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“I look at the hundreds of algebra problems facing me in the next three days. And here I thought I’d figured out the equation to my happiness.”

Happiness Charter Equation

Book:Take a Bow

Source: Take a Bow

“As long as woman regards the Bible as the charter of her rights, she will be the slave of man. The bible was not written by a woman. Within its leaves there is nothing but humiliation and shame for her.”

Men Long Rights Written Regard Shame Slave Humiliation Charter

Author:Robert Green Ingersoll

“The problem with Bush is that yes, he's religious in a fundamentalist sort of way, they read the Old Testament as a sort of charter for the chosen people to do what they like.”

People Way Problem Religious Chosen Testament Old Testament Fundamentalist Charter

Author:Bruce Kent

“Charters give public school teachers the flexibility to design programs to the individual student needs. They no longer have to go to a distant bureaucracy to ask for permission. By being allowed to make their own decisions the teachers are able to create strong partnerships with parents.”

Needs Giving Able School Asks Individual Strong Parent Decision Teacher Design Students Program Partnership Permission Bureaucracy Flexibility Public School Charter School Teachers

Author:Gary Larson

“The slave will be free. Democracy in America will yet be a glorious reality; and when the top-stone of that temple of freedom which our fathers left unfinished shall be brought forth with shoutings and cries of grace unto it, when our now drooping Liberty lifts up her head and prospers, happy will he be who can say, with John Milton, "Among those who have something more than wished her welfare, I, too, have my charter and freehold of rejoicing to me and my heirs."”

Source: Old portraits and modern sketches

“The Olympic Charter says winter sports must be played on snow or ice, so the Chess Federation says they'll play with ice pieces. The Olympic charter also says sports must be sports.”

Play Sports Pieces Winter Chess Snow Ice Charter Federation

Author:Peter Sagal

“As you know, I have over the years written critically about the U.N. I have consistently stressed in my writings that American leadership is critical to the success of the U.N., an effective U.N., one that is true to the original intent of its charter's framers.”

Knows Writing Years Written Criticism Originals Critical Consistently Stressed Charter Framers American Leadership

Author:John Bolton

“I saw the charter as an expression of my long-held view that the subject of law must be the individual human being; the law must permit the individual to fulfil himself or herself to the utmost.”

Humans Long Law Individual Human Beings Views Saws Subjects Expression Permit Charter

Book:Memoirs

Source: Memoirs

“Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem.”

Problem Religious Violence Conflict Cycles Rebellion Resolution Judaism Charter Zionism Escalating Cycle Of Violence

Author:Karen Armstrong

“Advocating the mere tolerance of difference between women is the grossest reformism. it is a total denial of the creative function of difference in our lives. Difference must be not merely toleration, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic. Only then does the necessity for interdependency become unthreatening. Only within the interdependency of different strengths, acknowledged and equal, can the power to seek new ways of being in the world generate, as well as the courage and sustenance to act where there are no charters”

World Way Wells Doe Different Differences Creativity Creative Our Lives Equal Function Mere Tolerance Denial Fund Sparks New Ways Advocating Charter Sustenance Toleration Dialectics Polarity

Author:Audre Lorde

“Since the Greeks the predominant attitude of thinkers towards intellectual activity was to glorify it insofar as (like aesthetic activity) it finds its satisfaction in itself, apart from any attention to the advantages it may procure. Most thinkers would have agreed with Renan's verdict that the man who loves science for its fruits commits the worst of blasphemies against that divinity. The modern clercs have violently torn up this charter. They proclaim the intellectual functions are only respectable to the extent that they are bound up with the pursuit of concrete advantage.”

“From the time of the North Briton of the unprincipled Wilkes , a notion has been entertained that the moral spine in Scotland is more flexible than in England. The truth however is, that an elementary difference exists in the public feelings of the two nations quite as great as in the idioms of their respective dialects. The English are a justice-loving people, according to charter and statute; the Scotch are a wrong-resenting race, according to right and feeling: and the character of liberty among them takes its aspect from that peculiarity.”

