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But I contend that if we're providing total medical coverage for every man, woman, and child in Iraq, shouldn't we at least be doing the same thing for every man, woman, and child in the United States? ↗


— Tony Campolo


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I had this spooky psychological thing about 'The Piano' before it began, which was how everybody was going to go nuts on the set. Because a film tends to set up the way people are going to behave. ↗


— Jane Campion


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I contend that Bush would be a lot more moderate if there weren't some fundamentalists breathing down his neck every time he wants to establish the state of Israel, every time he wants to do justice for the Palestinian people. ↗


— Tony Campolo


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I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment. ↗


— Tony Campolo


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There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange. ↗


— Elias Canetti


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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner. ↗


— John Updike


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Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone. ↗


— Deepak Chopra


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By adopting the other trade, we place ourselves by the side of those whose measures tend not only to the improvement of their own subjects, but to the emancipation of the slave everywhere. ↗


— Henry Charles Carey


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In the period from 1824 to 1833, the tendency was steadily in the former direction, but it was only in the latter part of it that it was made really efficient. ↗


— Henry Charles Carey


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In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been efficient, and at others not; and our tendency toward freedom or slavery has always been in the direct ratio of its efficiency or inefficiency. ↗


— Henry Charles Carey


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