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“I don't have any particular rituals, I sometimes like to write in longhand when I'm searching for ideas but I do the vast majority by typing, I can't always keep up with my thoughts longhand. I'm not a coffee shop writer because I feel obliged to order more coffee and then I end up over-caffeinated.”

Author:Len Smith

“Why don't Republicans spend all their airtime attacking the media for lying about what Obama's amnesty does and what the Democrats are doing? It's hard to avoid concluding that Republicans aren't trying to make the right arguments. In fact, it kind of looks like they're intentionally throwing the fight on amnesty. If a Republican majority in both houses of Congress can't stop Obama from issuing illegal immigrants Social Security cards and years of back welfare payments, there is no reason to vote Republican ever again.”

“We're in a very, very profound crisis. It's so obvious that no one in the power structure, either the corporate power structure or the political power structure, knows what to do or is willing to do what's necessary in relationship both to global war and global warming. It's so obvious that conditions are getting worse for the great majority of Americans. It's so obvious also that we face a very serious danger from people who feel, see themselves only as victims. And we have to somehow, in a very loving way, help the American people to recover the best that is in our traditions.”

People Knows Way Feels War Helping Faces Political Conditions Danger Willing Serious Tradition Crisis Victim Majority Structure Profound Obvious Corporate Global Warming Political Power

Author:Grace Lee Boggs

“An irreligious man is not one who denies the gods of the majority, but one who applies to the gods the opinions of the majority. For what most men say about the gods are not ideas derived from sensation, but false opinions, according to which the greatest evils come to the wicked, and the greatest blessings come to the good from the gods.”

Men Ideas Evil Opinion Blessing Majority Deny Wicked Sensations Greatest Blessings

Author:Epicurus

“Social sin is the crystallization ... of individuals' sins into permanent structures that keeps sin in being and makes its force to be felt by the majority of people.”

People Individual Force Social Felt Sin Majority Structure Permanent

Author:Oscar Romero

“Photos should focus on your waist up, unless you have amazing legs. Then it's okay to include one or two full-body shots in your gallery. The majority of your photos should be closer up, highlighting your face. Don't stage a smile. Instead, try to laugh just before the shot is taken. Flirty smiles that don't look cheesy also work. Make eye contact with the camera. Aim to take most of your photos outdoors.”

Should Trying Looks Two Body Eye Faces Laughing Taken Focus Stage Shots Okay Aim Cameras Majority Legs Contact Your Face Gallery Cheesy Flirty Eye Contact Highlighting

Author:Amy Webb

“A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.”

Humans Hands Death Religion Belief Human Beings Hell Dying Ambition Majority Frustration Doomed Rumor Memorial Skeletons

Book:Complete Essays: 1939-1956

Source: Complete Essays: 1939-1956

“The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.”

Firsts Humans Literature Fear Human Beings Atheism Fool Innovation Majority Notion Appearance Familiar Dislike Dread Madmen Innovators Persecuted Willful Ignorance

Author:Aldous Huxley

“Truth is never determined by majority opinion, but by divine revelation.”

Opinion Divine Truth Is Majority Determined Revelations Divine Revelation Majority Opinion

Author:Steve Lawson

“New Rule: The rest of the world can go back to being completely jealous of America. Our majority white country just freely elected a black president, something no other democracy has ever done. Take that Canada! Where's your nubian warrior president? Your head of state is a boring white dude named Steven Harper, and mine is a kick-ass black ninja named Barack Hussein Obama!”

Source: The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass

“It is deeply interesting to notice also where the citizens were put to work. Each was set to labor on the bit of all opposite his home... I do not say that men are not called to service in far distant places... But I do say that for the vast majority the task that God appoints is the task lying at the door. The nearest thing is God's thing. The nearest duty is God's duty. He who cannot find his service there is little likely to be useful anywhere.”

Men Littles Home Lying Bits Interesting Doors Duty Citizens Labor Tasks Opposites Majority

Author:George H Morrison

“For the majority of contemporary Americans, the essence of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness centers on a relentless personal quest to acquire, to consume, to indulge, and to shed whatever constraints might interfere with those endeavors.”

