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“I am convinced that the public, large majority of the Greek people, realize that policies pursued in the past and the market practices have to be changed, in order to improve the prospects of the Greek economy. So there is, I think, strong public support despite the increases in social tensions.”

People Thinking Past Order Strong Social Realizing Practice Support Economy Policy Changed Increase Majority Convinced Despite Greek Tension Pursued Prospects

Author:Lucas Papademos

“I knew Arizona's SB 1070 would be controversial when I introduced it, but I did not expect the national immigration debate to revolve around a state law. While the anti-American open-borders Left attack me and the law as 'racist,' 'nativist' and their other empty smear words, the vast majority of the people of Arizona and America support the law.”

People States Would Be America Law Left Support Empty Majority Debate Immigration Borders Racist Controversial Arizona Anti-american

Author:Russell Pearce

“I believe that the majority of times the scale tilts toward the good. It's this amazing thing that rolls on and if we get in the flow of it, that's God. And if we fight it, if we swim the other way, we're swimming away from the purest expression of this life.”

Ifs Way Believe Fighting I Believe Expression Flow Majority Scales This Life Swim Swimming Amazing Things Tilt

Author:Michael J. Fox

“We want all the Palestinians back in their homeland, and then there can be a fair referendum for people to choose the form of state they want. Whoever gets the majority can rule.”

People Want States Form Fairs Majority Palestinian Homeland Referendums

Author:Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

“A majority of Americans oppose partial-birth abortion, and Judge Hamilton's decision flies in the face of Congress passing and President Bush signing legislation banning such horrible acts of violence.”

Faces President Decision Violence Judging Birth Majority Congress Horrible Passing Passings Abortion Legislation President Bush Signing Hamilton Acts Of Violence

Author:Marc Racicot

“Many in local government will ask why should only a few areas have the freedoms and benefits of Enterprise Zone status while the majority lose out?”

Should Government Asks Loses Benefits Areas Majority Locals Enterprise Zone Local Government

Author:Andy Sawford

“Since 1996, the Feminist Majority Foundation has been immersed in a campaign to support Afghan women and girls in their fight against the brutal oppression of the Taliban.”

Has Beens Girl Fighting Support Foundation Majority Feminist Campaigns Oppression Brutal Taliban Afghan

Author:Eleanor Smeal

“I think the overwhelming majority of the American people know that we have got to stand together, that we're going to grow together, that we're going to survive together, and that if we start splintering, we're not going to succeed in a highly competitive international economy.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Together Grows Economy Succeed Majority International Overwhelming

Author:Bernie Sanders

“So war is an extremely sad business, because the majority of people don't want to be in it.”

People Want War Majority

Author:Gerald Scarfe

“Every living being is psychic. Whether or not we are consciously aware of it, we feel vibrations and energies coming to us from other people all the time. The vast majority of the thoughts you think and the emotions you feel aren't your own.”

People Thinking Feels Energy Emotion Majority Psychics Vibrations

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The vast majority of beings who incarnate on this planet are at the stage of their evolution where power is the dominant theme. They are learning about power. That is why we live in a world where there are so many wars and so much destruction.”

World War Humanity Stage Planets Buddhism Evolution Destruction Majority Theme Dominant

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process.”

Mean Past Process Vote Majority Casts African American Voting Minorities Voters Percentages Ohio American Voters

Author:John Lewis

“The great majority of people are calm, resourceful, altruistic or even beyond altruistic, as they risk themselves for others. We improvise the conditions of survival beautifully.”

People Risk Conditions Survival Majority Calm Resourceful

Author:Rebecca Solnit

“I grew up in Florida riding horses, so for the majority of my life I was either in boots and jeans or a bathing suit.”

Grew Grew Up Horse Majority Suits Boots Riding Florida Jeans Bathing Bathing Suits

Author:Kate Upton

“The vast majority of Greeks accept the need for reform and want to keep our country inside the euro zone.”

Want Needs Country Accepting Majority Our Country Reform Greek Zone Euro

Author:Evangelos Venizelos

“The violent radicals do not legitimately represent the overwhelming majority of the world's Muslims.”

World Majority Violent Radical Overwhelming

Author:Gijs de Vries

“Well, many of us believe that excessive media concentration is a subject that ought to be addressed, and it is, of course, the intention of the majority party not to allow that to be discussed.”

Believe Wells Courses Party Subjects Media Ought Majority Intention Concentration

Author:Barney Frank

“I was a member of the Florida legislature for nine years, the speaker of the house, majority leader, majority whip.”

Years House Leader Members Majority Nine Speakers Florida Whips Legislature Nine Years Majority Leader

Author:Marco Rubio

“Our oil-based society depends on non-renewable resources. It requires relentless probing into vast reaches of pristine land, sacrificing vital bioregions, and irreplaceable cultures. The possibility of catastrophic climate change is substantially increased by the 40 million barrels of oil burned every day by vehicles. We must all move shoulder to shoulder in a unified front to show this administration that the true majority of people are willing to vote for a cleaner environment and won't back down.”

