“ This is the first time a Kurd has been freely elected to be the president of an Arab country. ”
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“ I think they have proven they aren't a rubber stamp for the Pentagon. ”
- John Thune- Copy
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“ In Phil Jackson, they chose a proven winner. That is something I support. ”
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“ We are insisting and we will continue to insist that this faith of the church must continue to be upheld come rain, come fire. That is our position. ”
- Peter Akinola- Copy
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“ This is only one source of information... but there is no other information out there that is as unbiased and well-validated as this. ”
- Joseph Parker- Copy
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“ I was right then, I'm right now. I think time has proven me right. ”
- Pete Wilson- Copy
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“ Mexico fully supports Canada's position to make sure that the decisions of the NAFTA panels in the settlement of disputes are upheld. ”
- Vicente Fox- Copy
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“ The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld. ”
- Dorothy Thompson- Copy
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“ A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked. ”
- Anais Nin- Copy
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“ I'm a confirmed negaholic. I don't just see a glass that's half full and call it half-empty; I see a glass that's completely full and worry that someone's going to tip it over. ”
- Peter McWilliams- Copy
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“ It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory. ”
- Ecclesiastes- Copy
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“ In stepping outside of the self and working for the common good, a solidarity with others is confirmed. ”
- Arthur Dobrin- Copy
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“ Our inmost yearning, our deep desire for harmony in an extra-musical, transcendental sense feels affirmed, confirmed and calmed by music, and in this sense music seems to me a message a lofty ethical message that brings good tidings to the ethical part of our being from the mysteries of the world of sound. ”
- Bruno Walter- Copy
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“ Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in his paper on "The Survival of the Fittest." These are illustrious names, this is a mighty doctrine: nothing can ever remove it from its firm base, nothing dissolve it, but evolution. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ Politics is the gizzard of society, full of grit and gravel, and the two political parties are its opposite halves - sometimes split into quarters - which grind on each other. Not only individuals but states have thus a confirmed dyspepsia. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ Plans are being discussed as to who will replace Dick Cheney if he has to resign for health reasons. It's not easy for President Bush, he can't just name a replacement. He would first have to be confirmed by the oil, gas and power companies. ”
- Jay Leno- Copy
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“ Women, I believe, search for fellow beings who have faced similar struggles, conveyed them in ways a reader can transform into her own life, confirmed desires the reader had hardly acknowledged - desires that now seem possible. Women catch courage from the women whose lives and writings they read, and women call the bearer of that courage friend. ”
- Carolyn Heilbrun- Copy
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“ In science, fact can only mean confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent. I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms. ”
- Stephen Jay Gould- Copy
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“ Had there been a lunatic asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at the outset of his public career. That interview with Satan on a pinnacle of the Temple would alone have damned him, and everything that happened after could but have confirmed the diagnosis. ”
- Henry Ellis- Copy
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“ Is discord going to show itself while we are still fighting, is the Jew once again worth less than another? Oh, it is sad, very sad, that once more, for the umpteenth time, the old truth is confirmed: "What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews. ”
- Anne Frank- Copy
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