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“We feel a deep pleasure from realizing that we believe something in common with our friends, and different from most people. We feel an even deeper pleasure letting everyone know of this fact. This feeling is EVIL. Learn to see it in yourself, and then learn to be horrified by how thoroughly it can poison your mind. Yes evidence may at times force you to disagree with a majority, and your friends may have correlated exposure to that evidence, but take no pleasure when you and your associates disagree with others; that is the road to rationality ruin.”

People Knows Feels Mind Believe May Different Facts Feelings Evil Force Realizing Pleasure Common Evidence Majority Deeper Ruins Poison Disagree Associates Rationality Exposure

Author:Robin Hanson

“The majority of problems on this planet are the result of the idea that humans are not sovereign and autonomous, but property owned by primitive Gods and incompetent governments.”

Humans Ideas Problem Government Results Planets Majority Property Primitive Sovereign Incompetent Autonomous

Author:Christopher Hyatt

“I've done the gay, over-the-top guy. I want to jump into another show where I wear pants for the majority of the time.”

Want Done Shows Guy Gay Majority Pants Over The Top Gay Pride

Author:Jai Rodriguez

“I would sooner play in a good British picture than in the majority of American pictures I have seen.”

Play Majority British

Author:Glynis Johns

“The majority of my background is multi-camera format, which is very broad and a very arch perception of reality. Whereas single camera tends to be more truthful and a little more intimate of a medium. Friends was an education in intelligent comedic banter; in intelligent vernacular. It was an education in scene study. It was an education in group dynamic. I came out of there with a masters degree in comedy.”

“It's time for me to give out an award to newly elected Majority Leader John Boehner. Mr. Boehner was elected just a few days ago to reform House Republicans, who are feeling the heat from lobbyist scandals. Well, CNN found out that he rents his two-bedroom apartment from a lobbyist who had clients who had interests in legislation that Boehner sponsored. And for that, Mr. Boehner, you've just won a pair of Stephen Colbert's big brass balls.”

“It's a fact, the majority of films in Hollywood are from the male perspective. And the female characters, very rarely do they get to speak to another female character in a movie, and when they do it's usually about a guy, not anything else. So they're very male-centric, Hollywood films, in general. So I think it's incredible that Ned Benson, when I said I'd love to know where she goes, says okay, I'm going to write another film from the female perspective.”

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Author:Jessica Chastain

“I love my city and I feel like the majority of the people that are in the city are people from other cities. So I think that L.A. sometimes might get a bad rap because it's known to be so Hollywood-oriented and then underneath that you have crime. But that's really the case in pretty much any major city that you go to.”

People Thinking Feels Sometimes Might Cities Known Cases Crime Majors Hollywood Majority Rap

Author:Regina King

“I don't know the vast majority of you personally and it may sound kind of corny, but I really feel as if we've become friends through the years. And you've been with me during a lot of good times. And some very difficult ones... I can't tell you how grateful I am...”

Ifs Knows Feels Years Kind May I Can Literature Difficult Sound Grateful Majority Good Times Corny Through The Years

Author:Katie Couric

“As of right this second my main focus is my new album, it'll be out probably towards the summertime, predominately R&B this time. I had a little stint with the dance music and all of that, which I had a good time with- and I love the audience, I love them for accepting me doing it -but I had to go home on this one. Had to take it back to my roots, and not to say that there won't be one, maybe two songs on there that the dance crowd can get into, but the majority, the girth of the album, will be R&B.”

Littles Two Home Song Accepting Audience Focus Roots Majority Albums Crowds Good Times Summertime Dance Music Had A Good Time Girth

Author:Ne-Yo

“I'm serious about this. The Republican Party needs to reform or die. President Bush did three things. He destroyed the Republican majority, he crippled the American conservative movement and he weakened the country. That's a hell of a trifecta.”

Needs Country Dies Three President Party Hell Movement Serious Republican Majority Conservative Destroyed Reform Republican Party Three Things President Bush Crippled Trifecta

Author:Joe Scarborough

“It does look like it's almost like South Africa to this extent: You have a white - what's the word - feeble minority. It's losing its majority status. And it says, the Republican Party, 'We can only get so many white votes. So, we got to reduce the votes of others.' It does look that way. Only the - maybe you're non-partisan, but only Republicans have pushed this in these 31 states. No Democratic legislature. You gotta look at the pattern here. You talk about profiling. I'm sorry, Republicans do this stuff.”

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Author:Chris Matthews

“The majority of women in America look like me.”

Looks America Majority Like Me

Author:Brooke Elliott

“I got into being vegan because I was simply looking to benefit from being more compassionate. I have since come to learn that it is an animal-based diet that is responsible for the overwhelming majority of cases of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, obesity, multiple sclerosis, and all kinds of other problems.”

