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• I felt shame for living in a nation of unprecedented prosperity-a nation that spends a smaller percentage of income on food than any other civilization has in human history-but in the name of affordability treats the animals it eats with cruelty so extreme it would be illegal if inflicted on a dog.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Dog, Animal, Civilization

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, November 2, 2009.

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• I support local solutions to illegal immigration as protected by the 10th amendment. I support making English the official language of all documents and contracts.

  Rand Paul

  Support, Immigration, Language

  "Rand Paul: U.S. Should Stop Granting Citizenship To Children Of Illegal Immigrants" By Elyse Siegel, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2010.

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• North and south must also adopt measures to arrest the growing phenomenon of illegal capital flight and the repatriation of illicit wealth siphoned abroad by corrupt political leaders and their collaborators back to their countries of origin.

  Olusegun Obasanjo

  Country, Political, Leader

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• I think war should be illegal.

  Richard Engel

  War, Thinking, Should

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• Material that might be illegal is such a minuscule part of what is available that we have to remember and I mean not only librarians but everybody has to remember not to let it overshadow the incredible wealth of information that is available in this medium.

  Judith Krug

  Mean, Might, Information

  "Easy Access?" by Spencer Michels, "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer", August 7, 1997.

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• There is nothing illegal in keeping up a tomb; on the contrary, it is a very laudable thing to do.

  Ryan Lindley

  Things To Do, Contrary, Property

  In re Tyler, Tyler v. Tyler (1891), L. R. 3 C. D. [1891], p. 258,

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• I believe that everyone is a fashion insider, because it's illegal to be naked.

  Kanye West

  Fashion, Believe, Naked

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• I combat the errors of ages; I meet the violence of mobs; I cope with illegal proceedings from executive authority; I cut the gordian knot of powers, and I solve mathematical problems of universities, with truth-diamond truth; and God is my 'right hand man'.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Cutting, Men, Errors

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• For the first time since 2007 there is political momentum behind fixing the immigration system. President Obama in his State of the Union speech reached out to the right-wing by saying illegal immigrants seeking citizenship will have to pay taxes, learn English and get in line behind people who are trying to enter the United States. legally.

  Juan Williams

  Wings, People, Political

  "Dispensing with a new 'dagger' against immigration reform" by Juan Williams, www.foxnews.com. February 19, 2013.

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• We're already going down that path with illegal drug use and incarceration. I can't imagine it getting any worse.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Drug Use, Path, Imagine

  "Critics pan Obama's threat to bypass Congress". "The Five" with Kimberly Guilfoyle, Bob Beckel, Eric Bolling, Dana Perino, and Greg Gutfeld, www.foxnews.com. January 16, 2014.

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• You are never going to have, in a country as rich as ours [the USA], that borders a country as poor as Mexico, an end to immigration. You just won't. The question is, if you make it humane and if you make it regulated. It's much better for an American worker to compete against a regulated immigrant inside labor standards, than it is to ever to compete against an illegal immigrant.

  Ezra Klein

  Country, Usa, Immigration

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• If those who wrote and ratified the 14th Amendment had imagined laws restricting immigration - and had anticipated huge waves of illegal immigration - is it reasonable to presume they would have wanted to provide the reward of citizenship to the children of the violators of those laws? Surely not.

  George Will

  Children, Law, Immigration

  "An argument to be made about immigrant babies and citizenship" by George F. Will, www.washingtonpost.com. March 28, 2010.

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• Arizonans should not be judged disdainfully and from a distance by people whose closest contacts with Hispanics are with fine men and women who trim their lawns and put plates in front of them at restaurants, not with illegal immigrants passing through their backyards at 3 A.M.

  George Will

  Distance, Men, People

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• I just think it should be illegal to call someone fat on TV... Because why is humiliating people funny?

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Thinking, People, Tvs

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• God has virtually been made an illegal subject in that state institution most devoted to the shaping of the minds and values of our people - the public schools.

  Pat Swindall

  Christian, Religious, School

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• No more astounding relic of the subjection of women survives in western civilization than the status of the prostitute.... In connection with what other illegal vice is the seller alone penalized, and not the buyer?

  Crystal Eastman

  Civilization, Vices, Connections

  Crystal Eastman (1978). “Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Negotiating the adolescent stage is neither quick nor easy. . . . I have often said to parents, "If it isn't illegal, immoral, orfattening, give it your blessing." We do much better . . . if we find and support all the places we can appropriately say yes, and say only the no's that really matter.

  Virginia Satir

  Blessing, Giving, Support

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• Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works. So they literally have no habit of showing up on Monday. They have no habit of staying all day. They have no habit of 'I do this and you give me cash' unless it's illegal.

  Newt Gingrich

  Monday, Children, Poor Neighborhoods

  "Is There Truth In Gingrich's Remarks On The Poor?". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. December 7, 2011.

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• I do not think that there is any doubt about where I stand in respect to boycotts. If there is, I will just state what I think about them. They are illegal and ought to be suppressed. I would never countenance that which recognizes their legality.

  William Howard Taft

  Thinking, Doubt, States

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• ...Negroes must concern themselves with every single means of struggle: legal, illegal, passive, active, violent and non- violent.... They must harass, debate, petition, boycott, sing hymns, pray on steps--and shoot from their windows when the racists come cruising through their communities.... The acceptance of our condition is the only form of extremism which discredits us before our children [ellipses in source].

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Children, Struggle, Mean

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• The perfect pleasure: money is neither fattening nor immoral nor illegal.

  Mason Cooley

  Money, Perfect, Pleasure

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• Desperate times require desperate measures. What Lincoln and the Lobbyist for the Amendment and the Manager of the Amendment and himself, what they did to get this passed was not illegal. It was murky, but what they did was noble and grand. How they went about it was somewhat murky. Nothing they did was really illegal.

  Steven Spielberg

  Desperate Measures, Lobbyists, Noble

  "Steven Spielberg & Daniel Day-Lewis interview, LINCOLN". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. November 9, 2012.

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• In other words, homosexuality was no longer to be considered an illegal form of debauchery or perversion in which one willingly engaged a person of his own sex, but a mental illness which one blamed on his mother. Consequently, a homosexual is not responsible for his behavior - it's his mother's fault!

  Tim LaHaye

  Mother, Sex, Scary

  Tim F. LaHaye (1978). “The unhappy gays: what everyone should know about homosexuality”

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• To say that Reagan teaches us that we should be against amnesty for illegal immigrants is to contradict what Reagan himself stood for - that he was in favor of amnesty.

  Eugene Jarecki

  Favors, Amnesty, Should

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

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• Do you remember the classic example of chutzpah? It's the young man who kills his parents and then asks the judge for mercy on the grounds that he's an orphan. The Bush administration's updated version of that was starting a wholly illegal, immoral, and devastating war and then dismissing all kinds of criticism of its action on the grounds that 'we're at war.

  William Blum

  War, Men, Judging

  William Blum (2014). “America's Deadliest Export: Democracy – The Truth about US Foreign Policy and Everything Else”, p.55, Zed Books Ltd.

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