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• I think that support of this [stem cell] research is a pro-life pro-family position. This research holds out hope for more than 100 million Americans.

  Orrin Hatch

  Life, Hope, Science

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• But the World being once fram'd, and the course of Nature establish'd, the Naturalist, (except in some few cases, where God, or Incorporeal Agents interpose), has recourse to the first Cause but for its general and ordinary Support and Influence, whereby it preserves Matter and Motion from Annihilation or Desition; and in explicating particular phenomena, considers onely the Size, Shape, Motion, (or want of it) Texture, and the resulting Qualities and Attributes of the small particles of Matter.

  Robert Boyle

  Science, Quality, Firsts

  Robert Boyle, John James MacIntosh (2005). “Boyle on Atheism”, p.326, University of Toronto Press

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• Communistic evolution, according to the Senate committee that examined it, is responsible for 135 million deaths in peacetime. There's no religion that has a tiny fraction of that many deaths on its conscience. There are scientists who will admit that there's not one iota of scientific evidence to support it.

  D. James Kennedy

  Religion, Atheism, Tiny

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• It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a sense of life itself.

  Richard Wright

  Book, Abiding, Alive

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• An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Religious, Air, Looks

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• It helps when 1 can send the children off to their fathers so I can support my new book with a national publicity tour. I started writing the book when my daughter was 5. It took me almost four years.

  Meg Tilly

  Daughter, Mother, Children

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• Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.

  Anita Brookner

  God, Philosophical, Hero

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• What do Americans know about morality? They don't want their presidents to have penises but they don't mind if their presidents covertly arrange to support the Nicaraguan rebel forces after Congress has restricted such aid; they don't want their presidents to deceive their wives but they don't mind if their presidents deceive Congress- lie to the people and violate the people's constitution!

  John Irving

  Lying, People, Wife

  John Irving (2012). “A Prayer For Owen Meany”, p.316, Random House

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• It makes Faith think of a hammock in their yard, a web of rope that she thought would unravel the first time she leaned back on it, but that managed to support her all the same.

  Jodi Picoult

  Thinking, Yards, Rope

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• To speak...means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.

  Frantz Fanon

  Mean, Civilization, Culture

  Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.17, Pluto Press

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• Leigh did what any sane female faced with such an e-mail would do: deleted it to resist the temptation of replying, cleared her trash to resist the temptation of recalling it, and then called tech support to restore all her recently deleted e-mails. (Chasing Harry Winston)

  Lauren Weisberger

  Temptation, Female, Mail

  Lauren Weisberger (2009). “Chasing Harry Winston: A Novel”, p.269, Simon and Schuster

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• Perhaps the deepest reason we are afraid of death is that we do not know who we are. We believe in a personal, unique, and separate identity; but if we dare to examine it, we find that this identity depends entirely on an endless collection of things to prop it up: our name, our "biography", our partners, family, home, job, friends, credit card ... It is on their fragile and transient support that we rely for our security. So when they are all taken away, will we have any idea of who we really are?

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Spiritual, Jobs, Believe

  Sogyal Rinpoche (2009). “The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller: Revised and Updated Edition”, p.25, Harper Collins

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• I believe that sooner or later we're going to have to deal with Saddam Hussein, because of his general reputation, because of what I'm convinced he's done with regard to terrorism and the support thereof. But I'm not at all sure I believe that it has to be right now.

  Lawrence Eagleburger

  Believe, Done, Hussein

  "Transcript: Lawrence Eagleburger on FNS". Interview With Brit Hume, www.foxnews.com. August 19, 2002.

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• Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for a really increasingly brutal repression, colonial settlements and a new wall.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Wall, Terrorism, Should

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• There is a huge body of evidence to support the notion that me and the police were put on this earth to do extremely different things and never to mingle professionally with each other, except at official functions, when we all wear ties and drink heavily and whoop it up like the natural, good-humored wild boys that we know in our hearts that we are..These occasions are rare, but they happen - despite the forked tongue of fate that has put us forever on different paths.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Heart, Fate, Boys

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

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• There had been certain romantic interludes in the past that had included galloping across the desert at night; but he had never abducted any woman whose enthusiastic support for such a plan had not been secured well in advance.

  Robin McKinley

  Past, Night, Desert

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• The mere suggestion of fame and fortune casts a glamour all its own. It is rather alarming how quickly people will turn someone else's fiction into fact in order to support their own fictions of themselves.

  Libba Bray

  Order, People, Suggestions

  Libba Bray (2009). “Rebel Angels”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe that the Europeans, first and foremost, the Germans, will also understand me. Let me remind you that in the course of political consultations on the unification of East and West Germany... some nations that were then and are now Germany's allies did not support the idea of unification. Our nation, however, unequivocally supported the sincere, unstoppable desire of the Germans for national unity. I am confident that you have not forgotten this, and I expect that the citizens of Germany will also support the aspiration of the Russians, of historical Russia, to restore unity.

  Vladimir Putin

  Powerful, Believe, Russia

  Address by President of the Russian Federation, en.kremlin.ru. March 18, 2014.

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• This is every writer's nightmare - the sudden breakdown of meaning in the language that sustains and supports us.

  Dan Simmons

  Language, Nightmare, Breakdown

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• My mother tries to explain that I need support and that I'm just going through a period of adjustment. "Like puberty," she says.

  S.G. Browne

  Mother, Trying, Needs

  S.G. Browne (2009). “Breathers: A Zombie's Lament”, p.17, Three Rivers Press

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• Levin scowled. The humiliation of his rejection stung him to the heart, as though it were a fresh wound he had only just received. But he was at home, and at home the very walls are a support.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Wall, Home, Heart

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna karenina (Arcadia Classics)”, p.218, Leo Tolstoy

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• ...We leave our homeland, our property and our friends. We give up the familiar ground that supports our ego, admit the helplessness of ego to control its world and secure itself. We give up our clingings to superiority and self-preservation...It means giving up searching for a home, becoming a refugee, a lonely person who must depend on himself...Fundamentally, no one can help us. If we seek to relieve our loneliness, we will be distracted from the path. Instead, we must make a relationship with loneliness until it becomes aloneness.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Lonely, Giving Up, Loneliness

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• I tried to imagine a church that did not support its country's wars as a matter of patriotic course and instead stood against the devastation and suffering they caused in people's lives." (from 'The Dance of the Dissident Daughter'.)

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Daughter, Country, War

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• Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.

  Samuel Johnson

  Horse, Food, Oats

  A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)

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• I believe Western culture - rule of law, universal suffrage, etc. - is preferable to Arab culture: that's why there are millions of Muslims in Scandinavia, and four Scandinavians in Syria. Follow the traffic. I support immigration, but with assimilation.

  Mark Steyn

  Believe, Law, Immigration

  "Battered Westerner Syndrome inflicted by myopic Muslim defenders" by Mark Steyn, www.jewishworldreview.com. August 23, 2002.

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