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• I have suffered as much as Martin Luther King. Only I didn't get the bullet. And I would have taken the bullet if I could have.

  Ralph Abernathy

  Kings, Taken, Luther

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• As a matter of fact, although we had some terrible challenges and temptations when I was in office, we never dropped a bomb... we never launched a missile... and we never fired a bullet. I think that one of the main requirements for a strong military, like a strong submarine force, is to prevent war, not to cause war.

  Jimmy Carter

  Strong, Military, War

  "President Jimmy Carter ‘NIV Lessons from Life Bible’ Interview with Kam Williams". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. May 22, 2012.

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• Yo, you don't think you're going under?
  I got a bullet with your name, your address, and your phone number.

  Kool G Rap

  Rap, Thinking, Phones

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• The reality is it's still in our hands. We have to play four real good games against the Angels. If we take three of four we're still two back and then we'd need help. We'd still be breathing, but we'd need help. We'll shoot all our bullets to try and win that game (Monday) and worry about the next day when we get there.

  Ken Macha

  Monday, Real, Angel

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• The important thing to know about an assassination or an attempted assassination is not who fired the shot, but who paid for the bullet.

  Eric Ambler

  Important, Shots, Knows

  A Coffin for Dimitrios (1939).

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• Once let the black man get upon his person the brass letter, U.S., let him get an eagle on his button, and a musket on his shoulder and bullets in his pocket, there is no power on earth that can deny that he has earned the right to citizenship.

  Frederick Douglass

  Men, Eagles, Black

  Frederick Douglass (2000). “Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.536, Chicago Review Press

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• Thoughts are like bullets. You should be aware when you walk into a building what energy is there, whose thoughts are there. People should realize when people think of you their thought is on you.

  James Van Praagh

  Thinking, People, Energy

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• Politics is comparable to boxing. The only thing is that in politics there are basically no rules. In boxing, you can get a black eye, but in politics you can get poison in your food or a bullet in the head. It's definitely rougher and tougher than other sports.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Sports, Eye, Boxing

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• What do you do if youre in a room with Muammar Qaddafi, Saddam Hussein, and John Sununu, and you have a gun with only two bullets? Shoot Sununu twice.

  Michael Dukakis

  Gun, Two, Hussein

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• I feel sorry for Obama because he's still got to fight the innate racism of Americans. I mean, did you see his first speech, when he got made President and they put all that bullet proof glass in front of him? I think that shows you how racist America still is. Just because he's black doesn't mean he's going to shoot anybody.

  Frankie Boyle

  Sorry, Mean, Fighting

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• When I was 20, I would have taken a bullet in the head to never have to be 35.

  Michael J. Fox

  Taken

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• I make the modest proposal that psychiatric care should be as easy to get as bullets at Wal-Mart.

  Andy Borowitz

  Care, Proposal, Easy

  FaceBook post by Andy Borowitz from Jan 11, 2011

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• Each nationality contains its centre of happiness within itself, as a bullet the centre of gravity.

  Johann Gottfried Herder

  Gravity, Centre, Happiness Within

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• I know who's the best pitcher I ever see and it's old Satchel Paige, that big lanky colored boy. My fastball looks like a change of pace alongside that little pistol bullet ole Satchel (Paige) shoots up to the plate.

  Dizzy Dean

  Boys, Looks, Pace

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• A single thought has the power of a bullet: either it can destroy you or it can help you immensely.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Helping

  "Words of Wisdom" by Sri Chinmoy, 2010.

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• The Chicago mobs... They practiced their own perverted form of "survival of the fittest." Where the strong clawed their way to the top of a criminal empire. And the weak died in a hail of machine gun bullets.

  Walter Winchell

  Strong, Gun, Survival

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• He's my usual type of fan... a school shooter who didn't have bullets and now he's all awkward and alone.

  Doug Stanhope

  School, Awkward, Usual

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• The strong are always free by virtue of their superior strength. So long as government is a mere contest as to which of two parties shall rule the other, the weaker must always succumb. And whether the contest be carried on with ballots or bullets, the principle is the same; for under the theory of government now prevailing, the ballot either signifies a bullet, or it signifies nothing. And no one can consistently use a ballot, unless he intends to use a bullet, if the latter should be needed to insure submission to the former.

  Lysander Spooner

  Strong, Party, Two

  Lysander Spooner (1867). “No Treason: No. 1-”

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• I've dodged so many bullets. Not just because of unsafe sex, but because of the amount of drugs I did, the amount of alcohol, the amount of work I was doing. I started the Elton John AIDS Foundation because I got so lucky.

  Elton John

  Sex, Alcohol, Drug

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

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• When a human being is oppressed, the natural tendency is to feel anger. Jazz is a response to oppression that is not bullets and blood. Jazz is the expression of harmony ... and at the same time of hope and freedom.

  Herbie Hancock

  Expression, Blood, Jazz

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• There are various forms of weaponry, intellectual weaponry, spiritual weaponry, political weaponry, economic weaponry. Because we are on the battlefield, and there are bullets flying, some symbolic, some literal and the life of the mind is a crucial place where the battle goes on.

  Cornel West

  Spiritual, Political, Flying

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We're dodging bullets and this is right after we've just seen [inaudible] shot and we're running and the woman who John accused of being out to kill us and everyone thought he was kidding. When we see her she appears and she's after us.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Running, Shots, Accused

  "Mary-Louise Parker On Set Interview RED". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 14, 2010.

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• As I got to know the people of the Civil Rights Movement, I realized...
  I am the hopeful black woman who was denied her right to vote.
  I am the caring white supporter killed on the front lines of freedom.
  I am the unarmed black kid who maybe needed a hand, but instead was given a bullet. I am the two fallen police officers murdered in the line of duty. 'Selma' has awakened my humanity.

  Common

  Kids, Caring, Rights

  "72nd Golden Globe Awards". www.imdb.com. 2015.

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• I heard the bullets whistle-- and believe me, there is something charming in the sound.

  George Washington

  Believe, Sound, Charming

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1834). “The Writings of George Washington: pt. I. Official letters relating to the French war, and private letters before the American revolution: March, 1754-May, 1775”, p.40

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• Literary gentlemen, editors, and critics think that they know how to write, because they have studied grammar and rhetoric; but they are egregiously mistaken. The art of composition is as simple as the discharge of a bullet from a rifle, and its masterpieces imply an infinitely greater force behind them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Writing, Simple

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.389, Penguin

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