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• The cost of testing for BRCA1 and BRCA2, at more than $3,000 in the United States, remains an obstacle for many women.

  Angelina Jolie

  United States, Cost, Obstacles

  "My Medical Choice" by Angelina Jolie, www.nytimes.com. May 14, 2013.

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• The president does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation. As commander in chief, the president does have a duty to protect and defend the United States. In instances of self-defense, the president would be within his constitutional authority to act before advising Congress or seeking its consent.

  Barack Obama

  Military, Self, President

  Boston Globe, December 20, 2007.

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• But Michael Vick killed dogs, and he did in a heartless and cruel way. And I think, personally, he should've been executed for that. He wasn't, but the idea that the President of the United States would be getting behind someone who murdered dogs?

  Tucker Carlson

  Dog, Thinking, Ideas

  "Tucker Carlson addresses Vick role". www.espn.com. December 30, 2010.

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• I have been immeasurably honored to serve the people of Maine for nearly 40 years in public office and for the past 17 years in the United States Senate. It was incredibly difficult to decide that I would not seek a fourth term in the Senate.

  Olympia Snowe

  Past, Years, People

  Olympia Snowe: Why I’m leaving the Senate" by Olympia Snowe, www.washingtonpost.com. March 1, 2012.

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• What is the purpose of public service? It's to solve problems for the people you represent and certainly in the United States Senate, thinking about your state and thinking about your country as well.

  Olympia Snowe

  Country, Thinking About You, People

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• Doing something that warrants the attention of the President of the United States is super-cool.

  Michael K. Williams

  President, United States, Attention

  "Michael K Williams: my guide to being a Barack Obama-endorsed badass". Interview with Rich Pelley, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2012.

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• At least since the first petals of the counterculture bloomed across Europe and the United States in the 1960s, it has been fashionable to affirm that all religions are beautiful and all are true...This is a lovely sentiment but it is dangerous, disrespectful, and untrue.

  Stephen Prothero

  Beautiful, Europe, Lovely

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• John Facenda could read a laundry list and make it sound like the Constitution of the United States.

  Ed Sabol

  Sound, United States, Lists

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• Unless the digital divide is narrowed soon, the United States may be headed to the class warfare of a century ago, the last time the economy changed so fundamentally. It won't be pleasant.

  Jonathan Alter

  Class, United States, Warfare

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• [Insurgents] pose no strategic threat to the United States or to the Coalition Forces.

  Paul Bremer

  United States, Politics, Force

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• The United Nations has no business in our elections.

  David Vitter

  Business, Election, United Nations

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• Having no diplomatic representation in Washington, China has no sources which allow her to check the character of applicants and therefore makes the practice of refusing everybody from the United States.

  Anna Louise Strong

  Character, Practice, United States

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• When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end.

  Eamon de Valera

  Confidence, People, Done

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• Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind's great achievements in the 20th century.

  Tran ?uc Luong

  Equality, Rights, Achievement

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• The need for a permanent status resolution approved by Congress is made even more clear to me because of my experience as a former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.

  Dick Thornburgh

  Experience, Needs, Resolution

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• I think the American people, understandably, have sort of lost faith in the United Nations.

  Cliff Stearns

  Faith, Thinking, People

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• And we want to develop our strategy to partnership and friendship with the United States, which is connected with a very rich history but what is very important for our future.

  Aleksander Kwasniewski

  Friendship, Important, United States

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• The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection.

  William H. Seward

  Happiness, Government, Political

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• At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordinary determination, leadership and resolve when history was thrust upon him and the United States.

  Olympia Snowe

  Leadership, Determination, President

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• Marriage has been defined by every legislature that has ever sat in the United States from every State, now 50 States, the same way, but now we have unelected judges altering and changing that fundamental institution.

  Jeff Sessions

  Marriage, Judging, United States

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• With respect to the northeastern boundary of the United States, no official correspondence between this Government and that of Great Britain has passed since that communicated to Congress toward the close of their last session.

  Martin Van Buren

  Government, Sea, Lasts

  United States. President (1837-1841 : Van Buren), Martin Van Buren (1838). “Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress: At the Commencement of the Third Session of the Twenty-fifth Congress”, p.5

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• In the final analysis, national struggle is a matter of class struggle. Among the whites in the United States, it is only the reactionary ruling circles that oppress the black people. They can in no way represent the workers, farmers, revolutionary intellectuals and other enlightened persons who comprise the overwhelming majority of the white people.

  Mao Zedong

  Struggle, Class, Circles

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.12, Lulu.com

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• The commonest forms of amateur natural history in the United States are probably gardening, bird watching, the maintenance of aquarium fish, and nature photography.

  Marston Bates

  Photography, Nature, Science

  Marston Bates (2014). “The Nature of Natural History”, p.265, Princeton University Press

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• Of the 50 largest companies in the United States, you are the only woman CEO. Why?

  Angela Braly

  Women, United States, Ceo

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• We believe, as the President has indicated, that this combination of a rogue state that possesses weapons of mass destruction and has known ties to terrorist organizations, is a grave threat to the people of the United States and to other countries around the world.

  Paul Cellucci

  Country, Believe, Organization

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