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• Desperate courage makes One a majority.

  Andrew Jackson

  Courage, Majority And Minority, Desperate

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• For the vast majority of places in America, there is no way you can build a security system such as we have here because of the high priority this rates in terms of terrorist interests.

  Christopher Bond

  Security Systems, America, Priorities

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• MPC, Moving Picture Company, they're really excellent, they did the majority of the effects.

  Ridley Scott

  Moving, Brilliant, Excellent

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• The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.

  Lord Acton

  Democracies Have, Majority Rule, Evil

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.103, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.

  David Deutsch

  Tests, Failing, Theory

  David Deutsch (2011). “The Fabric of Reality”, p.13, Penguin UK

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• When you're in the minority, it doesn't matter what you're agenda is, you're not going to have the degree of freedom that you have as a member of the majority.

  Tom Daschle

  Degrees, Minorities, Agendas

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• I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn't be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year's resolution is not to bark back.

  Tucker Carlson

  Motivational, New Year, Knowing

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• The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

  Honore de Balzac

  Funny, Marriage, Witty

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• The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Minorities, Literature, Always Wrong

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• One man with courage is a majority.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Motivational, Success, Courage

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• What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

  John Stuart Mill

  Men, Inability, Belief

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• Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day.

  Barbara Boxer

  Waiting, Reform, Looks

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• As there is oppression of the majority such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred.

  Bram Fischer

  Hatred, Oppression

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• Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.18, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• But the fact is that the vast majority of Republicans support the Sinn Fein leadership.

  Martin McGuinness

  Leadership, Support, Facts

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• A majority of this country opposes this war, a majority of this country never voted for this administration.

  Michael Moore

  Country, War, Administration

  "GOP convention protest covers miles of New York", edition.cnn.com. August 30, 2004.

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• This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand.

  Louise Slaughter

  Independent, House, Abuse

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• Unfortunately, our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority.

  Vic Snyder

  Hurt, Views, Patriotism

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• The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.

  Stendhal

  Fashion, Horse, Men

  Stendhal (1957). “Love”, Merlin Pr

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• The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell.

  James Whistler

  Stories, May, Folks

  James M. Whistler (2012). “The Gentle Art of Making Enemies”, p.106, Courier Corporation

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• Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humor, Science

  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ch. 26 (1884)

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• When I refuse to obey an unjust law, I do not contest the right of the majority to command, but I simply appeal from the sovereignty of the people to the sovereignty of mankind.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Law, People, Justice

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2001). “Democracy in America”, p.107, Penguin

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• Since the majority of me Rejects the majority of you, Debating ends forthwith, and we Divide.'' Philip Larkin

  Philip Larkin

  Ends, Rejects, Divides

  Philip Larkin (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.156, Faber & Faber

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• The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.

  James F. Cooper

  Freedom, Abuse, Democracy

  "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James F. Cooper (Conclusion, p. 191), 1838.

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• Civilisation will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will stand in awe.

  Winston Churchill

  Peace, Together, Lasts

  Winston Churchill (1966). “Churchill in His Own Words: Years of Greatness, Memorable Speeches of the Man of the Century”

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