“This leads to a question - if a great many people are for a certain project, is it necessarily right? If the vast majority is for it, is it even more certainly right? This, to be sure, is one of the tricky points of democracy. The minority often turns out to be right, and though one believes in the efficacy of the democratic process, one has also to recognize that the demand of the many for a particular project at a particular time may mean only disaster.”

People Ifs Believe May Mean Certain Turns Process Democracy Particular Demand Projects Majority Democratic Disaster Great Men Minorities Tricky Efficacy Democratic Process

Book:The Roosevelt I Knew

Source: The Roosevelt I Knew

“The vast majority of the people who populate our planet live lives of quiet desperation that are all too often quite harsh and painful, lives in which events and circumstances usually don't turn out the way they had hoped or planned.”

People Way Inspirational Turns Events Planets Buddhism Circumstances Quiet Majority Painful Live Life Harsh Desperation Our Planet Quiet Desperation Painful Life

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.”

People Fear Loneliness Concepts Majority Introvert Companionship Introversion

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“When most of the greatest individuals in history were misunderstood and you've spent so much of your own adult life misunderstood, you can't help but believe that the majority of people know very little worth knowing.”

People Knows Believe Littles Helping Individual Knowing Adults Majority Misunderstanding Misunderstood Being Misunderstood

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“I'm part of the mushball middle. I consider 'confused' the majority position because, thankfully, most people would rather be uncertain some of the time than 100% positive all the time - even when they're wrong.”

People Middle Position Majority Confused Uncertain

Author:Al Franken

“By virtually any measure, the record of the Republican Majority is an appalling failure.”

Records Republican Majority

Author:Sheila Jackson Lee

“Scientists have established huge numbers of links between particular diseases and snippets of DNA, but in the great majority of cases, this has not yet been translated into treatments that can help cure patients. These treatments will come - tomorrow, or the day after.”

Helping Numbers Cases Particular Huge Tomorrow Disease Scientist Majority Patient Cures Treatment Links Dna Huge Numbers

Author:Charles C. Mann

“I find that the majority of the actors I've worked with are extremely sensitive people and very spontaneous people. That's why I always say I'll never date an actor, because they're in love with you one day and the next day they're not.”

People Next Actors Love You One Day Majority Sensitive Spontaneous Next Day

Author:Ellen Muth

“I'm fascinated by politicians, because I suspect the huge majority of them go into it full of ideas and for the best possible reasons but end up being hijacked.”

Ideas Ends Reason Huge Politician Majority Suspects Fascinated

Author:Kevin Whately

“I represent a rural state and live in a small town. Small merchants make up the majority of Vermont's small businesses and thread our state together. It is the mom-and-pop grocers, farm-supply stores, coffee shops, bookstores and barber shops where Vermonters connect, conduct business and check in on one another.”

States Together Mom Towns Majority Pops Stores Coffee Checks Shops Farms Thread Small Town Small Business Bookstores Merchants Coffee Shop Vermont Barbers Grocers Barber Shop

Author:Peter Welch

“Historically, the minority party in Congress votes against raising the debt limit, forcing the majority party to whip its members into casting politically painful votes in favor.”

Party Limits Members Vote Majority Congress Painful Debt Favors Minorities Casting Whips

Author:Peter Welch

“If it be admitted that a man, possessing absolute power, may misuse that power by wronging his adversaries, why should a majority not be liable to the same reproach? Men are not apt to change their character by agglomeration; nor does their patience in the presence of obstacles increase with the consciousness of their strength. And for these reasons I can never willingly invest any number of my fellow creatures with that unlimited authority which I should refuse to any one of them.”

Source: American Institutions and Their Influence

“Democracy is essentially a means, a utilitarian device for safeguarding internal peace and individual freedom. As such it is by no means infallible or certain. Nor must we forget that there has often been much more cultural and spiritual freedom under an autocratic rule than under some democracies and it is at least conceivable that under the government of a very homogeneous and doctrinaire majority democratic government might be as oppressive as the worst dictatorship.”

“Is the appointment of Chaplains to the two Houses of Congress consistent with the Constitution, and with the pure principle of religious freedom? In strictness the answer on both points must be in the negative. The Constitution of the U. S. forbids everything like an establishment of a national religion. The law appointing Chaplains establishes a religious worship for the national representatives, to be performed by Ministers of religion, elected by a majority of them, and these are to be paid out of the national taxes. Does this not involve the principle of a national establishment ... ?”

“There are so many comics about violence. I'm not entertained or amused by violence, and I'd rather not have it in my life. Sex, on the other hand, is something the vast majority of us enjoy, yet it rarely seems to be the subject of comics. Pornography is usually bland, repetitive and ugly, and, at most, 'does the job.' I always wanted to make a book that is pornographic, but is also, I hope, beautiful, and mysterious, and engages the mind.”

