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What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?
Desmond Tutu
The vast majority of gun owners don't kill, but people who do kill, tend to kill with guns, and often with illegal guns.
Alan Dershowitz
Tags: People Who Often
I fear that the hearts of the vast majority of mankind would beat on strongly and steadily and without any quickening if the league were to perish altogether.
Henry Cabot Lodge
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Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians.
Mitt Romney
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My campaign confirmed my belief that although there are bigots in America, whose hateful rhetoric seizes the media's attention, the vast majority of people do not harbor such prejudice.
Edward Brooke
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All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.


James Reston
Alabama citizens, like the vast majority of Americans, respect and value the meaning of decency, and appreciate public institutions that reflect the common values of our society.
Mike Rogers
Even though the vast majority of my work was outside television, the amount of creation and inventing that went into the TV shows was non stop and, unknown to me, a great strain.
Paul Daniels
Tags: Work Great Me
For online universities, like Liverpool and the University of Phoenix, if prices drop by 60%, they still make money. But for the vast majority of traditional universities, if the prices fall by 10%, they are bankrupt; they have no wriggle room.
Clayton Christensen
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It's hard for the majority of people to accept what they don't understand.


J. D. Pardo
In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written - as well as most movies that are released - are not very original, well-written, or interesting. It has always been that way, and I think it always will be.
Viggo Mortensen
The vast majority of writers out there, they finish their books, and no one cares whether their book is late or ever comes out at all. And then it comes out, and two reviews are published, and it sells 12 copies.
George R. R. Martin
Tags: Out Then Ever
The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.
Aldous Huxley
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Even the majority of the Sunnis have grown tired of foreign terrorists operating in Iraq.


Peter DeFazio
Tags: Even Foreign Iraq
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Historically, the responsibility for voting on the debt limit has gone to the party in the majority.


Jacob Lew
Some of us are interested in directors, but really the vast majority of us are interested in actors. You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.
Danny Boyle
For the vast majority of world history, human life - both culture and biology - was shaped by scarcity. Food, clothing, shelter, tools, and pretty much everything else had to be farmed or fabricated, at a very high cost in time and energy.
Martha Beck
Tags: Time History Food
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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.


Harper Lee
In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Tags: Power Should Rule
People tend to think of psychopaths as criminals. In fact, the majority of psychopaths aren't criminal.
Robert D. Hare
Tags: People Think Fact
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The majority of the Big Ten towns are college towns. The colleges are kind of what run the towns.


Steve Alford
Tags: Kind Big Run
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
Edmund Burke
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When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority.


Charles R. Swindoll
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If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.


Charlotte Bronte
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The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.


Patricia Clarkson
Tags: Work You Where
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I would sooner play in a good British picture than in the majority of American pictures I have seen.


Glynis Johns
Tags: Good Than Would
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I will not be responsible for the loss of the Democratic majority in the United States Senate.


Robert Torricelli
As part of our layered approach, we have expedited the deployment of new Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) units to help detect concealed metallic and non-metallic threats on passengers. These machines are now in use at airports nationwide, and the vast majority of travelers say they prefer this technology to alternative screening measures.
Janet Napolitano
But I think the majority of cows, and even more so chickens and pigs, are leading pretty miserable lives.
Peter Singer
The majority of my family is Auburn fans, and I grew up watching Auburn football, and that's always who I've cheered for.
Katherine Webb
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I guess the President says the majority of the people didn't elect him, he doesn't have to listen to 'em anyway.
Star Jones
Tags: People He Him
Israel is prepared for a compromise. The majority of Israelis understand this compromise will be serious, will be meaningful, and will be painful.
Ehud Olmert
I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
Adam Lambert
The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The majority of decisions in Europe are done by unanimity. That's why it is important to be to have good relations with all parts.
Angela Merkel
It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
'Analyze This' is a good movie because Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal are really good. But without the material to put on the play, of course, they couldn't be good. For me, it starts with the writing. I always think that the writer is doing the vast majority of the director's work, in a sense.
Harold Ramis
Tags: Good Work Me
If you will stay with the majority of the Twelve Apostles, and the records of the Church, you will never be led astray.
Joseph Smith, Jr.
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Not everyone reads comics, although most people know the major superheroes, but the majority of people play video games.
Jim Lee
Tags: People Know Most
A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.
Han Fei
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