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Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive. ↗

— Serj Tankian

#live #make #pretending #us

There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their color. ↗

— Major Taylor

#always #battle #because #color #dreadful

The only pressure I'm under is the pressure I've put on myself. ↗

— Mark Messier

#myself #only #pressure #put #under

I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy. ↗

— Lord Hailsham

#expression #freedom #freedom of expression #functioning #i

Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#any #both #decided #desirable #experience

I've been looking at some video clips on YouTube of President Obama - then candidate Obama - going through Iowa making promises. The gap between his promises and his performance is the largest I've seen, well, since the Kardashian wedding and the promise of 'til death do we part. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#between #candidate #clips #death #gap

Mr. President, you were elected to lead. You chose to follow. And now it's time for you to get out of the way. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#elected #follow #get #lead #mr

There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligation to help the younger musicians. ↗

— Dave Van Ronk

#even #felt #help #jazz #likable

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#long #long time #past #present #takes

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer "Present" or "Not guilty." ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#call #guilty #know #not guilty #present