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“The women I love most are Latina - my sister, mother, and daughter. They're spontaneous but spend a majority of their time trying to make others happy.”

Trying Mother Daughter Majority My Sister Spontaneous Mother And Daughter Latina Make Others Happy

Author:William Levy

“I am thoroughly enjoying spending the majority of my time with entrepreneurs. I find that their enthusiasm, dedication, willingness to take huge risks and desire to make a dramatic impact quite inspiring.”

Desire Enjoy Risk Huge Impact Majority Entrepreneur Spending Enthusiasm Dramatic My Time Willingness Dedication

Author:Maynard Webb

“A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.”

Different Character America Values Social Born Work Movement Promise Majority Traditional 80s Outlook Social Movements

Author:Daniel Yankelovich

“There is no such thing as a value-free concept of deviance; to say homosexuals are deviant because they are a statistical minority is, in practice, to stigmatize them. Nuns are rarely classed as deviants for the same reason, although if they obey their vows they clearly differ very significantly from the great majority of people.”

People Ifs Reason Values Practice Concepts Majority Minorities Homosexual Vow Nun Deviants Deviance

Book:The Homosexualization of America

Source: The Homosexualization of America

“Columbus did not seek a new route to the Indies in response to a majority directive.”

Capitalism Majority Response Investing Routes Free Market Columbus

Author:Milton Friedman

“I will not be responsible for the loss of the Democratic majority in the United States Senate.”

States Loss United United States Responsible Majority Democratic Senate Being Responsible

Author:Robert Torricelli

“Every step in human progress, from the first feeble stirrings in the abyss of time, has been opposed by the great majority of men. Every valuable thing that has been added to the store of man's possessions has been derided by them when it was new, and destroyed by them when they had the power. They have fought every new truth ever heard of, and they have killed every truth-seeker who got into their hands.”

Men Firsts Humans Has Beens Hands Steps Progress Heard Majority Possession Valuable Stores Destroyed Abyss Seekers Every Step Stirring Human Progress Valuable Things Truth Seekers

Author:H. L. Mencken

“Tim Duncan's foot issue, I think, is a major factor in this year's playoffs. That's not the kind of injury that gets better over time playing NBA basketball.”

Thinking Years Kind Issues Feet Basketball Majors Majority Factors Get Better Injury Nba Playoffs Duncan

Author:Bill Walton

“The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former”

Inspirational Inspiration Records Majority Rewards Obstacles Objectives Former Latter Problem Solving Oblivion

Author:Alfred Armand Montapert

“When you find yourself on the side of majority, question yourself about what you are doing and why. It is likely wrong.”

Inspirational Sides Majority Finding Yourself

Author:Ernie J Zelinski

“Problems tend to be put into their proper perspective the moment we get off SELF, and on PURPOSE. By choosing your purpose in life - a purpose that serves the greater good - and devoting the majority of your time, energy, and attention everyday toward living it, you discover the secret to a life of fulfillment.”

Thinking Self Moments Problem Purpose Energy Secret Attention Greater Perspective Majority Everyday Fulfillment Purpose Of Life Greater Good Your Purpose In Life Thinking Differently

Author:Hal Elrod

“There can be no assumption that today's majority is "right" and the Amish or others like them are "wrong." A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no right or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different.”

Way Different Today Interest Racism Majority Equality Odd Assumption Interfere Erratic Amish

Author:Warren E. Burger

“The whole attempt to advance the kind of consumer society that depends for its growth on the ceaseless stimulation of unlimited covetousness among the rich, while the poor majority rot in their poverty-this is surely something against which a Christian should be a nonconformist.”

Should Kind Whole Christian Growth Poor Poverty Rich Depends Majority Consumers Consumerism Unlimited Overconsumption Stimulation Covetousness Nonconformist

Author:Lesslie Newbigin

“Why is this man in the White House? The majority of Americans did not vote for him. Why is he there? And I tell you this morning that he's in the White House because God put him there for a time such as this.”

Men America House White Morning Vote Majority White House

Author:William G. Boykin

“I think the vast majority of the American people say you shouldn't be able to collect my phone records if I'm not suspicious, if you don't have probable cause.”

People Ifs Thinking Able Causes Records Majority Phones Suspicious Probable Cause

Author:Rand Paul

“We're the richest economy in the history of the world. For the majority of Americans not to get the benefits of this extraordinarily prosperous economy, there's something fundamentally wrong.”

