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• Good evening. A President who lied us into a war and, in so doing, needlessly killed 3,584 of our family and friends and neighbors; a President whose administration initially tried to destroy the first man to nail that lie; a President whose henchmen then ruined the career of the intelligence asset that was his wife when intelligence assets were never more essential to the viability of the Republic; a President like that has tonight freed from the prospect of prison the only man ever to come to trial for one of the component felonies in what may be the greatest crime of this young century.

  Keith Olbermann

  War, Lying, Men

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• The reduction of the earth to an object simply for human's use/ possession is unthinkable in most traditional cultures... the earth belongs to itself and to all the component members of the community.

  Thomas Berry

  Animal, Community, Culture

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• Violence has been a necessary component of every serious liberation struggle...Violence is not the only path to liberation, but likely an indispensable one...the Press Office would like to be clear on this matter: we support all the liberationists ­ from the graffiti artists and ALF liberator to the Animal Rights Militia, Justice Department and Revolutionary Cells.

  Jerry Vlasak

  Struggle, Artist, Animal

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• You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well.

  Samuel Alexander

  Self, Personality, Desire

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• Love is the greatest apologetic. It is the essential component in reaching the whole person in a fragmented world. The need is vast, but it is also imperative that we be willing to follow the example of Jesus and meet the need.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Jesus, Love Is, Essentials

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• The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together. Information distilled over 4 billion years of biological evolution. Incidentally, all the organisms on the Earth are made essentially of that stuff. An eyedropper full of that liquid could be used to make a caterpillar or a petunia if only we knew how to put the components together.

  Carl Sagan

  Years, Together, Atoms

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Documentary (1990 Update). Episode 5: "Blues For a Red Planet", 1990.

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• Apart from the representational content of an idea there is another component: its force and vivacity, its impetus.

  David Hume

  Ideas, Force, Vivacity

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• Routine is the god of every social system; it is the seventh heaven of business, the essential component in the success of every factory, the ideal of every statesman. The social machine should run like clockwork.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Running, Heaven, Essentials

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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• I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded, is a component of that identity.

  Brian Aldiss

  Identity, Wells

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• The American Dream is one of the greatest ideas in the history of human achievement . . . It thrives today in an age when its core components of freedom and opportunity are open to more Americans than ever before. It holds a real, identifiable place in the American heart and mind, and it informs the aspirations of everyone from farmers to software developers, from detectives to bankers, from soldiers to social workers . . . It defines us as a people, even as we add to its meaning with each new chapter in our national experience and our individual actions.

  Dan Rather

  Dream, Real, Heart

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• Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power to forgive.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Light, White, Empathy

  Albert Schweitzer (1965). “The Teaching of Reverence for Life”, New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston

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• I'm not sure I had ever written a fan letter before to a poet I had not met, but that's what I did when I read two poems by Gregory Woods ... I admired them especially for their technical virtuosity, in that it was technique completely used, never for the sake of cleverness but as a component of feeling ... What an enviable talent Gregory Woods has

  Thom Gunn

  Two, Feelings, Technique

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• Research shows that social media is comprised of two components: social and media.

  Brian Carter

  Media, Two, Research

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• The first and most important component in nation building is LAW. Law is the source of national Cohesion.

  Myles Munroe

  Law, Important, Firsts

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• Every winner needs to master three essential components of trading; a sound individual psychology, a logical trading system and good money management. These essentials are like three legs of a stool – remove one and the stool will fall, together with the person who sits on it.

  Alexander Elder

  Fall, Psychology, Together

  Alexander Elder (1993). “Trading for a Living: Psychology, Trading Tactics, Money Management”, p.17, John Wiley & Sons

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• That's one component: rather than creating job-training pipelines that put these kids at the back of the line for the last century's pollution-based jobs, we need to be creating opportunities for them to be at the front of the line for the new clean and green jobs.

  Van Jones

  Jobs, Kids, Opportunity

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• For most cosmologists, a supernatural God is an unnecessary hypothesis. For most Americans, He is an unassailable fact. The American belief machine apparently has a fail-safe component. Nothing shuts it down.

  Gary Sloan

  Religion, Atheism, Machines

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• The very act of drawing an object, however badly, swiftly takes the drawer from a woolly sense of what the object looks like to a precise awareness of its component parts and particularities.

  Alain de Botton

  Drawing, Looks, Awareness

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• When you find the right components in your life, the right people, that gel with you, then you feel as though you're invincible. It may be a fallacy, but you at least feel as though you can take all that life has to dish out.

  Sylvester Stallone

  People, May, Dishes

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• The brain remembers the emotional component of an experience better than any other aspect.

  John Medina

  Emotional, Brain, Remember

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• There is an innate innocence in the concious Vata personality. A delicate, sensitive, and aware nature reveals the graceful Vata component of any type.

  Maya Tiwari

  Personality, Innocence, Sensitive

  Maya Tiwari (2005). “Ayurveda: A Life of Balance : the Complete Guide to Ayurvedic Nutrition and Body Types with Recipes”

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• Understanding has very specific component parts. These component parts are affinity, reality and communication.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Communication, Reality, Understanding

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• You have to appreciate the spiritual component of having an opportunity to do something as wondrous as writing. You should be practical and smart and you should have a good agent and you should work really, really hard. But you should also be filled with awe and gratitude about this amazing way to be in the world.

  Susan Orlean

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Smart

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• Three components make an entrepreneur: the person, the idea and the resources to make it happen.

  Anita Roddick

  Ideas, Entrepreneur, Three

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• I think that is a very important component, to have passion, to have a dream, to have a purpose in life.

  Deepak Chopra

  Dream, Passion, Thinking

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