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«Preferential affirmative action patronizes American blacks, women, and others by presuming that they cannot succeed on their own. Preferential affirmative action does not advance civil rights in this country.»
Author: Alan Keyes
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affirmative action, on their own, patronize, patronized, patronizes, patronizing, preferential, presuming
«Ann Richards on How to Be a Good Republican: 1. You have to believe that the nation's current 8-year prosperity was due to the work of Ronald Reagan and George Bush, but yesterday's gasoline prices are all Clinton's fault. 2. You have to believe that those privileged from birth achieve success all on their own. 3. You have to be against all government programs, but expect Social Security checks on time.»
Author: Ann Richards
(Governor, Politician)
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«There are always women who will take men on their own terms. If I were a man I wouldn't bother to change while there are women like that around.»
«It is no surprise that when today's affluent young professionals return to church, they want to do it only on their own terms - what's amazing is how far the churches are going to oblige»
Author: Kathleen Neumeyer
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Profession and professionals
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affluent, amazing, churches, oblige, on their own, professionals, Return to
«They prey on their own with extortion and protection rackets, in a culture where people don't go to the police and where most police don't speak the language.»
«I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.»
Author: George Carlin
(Actor, Author, Comedian)
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Church,
Humor,
Nations,
Separation
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church, Church and state, completely, favor, favoring, institutions, on their own, screw, screwing, screws, screw up, separation, state, such institutions
«Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn; when they do, which isn't often, on their own, the hard way.»
«The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as a means to other account, and not merely as a means to other things, are knowledge, art instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.»
«THOSE who deny God, the Supreme Will or the First Cause, can give no real satisfactory justification for their stand; nor can those who assert that there is God. Both have to rely on their own experience. After all, how can sweetness be denied by one who refuses to taste sugar? How can one be convinced that sugar is sweet until one tastes it? We have to feel the great marvel of energy, manipulating both, the minutest atom and cell and the vastest, most distant star. How else can we understand the Omnipresence and Omnipotence, except by accepting God as the Architect of the Cosmos?»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
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architect, assert, atom, cell, first cause, Manipulating, marvel, omnipotence, omnipresence, on their own, refuses, vastest
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