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The most obvious and condescending tell-tale sign that manipulation is taking place is that no one takes responsibility for the actions of the administration, its always some other department who is to blame and never the people who have authority, its always some nameless foot-soldiers, a few bad apples, when we all know that such excuses dont hold water, we know who gave the order for soldiers to engage in the abhorrent techniques of torture, we know who told subordinates in the corporation(s) to fudge the numbers and be creative, we know full well who makes these decisions. President Truman said, The buck stops here, now the buck effectively floats over many people never stopping anywhere, so theres no one to blame. Teresa Stover
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I abhor anything that constitutes torture. Water-boarding, it's perfectly clear to me it is torture. I never supported extraordinary rendition to torture, always said that Guantanamo should be closed. There is no clash of ideals and pragmatism there. David Miliband
abhors fill fully mind people vacuum
The reason people turn to supernatural explanations is that the mind abhors a vacuum of explanation. Because we do not yet have a fully natural explanation for mind and consciousness, people turn to supernatural explanations to fill the void. Michael Shermer
abhors founding less means origin stands staying
There is nothing more inimical to writing than the spirit of fundamentalism. Fundamentalism abhors the play of signs, the endlessness of writing. Fundamentalism means nothing more or less than going back to an origin and staying there. It stands for one founding book and, thereafter, no more books. J. M. Coetzee
abhorrent address behavior crime type
There should be a crime that addresses the degradation of this young lady, and we need to come up with a statute to address this type of abhorrent behavior in the future. Attorney Morano
abhorrent absolutely compromise interests national security
Jeopardizing the national security interests of the U.S. is absolutely abhorrent to me, and I would never do anything to compromise those interests, Martin Indyk
abhorrent act art cannot goes michael touch unseen work
I feel I cannot touch humanity, even in thought, it is abhorrent to me. But a work of art is an act of faith, as Michael Angelo says, and one goes on writing, to the unseen witnesses. D. H. Lawrence
abhors compel ideas man patriotism sinful subsidize taxes
To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. Thomas Jefferson
abhor blood count innocent scientific
I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence. Mahatma Gandhi
major number people products small
People shouldn't overreact. It's a very small number of products and not major brands. Kevin Keane
major syrian
The Syrian acquisition is a major breakthrough for us. Subir Raha
majority able should
A majority of senators should be able to adopt rules at the beginning of each Congress. Tom Udall
majority speak individual
Just as the right to speak and the right to refrain from speaking are complementary components of a broader concept of individual freedom, so also the individual's freedom to choose his own creed is the counterpart of his right to refrain from accepting the creed established by the majority. John Paul Stevens
majority ends rejects
Since the majority of me Rejects the majority of you, Debating ends forthwith, and we Divide.'' Philip Larkin Philip Larkin
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Beads were one of this spring's major trends. Ritu Kumar
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My hometown was one of the major U.S. Air Force bases. Ang Lee
major
Now, we've also got new major fundraising efforts. Jim Ford
major
Growing up, I always dreamed of winning a major championship. Jeev Milkha Singh
religion firsts whiskey
Which would you part with first -- your tobacco, your whiskey, or your religion? Brigham Young
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Religion and politics are supposed to be separate. Eleanor Clift
religion important nationality
The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life. Eleanor Roosevelt
religion technique sole
Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values. Allen Tate
religion followers type
No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers. Alfred North Whitehead
religion atheism lasts
Religion is the last refuge of human savagery. Alfred North Whitehead
religion vertebrates
God: a gaseous vertebrate. Aldous Huxley
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In fact, nothing in science as a whole has been more firmly established by interwoven factual information, or more illuminating than the universal occurrence of biological evolution. Further, few natural processes have been more convincingly explained than evolution by the theory of natural selection, or as it has been popularly called, Darwinism. E. O. Wilson
religion dogma christ
So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma. Christy Turlington
totally
I wanted to do something totally out of the ordinary, Amy Jordan
totally white
And the White House, totally off the script. Keith Olbermann
totally wear
They tell us in magazines and in ads, 'Oh, you should look like this, you should wear this, you should look like this movie star, or you're nothing.' And so we're all totally unsatisfied. Marcia Gay Harden
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We have 26,000 genes. But a blind, millimetre-long roundworm with only 959 cells in total already has over 19,000. Iain McGilchrist
totally
I think we'll get a lot of people. I could be totally wrong, but I think we'll get a lot of people. Cindy Christensen
totally wolves
It's totally inappropriate for wolves to be that close. Carolyn Sime
totally
It's totally devastating, the way things went down. James Shuler
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This is totally unacceptable. This is going to have to be fixed, and right now. Alan Mosley
total viewpoint
Our viewpoint is that this (opinion) is a total side-step of the will of the people. Bill Hamilton