Might Liberty Essence Majority Pursuit Contemporary Acquire Endeavor Quests Shed Interfere Indulge Pursuit Of Happiness Relentless Constraints Essence Of Life Life Liberty And The Pursuit Of Happiness

Author:Andrew Bacevich

“A recent poll shows that a majority of blacks, whites, Asians and Hispanics do not think the Census should be classifying people as black, white, Asian and Hispanic.”

People Thinking Should Shows Black White Majority Polls Asian Hispanic Black White Census Classifying

Author:Thomas Sowell

“The vast majority of organizations today have more than enough intelligence, experience and knowledge to be successful. What they lack is organizational health.”

Enough Today Successful Organization Majority Being Successful Organizational

Author:Patrick Lencioni

“But if we admit God, must we admit Miracle? Indeed, indeed, you have no security against it. That is the bargain. Theology says to you in effect, 'Admit God and with Him the risk of a few miracles, and I in return will ratify your faith in uniformity as regards the overwhelming majority of events.”

Ifs Risk Effects Security Events Return Miracle Regard Majority Theology Overwhelming Bargains Uniformity

Author:C. S. Lewis

“I believe that God has endowed men with certain inalienable rights as set forth in the Declaration of Independence and that no legislature and no majority, however great, may morally limit or destroy these; that the sole function of government is to protect life, liberty, and property, and anything more than this is usurpation and oppression.”

Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson

“The judge's authority derives entirely from the fact that he is applying the law and not his personal values. That is why the American public accepts the decisions of its courts, accepts even decisions that nullify the laws a majority of the electorate or their representatives voted for.”

Facts Law Values Decision Accepting Judging Authority Majority Court Representatives Electorate Personal Values

Book:The Tempting of America

Source: The Tempting of America

“This Constitutional Republic called America is an historic aberration. Any honest student of history will note that the prevailing socio-economic system is feudalism, where a tiny minority control the vast majority of wealth, power, and resources. In doing so, they have absolute control over the 99% of the population. Power equals control.”

America Wealth Economic Honest Students Resources Absolutes Majority Notes Population Tiny Minorities Republic Historic Prevailing Economic Systems Aberration Feudalism

Author:Howard Nemerov

“New and expanded refundable tax credits would raise the fraction of taxpayers paying no income taxes to almost 50% from 38%. This is potentially the most pernicious feature of the president's budget, because it would cement a permanent voting majority with no stake in controlling the cost of general government.”

Government President Cost Taxes Raises Majority Credit Income Permanent Budgets Features Voting Stakes Taxpayers Fractions Income Tax Cement Pernicious

Author:Michael J. Boskin

“Both HUD and the Department of Justice began bringing lawsuits against mortgage bankers when a higher percentage of minority applicants than white applicants were turned down for mortgage loans. A substantial majority of both black and white mortgage loan applicants had their loans approved but a statistical difference was enough to get a bank sued.”

Enough Black Differences Justice White Higher Majority Department Minorities Black And White Loan Percentages Bankers Mortgage Approved Turned Down Lawsuit

Book:Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)

Source: Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)

“The most pernicious of his [Obama] proposals will be the massive Make Work Pay refundable tax credit. Dressed up as a tax cut, it will be a national welfare program, guaranteeing a majority of American households an annual check to 'refund' taxes they never paid. And it will eliminate the need for about 20% of American households to pay income taxes, lifting the proportion that need not do so to a majority of the voting population.”

“In the name of short-term stimulus, he [Obama] will give every American family (who makes less than $200,000) a welfare check of $1,000 euphemistically called a refundable tax credit. And he will so sharply cut taxes on the middle class and the poor that the number of Americans who pay no federal income tax will rise from the current one-third of all households to more than half. In the process, he will create a permanent electoral majority that does not pay taxes, but counts on ever-expanding welfare checks from the government.”

“The dependency on the dole, formerly limited in pre-Clinton days to 14 million women and children on AFDC, will now grow to a clear majority of the U.S. population.”

