#majority

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme. ↗

— Aristotle

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I was arrested in 1965 for opposing the war in Vietnam. There were 39 of us arrested that day. But thousands opposed us. And the majority of the people in the country supported the war then. ↗

— Bill Ayers

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At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#african #communities #fault #live #majority

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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I certainly think that 10 to 20 years from now, clearly the majority of veterinarians will be women. ↗

— Richard Adams

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It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds. ↗

— Samuel Adams

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We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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It's always the minorities who aren't a part of the mainstream who define what the limits... of the majority are going to be. ↗

— Rose Bird

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The vast majority of people who watch baseball can properly call 95% of all plays that happen on the field. My job is to teach you how to call the other 5%. ↗

— Jim Evans

#call #field #happen #how #job

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting distributes an annual appropriation that we provide in accordance with a statutory formula, the vast majority of which goes directly to public radio and television stations. ↗

— Earl Blumenauer

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