.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Running, Dream, President

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• I find it hard to argue with Reagan's old slogan: Trust, but verify.

  David Hoffman

  Arguing, Verify, Hard

  "David Hoffman on 'The Dead Hand' and End of the Cold War". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. September 21, 2009.

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• Behind a smoke screen of high-profile female appointees and soothing slogans, George W. Bush is waging war on women.

  Molly Ivins

  War, Female, Profile

  "He Loves Us Not" by Molly Ivins, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2004.

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• The world saw and understood that, when it comes to the normalization of the Armenian-Turkish relations, they have to deal not just with Armenia with its three million population, but with the ten million Armenians. And let no one ignore the fact that, contrary to any slogans, the Armenian nation is united in its goals and is strong with its sons and daughters.

  Serzh Sargsyan

  Daughter, Strong, Son

  Address of the President of Armenia to the people of the Republic of Armenia and to all Armenians, www.president.am. October 10, 2009.

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• Are you excited about the recall election? Arnold's campaign has a new slogan: 'Win one for the groper.'

  David Letterman

  Winning, Campaigns, Election

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• Freedom was given to humanity by God. But, governments, if they can help it, never give freedom. They just hand out slavery with slogans.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Government, Hands, Giving

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• 'Keep England White' is a good slogan.

  Winston Churchill

  White, England

  "The Macmillan Diaries: The Cabinet Years 1950-57". Book by Harold Macmillan, p. 382, June 6, 2003.

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• You can't just have slogans, you can't just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it's going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in.

  Colin Powell

  Party, Believe, Thinking

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• 'Brave' is one of those words that has been bleached of most of its meaning these days, thanks to far too many appearances in the glaring light of ad slogans and corporate public relations. I never thought about anything as brave anymore; it just seemed like a flabby, glib cliche.

  Susan Orlean

  Light, Brave, Thanks

  "Tim Hetherington, “Restrepo,” and Bravery" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. April 21, 2011.

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• The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.

  Herbert Hoover

  Presidential, Progress, Dinner

  Campaign speech, New York, N.Y., 22 Oct. 1928.

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• Wars are not fought for territory, but for words. Man's deadliest weapon is language. He is as susceptible to being hypnotized by slogans as he is to infectious diseases. And where there is an epidemic, the group-mind takes over.

  Arthur Koestler

  War, Men, Epidemics

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• The Peacekeepers had a tradition that every problem had a solution. It was a nice slogan. Wasn't true, but it sounded good.

  Jack McDevitt

  Nice, Problem, Tradition

  "Chindi". Book by Jack McDevitt, 2002.

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• Be an enzyme - a catalyst for change. As a slogan, I don't know if that's ever going to be right up there with Ich Bin Ein Berliner, or “I Have A Dream,” but there's a lot of truth to it.

  Pierre Omidyar

  Dream, Catalyst For Change, Enzymes

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• The slogan used to be 'Populate or perish'. We can now see that it is more like 'Populate and perish'. A sustainable future has to be based on stabilisation of both population and consumption.

  Ian Lowe

  Population, Environment, Used

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• Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if the future holds no hope.

  John F. Kennedy

  Determination, Mean, Self

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 25 September 1961

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• Children are prepared for democracy by being led to discuss current events without first learning the systematic subjects (politics, economics, history) which are necessary in order to discuss them. The Mole effect is to substitute slogans and superficial opinion for considered individual thought. And the opinion is that of the lowest common denominator of the group.

  Murray Rothbard

  Children, Educational, Order

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• From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party:
  WAR IS PEACE
  FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
  IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.

  George Orwell

  War, Party, Ignorance

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.107, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The right to work is a slogan which should be accepted by every democracy.

  Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

  Democracy, Unemployment, Accepted

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• High quality water is more than the dream of the conservationists, more than a political slogan; high quality water, in the right quantity at the right place at the right time, is essential to health, recreation, and economic growth. Of all our planet's activities - geological movements, the reproduction and decay of biota, and even the disruptive propensities of certain species (elephants and humans come to mind) - no force is greater than the hydrologic cycle.

  Richard Bangs

  Dream, Rain, Elephants

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• I have a slogan I use when I get anxious writing, which happens quite a bit: ‘the ordeal is part of the commitment.’ It’s one of my mantras. It makes a lot of things doable.

  Philip Roth

  Writing, Commitment, Use

  "Philip Roth Goes Home Again" by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. October 7, 2010.

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• Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Intellectual, Vacuums, Behinds

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