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“"My burden is light," said the blessed Redeemer, a light burden indeed, which carries him that bears it. I have looked through all nature for a resemblance of this, and seem to find a shadow of it in the wings of a bird, which are indeed borne by the creature, and yet support her flight towards heaven.”

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Author:Bernard of Clairvaux

“Democracy is not a Beloved Republic really, and never will be. But it is less hateful than other contemporary forms of government, and to that extent deserves our support.”

Government Form Support Democracy Deserve Contemporary Beloved Republic Hateful Forms Of Government

Book:Two Cheers for Democracy

Source: Two Cheers for Democracy

“Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.”

Should Two Evil Support Doctrine Good Life Two Evils Bad Life

Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“His hypothesis goes to this - to make the common run of his readers fancy they can do all that can be done by genius, and to make the man of genius believe he can only do what is to be done by mechanical rules and systematic industry. This is not a very feasible scheme; nor is Sir Joshua sufficiently clear and explicit in his reasoning in support of it.”

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Book:Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners

Source: Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners

“Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support - a significant problem in the software industry.”

Helping Problem Support Products Industry Significant Consistent Software Platforms Maintaining

Author:Bill Gates

“All the things I resent most about out-of-control government and the politicians who support it, grow it, or simply fail to deal with it, what angers me above all else is the knowledge that all of this waste and ruin is entirely preventable.”

Government Grows Deals Support Failing Politician Waste Ruins Resent

Author:Carly Fiorina

“Close reading of tough-minded writing is still the best, cheapest, and quickest method known for learning to think for yourself... Reading, and rigorous discussion of that reading in a way that obliges you to formulate a position and support it against objections, is an operational definition of education... reading, analysis, and discussion is the way we develop reliable judgment, the principle way we come to penetrate covert movements behind the facade of public appearances.”

“In order to get around the $500 cap, it's common knowledge that either potential candidates or public officials simply create these organizations, accumulate large sums of money which are then used in support of their campaign or to contribute to their campaign. They were trying to close that loophole.”

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Author:Bill Vaughan

“Small business is the gateway to opportunity for those who want a piece of the American dream... Well, wouldn't it be nice to hear a little more about the forgotten heroes of America - those who create most of our new jobs, like the owners of stores down the street; the faithfuls who support our churches, synagogues, schools, and communities; the brave men and women everywhere who produce our goods, feed a hungry world, and keep our families warm while they invest in the future to build a better America? That's where miracles are made, not in Washington, D.C.”

“Resolved, That the General Assembly of Virginia, doth unequivocally express a firm resolution to maintain and defend the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of this State, against every aggression either foreign or domestic, and that they will support the Government of the United States in all measures warranted by the former.”

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Book:Selected Writings of James Madison

Source: Selected Writings of James Madison

“I support the death penalty and will continue to do that.”

Support Penalties Death Penalty

Author:Rick Santorum

“Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.”

Looks Law Fear Support Atheism Creator Architecture Rage Architect Laws Of Nature New Work

Author:Antonio Gaudi

“A lot of bands that are great disappear a little bit faster than they used to. They don't get as much support for the long haul. You have to be pretty tough to hang in there.”

Littles Long Used Bits Support Band Little Bit Tough Disappear Faster Haul Hang In There Long Haul

Author:Judd Apatow

“Human beings are communal beings and we can't exist or prosper by ourselves. We need each other's support.”

Needs Humans Human Beings Support We Need Each Other

Author:Gloria Steinem

“I'd lost my family to my years of failing as a songwriter. All I had were bills, child support, and grief. And I was about to get fired. It looked like I'd trashed my act. But there was something liberating about it. By not having to live up to people's expectations, I was somehow free.”

People Years Children Lost Grief Support Failing Expectations My Family Bills Songwriters Liberating

Author:Kris Kristofferson

“For all I know we may be visited by a different extraterrestrial civilization every second Tuesday, but there's no support for this appealing idea. The extraordinary claims are not supported by extraordinary evidence.”

Knows May Ideas Different Support Civilization Evidence Claims Extraordinary Tuesday Every Second Extraterrestrial

Author:Carl Sagan

“By the mid 1970s, the great downtown bookstores had begun to disappear as their customers migrated from city to suburb where population density was too thin to support major backlist retailers.”

Cities Support Majors Population Customers Disappear Suburbs Bookstores Downtown Density Retailers Population Density

Author:Jason Epstein

“If South Korea is going to survive, and keep the peace on the peninsula, its citizens need to start conveying support for their state.”

Ifs Needs States Support Citizens South Korea Conveying South Korea Peninsulas

Author:Brian Reynolds Myers

“Craigslist does serve as a platform where people help each other for the basics, and also, shows people that the Internet is good for mutual support. I do feel pretty good about that.”

