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“Stephen Harper, who's the prime minister of Canada, he is saying that this - we have to give him a majority government, otherwise there will be a Separatist coalition. And he says it every minute.”

Giving Government Minutes Majority Ministers Canada Prime Prime Minister Coalitions Harper

Author:Rick Mercer

“I am the very model of a modern Major-General, I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral, I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical, From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical.”

Knows Order Fighting Animal Modern Military Information Kings Majors Models England Majority Historical Vegetables Marathon Minerals Waterloo

Author:W. S. Gilbert

“In rural areas the majority of the victims of violent crime know their assailants (indeed, are probably married to them); in cities, the killer and the mugger come out of the anonymous dark, their faces unrecognized, their motives obscure.”

Knows Faces Dark Cities Crime Married Areas Victim Majority Violent Motive Killers Obscure Violent Crimes Rural Areas Muggers

Book:Soft City: Picador Classic

Source: Soft City: Picador Classic

“There is apparently nowhere a workable majority in the representative assemblies for making the specific cuts in expenditure which could bring down the taxes, and in election after election the people vote into power representatives who are as unable as they are unwilling to do anything about it.”

People Cutting Taxes Vote Election Majority Representatives Assembly Unwilling Expenditures

Author:Gunnar Myrdal

“The vast majority of terrestrial species are in fact microbes, and scientists have only begun scratching the surface of the microbial realm. It is entirely possible that examples of life as we don't know it have so far been overlooked.”

Knows Facts Example Scientist Majority Species Surface Realms Overlooked Microbes Scratching The Surface

Author:Paul Davies

“The tyranny of majorities may be as bad as the tyranny of Kings.”

May Kings Majority Tyranny Tyranny Of The Majority

Author:Arthur Balfour

“Probably our atomic weights merely represent a mean value around which the actual atomic weights of the atoms vary within certain narrow limits... when we say, the atomic weight of, for instance, calcium is 40, we really express the fact that, while the majority of calcium atoms have an actual atomic weight of 40, there are not but a few which are represented by 39 or 41, a less number by 38 or 42, and so on.”

Mean Facts Science Certain Values Numbers Limits Weight Majority Instance Atoms Vary Calcium

Author:William Crookes

“Never to have seen anything but the temperate zone is to have lived on the fringe of the world. Between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Tropic of Cancer live the majority of all the plant species, the vast majority of the insects, most of the strange ... quadrupeds, all of the great and most of the poisonous snakes and large lizards, most of the brilliantly colored sea fishes, and the strangest and most gorgeously plumaged of the birds.”

World Science Sea Strange Bird Majority Plant Species Cancer Fishes Zone Snakes Insects Fringe Poisonous Lizards Tropic Of Cancer Capricorns Poisonous Snakes

Author:David Fairchild

“Sometimes I am a little unkind to all my many friends in education ... by saying that from the time it learns to talk every child makes a dreadful nuisance of itself by asking 'Why?'. To stop this nuisance society has invented a marvellous system called education which, for the majority of people, brings to an end their desire to ask that question. The few failures of this system are known as scientists.”

People Children Littles Ends Sometimes Science Desire Asks Education Known Scientist Asking Majority Unkind Marvellous Nuisance Many Friends Asking Why

Author:Hermann Bondi

“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.”

People Shows Moving Environment Fronts Willing Vote Majority Shoulders Administration Ecology Cleaners Unified

Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“The vast majority of the shuttle program was a success. We learned so much about how a reusable spacecraft interacts with its environment, how it ages-and what to design next time.”

Age Next Environment Design Walking Moon Program Majority Next Time Star Gazing Spacecraft Shuttle Program

Author:Eileen Collins

“The sobering anwer is yes - the white community is so entitled because ... it is the advanced race ... it is more important ... to affirm and live by civilized standards ... than to bow to the demands of the numerical majority.”

Important Politics Community White Race Demand Standards Majority Live By Civilized Bows Entitled

Author:William F. Buckley, Jr.

“And where else will [Hume,] this degenerate son of science, this traitor to his fellow men, find the origin of just powers, if not in the majority of the society? Will it be in the minority? Or in an individual of that minority?”

Ifs Men Individual Democracy Son Fellows Majority Minorities Fellow Man Traitor Degenerates Hume

Book:The Essential Jefferson

Source: The Essential Jefferson

“Where the law of the majority ceases to be acknowledged, there government ends; the law of the strongest takes its place, and life and property are his who can take them.”

Ends Government Law Democracy Majority Property Cease Strongest

Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson

“We are sensible of the duty and expediency of submitting our opinions to the will of the majority, and can wait with patience till they get right if they happen to be at any time wrong.”

