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• If I learned one thing, it is that self-doubt is one of the most destructive forces. It makes you defensive instead of open, reactive instead of active. Self-doubt is consuming and cruel. And my hope today is that we can all collectively agree to ban it. . . . Think to the moments of your life when you forgot to doubt yourself. When you were so inspired that you were just living and creating and working. Pay attention to those moments because they're trying to reach you through those lenses of doubt and trying to show you your potential.

  Jennifer Lee

  Graduation, Thinking, Self

  "Super Inspiring Graduation Advice From Frozen Director, Jennifer Lee" by Kristin Harris, www.seventeen.com. May 20, 2014.

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• Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson says he believes that same ruling that stopped the first version of the ban should still apply to the second version of the ban because it is basically the same ban. It is basically the same policy.

  Rachel Maddow

  Believe, Ferguson, Bob

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I think there should be a law - and I know this is extreme - that no one can have a gun in the U.S. If you have a gun, you go to jail. Only the police should have guns.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Gun, Thinking, Should Have

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• Religion promotes the hatred and spite against gays. From my point of view, I would ban religion completely. Organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into really hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.

  Elton John

  Gay, Views, People

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• Jews allow to steal lands from Palestinians, only because they are Jews, and those are Palestinian. I want to repeat it, because people here in America don't believe it. We have a new law that settlers allowed to steal private lands of Arabs and take it to Jews. This is an official law. And now they're going to ban everyone who criticize a pure apartheid law. So, in a way, it's horrific. It's only everyone who stand for civil right in the minimum level - liberals, not radical - is not allowed to Israel.

  Udi Aloni

  Believe, Israel, Law

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Pay The Price, Risk, Should

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• The bat was looking at Theo and Theo was having trouble following his own thoughts.The bat was wearing tiny sunglasses.Ray Bans,Theo could see by the trademark in the corner of one lens."I'm sorry, Mr.,uh- Case, could you take the bat off your head.It's very distracting." Him." Pardon?" It's a him.Roberto.He no like the light.

  Christopher Moore

  Sorry, Light, Rays

  Christopher Moore (2009). “The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror”, p.88, Hachette UK

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• I've got this." Apollo stepped forward. His fiery armor was so bright it was hard to look at, and his matching Ray-Bans and perfect smile made him look like a male model for battle gear. "God of medicine, at your service.

  Rick Riordan

  Medicine, Perfect, Battle

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• Outright bans on plastic bags may not be the best solution, but education and incentives to get people to stop using them are necessary.

  David Suzuki

  People, Bags, Incentives

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• The ban on sports betting does exactly what Prohibition did. It makes criminals rich.

  James Surowiecki

  Sports, Criminals, Doe

  "A ‘Grown-Up Discussion’ About Sports Betting". fifthdown.blogs.nytimes.com. February 6, 2013.

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• Wow, bad news. Mr. Obama now hates Israel because the Israelis want to build 1,600 apartments in their own capital city, Jerusalem. Russia hates Israel, too. So do the Europeans. So does Ban Ki-moon, a Korean who is secretary-general of the UN.

  Ben Stein

  Hate, Moon, Russia

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• Let's see in those indictments you can't level at Sweden, they never tried to ban the constitution or undermine the settlement that they wanted. Well you can't say that of Canada. Any indication of revolt on the part of Quebec was either bought off, with a good deal of corruption.

  Jane Jacobs

  Levels, Sweden, Canada

  Source: aqi.quebec

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• I wander thro' each charter'd street, Near where the charter'd Thames does flow, And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe. In every cry of every Man, In every Infant's cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I hear. How the Chimney-sweeper's cry Every black'ning Church appalls; And the hapless Soldier's sigh Runs in blood down Palace walls. But most thro' midnight streets I hear How the youthful Harlot's curse Blasts the new born Infant's tear, And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse.

  William Blake

  Running, Wall, Men

  William Blake (2010). “Poems: Introduction by Patti Smith”, p.144, Random House

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• I have been asked what would I ban immediately if I could. Advertising.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Advertising, Has Beens, If I Could

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• I am not saying that I want to ban Islam. I want less Islam in Europe because it doesn't allow any room for debate.

  Geert Wilders

  Europe, Islam, Want

  "Merkel Is Afraid". Interview with Walter Mayr and René Pfister, www.spiegel.de. November 9, 2010.

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• We should totally ban for-profit charters. For-profit's first obligation is to its stockholders, not to its children.

  Diane Ravitch

  Children, Firsts, Should

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Why dost thou shrink from my approach, O Man? Why dost thou ever flee in fear, and cling To my false rival, Life? I do but bring Thee rest and calm. Then wherefore dost thou ban And curse me? Since the forming of God's plan I have not hurt or harmed a mortal thing, I have bestowed sweet balm for every sting, And peace eternal for earth's stormy span.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Sad, Sweet, Hurt

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1134, Delphi Classics

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• Ban poetry. And make sure that anyone caught reading it is expelled from school. Then it will acquire the glamour.

  Clive James

  Reading, School, Glamour

  "Clive James on turning his ‘last time on earth’ into a writing wellspring". Interview with Ellen Rolfes, December 3, 2013.

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• You can't say you're going to ban something in the name of good taste, because then you have directed someone to play the role of good-taste police. We - Americans - permit bad taste in this country. In fact, we even encourage it.

  John Irving

  Country, Play, Names

  Interview with Suzanne Herel, www.motherjones.com. May/June 1997.

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• I want the state to take away people's guns. But I don't want the state to use methods against gun owners that I deplore when used against naughty children, sexual minorities, drug users, and unsightly drinkers. Since such reprehensible police practices are probably needed to make anti-gun laws effective, my proposal to ban all guns should probably be marked a failure before it is even tried.

  Aryeh Neier

  Children, Naughty, Gun

  Aryeh Neier (1976). “Crime and Punishment: A Radical Solution”

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• I think we have a fascinating new and quite dominant input into politics - and it wont go away. From time to time, people articulate a view that we should ban opinion polls, but that's nonsense.

  Jim Bolger

  Thinking, Views, People

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• I don't have a philosophical objection, necessarily, to a travel ban if that is the thing that is going to keep the American people safe.

  Barack Obama

  Philosophical, People, Safe

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Regarding local residents attempting to ban sex shops from their neighborhoods: You show me a parent who says he's worried about his child's innocence and I'll show you a homeowner trying to maintain equity.

  George Carlin

  Sex, Children, Parent

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• Ok to ban smoking from workplaces, but not to ban smoking.

  Mike Huckabee

  Smoking, Workplace

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• The ban on assault weapons has decreased gun violence in Baltimore not one iota. That's because few, if any, of the shootings were done with assault weapons.

  Gregory Kane

  Gun, Assault Weapons, Done

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