People Feels Doe Helping Shows Support Internet Mutual Platforms Basics Helping Each Other Craigslist Mutual Support

Author:Craig Newmark

“There is a fundamental difference between the Jewish idea of creation and that of Islam. The creation according to Islam is not a unique act in a given time but a perpetual and constant event; and God supports and sustains all existence at every moment by His will and His thought. Outside His will, outside His thought, all is nothing, even the things which seem to us absolutely self-evident such as space and time. Allah alone wishes: the Universe exists; and all manifestations are as a witness of the Divine will.”

“Most of the time, we live our lives within these invisible systems, blissfully unaware of the artificial life, the intensely designed infrastructures that support them.”

Support Our Lives Invisible Artificial Infrastructure Artificial Life

Book:Massive change

Source: Massive change

“Guerrilla war is a kind of war waged by the few but dependent on the support of many.”

Kind War Support Dependent Guerrillas Guerrilla Warfare

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“The blue wall will always be there because the system supports it.”

Support Wall Blue

Author:Frank Serpico

“The last line of defense in support of freedom and the Constitution consists of the people themselves. If the people want to be free, if they want to lift themselves out from underneath a state apparatus that threatens their liberties, squanders their resources on needless wars, destroys the value of the dollar, and spews forth endless propaganda about how indispensable it is and how lost we would all be without it, there is no force that can stop them.”

People Ifs Want War States Lasts Values Lost Force Lines Liberty Support Resources Constitution Dollars Defense Endless Lifts Propaganda Indispensable

Author:Ron Paul

“There is always in the healthy mind an obscure prompting that religion teaches us rather to dig than to climb; that if we could once understand the common clay of earth we should understand everything. Similarly, we have the sentiment that if we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other apocalypse. This is the great truth which has always lain at the back of baby-worship, and which will support it to the end.”

Ifs Needs Should Mind Children Ends Earth Stars Common Teach Support Baby Healthy Worship Blow Climbs Customs Sentiments Obscure Apocalypse Clay Healthy Mind

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“May He support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen, and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done! Then in His mercy may He give us a safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last.”

World Giving May Long Done Lasts Life Is Support Holy Safe Mercy Busy Evening Shade Fever Rest And Peace Evening Prayer

Author:John Henry Newman

“My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: 'Good, you can support not just yourself but me too'.”

Knows World Way Said Moments Father Fun Sports Support Making Money Championship

Author:Haile Gebrselassie

“I have really got it into my head to try to be United States Senator, and, if I could have your support, my chances would be reasonably good. But I know, and acknowledge, that you have as just claims to the place as I have; and therefore I cannot ask you to yield to me, if you are thinking of becoming a candidate, yourself. If, however, you are not, then I should like to be remembered affectionately by you; and also to have you make a mark for me with the Anti-Nebraska members down your way.”

Source: LINCOLN – Complete 7 Volume Edition: Biographies, Speeches and Debates, Civil War Telegrams, Letters, Presidential Orders & Proclamations: Including the Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt & 3 Biographies: The Every-day Life of the President, Lincoln by Carl Shurz and Abraham Lincoln by Joseph H. Choate

“I love to read the dedications of old books written in monarchies for they invariably honor some (usually insignificant) knight or duke with fulsome words of sycophantic insincerity, praising him as the light of the universe (in hopes, no doubt, for a few ducats to support future work); this old practice makes me feel like such an honest and upright man, by comparison, when I put a positive spin, perhaps ever so slightly exaggerated, on a grant proposal.”

“The intricate and different life cycles of both male and female root-heads, and the great behavioral sophistication shown by the female in reconfiguring a host crab as a support system, all underscore the myopia of our conventional wisdom in regarding rhizocephalans as degenerate parasites because the adult anatomy of internal roots and external sac seem so simple.”

Source: Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms

“Democratic leaders, whose power is ultimately dependent on popular support, are held accountable for failing to improve the lives of their citizens. Therefore, they have a powerful incentive to keep their societies peaceful and prosperous.”

Literature Powerful Leader Support Failing Citizens Democratic Peaceful Dependent Incentives Prosperous Democratic Leaders

Author:Natan Sharansky

“Voting is not only our right, it is our power. When we vote, we take back our power to choose, to speak up, and to stand with those who support us and each other.”

Speak Support Vote Voting

Author:Loung Ung

“The power of discretionary disqualification by one law of Parliament, and the necessity of paying every debt of the Civil List by another law of Parliament, if suffered to pass unnoticed, must establish such a fund of rewards and terrors as will make Parliament the best appendage and support of arbitrary power that ever was invented by the wit of man.”

Ifs Men Law Support Rewards Terror Debt Lists Wit Fund Parliament Arbitrary Unnoticed Disqualification

Book:Burke, Select Works

Source: Burke, Select Works

“I've always favoured proposition over opposition. But we will oppose the government when it's off track. We'll support positive suggestions that we'll bring forward and support the government when it's making progress.”

