#rally

There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war. ↗

— George McGovern

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Only the most unapologetic biblical fundamentalists, for instance, take every biblical injunction literally. If we all took all scripture at the same level of authority, then we would be more open to slavery, to the subjugation of women, to wider use of stoning. Jesus himself spoke out frequently against divorce in the strongest of terms. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#authority #divorce #every #frequently #fundamentalists

Forty-five percent of Iraqi citizens think it is morally okay to attack American troops. ↗

— Marty Meehan

#american troops #attack #citizens #forty-five #iraqi

I'm naturally lean and I'm constantly walking. ↗

— Debra Messing

#i #lean #naturally #walking

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#amount #been #character #contained #courage

I do think sometimes people get morally superior without understanding situations. ↗

— Sienna Miller

#i #i do #morally #people #situations

When things come to the worse, they generally mend. ↗

— Susanna Moodie

#generally #mend #things #worse

A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one. ↗

— J. P. Morgan

#generally #good #man #real #reasons

Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are. ↗

— Robert Motherwell

#certain #certain degree #converses #degree #every

Whenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose). ↗

— Haruki Murakami

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