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All cultural explorers. . . start off from specific roots which color their vision and define the allegiances of the work of art they produce.

Keorapetse Kgositsile

Art, Color, Roots

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To hell, allegiance! vows, to the blackest devil!
Conscience, and grace, to the profoundest pit!
I dare damnation: To this point I stand,--
That both the worlds I give to negligence,
Let come what comes; only I'll be reveng'd.

William Shakespeare

Revenge, Giving, Grace

William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.435

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When we are placed in a set of circumstances where we have to take initiative and be creative, some of us find it hard to transition. Those people have been trained not to think but to obey orders. They are slaves to the training, unconsciously pledging allegiance to the average. Mentally they recite from the manual of mediocrity.

T. D. Jakes

Thinking, Average, Order

T. D. Jakes (2014). “Instinct: The Power to Unleash Your Inborn Drive”, p.57, Hachette UK

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A kiss! When all is said, what is a kiss? An oath of allegiance taken in closer proximity, a promise more precise, a seal on a confession, a rose-red dot upon the letter i in loving; a secret which elects the mouth for ear; an instant of eternity murmuring like a bee; balmy communion with a flavor of flowers; a fashion of inhaling each other's hearts, and of tasting, on the brink of the lips, each other's soul!

Edmond Rostand

Fashion, Flower, Taken

Edmond Rostand (1899). “Cyrano de Bergerac”

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There are interests by the sacrifice of which peace is too dearly purchased. One should never be at peace to the shame of his own soul--to the violation of his integrity or of his allegiance to God.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Peace, Integrity, Sacrifice

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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.

Anthony Trollope

Sex, One Direction, Married

Anthony Trollope (185?). “Phineas Redux”, p.52

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To those privileged ones -- among whom we count ourselves -- the high-resounding "isms" to which their contemporaries ask them to give their allegiance are all equally futile: bound to be betrayed, defeated, and finally rejected by men at large, if containing anything really noble; bound to enjoy, for the time being, some sort of noisy success, if sufficiently vulgar, pretentious, and soul-killing to appeal to the growing number of mechanically conditioned slaves that crawl about our planet, posing as free men; all destined to prove, ultimately, of no avail.

Savitri Devi

Men, Numbers, Giving

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I think the ultimate sense of security will be when we come to recognize that we are all part of one human race. Our primary allegiance is to the human race and not to one particular color or border. I think the sooner we renounce the sanctity of these many identities and try to identify ourselves with the human race the sooner we will get a better world and a safer world.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Thinking, Race, Color

"Breaking the Cycle". Cairo Times Interview, October 23, 2003.

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The inversion of external compulsion into the compulsion of conscience ... produces the machine-like assiduity and pliable allegiance required by the new rationality.

Max Horkheimer

Machines, Inversions, Produce

"The Essential Frankfurt School Reader" by Max Horkheimer, (p. 34), 1982.

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So, I mean to say, as for those who are proving their allegiance with what I would call sickening perseverance, and who are urging the president to brush away the constitution, those I would like to remind of a Russian proverb: "Don't spit into the well, it'll come in handy once you're thirsty.

Vladimir Posner

Perseverance, Mean, President

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You don't want atheism shoved down your throat? OK. We will stock knocking on doors spreading our 'Truth,' and having tax-exempt organizations dedicated to atheism that have influential political action committees. We will also stop printing 'In atheism we trust' on all US currency and saying, 'One nation, under atheism" in the pledge of allegiance. We will also stop insisting that everyone who disagrees with us will be sentence to eternal damnation... Wait...

David G. McAfee

Doors, Organization, Waiting

FaceBook post by David G. McAfee from May 27, 2014

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If the tax-gatherer, or any other public officer, asks me, as one has done, "But what shall I do?" my answer is, "If you really wish to do anything, resign your office." When the subject has refused allegiance, and the officer has resigned his office, then the revolution is accomplished.

Henry David Thoreau

Office, Wish, Done

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.294, Simon and Schuster

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An important tradition within westren philosophy believes in the primacy of natural science as a guide to truth. This is sometimes met with the charge that such an allegiance amounts to scientism - the view that the only things that really exist are those recognized by fundamental physical theory, and that the only forms of genuine knowledge are scientific ones.

J. J. C. Smart

Philosophy, Believe, Views

J. J. C. Smart, J. J. Haldane (2008). “Atheism and Theism”, p.82, John Wiley & Sons

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Every articulate family ... generates its own stories, explanations and myths to illuminate the differences in temperament and talent among its children, the lines of allegiance and influence between parent and child.

Elizabeth Fishel

Family, Children, Differences

Elizabeth Fishel (1997). “Sisters: Shared Histories, Lifelong Ties”, Red Wheel

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Now, I am not caring today, for myself, anything at all about a political party tag. So far as I am concerned, I want to know what the man stands for....When I find out these things, then I know who it is who should receive my support, and I care not what his party tag is....Today, our duty transcends party allegiance; our duty today is allegiance to the Constitution as it was given to us by the Lord.

J. Reuben Clark

Party, Caring, Men

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We may give our human loves the unconditional allegiance which we owe only to God. They they become gods: then they become demons. Then they will destroy us, and also destroy themselves. For natural loves that are allowed to become gods do not remain loves. They are still called so, but can become in fact complicated forms of hatred.

C. S. Lewis

Giving, Hatred, May

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In 1492, the natives discovered they were indians, discovered they lived in America, discovered they were naked, discovered that the Sin existed, discovered they owed allegiance to a King and Kingdom from another world and a God from another sky, and that this God had invented the guilty and the dress, and had sent to be burnt alive who worships the Sun the Moon the Earth and the Rain that wets it.

Eduardo Galeano

Kings, Rain, Moon

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Why was she always so craven, so apologetic? He had always seen Ruth as separate, good and untainted. As a child, his parents had appeared to him as starkly black and white, the one bad and frightening, the other good and kind. Yet as he had grown older, he kept coming up hard in his mind against Ruth's willing blindness, to her constant apologia for his father, to the unshakeable allegiance to her false idol.

J. K. Rowling

Children, Father, Black And White

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True allegiance is only given willingly.

Lloyd Alexander

Given

Lloyd Alexander (2006). “Taran Wanderer”, p.47, Macmillan

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She made a sound of regret. ‘We come second, you and I, Luc-ien,’ she said. ‘Our allegiance is always to our kingdoms. Without that allegiance, our people would fall.’ She placed her head back against his chest and he felt her tears. ‘This is not our time.’ ‘But that will never mean I love you less,’ he said.

Melina Marchetta

Regret, Fall, Love You

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Temeraire-- Never fear; I am going; the Son of Heaven will not tolerate delays, and Barham gives me leave. Allegiance will carry us! Pray eat something --L.

Naomi Novik

Son, Giving, Heaven

Naomi Novik (2006). “Throne of Jade: A Novel of Temeraire”, p.60, Del Rey

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All men are loyal, but their objects of allegiance are at best approximate.

John Barth

Loyalty, Men, Objects

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...I believe in a God of scandalous grace. I have pledged allegiance to a King who loved evildoers so much he died for them, teaching us that there is something worth dying for but nothing worth killing for.

Shane Claiborne

Kings, Believe, Teaching

Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.314, ReadHowYouWant.com

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We need a home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for a vulnerability. We need a refuge to shore up our states of mind, because so much of the world is opposed to our allegiances. We need our rooms to align us to desirable versions of ourselves and to keep alive the important, evanescent sides of us.

Alain de Botton

Home, Mind, Important

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That these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown; and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved.

Richard Henry Lee

4th Of July, Independent, Political

Resolution presented to Continental Congress, 7 June 1776

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