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• Youth is an arithmetical statement of passing interest, each hour eats it up.

  Stevie Smith

  Youth, Hours, Passing

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• In the United States, as elsewhere, there are, and have always been, two parties in politics ... It is remarkable how nearly their positive statements of political doctrine agree, while they differ in almost every possible application of their common principles.

  Harriet Martineau

  Party, Two, Political

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• Certainty always produces questions, uncertainty statements. It is a balancing law of nature.

  Djuna Barnes

  Law, Produce, Certainty

  Djuna Barnes, Alyce Barry (1989). “New York”, Sun & Moon Pr

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• The popular mind has grown so confused that it is no longer able to receive any statement of fact except as an expression of personal feeling.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Confused, Thinking, Expression

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2010). “Mind of the Maker”, p.15, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I think you keep two sets of books. In one set, you record the truth -- how well you are really doing. This is the secret set -- just for you and loved ones. In the other set are more modest entries and statements, and these are for public consumption!

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Book, Thinking, Two

  Helen Gurley Brown (2000). “I'm Wild Again: Snippets from My Life and a Few Brazen Thoughts”, p.113, Macmillan

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• It's just as hard for man to break the habit of thinking of himself as central to the species as it was to break the habit of thinking of himself as central to the universe. He sees himself quite unconsciously as the main line of evolution, with a female satellite revolving around him as the moon revolves around the earth. This not only causes him to overlook valuable clues to our ancestry, but sometimes leads him into making statements that are arrant and demonstrable nonsense.

  Elaine Morgan

  Moon, Men, Thinking

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• A direct statement about yourself is considered objective only if it is negative. If it's positive, it is considered subjective. And 'objective' means it is accurate, and 'subjective' means it is conceited self-delusion.

  Barbara Sher

  Mean, Conceited, Self

  Barbara Sher (1979). “Wishcraft: How to Get what You Really Want”

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• Where's my tax form? Where's the file that's supposed to hold my W-2 form and interest statement? Where's the mileage log I specifically asked be kept last year?? Where's the monthly check summary? And who's been stuffing Visa receipts in the aluminum foil drawer??!! How embarrassing. I'm surrounded by idiots and I'm the only one in the office.

  Cathy Guisewite

  Years, Office, Aluminum Foil

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• Night and day I pondered until I saw the connection between the justice of God and the statement that 'the just shall live by his faith.' Then I grasped that the justice of God is that righteousness by which through grace and sheer mercy God justifies us through faith. Thereupon I felt myself to be reborn and to have gone through open doors into paradise.

  Martin Luther

  Night, Justice Of God, Doors

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• I sometimes think humor and satire are more effective techniques for expressing social statements than direct comment.

  Kristin Hunter

  Thinking, Technique, Sometimes

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• Poets, if they're genuine, must keep repeating "I don't know." Each poem marks an effort to answer this statement, but as soon as the final period hits the page, the poet begins to hesitate, starts to realize that this particular answer was pure makeshift that's absolutely inadequate to boot. So the poets keep on trying, and sooner or later the consecutive results of their self-dissatisfaction are clipped together with a giant paperclip by literary historians and called their oeuvre.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Self, Effort, Together

  "The Poet and the World". Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 07, 1996.

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• Now that all the members of the press are so delighted I lost, I'd like to make a statement. As I leave you I want you to know -just think how much you'll be missing. You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Thinking, Missing, Gentleman

  After losing the election for Governor of California, 5 November 1962, in 'New York Times' 8 November 1962, p. 8

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• It is as bad to clip conscience as to clip coin; it is as bad to give a counterfeit statement as a counterfeit bill.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Giving, Coins, Bills

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• Facts: Words treated as statement of actuality by those who agree with them.

  Cheris Kramarae

  Facts, Agree, Treated

  Cheris Kramarae (1992). “Amazons, Bluestockings and Crones: A Feminist Dictionary”, Pandora Press

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• You want me to sneak up on an angel and rip out its pinfeathers, so you can make a fashion statement?

  Simon R. Green

  Fashion, Rip, Angel

  Simon R. Green (2003). “Agents Of Light And Darkness”, p.90, Penguin

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• It's pretty standard fare in political discourse. You misconstrue what somebody said. You isolate a statement, you lend your interpretation to it and then feign moral outrage. And Democrats have been doing it for years.

  John F. Kerry

  Years, Political, Moral

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Presidents should be very careful at all times in discussing the use or non-use of nuclear weapons. Presidents since the cold war have used nuclear deterrence to keep the peace, and I don't believe that any president should make any blanket statements with respect to the use or non-use of nuclear weapons.

  Hillary Clinton

  War, Believe, President

  "Clinton, Gates, Schumer, and Kyl". "This Week", www.realclearpolitics.com. August 2, 2007.

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• All of television's appalling, but this is hardly a new statement.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Television

  "Stuff To Read: Fran Lebowitz Interview In Ruminator Magazine". Interview with Susannah McNeely, vdovault.wordpress.com. June 10, 2006.

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• One positive statement of good is more powerful than 1,000 negative thoughts; and two positive statements of good are more powerful than 10,000 negative thoughts.

  Catherine Ponder

  Powerful, Attitude, Two

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• Look, therefore, which way we will, whether at the direct Scriptural statements of death as the penalty of sin, or at the agony of the cross as a means of rescue, or at the joy of the angels of God over a rescue; we see from either that it must be a work of infinite and eternal consequence--the work of redemption.

  Herrick Johnson

  Angel, Mean, Agony

  Herrick Johnson (1881). “Christianity's Challenge and Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration”

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• A good problem statement often includes what is known, what is unknown, and what is sought.

  Edward Hodnett

  Problem, Solutions, Known

  Edward Hodnett (1955). “The art of problem solving: how to improve your methods”, Harper & Brothers

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• The French philosopher Pierre-Hyacinthe Azaïs (1766-1845) formalized the statement that good and evil fortune are exactly balanced in that they produce for each person an equivalent result.

  Richard Arnold Epstein

  Evil, Philosopher, Results

  "The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic". Book by Richard Arnold Epstein, 1977.

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• Because Melissa McCarthy actually is a fat woman, she isnt allowed to make brash statements about body acceptance. She has to apologize for her body.

  Jennifer Armintrout

  Acceptance, Body, Apologizing

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• Killing animals to make a fashion statement = a sickening + cold-blooded vanity.

  Jess C Scott

  Fashion, Animal, Vanity

  Jess C. Scott (2011). “Skins (animal stories, rights)”, p.2, jessINK

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• Killing you and what you represent is a statement. I''m not a hundred percent sure exactly what it''s saying

  Mickey Knox

  Killing, Hundred, Percent

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