Government Support Progress Track Opposition Suggestions Propositions

Author:Jack Layton

“I support the death penalty. I think that it has to be administered not only fairly, with attention to things like DNA evidence, which I think should be used in all capital cases, but also with very careful attention. If the wrong guy is put to death, then that's a double tragedy. Not only has an innocent person been executed but the real perpetrator of the crime has not been held accountable for it, and in some cases may be still at large. But I support the death penalty in the most heinous cases.”

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Author:Al Gore

“Providence and Manifest Destiny are synonyms often invoked to support arguments based on wishful thinking.”

Thinking Destiny Support Argument Manifest Providence Wishful Thinking Synonym Manifest Destiny

Author:Frank Herbert

“Prostitution requires for its diminution not only laws, well enforced, to abolish the traffic in womanhood; not only better social protection against harpies who seduce young girls seeking an honest livelihood; not only better chaperonage of young girls in exposed occupations; not only better opportunities for natural enjoyment of youthful pleasure under morally safe conditions; not only these - but most of all, greater power on the part of the average young girl to earn her own support under right conditions and for a living wage.”

“Our objective is to begin a national conversation to better support individuals and families living with ASD in Canada. The Summit will review the recent National Needs Assessment Survey and provide leaders with a better understanding of ASD surveillance across the country. We are pleased that Minister Bergen will be part of this important discussion.”

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Author:Cynthia Carroll

“The best gift a fan could give me is undeniable support.”

Giving Support Fans Give Me Best Gift

Author:Jessie J

“Look: I download music illegally, if I really want it. But I always then buy the record - I support art.”

Ifs Want Looks Art Support Records Downloads

Author:Pete Wentz

“Ultimately, people do want to buy merch and tickets to support their favorite bands, but they don't want to feel like it's the only thing going on.”

People Want Feels Support Band Tickets Favorite Bands

Author:Pete Wentz

“So long as we see the stones and joints, and are not deceived as to the points of support in any piece of architecture, we may rather praise than regret the dexterous artifices which compel us to feel as if there were fibre in its shafts and life in its branches.”

Ifs Feels May Long Support Pieces Regret Stones Praise Architecture Branches Deceived Joints Artifice

Book:The seven lamps of architecture

Source: The seven lamps of architecture

“If perchance you should falter during the journey, a hand would be there to support you. If that should be wanting, God, who alone could take that hand from you, would Himself accomplish its work.”

Ifs Should Hands Would Be Support Journey Accomplish Support You

Author:Louis Pasteur

“I believe international work is a heavy task, but that it is nevertheless indispensable to go through an apprenticeship in it, at the cost of many efforts and also of a real spirit of sacrifice: however imperfect it may be, the work of Geneva has a grandeur that deserves our support.”

Believe May Real Spirit I Believe Effort Support Sacrifice Cost Deserve Tasks International Heavy Imperfect Nevertheless Indispensable Grandeur Apprenticeship Geneva

Author:Marie Curie

“I'm on a mission to love, give as much as I can, and support people who make a difference.”

People Giving I Can Differences Support Missions Making A Difference

Author:Pamela Anderson

“I support freedom of expression, no matter whose, so I oppose DDoS attacks regardless of their target... they're the poison gas of cyberspace.”

Matter Support Expression Poison Gas Target Freedom Of Expression Cyberspace Poison Gas

Author:John Perry Barlow

“That is faith, cleaving to Christ, twining round Him with all the tendrils of our heart, as the vine does round its support.”

Heart Doe Christ Support Rounds Vines Cleaving

Book:MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture

Source: MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture

“But when the good people do know, as they certainly do, that three million persons (at the least estimate) were starved to death in one year by the methods they approve, why do they still fraternize with the murderers and support the measures? Because they have been told that the lingering death of the three millions might ultimately benefit a greater number. The argument applies equally well to cannibalism.”

People Knows Years Wells Persons Has Beens Stills Might Three Numbers Millions Support Greater Benefits Argument Method Good People Murderer Lingering Cannibalism

Book:God of the Machine

Source: God of the Machine

“I hardly sustain myself beneath the weight of white men's blood that I have shed. The whites provoked the war; their injustices, their indignities to our families, the cruel, unheard of and wholly unprovoked massacre at Fort Lyon ... shook all the veins which bind and support me. I rose, tomahawk in hand, and I have done all the hurt to the whites that I could.”

Men War Done Hands Hurt White Support Blood Weight Rose Injustice Our Family Shed White Man Veins Massacres Unheard Forts Provoked Support Me Indignity

Author:Sitting Bull

“The secret belief that the Lord of conscience loves and accepts each faithful sacrifice is the ultimate and sufficient support of all goodness; dispensing with the chorus of approving voices; replacing all vain self-reliance with a Divine strength; and with the peace of a reconciled nature consoling the inevitable sorrows of a devoted life.”

Source: Hours of thought on sacred things, sermons