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Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. ↗

— George Orwell

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But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience' sake; and from my soul I despise all those whose guilt, malice, or folly has made them my foes. ↗

— James Otis

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And I hereby distinctly and emphatically declare that I consider myself, and earnestly desire to be considered by others, as utterly divested, now and during the rest of my life, of any such rights, the barbarous relics of a feudal, despotic system. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

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Iran also has an extensive missile development programme. Iranian officials declare that the range of their modified Shahab-3 missiles is 2,000km, putting allied countries such as Turkey, Greece, Romania, and Bulgaria within reach. ↗

— Anders Fogh Rasmussen

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I declare that I will establish peace in this world. ↗

— Prem Rawat

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If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed. ↗

— William Winwood Reade

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We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

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So I wanted to sing inspirational music, and that's exactly how I approached it - only the words have been changed to declare my relationship with God. ↗

— Smokey Robinson

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When the armistice was declared American forces had fought their way to Sedan. ↗

— Kelly Miller

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