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• No, the United States does not target civilians.

  Douglas J. Feith

  Target, United States, Doe

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• I think Mr. Obama is a disaster for business and a disaster for the United States. Not that Mr. Romney would be much better, but the Republicans understand the problem of excessive debt better than Mr. Obama, who basically doesn't care about piling up debt.

  Marc Faber

  Thinking, United States, Would Be

  "MARC FABER: Obama Is A Disaster, The Stock Market Should Have Fallen 50%, And You Should Buy Yourself A Machine Gun" by Joe Weisenthal, www.businessinsider.com. November 7, 2012.

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• I lived in Meadowbrook. I went to church at Meadowbrook United Methodist Church. I went to school at Meadowbrook Elementary School and then Meadowbrook Middle School. I learned to dance at Meadowbrook Country Club. All those things grounded me in one place and I think most of Fort Worth is just like the area I grew up in.

  Kay Granger

  Country, School, Thinking

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• I've been very sensitive for a long time to the repeated pattern, during economic hard times or after a war, of the United States' essentially unilaterally disarming.

  Robert M. Gates

  War, Hard Times, Long

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• Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States.

  Mick Jagger

  President, Actors, Want

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• Not a chance. I don't know what Sarah (Palen)'s doing, (but) I have no desire to be president of the United States, zero desire. I don't think that I would be electable.

  Glenn Beck

  Zero, Thinking, Desire

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• It is impossible that happiness, and yearning for what is not present, should ever be united.

  Epictetus

  Wisdom, Impossible, Should

  Epictetus (1928). “The Discourses as Reported by Arrian ; the Manual, and Fragments”

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• Institutional United Methodism in America has given up on cities and given up on young people, so no surprise we are declining by nearly 100,000 annually.

  Mark Tooley

  Cities, America, People

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• Twenty-two percent of Americans say their primary news source is Fox News. It's divided our country in a way that we haven't been divided probably since the Civil War, and its empowered large corporations to get certain kinds of politicians and ideologues who are in the United State Congress elected -- the Tea Party ideologues who control the Republican Party.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Country, War, Party

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• It is imperative that the entire Christian community in the United States come to realize the grave threats to the Church's public moral witness presented by a militant atheism which finds increasing expression in the political and cultural spheres. The seriousness of these threats needs to be clearly appreciated at every level of ecclesial life.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Christian, Expression, Political

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• For even if the Word in His immeasurable essence united with the nature of man into one person, we do not imagine that He was confined therein. Here is something marvellous: the Son of God descended from heaven in such a way that, without leaving heaven, He willed to be borne in the virgin's womb, to go about the earth, and to hang upon the cross; yet He continuously filled the world even as He had done from the beginning.

  John Calvin

  Son, Men, Essence

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• One day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.

  Ronald Reagan

  Children, Sunset, Men

  Ronald Reagan (1983). “A Time for Choosing: The Speeches of Ronald Reagan, 1961-1982”, Gateway Books

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• I have no idea what my limits are. I believe that if I set my mind to it, within the next fifteen years, I would be the President of the United States.

  Will Smith

  Believe, Years, Ideas

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• More terrorists are given training and sanctuary in the United States than anywhere on earth. They include mass murderers, torturers, former and future tyrants and assorted international criminals. This is virtually unknown to the American public, thanks to the freest media on earth.

  John Pilger

  Media, Tyrants, Training

  "The great charade". www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2002.

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• God is playing a role in all religions and that Christians are more united than they sometimes think.

  George O. Wood

  Christian, Thinking, Roles

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• To model correctly one tranche of one CDO took about three hours on one of the fastest computers in the United States. There is no chance that pretty much anybody understood what they were doing with these securities. Creating things that you don't understand is really not a good idea no matter who owns it.

  John Thain

  Creating Things, Ideas, United States

  "John Thain Admits He Didn't Understand Merrill's Risks" by John Carney, www.businessinsider.com. October 07, 2009,.

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• Being a victim of oppression in the United States is not enough to make you revolutionary, just as dropping out of your mother's womb is not enough to make you human. People who are full of hate and anger against their oppressors or who only see Us versus Them can make a rebellion but not a revolution. The oppressed internalize the values of the oppressor. Therefore, any group that achieves power, no matter how oppressed, is not going to act differently from their oppressors as long as they have not confronted the values that they have internalized and consciously adopted different values.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Mother, Hate, Long

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• Inspired by John Muir's A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, John Davis walks, bikes, and kayaks on a 'voyage of recovery' from the Florida Keys to southeastern Canada. He bears witness not only to wilderness that still sustains bears, panthers, and bobcats but also to the possibilities for connecting further wildways in the eastern United States. His inspiring journey reminds us all that we must rediscover the wildness we still have before we lose it forever.

  Michael Brune

  Recovery, Journey, Keys

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• Carmen Jones was the first all-Negro film that became a great box-office success. It established the fact that pictures with Negro artists, pictures dealing with the folklore of Negro life, were commercially feasible. This was a sign of growth that had occurred in the United States and throughout the world.

  Harry Belafonte

  Artist, Office, Growth

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• What is the purpose of public service? It's to solve problems for the people you represent and certainly in the United States Senate, thinking about your state and thinking about your country as well.

  Olympia Snowe

  Country, Thinking About You, People

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• Doing something that warrants the attention of the President of the United States is super-cool.

  Michael K. Williams

  President, United States, Attention

  "Michael K Williams: my guide to being a Barack Obama-endorsed badass". Interview with Rich Pelley, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2012.

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• John Facenda could read a laundry list and make it sound like the Constitution of the United States.

  Ed Sabol

  Sound, United States, Lists

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• The United Nations has no business in our elections.

  David Vitter

  Business, Election, United Nations

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• Having no diplomatic representation in Washington, China has no sources which allow her to check the character of applicants and therefore makes the practice of refusing everybody from the United States.

  Anna Louise Strong

  Character, Practice, United States

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• Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind's great achievements in the 20th century.

  Tran ?uc Luong

  Equality, Rights, Achievement

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