Mind Doe Book Hands Seems Wanted Jobs Beautiful Sex Enjoy Violence Subjects Majority Ugly Mysterious Pornography Amused Repetitive Bland

Author:Dave McKean

“It’s an interesting sign of the times that models are being booked for jobs and covers because of their following on a social media platform, I walked in the Balmain show for Olivier Rousteing. If you rounded up all the numbers of the majority of his line-up, there would be upwards of 10, 15 million followers.”

Ifs Shows Would Be Jobs Social Lines Interesting Numbers Millions Media Models Majority Following Social Media Followers Platforms

Author:Karlie Kloss

“People always think women meet us in the hotel lobby, but it's the opposite. The majority of the time, you go out to eat with your teammates, then rest for the next day's game. It's not a vacation - most guys view the road as a business trip.”

People Thinking Guy Next Games Views Opposites Majority Hotel Vacation Next Day Teammate Hotel Lobby Business Trips

Author:Kevin Durant

“I think the ideal way of living is to live like the vast majority of people whom we attempt to serve and represent.”

People Thinking Way Ideals Majority Humble Poorest

Author:Jose Mujica

“The only, the only possibility would be if the Republicans are in the majority and they can offer me something that would be especially advantageous to Maine. Somebody said, 'You may be a committee chair.' I don't think so. I don't think anybody would want me that much.”

Ifs Thinking Want May Said Would Be Possibility Republican Offers Majority Chairs Want Me Committees Maine

Author:Angus King

“I am convinced that the majority of American people do understand that we have a moral responsibility to foster the concepts of opportunity, free enterprise, the rule of law, and democracy. They understand that these values are the hope of the world.”

People World Law Values Opportunity Responsibility Moral Democracy Concepts Majority Convinced Enterprise Rule Of Law Free Enterprise Moral Responsibility

Author:Richard Lugar

“Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset. As people have been noting for years, the majority of strategic initiatives that are driven from the top are marginally effective - at best.”

People Years Has Beens Majority Strategy Driven Initiative Doomed Strategic

Author:Peter Senge

“I was spending a lot of time in Mumbai after I met my husband, who is Indian, and while parts of the city were prospering like crazy, I couldn't quite make out how the new wealth had changed the prospects of the majority of city residents who lived in slums. So after a few years I stopped wondering and started reporting.”

Years Wealth Cities Wonder Crazy Changed Mets Husband Majority Spending Indian My Husband Prospects Residents Make Out Slums Mumbai Prospering

Author:Katherine Boo

“To avoid repeating the mistakes of the past, an alert citizenry today should take the trouble to learn how easy it can be for a powerful minority to manipulate information to win the support-or the indifference-of the majority towards an action.”

Should Today Action Past Winning Easy Powerful Mistake Support Trouble Information Majority Indifference Minorities Manipulate Citizenry

Book:Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion

Source: Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion

“Both the Moral Majority, who are recycling medieval language to explain AIDS, and those ultra-leftists who attribute AIDS to some sort of conspiracy, have a clearly political analysis of the epidemic. But even if one attributes its cause to a microorganism rather than the wrath of God, or the workings of the CIA, it is clear that the way in which AIDS has been perceived, conceptualized, imagined, researched and financed makes this the most political of diseases.”

“Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge.”

Numbers Negative Majority Track Length Electric Units Particles Counting Measurement Droplets

Book:The Production and Properties of Positrons ...

Source: The Production and Properties of Positrons ...

“I have had it up to here with the prosecutions, the government's attitude, the judiciary, the media's stance and the majority of Turks who view the Kurdish people's justified cause through a nationalist lens.”

People Government Causes Views Attitude Media Majority Justified Lenses Stance Judiciary Prosecution Kurdish

Author:Osman Baydemir

“A Recession is predominantly for the middle class. Where I come from the majority of people have always lived in a recession.”

People Class Middle Majority Middle Class Recessions

Author:Curtis Jackson

“I like generals. I like Napoleon. I like strategy. The majority of them are praised for mass destruction, but it's exciting to see how it comes to the mind mentally.”

Mind Mass Destruction Exciting Majority Strategy Mass Destruction

Author:Curtis Jackson

“Happiness is not a sign that we are right with God; happiness is a sign of satisfaction, that is all, and the majority of us can be satisfied on too low a level.”

Levels Lows Majority Satisfaction Happy Satisfied Being Happy True Happiness Self-satisfaction

Book:The Quotable Oswald Chambers

Source: The Quotable Oswald Chambers

“In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.”

Politics Poor Power Democracy Rich Majority Supreme Democracies Have

Author:Aristotle

“To open the majority of peoples' minds to something new is difficult. I always think that, as long as it's funny underneath, then you can argue that a teaspoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.”

Thinking Mind Long Helping Difficult Majority Medicine Arguing Something New Sugar

Author:Jason Gann

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