Ifs Happens Waiting Opinion Democracy Duty Majority Sensible Expediency

Book:The Works of Thomas Jefferson: 1799-1803

Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: 1799-1803

“If the measures which have been pursued are approved by the majority, it is the duty of the minority to acquiesce and conform.”

Ifs Has Beens Democracy Duty Majority Minorities Conform Pursued Approved

Book:The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin

Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin

“The young [Nazi] movement is in its nature and inner organization anti-parliamentarian; that is, it rejects... a principle of majority rule in which the leader is degraded to the level of mere executant of other people's wills and opinion.”

People Young Levels Leader Opinion Principles Democracy Movement Organization Majority Mere Rejects Nazi Majority Rule

Author:Adolf Hitler

“By rejecting the authority of the individual and replacing it by the numbers of some momentary mob, the parliamentary principle of majority rule sins against the basic aristocratic principle of Nature.”

Individual Sin Numbers Principles Democracy Authority Majority Momentary Rejecting Parliamentary Aristocratic Majority Rule

Book:Mein Kampf

Source: Mein Kampf

“I am personally acquainted with hundreds of journalists, and the opinion of the majority of them would not be worth tuppence in private, but when they speak in print it is the newspaper that is talking (the pygmy scribe is not visible) and then their utterances shake the community like the thunders of prophecy.”

Speak Community Talking Opinion Media Majority Newspapers Journalist Propaganda Visible Shakes Print Prophecy Thunder Utterance Scribes

Book:Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1852-1890

Source: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1852-1890

“As there is oppression of the majority such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred.”

Hatred Majority Oppression

Author:Bram Fischer

“Freedom of enterprise was from the beginning not altogether a blessing. As the liberty to work or to starve, it spelled toil, insecurity, and fear for the vast majority of the population. If the individual were no longer compelled to prove himself on the market, as a free economic subject, the disappearance of this freedom would be one of the greatest achievements of civilization.”

Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

“The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it.”

People Want Stills Song Perception Majority Funny Things

Author:Vince Gill

“One of the reasons a strategist never sits in a stadium and gets caught up in the crowds - and never sits watching a debate in person - is because the vast majority of American voters watch these political events on television.”

Persons Reason Political Watches Events Television Majority Caught Crowds Debate Voters Caught Up Stadiums Strategist American Voters

Author:Ed Rollins

“Today's white majority is largely silent about the race question.”

Today White Race Majority Silent

Author:Constance Baker Motley

“From watching the news one would think the Iraqis want us out of their country. But an overwhelming majority of Iraqis support our involvement there. Our freedom is contagious and we helped liberate them.”

Thinking Want Country Support News Majority Overwhelming Want U Involvement Contagious

Author:Jim Bunning

“Ninety-five percent of all writers who write do not get published, but 100 percent of all writers write because they have a voice in their head. The vast majority of writers simply write because they have to.”

Writing Voice Five Percent Majority Ninety

Author:Steve Berry

“The vast majority of the CGI budget is labor.”

Labor Majority Budgets Cgi

Author:Peter Jackson

“Since the traditional recorded-music business models have drastically changed, there is truly diminished income derived from recorded music by artists - both current and catalog. The touring industry has become much more important as a majority revenue stream and the ancillary fan experiences and promotions that may be derived from it.”

May Important Artist Fans Changed Industry Models Majority Currents Income Traditional Streams Revenue Promotion Touring Music Business Business Models Recorded Music

Author:Irving Azoff

“Iran is not a make-believe country. It is a real country populated by some 75 million people - real people; including, I daresay, a majority who are philosophically and by education inclined toward the modern, secular world, and particularly American values.”

People World Believe Real Country Values Millions Modern Majority Including Iran Secular Make Believe American Values

Author:Bob Barr

“After the Democrats shoved the 2700 pages of ObamaCare down our throats - and we did find out how expensive, controlling, and coercive the legislation was - a majority of Americans wanted the Supreme Court to toss it aside as unconstitutional.”

Wanted Pages Majority Court Democrat Supreme Expensive Throat Legislation Supreme Court Obamacare Toss Unconstitutional

Author:Bob Beauprez

“Both of my sisters have been teachers and they used to say you get asked between 300 and 600 questions every day which you have to answer. That's exactly what directing is. And the vast majority of those questions are not very interesting really, but they need somebody to make a decision - a good one or a bad one - and they follow it.”

Needs Has Beens Used Decision Answers Interesting Teacher Majority My Sister Very Interesting

Author:Danny Boyle

“The very purpose of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution is to protect minority rights against majority voters. Every court decision that strikes down discriminatory legislation, including past Supreme Court decisions, affirming the fundamental rights to marry the person you love, overrules a majority decision.”