People Has Beens Two Character Feelings Nations Differences Justice Race Liberty Moral Aspect England Notion Scotland Flexible Spine Charter Scotch Dialect Statutes Idiom Britons Two Nations

Author:John Galt

“I repose in this quiet and secluded spot not from any natural preference for solitude, but finding other cemeteries limited as to race by charter rules, I have chosen this that I might illustrate in my death the principles which I advocated through a long life: EQUALITY OF MAN BEFORE HIS CREATOR.”

Men Long Might Natural Race Principles Solitude Quiet Findings Creator Chosen Spots Preference Long Life Repose Cemetery Charter Secluded Equality Of Man

Author:Thaddeus Stevens

“Charter schools are just public schools on a slightly longer leash. A dog on a long leash is still a dog on a leash.”

Long Stills School Education Dog Public School Charter Leashes Charter Schools

Author:Marshall Fritz

“This [Magna Carta] has been forced from the King. It constitutes an insult to the Holy See, a serious weakening of the royal power, a disgrace to the English nation, a danger to all Christendom, since this civil war obstructs the crusade. Therefore?we condemn the charter and forbid the King to keep it, or the barons and their supporters to make him do so, on pain of excommunication.”

Has Beens War Pain Nations Danger Serious Kings Holy Civil War Insult Supporter Royal Disgrace Crusades Charter Weakening Christendom Magna Carta Excommunication

Author:Pope Innocent III

“Not every child learns for the same purpose, not every child thrives in the same settings and schools. Limiting a child to just one opportunity does nothing more than limit that child's future. The way forward must involve more public charter schools, which offer parents a tuition-free alternative to their neighborhood school.”

Way Children Doe School Purpose Opportunity Parent Education Offers Limits Setting Settings Alternatives Just One Thrive Neighborhood Charter Tuition Way Forward Charter Schools

Author:Rick Perry

“Freedom of religion, as the Founding Fathers saw it, was not just the right to associate oneself with a certain denomination but the right to disassociate without penalty. Belief or nonbelief was a matter of individual choice - a right underwritten in the basic charter of the nation's liberties.”

“When the happy era shall arrive for the emancipation of nations, hastened on as it will be by the example of America, shall they not resort to the Declaration of our Independence as the charter of their rights, and will not its author be hailed as the benefactor of the redeemed?”

America Nations Rights Atheism Example Independence Positive Atheism Eras Declaration Resorts Emancipation Redeemed Charter Benefactors

Author:John Tyler

“It means I don't have to charter that big jet for the family.”

Mean Bigs Basketball Nba Jet Charter

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“Albuquerque is my home. I want my kids and all of our children to be able to go to any public or charter school and receive an excellent education.”

Want Children Home Kids Able School Our Children Excellent Charter Charter Schools Albuquerque Excellent Education

Author:Steven Michael Quezada

“Arizona is a national leader in school choice with both charter schools and tuition tax credits giving parents and their children more school choices than ever before.”

Giving Children School Choices Parent Leader Taxes Credit Arizona Charter Tuition Charter Schools School Choice

Author:Jane D. Hull

“It is the responsibility of all of us to remind governments of their commitments to settle disputes by peaceful means and to negotiate in good faith under the UN Charter, and to denounce war agitation particularly by the media.”

Mean War Government Responsibility Media Commitment Peaceful Settling Disputes Charter Agitation Good Faith

Author:Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

“This new declaration which emphasizes the necessity of global disarmament is based on the purposes and principles of the United Nations, in particular the prohibition of the threat and use of force, and on the obligation to negotiate disputes in conformity with the UN Charter. It is a strong and positive example for the entire world.”

“A World Parliamentary Assembly functioning outside the United Nations, or a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly set up as a subsidiary body of the General Assembly pursuant to article 22 of the UN Charter, could start initially as a consultative body and gradually develop into a legislative assembly.”

