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Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.
Friedrich Nietzsche

End, Bad, Someone

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
Aristotle

Good, Art, Thought

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
Erma Bombeck

Football, Dead, Three

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
George Orwell

Great, Enemy, Long

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
George Eliot

Peace, Lives, Election

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Feared, Concealed, Hatreds

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
James Madison

War, Government, Support

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.
John Ruskin

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.
John Ruskin

Long, Rich, Wish

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
Louis D. Brandeis

Done, Before, Impossible

In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East policy.
Robert Mugabe

Times, Started, Policy

As a Zionist youth leader in the 1940s, I was among those who called for a binational state in Mandatory Palestine. When a Jewish state was declared, I felt that it should have the rights of other states - no more, no less.
Noam Chomsky

Leader, Youth, Less

The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got.
George W. Bush

War, United, Terrorists

With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got.
George W. Bush

War, United, Terrorists

He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. On the instant his headlong spirit declared his purpose: this was the one being for him in all the world: at this altar he would light a lamp of devotion, and keep it burning forever.
Gilbert Parker

Him, Goal, Light

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
Gertrude Stein

Patience, Patient

The president has declared that the debate over government-controlled health care is over. That will come as news to the millions of Americans who will elect Mitt Romney so we can repeal Obamacare.
Paul Ryan

Health, Care, President

Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Great, Government, Reality

Climate change was a point of division between Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney. The president declared climate change a global threat, acknowledged that the actions of humanity were deepening the crisis, and pledged to do something about it if elected.
Ron Fournier

Change, Crisis, Humanity

God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.
John Haggai

God, Through, Honor

The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.
John le Carre

War, Long, Before

If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives, including mine.
Arlen Specter

War, Today, Alive

Spiritually, we're all on a path. I haven't declared of defined myself because as soon as you declare yourself you're identifying with a certain dogma.
Emilio Estevez

Yourself, Path, Soon

President Obama said it best during his state of the Union Address this year when he declared: 'I will go anywhere in the world to open new markets for American products. And I will not stand by when our competitors don't play by the rules.'
Ron Wyden

Best, Play, Said

When anarchy is declared, the first thing we do, let's kill all the anarchists.
Craig Bruce

Ruling elders are declared to be the representatives of the people.
Charles Hodge

School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.
Ivan Illich

Life, School, Care

You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.
Ian Mcewan

God, End, Rather

Somehow I think it was declared very early on that I was the - if not the black sheep of the family, not a very good student.
Dustin Hoffman

Family, Good, Black

As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.
Jean Giraudoux

War, Impossible, Hold

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