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No, no, it is obvious that the ECU should act as a close alliance for the benefit of chess.

Anatoly Karpov

Benefits, Chess, Should

"Even a dickhead will do a better job than Ilyumzhinov". Interview with Hartmut Metz, en.chessbase.com.

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Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.

Demosthenes

Safety, States, Free State

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I don't believe an Alliance government should sponsor legislation on abortion or a referendum on abortion.

Stephen Harper

Believe, Government, Abortion

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If the union between England and America is a powerful factor in the cause of peace, a new Triple Alliance between the Teutonic race and the two branches of the Anglo-Saxon race will be a still more potent influence in the future of the world.

Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

Powerful, England And America, Race

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The first and most important is to emphasize the enduring nature of the alliance relationship particularly with Europe which does share our values and interests even if it disagrees with us on specific policies.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Europe, Important, Doe

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The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, understood the twin sides of destruction and salvation. Their war aims were not only to defeat fascism, but to create a world of shared prosperity.

Jeffrey Sachs

War, Leader, World

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Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.

Clive Bell

Religious, Art, Mean

'Art' (1914) pt. 2, ch. 1

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Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of today.

Theodore Roosevelt

Responsibility, Government, America

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As soon as my trial was over, we tried to use the energy that had developed around my case to create another organization, which we called the National Alliance against Racist and Political Repression.

Angela Davis

Organization, Racism, Political

"Frontline", www.pbs.org. 1997.

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The U.S. always needs an enemy. It comes and goes. Today it is Islam. According to this plan or ideology of the born-again Christians who formed an alliance with Zionism, Islam is the monster.

Walid Jumblatt

Christian, Enemy, Islam

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In choosing global corporate partners UNICEF emphasises compatibility with our core values and looks to build alliances that advance our mission of ensuring the health, education, equality and protection for all the world's children.

Carol Bellamy

Children, Equality, Health Education

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To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute.

James Buchanan

Historical, Disputes, Policy

James Buchanan, James Buchanan Henry (1910). “The Works of James Buchanan: Comprising His Speeches, State Papers, and Private Correspondence”

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With my ministry of light, part of what I do is work on the California Alliance For Arts Education.

Sally Kirkland

Art, Light, California

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In fact, it seems to me that making strategic alliances across national borders in order to treat HIV among the world's poor is one of the last great hopes of solidarity across a widening divide.

Paul Farmer

Order, Lasts, Facts

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I think that a young state, like a young virgin, should modestly stay at home, and wait the application of suitors for an alliance with her; and not run about offering her amity to all the world; and hazarding their refusal. Our virgin is a jolly one; and tho at present not very rich, will in time be a great fortune, and where she has a favorable predisposition, it seems to me well worth cultivating.

Benjamin Franklin

Running, Home, Thinking

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Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else.

Ted Rall

Running, Country, Hands

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Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.

Ambrose Bierce

Peace, Government, Hands

Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 16

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My TV show had been cancelled; nothing else had gone anywhere; some alliances I had made petered out and nothing came of them and I was looking at a long, long year ahead of me in which there was no work on the horizon, the phone wasn't ringing. I had two kids, one of them a brand-new baby, and I didn't know if I would be able to keep my house.

Tom Hanks

Baby, Kids, Phones

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Russia does not want confrontation of any kind. And we will not take part in any kind of 'holy alliance.'

Vladimir Putin

Russia, Doe, Want

Speech at Meeting with the Ambassadors and Permanent Representatives of the Russian Federation, en.kremlin.ru. June 27, 2006.

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Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.

Charles Caleb Colton

Love, Passion, Lost Friendship

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America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.

John Quincy Adams

Peace, America, Independence

Friedrich von Gentz, John Quincy Adams, Richard Loss (1800). “The origin and principles of the American Revolution compared with the origin and principles of the French Revolution: a facsimile reproduction”, Academic Resources Corp

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In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.

Thomas Jefferson

Country, Religious, Atheist

Thomas Jefferson (2011). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 7: 28 November 1813 to 30 September 1814”, p.248, Princeton University Press

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It is our policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.

George Washington

Peace, Carpe Diem, World

Farewell Address, Philadelphia, Pa., 19 Sept. 1796

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We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet; and amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog has made an alliance with us.

Max De Pree

Friendship, Dog, Chance

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Let us be under no illusion. The Jewish spirit, which was responsible for the alliance of large-scale capital with Marxism and was the driving force behind so many anti-Spanish revolutionary agreements, will not be got rid of in a day.

Francisco Franco

Agreement, Driving, Spirit

Victory speech in Madrid, May 19, 1939.

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