World Body Nations United Articles United Nations Assembly Charter Parliamentary General Assembly

Author:Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

“At any given time, there are a lot of million-dollar luxury charter boats cruising around the Mentawai Islands finding the most incredible waves. And yet the people on shore are suffering. The whole scene is wrong. As a surf community, we have to do something.”

People Whole Suffering Given Community Millions Scene Findings Dollars Incredibles Wave Boat Luxury Islands Shore Million Dollars Surf Charter

Author:Rob Machado

“The grateful applause of the clergy has consecrated the memory of a prince, who indulged their passions and promoted their interest. Constantine gave them security, wealth, honours, and revenge; and the support of the orthodox faith was considered as the most sacred and important duty of the civil magistrate. The edict of Milan, the great charter of toleration, had confirmed to each individual of the Roman world the privilege of choosing and professing his own religion.”

Source: History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“China not only fights for her own independence, but also for the liberation of every oppressed nation. For us, the Atlantic Charter and President Roosevelts proclamation of the Four Freedoms for all peoples are corner-stones of our fighting faith.”

Fighting Nations President Four Stones Independence Corners China Liberation Oppressed Charter Proclamation President Roosevelt

Author:Chiang Kai-shek

“Hamas says in its charter they want to see a world without Israel. They want to obliterate Israel.”

World Want Israel Charter Hamas

Author:Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

“Players are spoiled by charter airplanes, the finest hotels, a big per diem every day.”

Bigs Player Hotel Airplane Finest Spoiled Charter

Author:Chick Hearn

“They [Mc Donalds] take people and give them a first job, which enables them to get a second job. They do a very good job of educating troubled young people to be good citizens and they're probably more successful than charter schools.”

People Giving Firsts School Jobs Young Successful Citizens Very Good Be Good Good Job Charter Good Citizen Charter Schools

Author:Charlie Munger

“The Ten Commandments are the charter and guide of human liberty, for there can be no liberty without the law.”

Humans Law Liberty Ten Guides Commandments Ten Commandments Charter

Author:Cecil B. DeMille

“The official Hamas charter calls for the murder of Jews and destruction of the Jewish state.”

States Destruction Murder Jew Officials Charter Hamas

Author:Aaron Klein

“I thought that when they said Atlantic Charter, that meant me and everybody in Africa and Asia and everywhere. But it seems like the Atlantic is an ocean that does not touch anywhere but North America and Europe.”

Doe Said Seems America Ocean Europe They Said Asia North America Charter

Book:I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader

Source: I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader

“Armed with the knowledge of our past, we can with confidence charter a course for our future. Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle. We must take hold of it and forge the future with the past.”

Past Culture Courses Struggle Weapons Our Future Our Past Indispensable Charter

Book:By any means necessary

Source: By any means necessary

“If we claim heritage in Bacon, Shakespeare and Milton, we also acknowledge that it was for liberties guaranteed Englishmen by sacred charters our fathers triumphantly fought. While wisely rejecting throne and caste and privilege and an Established Church in their new-born state, they adopted the substance of English liberty and the body of English law.”

Source: Oration and memorial addresses

“But the closer we study their lives, and the better we know their deeds, the more profound is our admiration and the greater our reverence for the Pilgrim fathers. Between the drafting of their immortal charter of liberty in the cabin of the Mayflower and the fruition of their principles in the power and majesty of the republic of the United States of to-day is but a span in the records of the word, and yet it is the most important and beneficent chapter in history. To be able to claim descent from them, either by birth or adoption, is to glory in kinship with God's nobility.”

Source: Club and society addresses

“I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I please, for so fools have.”

Liberty Wind Fool Please Blow You Like It Charter

Author:William Shakespeare

“Why should Iran have a deterrent strategy? Well, it's surrounded by hostile enemies. Both of its borders have been under occupation by a hostile superpower, the United States, which is constantly violating the U.N. charter by leaving open what they call the saying, 'all options are open' - meaning the threat of war.”