Children Grows Millions Clear Majority Clinton Population Dependency

Author:Dick Morris

“[The] majority of the girls working there had major emotional problems. And not cries-too-much emotional problems; more like stabs-her-boyfriend-with-a-steak-knife-then-falls-into-a-corner-and-starts-whispering-to-herself emotional problems.”

Problem Fall Girl Too Much Cry Emotional Majors Majority Corners Knives Whispering Steak Emotional Problems

Author:Justin Halpern

“Most Americans, who think Congress has a right to do anything for which they can get a majority vote, ignore the clearly written constitutional restraints on Congress.”

Thinking Written Vote Majority Congress Restraint Majority Vote

Author:Walter E. Williams

“After that really, I spent the majority of the spring going to tons and tons of regional festivals throughout America. Every corner of the country, I took the movie to twenty film festivals or something to that extent. I've lost track. Probably done Q&As 40-50 times at this point. It's always hard to watch something I've made, but I've got a little more objectivity and kind of see the film as not just an extension of myself.”

Kind Littles Made Country Hard Done America Film Lost Watches Spring Twenties Majority Track Corners Extensions Festivals Objectivity Film Festivals

Author:James Ponsoldt

“Professional sports, in of itself, is a fantasy, for the majority of the population.”

Sports Fantasy Majority Population Professional Sports

Author:Gabriel Luna

“I believe that the majority of people in Europe want to demonstrate solidarity with the refugees.”

People Want Believe I Believe Europe Majority Solidarity Refugee

Author:Martin Schulz

“What is common among all of these groups [Taliban, Islamic State etc.] is the intent to destroy. The majority of terrorists who come to Afghanistan are from China, Russia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan or North Africa. They were expelled from their countries and pushed to ours - this is their battlefield - and all of them, be it the Taliban or others, are interlinked with the criminal economy.”

“It is always unconscionable for the government to punish people for expressing an idea merely because government officials - or the majority of citizens - decide that those ideas are 'dangerous' or 'wrong.' That is a power nobody ought to possess.”

People Ideas Government Dangerous Ought Citizens Majority Officials Government Officials

Author:Glenn Greenwald

“Many of us are experiencing a phase of change, shedding outdated patterns and liberating ourselves from the old by moving on to the new. The year 2012 is an important one for mankind, a pivotal year. The potential for this exists in the mere fact that the majority of us are yearning for change.”

Years Important Facts Moving Mankind Majority Mere Patterns Yearning Phases Liberating Outdated Pivotal

Author:Shari Arison

“I believe there's an emerging American majority for progressive economic change.”

Believe I Believe Economic Majority Progressive Emerging Economic Change

Author:Bill de Blasio

“A very large majority of the U.S. population is in favor of establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba and has been for a long time with some fluctuations. And even part of the business world is in favor of it, too. But the government won't allow it.”

World Long Has Beens Government Long Time Relation Majority Population Favors Cuba Diplomatic Business World Fluctuation Diplomatic Relations

Author:Noam Chomsky

“There is no test of literary merit except survival, which is itself an index to majority opinion.”

Opinion Survival Tests Majority Merit Majority Opinion Literary Merit

Book:All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays

Source: All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays

“Freedom of speech and thought matters, especially when it is speech and thought with which we disagree. The moment the majority decides to destroy people for engaging in thought it dislikes, thought crime becomes a reality.”

People Matter Moments Reality Crime Speech Majority Disagree Dislike Freedom Of Speech Engaging

Book:Ben Shapiro: Volume I

Source: Ben Shapiro: Volume I

“I learned the game on the radio. Russ Hodges and Lon Simmons were the Giants broadcasters when I was growing up in the Bay area, and they taught me about the game. They taught me about the subtleties of the game, but they also gave me the game and let me enjoy it. That's the main thing, whether it's TV or radio. You have to give the fans the game, and if it's a Giants broadcast, the vast majority are Giants fans. In terms of story lines, most would be about the Giants.”