Heart Kind Problem Animal Cases Disease Benefits Responsible Majority Cancer All Kinds Diets Vegan Overwhelming Compassionate Multiple Obesity Diabetes Heart Disease Multiple Sclerosis

Author:Steve-O

“A long time ago I learned not to put the blame for backwardness in Brazil on the US. We have to blame ourselves. Our backwardness is caused by an elite which for a century didn't think about the majority and subordinated itself to foreign interests.”

Thinking Long Interest Century Long Time Blame Majority Elites Long Time Ago Brazil

Author:Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

“I came from a family who believed in, in quotes, the Rights of Man, who believed that in order to justify the sort of luxurious life that the majority of us have, related to the whole world, that you had to do something.”

Men World Whole Order Rights Majority Whole World Related Justify Luxurious

Author:Richard Attenborough

“I wonder at what point do you stop doing what you think is right and you start doing what the majority of the American people want?”

People Thinking Want Wonder Majority

Author:Scott Pelley

“It is quite true - in fact, obvious on the surface - that the vast majority of dramatic shows and comedies, as well, advocate a liberal and humanistic and relativistic lifestyle and concept.”

Wells Facts Shows Comedy Concepts Majority Obvious Surface Lifestyle Dramatic Advocating Humanistic

Author:Pat Boone

“My own opinion is enough for me. And I claim the right to defend it against any consensus, any majority anywhere, any place, any time. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, get in line and kiss my ass.”

Enough Lines My Own Numbers Opinion Kissing Picks Claims Majority Ass Disagree Free Speech Consensus Kiss My Ass

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“How do I know that I know this, except that I've always been taught this and never heard anything else? [...] How sure am I of my own views? Don't take refuge in the false security of consensus, and the feeling that whatever you think you're bound to be okay, because you're in the safely moral majority.”

Thinking Knows Feelings My Own Views Moral Heard Security Taught Majority Bounds Refuge Consensus

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“Even though I'm from the Midwest, the majority of my life has been spent on the coasts where being gay wasn't really much of a conversation.”

Has Beens Gay Conversation Majority Coast Being Gay Midwest

Author:Andrew Rannells

“I realize that the majority of people in the entertainment business happen to be Democrats. I have no problem with that. And they should have no problem with the fact that I'm a Republican.”

People Should Facts Problem Happens Realizing Republican Should Have Majority Democrat Entertainment No Problem Entertainment Business

Author:Shannen Doherty

“I am not leaving twitter. If the mindless few defeat the thoughtful majority we are all doomed.”

Ifs Majority Leaving Defeat Thoughtful Doomed Mindless

Author:Gary Lineker

“I am from a city (Glasgow) that is not unlike Liverpool. I am joining the people's football club. The majority of people you meet on the street are Everton fans. It is a fantastic opportunity, something you dream about. I said 'yes' right away as it is such a big club.”

People Said Dream Bigs Opportunity Cities Fans Streets Football Majority Clubs Fantastic Joining Liverpool Glasgow Football Clubs Everton

Author:David Moyes

“I am joining the people's football club. The majority of people you meet on the street are Everton fans”

People Fans Streets Football Majority Clubs Joining Football Clubs Everton

Author:David Moyes

“One with the law is a majority.”

Law Majority

Author:Calvin Coolidge

“For the majority of the time, I may as well have been just a really tan white kid. You know, I may as well have just been, like, a fat kid.”

Knows Wells May Has Beens Kids White Majority Fats Fat Kid

Author:Aziz Ansari

“I have to have an adjustment before I go into the ring. I do believe in chiropractic. I found that going to a chiropractor three times a week helps my performance. The majority of boxers go to get that edge.”

Believe Helping Three Found Week Performances Majority Edges Rings Three Times Adjustment Boxers Chiropractic

Author:Evander Holyfield

“There must be no majority decisions, but only responsible persons, and the word 'council' must be restored to its original meaning. Surely every man will have advisers by his side, but the decision will be made by one man.”

Men Persons Made Sides Decision Democracy Military Responsible Originals Majority Every Man One Man Dictator Council Adviser Mein Kampf Responsible Person

Book:Mein Kampf

Source: Mein Kampf

“They sense that there's a majority out there and that the emotions are all on the other side-if they can be heard. They think the politicians are going to yield to the emotions. I think the corporations are wrong about that. I think the companies will have to give in only at insignificant levels. Because the companies are too strong, they're the establishment. The environmentalists are going to have to be like the mob in the square in Romania before they prevail.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Strong Sides Levels Emotion Company Heard Politician Majority Corporations Yield Squares Establishment Insignificant Environmentalist Romania

Author:Louis O. Kelso

“This program that the Republican majority has taken us toward as a country is leading us to fiscal bankruptcy.”