Should Wells Has Beens War States United Enemy United States Strategy Threat Leaving Borders Iran Occupation Hostile Superpower Charter Deterrent

Author:Noam Chomsky

“The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man.”

Men Nations United Aspiration United Nations Charter Safeguarding

Author:Haile Selassie

“It is the function of God Rama to destroy evil, wherever it occurs and it is equally the function of God Rama to give to his devotees like Bibhishana a free charter of irrevocable self-government.”

Giving Self Government Evil Function Rama Charter Self-government Devotee Irrevocable

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“We should totally ban for-profit charters. For-profit's first obligation is to its stockholders, not to its children.”

Should Firsts Children Profit Obligation Bans Charter

Author:Diane Ravitch

“I support charters, but the right kind of charters. I support charters that support kids who have the highest needs. A charter should be targeting students who are in serious trouble. It should serve students who didn't succeed in public schools when it can help them. Or, at least, charters should agree to accept similar proportions of the kids with the highest needs.”

Needs Should Kind Helping Kids School Accepting Support Trouble Students Serious Succeed Highest Agree Proportion Public School Charter

Author:Diane Ravitch

“I'm a plotter. A thinker, a note-maker, a mapper and a flow-charter. I'm up for using any device that will teach me more about the people I'm writing about and their story.”

People Writing Stories Teach Flow Notes Devices Makers Thinker Charter

Author:Nick Earls

“These are the hands whose sturdy labor brings The peasant's food, the golden pomp of kings; This is the page whose letters shall be seen, Changed by the sun to words of living green; This is the scholar whose immortal penSpells the first lesson hunger taught to men; These are the lines that heaven-commanded Toil Shows on his deed, - the charter of the soil!”

Men Life Firsts Shows Hands Heaven Lines Sun Changed Taught Kings Lessons Pages Garden Labor Letters Green Hunger Deeds Golden Soil Immortal Scholar Toil Peasants Charter Sturdy

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“Eve is a life giver; she is Adam's ally. It is to both of them that the charter for adventure is given. It will take both of them to sustain life. And they will both need to fight together.”

Needs Together Fighting Given Adventure Allies Adam Giver Charter

Book:The Ransomed Heart: A Collection of Devotional Readings

Source: The Ransomed Heart: A Collection of Devotional Readings

“And so, one of the reasons why I started my Charter for Compassion, was to bring the Golden Rule back to the center of religion and morality and not put other's secondary goals, less demand goals, into the forefront.”

Reason Goal Compassion Morality Demand Golden Reason Why Golden Rule Charter

Author:Karen Armstrong

“Terrorists and their allies believe the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the American Bill of Rights and every charter of liberty ever written are lies to be burned and destroyed and forgotten.”

Believe Humans Lying Liberty Rights Written Universal Bills Forgotten Human Rights Terrorist Destroyed Allies Burned Declaration Bill Of Rights Charter Declaration Of Human Rights

Author:George W. Bush

“A-PLUS Act - allow states to operate like charter schools.”

States School Plus Charter Charter Schools

Author:Jim DeMint

“God has condescended to become an author, and yet people will not read his writings. There are very few that ever gave this Book of God, the grand charter of salvation, one fair reading through.”

People Writing Book Reading Fairs Salvation Charter

Book:Sermons on important subjects ... With a memoir of the Author by S. Drew; and a dissertation on his character, preaching, etc., by Joseph [or rather Josiah] Smith

Source: Sermons on important subjects ... With a memoir of the Author by S. Drew; and a dissertation on his character, preaching, etc., by Joseph [or rather Josiah] Smith

“To paraphrase president Kennedy's inaugural, the torch has been passed to a new generation of cartoonists and they are doing really interesting stuff, taking the old cliches and breathing new life into them and inventing new ones. This doesn't mean the previous generation of which I'm a charter member isn't doing good stuff but this new material is invigorating everyone.”