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"I gather, young man, that you wish to be a member of parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic." »Winston Churchill
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"The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends. It should be a place where each individual's dignity and self-respect is strengthened by the respect and affection of his neighbors. It should be a place where each of us can find the satisfaciton and warmth which comes from being a member of the community of man. This is what man sought at the dawn of civilzation. It is what we seek today." »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"I won't have you electioneering on my doorstep. Every time you get in trouble in parliament you run over here with your shirttail hanging out. (To Prime Minister Harold Wilson)" »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"Let a short Act of parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols, or bombs without incurring any penalties." »George Bernard Shaw
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"Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning." »George Bernard Shaw
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"Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder. (To Canadian Parliament)" »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat" »Will Rogers
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"One sometimes feels a guest of one's time and not a member of its household." »George Frost Kennan
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"Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm." »Pamela Ribon
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"If you are an author and give one of your books to a member of the upper class, you must never expect him to read it." »Paul Fussell
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"Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state." »David Dean Rusk
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"In Britain, the segregated world of public schools crops up in all kinds of institutions A boy can pass from Eton to the Guards to the Middle Temple to parliament and still retain the same male world of leather armchairs, teak tables and nicknames. They need never deal closely with other kinds of people, and some never do." »Anthony Sampson
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"Water, everywhere over the earth, flows to join together. A single natural law controls it. Each human is a member of a community and should work within it." »I Ching
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"The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives." »Calvin Trillin
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"The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant." »John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty", 1859
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"The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant." »John Stuart Mill
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"[On recognizing China] But if you recognize anyone it does not mean you like them. For instance, we all recognize the right honourable gentleman the member for Ebbw Vale." »Sir Winston Churchill
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"To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others." »Pope John Paul II
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"Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." »Mark Twain
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"In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep." »Albert Einstein
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"A man of a right spirit is not a man of narrow and private views, but is greatly interested and concerned for the good of the community to which he belongs, and particularly of the city or village in which he resides, and for the true welfare of the society of which he is a member." »Johathan Edwards
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"... Religion ... [is] the basis and foundation of government ... before any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe." »James Madison
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"Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress but I repeat myself." »Mark Twain
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"Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." »Mark Twain
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"What a wonderful thing it is to be sure of one's faith How wonderful to be a member of the evangelical church, which preaches the free grace of God through Christ as the hope of sinners If we were to rely on our works--my God, what would become of us" »George Frederick Handel
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"No sun - no moon! No morn - no noon -
No dawn - no dusk - no proper time of day.
No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease,
No comfortable feel in any member -
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,
No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds,
November!" »Thomas Hood (1799-1845), in the poem called No!
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"I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A member." »Groucho Marx
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"If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life - if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others." »Walter Scott
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"You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year." »William Jefferson Clinton
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"If you are a member of a religion which has violence, killings and invading other countries in its history, it is a great shame! Leave it! If a religion is peaceful and innocent, you can never find violence in its history! No good faith carries sword!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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