World Economy Benefits Majority World History Prosperous

Author:Robert Reich

“I liked working with Republicans. We had five pretty good years after we had that bad year in '95 that culminated in two government shutdowns. But then they really decided that they liked being in the majority for the first time in forty years, and they wanted to get some things done, and I agreed, to get things I wanted. It was all perfectly transparent. Everybody knew what they wanted and what I wanted.”

Years Firsts Two Done Government Wanted Five Republican First Time Decided Majority Forty Transparent Things Done Good Years Government Shutdown Bad Years

Author:William J. Clinton

“The youth are hurt. Our majority are youth, under 30. They have no hope. They don't get jobs.”

Jobs Hurt Youth Majority No Hope

Author:Ashraf Ghani

“The vast majority of people do not have, nor will they ever have a personal computer. They haven't been exposed to Windows or Office, or anything like that, and in their lives it's unlikely that they will.”

People Havens Office Computer Window Majority Exposed Unlikely Personal Computers

Author:Stephen Elop

“After all, if you have the majority of customers, then what you do becomes the standard. Your competitors have little choice but to follow. If you are the leader, then having a nonstandard infrastructure is a bad idea. Ultimately, it leads to extinction.”

Ifs Littles Ideas Choices Leader Standards Majority Customers Competitors Infrastructure Extinction Bad Ideas

Author:Douglas Gwyn

“A living faith cannot be manufactured by the rule of majority”

Faith Majority

Book:The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words

Source: The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words

“He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease.”

Disease Mad Majority Insanity

Author:Horace

“Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence, with the certainty of losing it at last.”

Lasts Existence Struggle Losing Majority Constant Mere Certainty Constant Struggle

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“It's a good idea not to major in minor things.”

Ideas Majors Majority Good Ideas Minors Minor Things

Author:Tony Robbins

“One is a majority if he is right.”

Ifs Majority

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.”

Soul Night Dark Views Creativity Majority Crowds Chosen Spells Avenues Flowering Proximity

Book:A Passion for Truth

Source: A Passion for Truth

“The greatest Electrical Pioneer of them all was Thomas Edison Edison's first major invention, in 1877, was the phonograph, which could soon be found in thousands of American homes, where it basically sat until 1923, when the record was invented.”

Firsts Home Found Records Majors Majority Invention Sat Pioneers Electrical Phonograph

Author:Dave Barry

“The artist must ever play and experiment with new means of arranging experience, even though the majority of his audience may prefer to remain fixed in their old perceptual attitudes.”

May Mean Play Artist Attitude Audience Majority Experiments Fixed Arranging

Book:Understanding media: the extensions of man

Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man

“The majority of people who keel over dead at concerts are killed by a long trumpet passage.”

People Long Music Majority Concerts Passages Trumpets Keel

Author:Garrison Keillor

“California has become the first American state where there is no majority race, and we're doing just fine. If you look around the room, you can see a microcosm of what we can do in the world. . . . You should be hopeful on balance about the future. But it's like any future since the beginning of time -- you're going to have to make it.”

Ifs World Should Firsts Looks States Can Do Rooms Race Fine Balance Majority California Hopeful Microcosm

Author:William J. Clinton

“The American people are too well schooled in the duty and practice of submitting to the will of the majority to permit any serious uneasiness on that account”

People Wells Practice Serious Duty Accounts Majority Permit Schooled Uneasiness

Book:1829-1836

Source: 1829-1836

“Nothing is good but mediocrity. The majority has settled that, and finds fault with him who escapes it at whichever end... To leave the mean is to abandon humanity.”

Mean Ends Humanity Majority Faults Abandon Mediocrity

Book:Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works

Source: Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works

“One with God is a majority.”

Majority

Author:Billy Graham

“It may seem to your conceited to suppose that you can do anything important toward improving the lot of mankind. But this is a fallacy. You must believe that you can help bring about a better world. A good society is produced only by good individuals, just as truly as a majority in a presidential election is produced by the votes of single electors. Everybody can do something toward creating in his own environment kindly feelings rather than anger, reasonableness rather than hysteria, happiness rather than misery.”

Source: A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42

“All the important human advances that we know of since historical times began have been due to individuals of whom the majority faced virulent public opposition.”

