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Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized.
Ambrose Bierce
Opinion
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Another
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Vote
And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
James Madison
Religion
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Government
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Past
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
Simone de Beauvoir
Life
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Living
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Dying
It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.
John Ruskin
Simple
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Sacrifice
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Place
The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.
Orson Welles
Stage
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Laws
A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.
Benjamin Disraeli
Time
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Career
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May
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
Barbara Kingsolver
War
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Pain
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Spiritual
There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger.
Anna Quindlen
Good
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Control
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Talk
I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.
Vincent Van Gogh
Life
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God
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Power
One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.
Horace
Different
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Another
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Left
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
Kin Hubbard
Happiness
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Hard
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Pretty
If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
Keith Richards
Might
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Feet
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Authority
Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.
Tryon Edwards
Good
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Hope
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Sacrifice
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
Joseph Addison
Truth
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Stupid
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Side
The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.
Robert E. Lee
War
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Wisdom
,
Might
Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.
Samuel Butler
Life
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Money
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Women
But life inevitably throws us curve balls, unexpected circumstances that remind us to expect the unexpected. I've come to understand these curve balls are the beautiful unfolding of both karma and current.
Carre Otis
Life
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Beautiful
,
Karma
While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.
Bryant H. McGill
Happiness
,
Hope
,
Failure
I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.
Julius Caesar
Long
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Enough
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Lived
Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.
William S. Burroughs
Money
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Woman
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Old
If we don't get gun-control laws in this country, we are full of beans. To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States is pathetic. And I agree with Mayor Michael Bloomberg: It's time to put up or shut up about gun control for both parties.
Harvey Weinstein
Time
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Control
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Country
I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.
Douglas MacArthur
Men
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War
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Friend
Owning a home is a keystone of wealth - both financial affluence and emotional security.
Suze Orman
Home
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Emotional
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Security
I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.
John Keats
Death
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Two
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Same
Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
Jesse Jackson
Change
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Sympathy
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Different
Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you.
Edwin Louis Cole
God
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Best
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Enemy
The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.
Ben Okri
Away
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Attention
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Common
To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Heart
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Give
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Same
Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
Horace
Good
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Writing
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Sense
When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.
Plutarch
Strong
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Friends
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Door
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