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• David Lloyd George had been to Germany, and been so dazzled by the Führer that he compared him to George Washington. Hitler was a 'born leader', declared the befuddled former British Prime Minister. He wished that Britain had 'a man of his supreme quality at the head of affairs in our country today'. This from the hero of the First World War! The man who had led Britain to victory over the Kaiser!

  Boris Johnson

  Country, War, Hero

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• Yet far from putting any meaningful constraints on law enforcement in this war, the U.S. Supreme Court has given the police license to stop and search just about anyone, in any public place, without a shred of evidence of criminal activity, and it has also closed the courthouse doors to claims of racial bias at every stage of the judicial process from stops and searches to plea bargaining and sentencing.

  Michelle Alexander

  Meaningful, War, Doors

  "How the Drug War Fuels a New Racial Caste System in America". Interview With Mark Karlin, img.alternet.org. August 2, 2012.

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• In my childhood, and particularly when I take the responsibility, I already have sort of keen desire, we must change our system. Then as soon as we reach India, 1959, at once we start working for democratization. Now here if remain in a political sort of field, supreme leader, at the same time religious leader, that may become hindrance of proper democracy.

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, Responsibility, Political

  Source: www.kpbs.org

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• Recognition of the Supreme Being was the first - the most basic - expression of Americanism.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Expression, Firsts, Recognition

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Our Supreme Court has lifted the practice of buying legislation to the level of a constitutional principle by repeatedly protecting corporate spending for and against political candidates, as well as promises and threats of such spending to bribe and blackmail such candidates, by appeal to the free-speech clause of the First Amendment.

  Thomas Pogge

  Practice, Political, Promise

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• We do need to rethink privacy. I think we need to fall back on (former Supreme Court Justice) Felix Frankfurter's definition of privacy which is, "Privacy is the right to be left alone."

  Paul Saffo

  Fall, Thinking, Justice

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• That would be the frontispiece. This was a picture of my mother and me coming out of the United States Supreme Court, with fecal matter smeared across our faces. They wrapped it in wax paper so that when I received it I'd get the full impact of the message. Though I haven't gotten anything quite that original lately, there's still never a dull moment in my mailbox.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Mother, Impact, Matter

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• All of a sudden I feel more womanly, I feel like I got a figure. I was always really straight up and down, the skinny one in the middle, like that poster at Elaine's of the Supremes at Lincoln Center - it was done by Joe Eula. To me that's really a reflection of the way I was. I was just like a bean pole. Now I'm getting a few curves and I like it.

  Diana Ross

  Reflection, Lincoln Center, Curves

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think with the advent of Reagan, and subsequently, both parties, there's been a strong move towards the advantage given to the richer people, in taxation and grants and supplements and things of that kind. Primarily exacerbated more recently by the Supreme Court's stupid ruling on Citizens United, and now there's a massive flood of money into the political system that I think has subverted the essence of a moral and ethical standard that used to permeate American democracy. Now it's not an admirable process. I think we've gone backwards.

  Jimmy Carter

  Strong, Stupid, Party

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• The US cannot be brought to the World Court for major crimes, for example the supreme international crime, invasion, or violation of the UN Charter, or violation of the Genocide Convention, these are things the US is exempt from, because they exempted themselves from being subjected to international treaties in World Court proceedings.

  Noam Chomsky

  Example, World, Invasion

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• When one crosses over from an activity, or the verb, of writing or doing, and becomes a noun, like "a writer" I think that is an act of supreme self-consciousness that I've never, in effect, made. I write, but I don't like to think of myself as a writer. I think it's somewhat self-aggrandizing and pretentious. Now, I am a teacher.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Teacher, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Disappointment, Landscape

  Ansel Adams (1965). “Basic Photo: Natural-light photography”

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• In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

  Aristotle

  Power, Democracies Have, Democracy

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• The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious diseases and to the increase of our sanitary knowledge for such purposes deserve attention of Congress.

  Chester A. Arthur

  People, Attention, Purpose

  Chester A. Arthur (2006). “State of the Union Addresses”, p.23, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of bringing into existence the natural world... which doesn't seem to me to be necessarily blasphemous at all.

  David Attenborough

  Way, World, Evolution

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

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• The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Long, Heaven, Atheism

  "Man, Society, and Freedom" by Mikhail Bakunin (1871), as quoted in Mikhail Bakunin "Bakunin on Anarchism" edited and translated by Sam Dolgoff, 1971.

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• We would load up the yellow Cutlass Supreme station wagon and pick blackberries during blackberry season or spring onions during spring onion season. For us, food was part of the fabric of our day.

  Mario Batali

  Spring, Food, Yellow

  "The Traditions of the Table". Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. January/February 2004.

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• The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Lying, Unique, Men

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• To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Art, War, Get Well Soon

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be.

  Max Beerbohm

  Lady Macbeth, Host, Standing Out

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.67, New York Review of Books

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• The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary and constantly interposing Supreme Power.

  Annie Besant

  Arbitrary, Birth, Supreme Power

  Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.226, Jazzybee Verlag

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• What is the essence of theosophy? It is the fact that man, being himself divine, can know the divinity whose life he shares. As an inevitable corollary to this supreme truth comes the fact of the brotherhood of man.

  Annie Besant

  Men, Brotherhood Of Man, Essence

  Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Annie Wood Besant, Charles Webster Leadbeater (1925). “To Members of the Theosophical Society: Being a Selection of Instructive Articles and Teachings”

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• Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.

  Samuel Butler

  Men, Corny, Banality

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4298, Delphi Classics

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• It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics.

  Robert Byrd

  Money, Ideas, Principles

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• You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.

  John Calvin

  Order, Joy, Suffering

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