Country Taken Republican Program Majority Bankruptcy

Author:Chaka Fattah

“Now, so, if you want to blame someone for wasteful spending, the Republicans are in the majority.”

Ifs Want Republican Blame Majority Spending Blame Someone Wasteful Spending

Author:Chaka Fattah

“I’ve come to the point of view that for European-American society and culture to persist requires a European-American majority, and a clear one at that.”

Culture Views Clear Majority Point Of View Persist American Society Society And Culture

Author:John Tanton

“In 1986, Tanton published an article in which he argued: `To govern is to populate ... Will the present majority peaceably hand over its political power to a group that is simply more fertile? ... As Whites see their power and control over their lives declining, will they simply go quietly into the night? Or will there be an explosion?'”

Hands Political Night Groups Majority Over It Articles Explosions Fertile Political Power Power And Control

Author:John Tanton

“The overwhelming majority of people are comfortable with consensus, but successful investors tend to have a contrarian bent.”

People Successful Comfortable Majority Overwhelming Investors Bent Consensus

Author:Seth Klarman

“A very few lonely pioneers make their way to high places never before visited . . . they create the living conditions of mankind and the majority are living on their work.”

Way Conditions Mankind Lonely Majority Pioneers Living On High Places Living Conditions

Author:Kristian Birkeland

“The truth is that only 1% of all new words are totally new, and of those an even smaller percentage are conjured up out of thin air. The vast majority of coinages are the product of some kind of repurposing, and the result has always been a mix of tradition and innovation.”

Kind Results Air Products Truth Is Tradition Innovation Majority Percentages New Words Thin Air

Author:Susie Dent

“But the most amazing, almost miraculous news is that the majority of the building is still intact. Due to one of the most astonishingly intelligent and professional pieces of strategy by the fire services, they succeeded in protecting the vast majority of the building, apparently by forming a human wall of firefighters up the west end of the main staircase and containing the fire.”

Humans Stills Ends Fire Pieces Building Wall News Intelligent Majority Strategy West Dues Miraculous Most Amazing Containing Firefighter Staircases West End

Author:Muriel Gray

“The vast majority of our imports come from outside the country.”

Country Majority Imports Funny Bush

Author:George W. Bush

“Some segments within the American government orchestrated the attack to reverse the declining American economy, and its grips on the Middle East, in order to save the Zionist regime The majority of the American people as well as most nations and politicians around the world agree with this view.”

“Confronting climate change is, in the long run, one of the greatest challenges that we face, and you can see this duty or responsibility laid down in scriptures, clearly.”

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Author:John F. Kerry

“Why, so soon as French Canadians, who are in the minority in this House and in the country, were to organize as a political party, they would compel the majority to organize as a political party, and the result must be disastrous to themselves.”

Country Political House Results Party Majority Minorities Political Parties

Author:Wilfrid Laurier

“I disagree with what the majority of the American people want.”

People Want Majority Disagree

Author:John McCain

“The majority of the American people still believe that every single individual in this country is entitled to just as much respect, just as much dignity, as every other individual.”

People Believe Stills Country Individual Dignity Majority Entitled

Author:Barbara Jordan

“One on God's side is a majority.”

God Sides Majority

Author:Wendell Phillips

“I certainly think that 10 to 20 years from now, clearly the majority of veterinarians will be women.”

Thinking Years Majority Veterinarian

Author:Richard Adams

“In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.”

Men Form Nations Majority Brave Sheep Brave Man

Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“The basic policy of the British Government was that since the majority of people in Northern Ireland wished to remain in the United Kingdom, that was that. We asked what would happen if the majority wanted something else, if the majority wanted to see Irish unity.”

People Ifs Government Happens Wanted United Policy Majority Unity British Kingdoms Ireland United Kingdom Northern Ireland British Government

Author:John Hume

“Reconciliation is a special budget procedure to change entitlement and tax laws. It cannot be filibustered and requires only a simple majority in the Senate to be passed. It is primarily intended for deficit and mandatory spending reduction”

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Author:Jeff Miller

“The position of Prussia in Germany will not be determined by its liberalism but by its power ... Prussia must concentrate its strength and hold it for the favorable moment, which has already come and gone several times. Since the treaties of Vienna, our frontiers have been ill-designed for a healthy body politic. Not through speeches and majority decisions will the great questions of the day be decided - that was the great mistake of 1848 and 1849 - but by iron and blood (Eisen und Blut).”

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