“The Corporation for Public Broadcasting distributes an annual appropriation that we provide in accordance with a statutory formula, the vast majority of which goes directly to public radio and television stations.”

Television Majority Radio Corporations Stations Formulas Annuals Broadcasting Appropriation Public Radio

Author:Earl Blumenauer

“Most Americans are more concerned about the economy and job creation. And they can't understand why the Obama administration or the Democrat majority in Congress wants to pass a bill like the cap-and-trade tax that will cost us jobs, that will hurt our economy, that will drive up costs for families, as well as for small businesses.”

Want Wells Jobs Hurt Economy Creation Cost Taxes Concerned Trade Bills Majority Democrat Congress Administration Small Business Caps Job Creation

Author:Haley Barbour

“And under the existing circumstances, I understand there are situations where people indeed need care and need services, but I believe in America that the majority of those people are getting those services under situations and circumstances that are afforded to them by their health care providers and their state government.”

People Needs Believe States Government Care America I Believe Situation Circumstances Majority I Believe In Health Care State Government Providers

Author:Jan Brewer

“The Republican majority will stop at nothing to prevent access to the legal system for those who are hurt.”

Hurt Republican Majority Access Legal System

Author:Joe Baca

“While it's very hard to know exactly how to measure public opinion there, because there's no really good polling, the fact of the matter is, in all of the polls I've seen, the vast majority of the Iraqis prefer to be free and are pleased that the coalition freed them.”

Knows Matter Hard Facts Opinion Majority Public Opinion Polls Coalitions Polling

Author:Paul Bremer

“I spent a majority of my life in Kansas City, so I am a Chiefs and Royals guy. I used to work for the Royals for like five years in the suites department and in the stadium club restaurant.”

Years Used Guy Cities Five Majority Clubs Chiefs Restaurants Five Years Department Royal Stadiums Kansas Kansas City

Author:David Cook

“Of course, the majority of us would speak up in the face of outrageous bigotry, but do we speak up in a social situation when someone casually refers to something as 'gay'? If we don't, we are standing with the homophobes whom we are quietly fighting.”

Ifs Faces Fighting Courses Speak Social Situation Gay Standing Majority Bigotry Outrageous Homophobes

Author:Jack Antonoff

“I conceived from the outset a strong objection to Zionism. I considered it immoral that immigrants should come from abroad with the avowed intention of attaining to majority in the country and thus to dispossess the people whose country it had been since time immemorial.”

People Should Country Strong Majority Intention Immigrants Immoral Objections Zionism

Book:The Road To Mecca

Source: The Road To Mecca

“You have to look also to the media, where you have a vast majority of the loudest and most influential political voices in America media from people who came from the entertainment world.”

People World Looks America Political Voice Media Majority Entertainment Influential

Author:Ben Affleck

“I was arrested in 1965 for opposing the war in Vietnam. There were 39 of us arrested that day. But thousands opposed us. And the majority of the people in the country supported the war then.”

People War Country Majority Vietnam Arrested Opposing

Author:Bill Ayers

“The issue for us is rebuilding a governing majority that is comfortable with differences that can transcend the divisiveness and unify behind the principles that we know our party has succeeded on.”

Knows Differences Party Behinds Principles Issues Comfortable Majority Governing Rebuilding Divisiveness

Author:Eric Cantor

“Unless the great majority of Americans not only have, but believe they have, a fair chance, the better American future will be dangerously compromised.”

Believe Literature Chance Fairs Majority

Book:The Promise of American Life

Source: The Promise of American Life

“A vast majority of Republicans are on the record saying that they believe the Violence Against Women Act should be reauthorized. Let me be clear: I believe that Violence Against Women Act must be reauthorized.”

Should Believe I Believe Clear Records Violence Republican Let Me Majority Violence Against Women

Author:John Cornyn

“The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.”

Ifs Film Five Lucky Independent Majority Independent Film

Author:Patricia Clarkson

“I try to make the majority of my audience laugh. That's my audience. They'll laugh at the dead terrorist.”

Trying Audience Laughing Majority Terrorist

Author:Jeff Dunham

“The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.”

Failing Theory Tests Majority Explanation Overwhelming Rejected

Book:The Fabric of Reality

Source: The Fabric of Reality

“Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.”

“I make the majority of my money from Patron, but my passion is with Paul Mitchell: I spend 85 per cent of my time on it.”

Passion Majority My Time Cents My Passion Patron

Author:John Paul DeJoria

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