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It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it. ↗

— David H. Souter

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I believe the military should be wary of diplomacy until war is declared; then the State Department should keep its nose out and let the military do whatever is necessary to win. ↗

— Stuart Symington

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I have often talked with angels on this subject, and they have invariably declared that in heaven they are unable to divide the Divine into three, because they know and perceive that the Divine is One and this One is in the Lord. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

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Peace was declared, but not all of us were drunk with joy or stricken blind. ↗

— George Grosz

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When anarchy is declared, the first thing we do, let's kill all the anarchists. ↗

— Craig Bruce

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The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got. ↗

— George W. Bush

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Had the United States not acted in Iraq, Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi would likely not have declared his weapons programs, submitted to international inspections and voluntarily dismantled its programs. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

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You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

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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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Ruling elders are declared to be the representatives of the people. ↗

— Charles Hodge

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