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“When Ralph Goodale tried to tax Income Trusts they showed us where they stood, they showed us their attitude towards raiding Seniors hard earned assets and a Conservative government will never allow either of these parties to get away with that.”

Hard Government Party Attitude Taxes Conservative Income Get Away Assets Senior Raiding

Author:Stephen Harper

“The arrival of the Barbary pirates radically changed English attitudes. Instead of patriotic pirates plundering foreign cargoes and bringing them homes to enrich their countrymen, the 'Turks' were in the usual Mediterranean business of slave-raiding - and now the English were the victims. The West Country men suffered the heaviest, and did not appreciate the irony. The Newfoundland fishery, dominated by Devon ports, lost at least 20 ships in 1611 alone.”

Men Country Home Lost Attitude Changed Appreciate Victim Slave West Ships Irony Patriotic Usual Pirate Port Arrivals Countrymen Devon Fisheries Raiding

Author:Nicholas Rodger

“Anthologists are lazy fellows who like to spend a quiet evening at home raiding good books.”

Book Home Quiet Fellows Evening Lazy Good Book Raiding

Author:Dorothy Parker

“Every writer scrounges for inspiration in different places, and there's no shame in raiding the headlines. It's necessary, in fact, when attempting contemporary satire. Sharp-edged humor relies on topical reference points.”

Different Facts Inspiration Shame Contemporary Rely Satire Attempting Different Place Headlines Raiding

Author:Carl Hiaasen

“Our military has been so badly depleted. Who would think the United States is raiding plane graveyards to pick up parts and equipment? That means they're being held together by a shoestring. Other countries have brand-new stuff they have bought from us. It's insane.”

Thinking Mean Has Beens Country States Together Stuff United United States Military Picks Insane Brands Planes Other Countries Equipment Graveyard Brand New New Stuff Raiding

Author:Donald Trump

“We will end the politics of profit. We will end the rule of special interests. We will end the raiding of our jobs by other countries. We will end the total disenfranchisement of the American voter and the American worker.”

Ends Country Jobs Interest Special Workers Profit Voters Other Countries Special Interests American Workers American Voters Disenfranchisement Raiding

Author:Donald Trump

“Mitt Romney and I know the difference between protecting a program, and raiding it. Ladies and gentlemen, our nation needs this debate. We want this debate. We will win this debate.”

Knows Want Needs Winning Nations Differences Program Debate Gentleman Romney Ladies And Gentlemen We Will Win Raiding

Author:Paul Ryan

“I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions, too much panty-raiding, fraternities, and boola-boola and all of that.”

Too Much Imagine Trouble College Distraction Imagine That Fraternity Raiding

Book:The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“I feel like I'm playing some giant video game, or trying to solve a really complicated math equation. 'One girl is trying to avoid forty raiding parties of between fifteen to twenty people each, spread out across a radius of seven miles. If she has to make it 2.7 miles through the center, what is the probablitiy she will wake up tomorrow morning in a jail cell? Please feel free to round pi to 3.14'.”

Source: Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem

“Sign by elevator put up by computer geeks in office building: REMEMBER: FIRST YOU PILAGE, THEN YOU BURN. THOSE WHO DO NOT COMPLY WILL BE SUSPENDED FROM THE RAIDING TEAM. In Mr Perfect”

Firsts Remember Perfect Team Building Office Computer Geek Elevators Suspended Office Buildings Raiding Mr Perfect

Author:Linda Howard

“When campaigning, be swift as the wind; in leisurely march, majestic as the forest; in raiding and plundering, like fire; in standing, firm as the mountains. As unfathomable as the clouds, move like a thunderbolt.”

Art War Moving Fire Wind Mountain Standing Clouds Forests Firm March Art Of War Majestic Unfathomable Stand Firm Campaigning Thunderbolts Raiding

Author:Sun Tzu

“It is a terrible commentary on Christian civilization that the longest period of slave-raiding known to history was initiated by the action of Spain, Portugal, France, Holland and Britain, after the Christian faith had for more than a thousand years been the established religion of Europe.”

Years Action Christian Religion Known Atheism Periods Terrible Civilization Thousand Europe Slave France Britain Thousand Years Spain Commentary Christian Faith Holland Portugal Raiding

Author:H. A. L. Fisher

“The assertion that 'culture' explains human variation will be taken seriously when there are reports of women war parties raiding villages to capture men as husbands, or of parent cloistering their sons but not their daughters to protect their sons' virtue, or when cultural distributions for preferences concerning physical attractiveness, earning power, relative age and so on show as many cultures with bias in one direction as in the other.”

“Bluebell had been saying that he knew the men hated us for raiding their crops and gardens, and Toadflax answered, 'That wasn't why they destroyed the warren. It was just because we were in their way. They killed us to suit themselves.”

Men Way He Man Garden Destroyed Suits Hated Crops Bluebells Raiding

Book:Watership Down

Source: Watership Down

“I always saw myself as a large stockholder trying to make a difference. I wasn't raiding anybody.”

Trying Differences Saws Making A Difference Raiding

Author:T. Boone Pickens

“Books are the perfect Time Machine. By the simple act of opening a book you can, in an instant, be travelling up a jungle river without once being bitten by mosquitoes, or you can almost die of thirst in the desert while holding a cold drink in your hand, or dine in the finest restaurants and never have to worry about paying the bill, or ride the wild country of our western frontier and never worry about losing your scalp to a raiding party.”

“I would not have the Justice Department prosecuting and raiding medical marijuana users. It's not a good use of our resources.”

Use Justice Resources Medical Department Marijuana Users Medical Marijuana Prosecuting Raiding

Author:Barack Obama