Knows Humans Has Beens Important Individual Progress Majority Historical Dues Opposition

Author:Bertrand Russell

“An overwhelming majority of symbols in dreams are sexual symbols.”

Dream Majority Symbols Overwhelming

Book:Gen Intro Psycho

Source: Gen Intro Psycho

“The majority of (painters), because they aren't colorists, do not see yellow, orange or sulphur in the South (of France) and they call a painter mad if he sees with eyes other than theirs”

Ifs Eye Mad Majority South Painter France Yellow Orange

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“The so-called conscientiousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring.”

Art Perfection Majority Boring Painter Boredom Exactitude Conscientiousness

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“Cold exactitude is not art... The so-called consciousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring. People like that, if they could, would work with the same minute attention on the back of their canvas.”

People Ifs Art Attention Consciousness Minutes Cold Perfection Criticism Majority Boring Painter Canvas Exactitude

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“But the majority of things that one could get stressed about, they?re not worth getting stressed about.”

Reality Majority Stressed

Author:Richard Branson

“The vast majority of fiction is written to markets and to this damnable business we have nowadays of categorizing everything.”

Fiction Written Majority Commerce Categorizing

Author:Theodore Sturgeon

“Abortion, however, is a big threshold issue for me because the dominant majority of people in my state are pro-choice. I ran as a pro-choice Democrat, and she fills Sandra Day O'Connor's shoes, and they are critical shoes.”

People States Bigs Choices Issues Majority Democrat Shoes Critical Ran Abortion Dominant Threshold Sandra Day O Connor

Author:Dianne Feinstein

“The majority of Latin actresses in Hollywood were always playing either spitfires or maids. Now here is a woman who comes in and does leads opposite white people and black people and other Spanish people, and she's comfortable in her skin? Gasp! How dare she?”

People Doe Black White Comfortable Hollywood Skins Opposites Majority Dare Actresses Latin Black People Maids

Author:Rosie Perez

“The gulf coast region has been hit hard by two major hurricanes and is going to need federal assistance at several levels, The best way to make sure that the resources are targeted properly is for us to see this area firsthand. I am pleased that members from both sides of the aisle share my commitment to making sure that the relief effort is targeted and managed as efficiently as possible.”

Way Needs Has Beens Two Hard Sides Levels Effort Share Members Majors Commitment Resources Areas Majority Best Way Relief Regions Coast Both Sides Assistance Hurricanes Aisle

Author:Bob Goodlatte

“For example, the vast majority of security break-ins occur as a result of problems with known fixes. With an automated system, you can keep up to date.”

Problem Results Known Break Security Example Majority Up To Date

Author:Ben Horowitz

“The people have said yes to change and reform. The majority of the Palestinians have said yes to the slogan, 'Islam is the solution.' The people also voted in favor of our policy of resistance and against the occupation. Our policy is designed to defend Jerusalem, achieve the right of return for all refugees and the release of our prisoners.”

People Said Achieve Policy Return Solutions Majority Islam Favors Resistance Release Reform Occupation Prisoner Palestinian Refugee Slogans Jerusalem

Author:Ismail Haniyeh

“You don't need a major label and they sure don't need you.”

Needs Majors Majority Labels Need You Don't Need You

Author:Alan Light

“One of the worst consequences politically would be for the majority of Democrats to vote for someone who, in the near future, would overturn well-established precedents on clean air, clean water, privacy, equal opportunity and religious liberty.”

“I believe that if the silent majority were to protest against those who believe in irrational blind faith - who want to go backwards instead of forward, who are for tradition not innovation, who oppose individualism and plurality of thought - then the world would become a truly civilized world in which to live.”

Ifs World Want Believe I Believe Tradition Innovation Blind Majority Silent Protest Civilized Individualism Irrational Backwards Blindness Blind Faith Silent Majority

Author:Taslima Nasrin

“The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas. In times of crises these men need the guidance of some kind of theory; but, being unfamiliar with the field of ideas, they do not know that alternatives to the popular theories are possible. They know only what they have always been taught.”

Knows Men Needs Kind Ideas Fields Taught Theory Crisis Majority Alternatives Eras Guidance Dependent Dominant Unfamiliar Times Of Crisis

Book:Ominous Parallels

Source: Ominous Parallels

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