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• The new puritans have been highly successful. All of the preconditions for new prohibitions on alcohol and tobacco are in place. ... Indeed, the future agenda of the federal government has already been established to outlaw alcohol and tobacco in the near future. ... If current trends persist, America will be moving toward stricter prohibitions, greater restrictions, and more centralized control over consumption. This represents an erosion of liberty at its most fundamental level.

  Mark Thornton

  Moving, Successful, America

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• Mr. Speaker, in 1848, Karl Marx said, a progressive income tax is needed to transfer wealth and power to the state. Thus, Marx's Communist Manifesto had as its major economic tenet a progressive income tax. Think about it, 1848 Karl Marx, Communism.... I say it is time to replace the progressive income tax with a national retail sales tax, and it is time to abolish the IRS, my colleagues. I yield back all the rules, regulations, fear, and intimidation of our current system.

  James Traficant

  Thinking, America, Yield

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• Broadway remains the closest thing we have to a national theatre, the place where the greatest number of people can potentially see new work. For an American playwright to say it doesn't matter is simply to capitulate to the current situation.

  Tony Kushner

  Numbers, People, Theatre

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• We should take as a maxim never to be surprised at current difficulties, no more than at a passing breeze, because with a little patience we shall see them disappear. Time changes everything.

  Vincent de Paul

  Wisdom, Littles, Disappear

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• Among all the wisdom and facts I learned from Giannon, I also learned the loneliness of incarnation, in which there is inevitably a separation of souls because of the uniqueness of our faces and our experiences. And I learned also the moments when the current of my life joins the current of another life, and I can glimpse for a moment the one flowing body of water we all compose.

  Kate Horsley

  Loneliness, Water, Soul

  Kate Horsley (2002). “Confessions of a Pagan Nun: A Novel”, p.86, Shambhala Publications

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• The configuration of the ocean-floor is of great interest to seismologists studying the movements of the Earth's crust. Oceanographers are also able to explain certain peculiarities of ocean currents by the contour of the ocean-bed. But enormous areas are still unexplored.

  Paul J. H. Schoemaker

  Ocean, Bed, Movement

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• The eagle had two natural enemies: storms and serpents. He embraced the storm, waiting on the rock for the right thermal current and then using that to carry him higher. While other birds were taking cover, the eagle was soaring. An eagle would never fight against the storms of life.

  Karen Kingsbury

  Fighting, Rocks, Eagles

  Karen Kingsbury (2008). “The Timeless Love Collection: A Time to Dance and A Time to Embrace”, p.212, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I wanted to make sure to always stay current, try to find new material and stay with the modern techniques.

  Rick Baker

  Trying, Technique, Modern

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• One of the chief peculiarities of this treatise is the doctrine that the true electric current, on which the electromagnetic phenomena depend, is not the same thing as the current of conduction, but that the time-variation of the electric displacement must [also] be taken into account.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Taken, Science, Doctrine

  James Clerk Maxwell (1954). “A treatise on electricity and magnetism”, Dover Pubns

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• You may seek companionship and warmth, for example, but if your unconscious intention is to keep people at a distance, the experiences of separation and pain will surface again and again until you come to understand that you, yourself, are creating them. Eventually, you will choose to create harmony and love. You will choose to draw to you the highest-frequency currents that each situation has to offer. Eventually, you will come to understanding that love heals everything, and love is all there is.

  Gary Zukav

  Pain, Distance, Love You

  Gary Zukav (1999). “The Seat of the Soul”, G K Hall & Company

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• Obviously, family values mirror our personal priorities. Given the gravity of current conditions, would parents be willing to give up just one outside thing, giving that time and talent instead to the family.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Giving Up, Mirrors, Priorities

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• If start-up activity is the true engine of job creation in America, one thing is clear: our current educational system is acting as the brakes. Simply put, from kindergarten through undergraduate and grad school, you learn very few skills or attitudes that would ever help you start a business.

  Michael Ellsberg

  Jobs, Attitude, Educational

  "Will Dropouts Save America?". www.nytimes.com. October 22, 2011.

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• Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector.

  Peter Coyote

  Kind, Prostitution, Civics

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• A further point is that, little by little, in the current universe, everything is slowly being named; nor does this have anything to do with the older Aristotelian universals in which the idea of a chair subsumes all its individual manifestations.

  Fredric Jameson

  Ideas, Doe, Littles

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• The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Age, Language, Should

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (1967). “Selections; chosen and edited by Graham Storey”

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• If we don't act now, the death tax will come back in just a few years. Under current law the death tax is phased out in 2010 but comes back in full force in 2011. That is a ridiculous and untenable policy.

  Christopher Bond

  Years, Law, Ridiculous

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• We can not have equilibrium in this world with the current inequality and destruction of Mother Earth. Capitalism is what is causing this problem and it needs to end.

  Evo Morales

  Mother, Needs, World

  "Cochabamba: Mining protests overshadow climate summit" by Claudia Lopez Pardo, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2010.

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• Unity will not make us rich, but it can make it difficult for Africa and the African peoples to be disregarded and humiliated. And it will, therefore, increase the effectiveness of the decisions we make and try to implement for our development. My generation led Africa to political freedom. The current generation of leaders and peoples of Africa must pick up the flickering torch of African freedom, refuel it with their enthusiasm and determination, and carry it forward.

  Julius Nyerere

  Determination, Effectiveness, Decisions We Make

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• I was a big fan of Maradona growing up and of the current crop Ronaldo is good but Messi is the best I’ve ever seen. I don’t dish out praise lightly but Messi deserves it. I look for weaknesses in his game and I can’t find them.

  Roy Keane

  Growing Up, Games, Weakness

  "10 quotes from football stars past and present that further define the greatness of Lionel Messi" by Alex Richards, www.mirror.co.uk. April 24, 2017.

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• I'm actually not in favour of decriminalizing cannabis - I'm in favour of legalizing it. Tax and regulate. It's one of the only ways to keep it out of the hands of our kids because the current war on drugs, the current model isn't working.

  Justin Trudeau

  War, Kids, Hands

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• Adam Larey gazed with hard and wondering eyes down the silent current of the red river upon which he meant to drift away into the desert

  Zane Grey

  Eye, Rivers, Desert

  Zane Grey (2015). “Western Classics Premium Collection – 27 Novels in One Volume: Riders of the Purple Sage, The Last Trail, The Mysterious Rider, The Border Legion, Desert Gold, The Last of the Plainsmen and more”, p.5023, e-artnow

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• There are some current 'theories' that, when divested of begged questions, reduce to the non-controversial statement, 'Here are some facts and there may be some relation between them.'

  Harold Jeffreys

  May, Facts, Controversial

  Harold Jeffreys (1998). “The Theory of Probability”, p.419, OUP Oxford

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• It's not that we need to form new organizations. It's simply that we have to awaken to new ways of thinking. I believe it makes no sense to spend a lot of time attacking the current realities. It is time to create the new models that have in them the complexity that makes the older systems obsolete. And to the extent that we can do that, and do that quickly, I think we can provide what will be necessary for a major breakthrough for the future.

  Don Edward Beck

  Believe, Reality, Thinking

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• Under the current pay-as-you-go Social Security system, not one person is actually guaranteed benefits.

  Ginny Brown-Waite

  Security Systems, Benefits, Pay

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• Current cant equates fantasy with escapism, and current fashion would have it that fantasy is both easy to read and to write. It isn't. When it is done honestly, by a skillful writer, fantasy takes us far enough beyond our daily perceptions to open us to the essential realities beneath it. This is the true goal of all art.

  Ellen Kushner

  Fashion, Art, Writing

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