Ifs Giving Stories Would Be Games Enjoy Term Lines Growing Up Growing Fans Taught Tvs Areas Let Me Majority Radio Giants Subtlety Broadcasters Bay Area

Author:Jon Miller

“I have never been able to conjure up (as some great Evangelical missionaries have) the appalling vision of the millions who are not only perishing but will inevitably perish. On the other hand... I am not and cannot be a universalist. Between these extremes I cherish and hope the majority of the human race will be be saved. And I have a solid biblical basis for this belief.”

Humans Hands Able Belief Race Vision Millions Bases Majority Extremes Saved Human Race Cherish Biblical Evangelical Perishing

Author:John Stott

“This is an amazingly sound place. We are more disaster-resistant than most other places. We haven't pushed it as hard as other people would have pushed it. I don't want to go back to Go. I've been to Go. A lot of our shareholders have a majority of their net worth in Berkshire, and they don't want to go back to Go either.”

People Want Hard Sound Havens Majority Disaster Shareholders Net Worth

Author:Charlie Munger

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for certain that just ain't true." Thinking that you know the future.”

Thinking Knows Certain Sides Trouble Majority Reform Finding Yourself

Author:Mark Twain

“Stephen Harper is trying to load the dice between now and the next election in his own favour. Never before in the history of Canada has a government tried to use its majority to unilaterally change Canada's election laws with no support from any political party.”

Trying Use Government Law Political Next Party Support Election Majority Canada Load Favour Political Parties Dice Harper

Author:Thomas Mulcair

“Most of the money I make now comes from investments from CrunchFund. And the vast majority of that is what's called carried interest.”

Interest Majority Investment

Author:Michael Arrington

“Being different and thinking different makes a person unforgettable. History does not remember the forgettable. It honors the unique minority the majority cannot forget”

Thinking Persons Doe Different Remember Forget Honor Unique Majority Minorities Being Different Unforgettable Forgettable

Author:Suzy Kassem

“The people and the warmakers are two distinct groups. We must never say 'we' when discussing the US government's foreign policy. For one thing, the warmakers do not care about the opinions of the majority of Americans. It is silly and embarrassing for Americans to speak of 'we' when discussing their government's foreign policy, as if their input were necessary to or desired by those who make war.”

People Ifs Two War Government Care Speak Opinion One Thing Groups Policy Majority Silly Foreign Policy Embarrassing Discussing Input

Author:Llewellyn Rockwell

“Defeatist thoughts handicap persons from elevating their mechanistic life to superior states. The majority of persons consider themselves defeated even before beginning the struggle or the Gnostic esoteric work.”

Persons States Struggle Majority Superiors Defeated Handicaps Esoteric Elevating

Author:Samael Aun Weor

“I am a most unhappy man. I accidentally ruined my country. A great industrial nation is now controlled by its system of credit. Our government is no longer based on the freedom of opinion, nor on the conviction and the majority decision, it is now a government which is subjected to the conviction and the compulsion of a small group of dominant men.”

Men Country Government Nations Decision Opinion Groups Majority Conviction Credit Unhappy Controlled Dominant Ruined Compulsion Small Groups

Author:Woodrow Wilson

“There will be no good business unless the majority comes to agree that we should demand more from business than large quarterly returns.”

Should Return Demand Agree Majority Good Business

Book:Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning

Source: Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning

“There is no doubt about how hard it is to stay on top in any sport, but to do it in an individual sport for the majority of your career, it is not easy.”

Hard Individual Easy Sports Careers Doubt Majority No Doubt

Author:Pete Sampras

“The majority of short term trading results are just random. In the long term the money ends up with those that can trade and manage risk.”

Long Ends Term Results Risk Trade Majority Manage Long Term Trading Short Term

Author:Steve Burns

“Thanks to Barack Obama, America is for the first time aligning its values with those of 'the majority of the world's population.' If you think the world's population has had better values than America, that is has made societies that are more open, free, and tolerant than American society, and that is has fought for others' liberty more than America has, you should be delighted.”

Ifs Thinking World Should Firsts Made America Values Liberty First Time Majority Population Thanks Barack Delighted American Society

Author:Dennis Prager

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