Approved Quotes

• If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Hate, Wicked, Guilt

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.61, Penguin

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• Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?... It is necessary to accompany them with mercy.

  Pope Francis

  Gay, Doe, Looks

  "Pope Francis sets out vision for more gay people and women in 'new' church" by Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2013.

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• It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Enemy, Wish

  Napoleon Bonaparte (2012). “Napoleon's Military Maxims”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• Nothing's so apt to undermine your confidence in a product as knowing that the commercial selling it has been approved by the company that makes it.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Confidence, Knowing, Selling

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• Whatever I thought right, to others seemed wrong; what I held to be bad, others approved of.

  Richard Wagner

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

  Thomas Jefferson

  Democracy, Majority, Minorities

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin”, p.592

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• If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

  Lord Byron

  Self, Envy, Doubt

  "Letters and Journals of Lord Byron". Book by Thomas Moore, Vol III, Chap. XVII, p. 208, 1830.

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• There is an illusion of central position, justifying one's own purposes as right and everybody else¹s as wrong, and providing a proper degree of paranoia. Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Mean, Justice, Guilt

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• Shut your eyes so the heart may become your eye, and with that vision look upon another world. If you can step away from your need for self-approval, all that you do, top to bottom, will be approved.

  Rumi

  Heart, Eye, Self

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• It is not he who begins well who is perfect. It is he who ends well who is approved in God's sight.

  Saint Basil

  Christian, Sight, Perfect

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• It is true that the politician, in his professional character, does not always, or even very often, conform to the most approved pattern of private conduct.

  Frederick Scott Oliver

  Character, Political, Doe

  Frederick Scott Oliver (1934). “Politics and politicians”

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• That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Innocent Person, Justice, Long

  Letter to Benjamin Vaughan, 14 Mar. 1785

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• I am aware how almost impossible it is in this country to carry out a foreign policy not approved by the Jews.

  John Foster Dulles

  Country, Impossible, Foreign Policy

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• But the people of the church in Jerusalem had been commanded by a revelation, vouchsafed to approved men there before the war, to leave the city and to dwell in a certain town of Perea called Pella.

  Eusebius

  War, Men, Cities

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• When we fall in love, we hope - both egotistically and altruistically - that we shall be finally, truly seen: judged and approved. Of course, love does not always bring approval: being seen may just as well lead to a thumbs-down and a season in hell.

  Julian Barnes

  Falling In Love, Thumbs Down, Doe

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• Under the Obama administration, TSA has been operating without an administrator for a year and a half. After the president's first two choices failed to meet expectations, a new administrator, John Pistole, was finally approved on Friday. Unfortunately, it will be the fifth administrator in eight years.

  John Mica

  Friday, Two, Eight

  "TSA bogged down in bureaucracy" by John Mica, www.politico.com. June 28, 2010.

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• Self-Made Men are the men who owe little or nothing to birth, relationship, friendly surroundings; to wealth inherited or to early approved means of education; who are what they are, without the aid of any favoring conditions by which other men usually rise in the world and achieve great results.

  Frederick Douglass

  Mean, Men, Self

  "Frederick Douglass in Brooklyn".

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• Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has already approved what you do. Let your garments be always white. Let not oil be lacking on your head. Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life that he has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun.

  Solomon

  Being Happy, Heart, Wine

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• We have fried catfish, country fried steak and cinnamon-roasted pork. We have collard greens, black-eyed peas, hush puppies, biscuits, sweet potato pie and lots of gravy. Most players love it, but we also have a baked catfish for players who are still looking to stay on the approved diet.

  Mark Farner

  Country, Sweet, Player

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• For most of recorded history, parental violence against children and men's violence against wives was explicitly or implicitly condoned. Those who had the power to prevent and/or punish this violence through religion, law, or custom, openly or tacitly approved it. .....The reason violence against women and children is finally out in the open is that activists have brought it to global attention.

  Riane Eisler

  Children, Women, Law

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• I never approved of talkies. Silent movies were well on their way to developing an entirely new art form. It was not just pantomine, but something wonderfully expressive.

  Lillian Gish

  Art, Way, Silent

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I have two last pieces of advice. First, being pre-approved for a credit card does not mean you have to apply for it. And lastly, the best career advice I can give you is to get your own TV show. It pays well, the hours are good, and you are famous. And eventually some very nice people will give you a doctorate in fine arts for doing jack squat.

  Stephen Colbert

  Art, Nice, Mean

  Stephen Colbert's Commencement Address at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, www.alternet.org. June 5, 2006.

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• Obamacare is a disaster. And you remember, I called that from before it was approved. I said, "This can't work, because it's just... The plan is no good. The concept is no good," and it turned out to be much worse.

  Donald Trump

  Obamacare, Remember, Disaster

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• In our country, [habeas corpus ] means that if you've been sentenced and convicted in a state court, either to death or to some other kind of sentence, you have the right to petition a federal court to review what happened to you. And until [Bill] Clinton, you had three, four, five, even more years I collect records of people who have been on death row for eight, 10, 12, 14 years - this is before Clinton - who finally got a decent lawyer, usually a pro bono lawyer, and an investigator, and were able to find out - they - they're but approved that they're - that they were innocent.

  Nat Hentoff

  Country, Mean, Eight

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• They have actually approved a wall to certain portions of the border that hasn't even been built yet. So you could take a year building that out with what has been approved.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Wall, Years, Borders

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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