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It was the Congress that imposed 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' it was certainly my position, my recommendation to get us out of an even worse outcome that could have occurred. ↗

— Colin Powell

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The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power. ↗

— Colin Powell

#also #council #demands #doubted #enforced

No one had ever told me that whites were supposed to sing one kind of music and blacks another - I sang what I liked in the only voice I had. ↗

— Charley Pride

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In plain words: now that Britain has told the world that she has the H-Bomb she should announce as early as possible that she has done with it, that she proposes to reject in all circumstances nuclear warfare. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#britain #circumstances #done #early #now

Do not look down with disdain on what Christ spent so much to achieve for you. ↗

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#agu-jaachynma-n-e #dreams #fulfilling-purpose #higher-life #higher-living

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#happiness #hardly #make #other #possible

You know, even people who talk about cutting spending and they go 'That's not the spending that I was actually talking about that you're supposed to be cutting.' Well, we have to be looking across the board. ↗

— Ben Quayle

#across #actually #board #cutting #even

The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#acceptable #argument #doctrinaire #foolish #idea

I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for posterity when I'm 75. ↗

— Zachary Quinto

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