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• Every budding dictatorship begins by muzzling the artists, because they're a mouthy lot and they don't line up and salute very easily.

  Margaret Atwood

  Artist, Lines, Dictatorship

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• The inked fingers and the position of them, which is gonna be a 'Daily Show' photo already, of them signaling in this [Nazi salute] manner, as if they have solidarity with the Iraqis who braved physical threats against their lives to vote as if somehow these inked-fingered Republicans have something to do with that.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Vote, Republican, Nazi

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• Were we to aim in every case at the kind of supreme beauty exemplified by Sta Maria della Salute, we should end with aesthetic overload. The clamorous masterpieces, jostling for attention side by side, would lose their distinctiveness, and the beauty of each of them would be at war with the beauty of the rest.

  Roger Scruton

  War, Would Be, Attention

  Roger Scruton (2011). “Beauty: A Very Short Introduction”, p.11, Oxford University Press

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• No sadder sound salutes you than the clear, Wild laughter of the loon.

  Celia Thaxter

  Laughter, Sound, Clear

  Celia Thaxter (1872). “Poems”, p.28

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• I think the Republican budget priorities are messed up. I salute for the way they're attacking some of the entitlement programs, but they are taking huge cuts, by pretending they're just block-granting it to the states, out of Medicaid, from the least fortunate.

  David Brooks

  Block, Cutting, Thinking

  "Shields and Brooks on Netanyahu’s election provocation, human trafficking holdup". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. March 20, 2015.

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• "You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is your neighbor's." Your neighbor is clearly a male, and the woman, the ox and the ass are property of the male. That's not morality I will salute today.

  John Shelby Spong

  Wife, Males, Today

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• John Carlos provided the world with one of the most iconic images of the 1960s with his Black Power salute after a medal-winning performance at the 1968 summer games.

  Tavis Smiley

  Summer, Winning, Games

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Hand that on parting squeezes your shoulder, salutes the small of your back.

  Joan Didion

  Hands, Shoulders, Parting

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• If you go to former Yugoslav states, the Balkan states, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Slovenia, the situation is dire. Not to mention Bosnia, which is just run like a colony. The way they used to stand up and sing hymns to President Tito, they now salute the EU flag. It's a very strange transition that we're witnessing in most of Europe, and I don't think it's going to work.

  Tariq Ali

  Running, Thinking, Europe

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• A number of people have written poems about Trump already, and I salute them. He is so beyond anything we could have imagined and yet, in another way, he has to be seen as a mirror of America. Our country wouldn't have elected him if he didn't reflect something in our country. In my view, it's a negative thing that's being reflected.

  Mary Jo Salter

  Country, People, Negative

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• As Cindy Sheehan was gathering public sympathy as the Gold Star mom against the killing in Iraq, the Republican party decided to import an easier target to pummel. So they brought over the 'I-salute-your-courage, Saddam' religious fundamentalist crack-pot who can't tell us where the money went.

  Greg Palast

  Mom, Religious, Stars

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• A Mocking Bird regularly resorts to the south angle of a chimney top and salutes us with sweetest notes from the rising of the moon until about midnight.

  John James Audubon

  Art, Moon, Bird

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• As it was 189 years ago, so today the cause of America is a revolutionary cause. And I am proud this morning to salute you as fellow revolutionaries. Neither you nor I are willing to accept the tyranny of poverty, nor the dictatorship of ignorance, nor the despotism of ill health, nor the oppression of bias and prejudice and bigotry. We want change. We want progress. We want it both abroad and at homeand we aim to get it.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Morning, Ignorance, Bias And Prejudice

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.830, Best Books on

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• There is a wide difference between general acquaintance and companionship. You may salute a man and exchange compliments with him daily, yet know nothing of his character, his inmost tastes arid feelings.

  William Matthews

  Character, Men, Differences

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• The song seraphically free Of taint of personality, So pure that it salutes the suns The voice of one for millions, In whom the millions rejoice For giving their one spirit voice.

  George Meredith

  Song, Voice, Giving

  George Meredith (1912). “Poems of George Meredith”, p.392, Library of Alexandria

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• flirtation ... is a graceful salute to sex, a small impermanent spark between one human being and another, between a man and a woman not in need of fire.

  Marya Mannes

  Sex, Men, Fire

  Marya Mannes (1964). “But Will it Sell?”

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• I've been dreaming of a time when
  The English are sick to death of Labour and Tories
  And spit upon the name Oliver Cromwell and denounce this royal line that still salutes him
  And will salute him forever.

  Steven Morrissey

  Dream, Names, Sick

  "Song: 'Irish Blood, English Heart'". 2004.

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• There is a determined though unseen bravery that defends itself foot by foot in the darkness against the fatal invasions of necessity and dishonesty. Noble and mysterious triumphs that no eye sees, and no fame rewards, and no flourish of triumph salutes. Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields that have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes.

  Victor Hugo

  Hero, Eye, Feet

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). “Les misérables”, Dutton Adult

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• I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat.

  James A. Garfield

  Boys, Feelings, Coats

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• I'll never know, and neither will you of the life you don't choose. We'll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn't carry us. There's nothing to do but salute it from the shore.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Life, Beautiful, Knowing

  "Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar". Book by Cheryl Strayed, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 10, 2012.

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• There are still some people who think that we have Stalin to thank for all our progress, who quake before Stalin's dirty under-draws, who stand at attention and salute them.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Dirty, Thinking, People

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• Now the bright morning-star, Day's harbinger,
  Comes dancing from the East, and leads with her
  The flowery May, who from her green lap throws
  The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose.
  Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire
  Mirth, and youth, and warm desire!
  Woods and groves are of thy dressing;
  Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing.
  Thus we salute thee with our early song,
  And welcome thee, and wish thee long.

  John Milton

  Song, Morning, Stars

  John Milton (1859). “The poems of John Milton”, p.43

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• Here's your enemy for this week, the government says. And some gullible Americans click their heels and salute - often without knowing who or even where the enemy of the week is.

  Charley Reese

  Government, Knowing, Libertarian Party

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