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• I needed to explain that Louisiana's coast accepts the drainage from two-thirds of the United States and, while the necessary levees constructed upstream have prevented floods, they have also contributed to problems downstream.

  John Breaux

  Two, United States, Louisiana

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• I believe the two biggest mistakes made by the Founders were giving Federal judges life-time appointments and permitting them to be confirmed without the agreement of two-thirds of the members of the United States Senate.

  John Jay Hooker

  Mistake, Believe, Agreement

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• Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota.

  Lincoln Kirstein

  Inspirational, Tree, Ballet

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• The concept that I like the most, and the one that I’ve taken most to heart, is the belief that people can’t be united or focused unless they share a common philosophy - a philosophy that gives their effort a greater meaning.

  Marc Benioff

  Philosophy, Taken, Heart

  Sonshi.com Interview, www.sonshi.com.

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• I’ve seen how important this concept is in business. To be truly successful, companies need to have a corporate mission that is bigger than making a profit. We try to follow that at salesforce.com, where we give 1% of our equity, 1% of our profits, and 1% of our employees’ time to the community. By integrating philanthropy into our business model our employees feel that they do much more than just work at our company. By sharing a common and important mission, we are united and focused, and have found a secret weapon that ensures we always win.

  Marc Benioff

  Philosophy, Successful, Winning

  Sonshi.com Interview, www.sonshi.com.

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• While vegans and meat-eaters disagree, we can all be united in our fear and hatred for the horror that is factory farming.

  Joel Salatin

  Hatred, Meat, Vegan

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• Things are moving pretty quick, and of course, the whole focus is training and getting ready and being able to prepare to be on the world's stage and hopefully do the United States proud.

  Ryan Lochte

  Moving, Focus, Training

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• In my view, America has never had the opportunity to enter paradise. Europe enjoys the paradise it enjoys, in part because the United States provides the overall security that allows Europe to live in a system where military power is not a major issue.

  Robert Kagan

  Military, Opportunity, Views

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• About 2500 years ago Aeschylus, the Greek playwright, wrote, He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. These remarkable photos and the stories that accompany them should be on billboards from sea to shining sea, so the pain and suffering they represent might fall drop by drop upon the American psyche and against our will, by the awful grace of God, wisdom might come to these United States and her foreign policy.

  Gioconda Belli

  Pain, Fall, Sleep

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• In my opinion, the United States and many Western nations have a financial disaster coming, caused by our educational system’s failure to adequately provide a realistic financial education program for students.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Educational, Financial Education, United States

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• Some have argued that the President is required to get permission from a federal court before taking action against a United States citizen who is a senior operational leader of al Qaeda or associated forces. This is simply not accurate. 'Due process' and 'judicial process' are not one and the same, particularly when it comes to national security. The Constitution guarantees due process, not judicial process.

  Eric Holder

  Senior, Leader, President

  Address at Northwestern University Law School, delivered 5 March 2012, Chicago, IL

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• Yes, I got my first Bolex camera a few weeks after being dropped in New York by the United Nations Refugee Organization. That was on October 29th, 1949. With my brother Adolfas, we wanted to make a film about displaced persons, how one feels being uprooted from one's home.

  Jonas Mekas

  Brother, New York, Home

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• When all humanity works for humanity, when the life-business of men and women becomes one united partnership in all matters which concern each, when neither sex, race, color, or previous condition is held as a bar to the exercise of human faculties, the world will hold in its hands the promise of a millennium which will work out its own fulfillment.

  Matilda Joslyn Gage

  Sex, Exercise, Men

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• Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Working Together, Progress, Allies

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• First, we can pray in communion with the Church on earth and in heaven. Let us not underestimate the power of so many voices united in prayer!

  Pope Francis

  Prayer, Voice, Heaven

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• If you can't say something nice... about an overrated, ungrateful European nation that would have been wiped off the face of the earth twice in the twentieth century if it weren't for the United States and which has given nothing to the culture in the past two hundred years but whine and cheese, both of which are made better in California, then don't say anything at all!

  Brad Stine

  Nice, Past, Years

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• To read 'Happy Talk' is to crash a party as vivid and surreal as Felini's 8. It's the business of show business, the American dream, told by a chorus of Americans locked just outside of that dream, outside of the United States, relegated to expatriate status on the shores of Haiti. Melo paints a version of Haiti that's an interior landscape perhaps even more than an externalized place. This Haiti is a plan, a memory, a morphine-drip fueled dream out to bond its inhabitants forever.

  Monica Drake

  Dream, Memories, Party

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• There are still deep-seated structural problems that threaten the economic balance in the world: Between the United States and China, for example, but also within Europe. We have taken a few steps toward taming the financial markets, but we haven't come nearly far enough to rule out a repetition of the crisis.

  Peer Steinbruck

  Taken, Europe, Balance

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• Not true at all. Vaseline is manufactured right here in the United States.

  Don Sutton

  Vaseline, United States, States

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• I am a committed European; a united Europe is Romania's future.

  Victor Ponta

  Europe, Romania, Committed

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• A united humanity will be able to confront the many troubling problems of the present time: from the menace of terrorism to the humiliating poverty in which millions of human beings live, from the proliferation of weapons to the pandemics and the environmental destruction which threatens the future of our planet.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Religious, Humanity, Environmental

  Pope Benedict XVI's Urbi et Orbi Message, press.vatican.va. December 25, 2005.

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• Freedom of action in space is as important to the United States as air power and sea power.

  George W. Bush

  Air, Sea, Space

  "Planet Pentagon: How the Pentagon Came to Own the Earth, Seas, and Skies" by Nick Turse, www.guernicamag.com. July 11, 2007.

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• Spain is so different from the United States. It seemed to have a history, and the buildings are years and years and years old. Here in the United States an old building is about 17 (years old), and over there it's from 500 B.C., it's incredible.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Years, Old Buildings, United States

  "'Spanish enjoy time with their family instead of their Blackberry', says Gwyneth Paltrow". www.dailymail.co.uk. July 1, 2009.

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• You don't build a new power plant in the United States overnight. It takes years to build.

  John Abizaid

  Years, United States, Plant

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• I'm done with my job. It was my job to be the advocate and spokesman for the President of the United States.

  Scott McClellan

  Jobs, President, United States

  "McClellan: I Became What I Wanted to Change". Interview with Martha Raddatz, abcnews.go.com. May 29, 2008.

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