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• I swear allegiance to the Republic of Sudan.

  

  Salva Kiir Mayardit
  • Swear
  • Republic
  • Sudan

• As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.

  

  Ja Rule
  • God
  • Religion
  • Feel

• The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Control
  • Mistake

• As chief elections officer, it's my job to protect the integrity of the ballot.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Job
  • Integrity
  • Protect

• I just get focused on whatever is in front of me. When I was filming Crossroads, it had all my focus. Now I'm all focused on finishing my recording so I can get that out. It's just day by day.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Me
  • Day
  • Focus

• When I went into the Montreal Games, nobody expected much out of me.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Me
  • Games
  • Nobody

• Only let it be in the name of Jesus Christ, that I may suffer together with Him! I endure everything because He Himself, Who is perfect man, empowers me.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • May
  • Together
  • Man

• I have a handicap in that English is not my first language. So even though I'm a writer, I don't write anymore because it's just harder in English.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • English
  • Language
  • Write

• People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands.

  

  Abbe Pierre
  • People
  • Up
  • Truth

• Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Religion
  • Recognition

• If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.

  

  Nancy Horan
  • School
  • High
  • Day

• In the calculus of western interests, there is no suffering, whatever its scale, which cannot be justified. Chechens, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis are of little importance.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Suffering
  • Importance
  • Scale

• I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • Opportunity
  • Environment
  • Speak

• I've always been torn between the pure and the social sciences.

  

  Ian Goldin
  • Always
  • Pure
  • Sciences

• The idea that somebody is going to come in and make your debt go away and all be well for the future is really a fantasy.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Future
  • Idea
  • Debt

• I love to eat. If I could eat everything in the world and still be healthy or wouldn't catch a heart attack or stroke, I'd eat everything. I just can't. So I got to watch my health and take care of my family.

  

  Fat Joe
  • World
  • Family
  • Health

• Opposition to abortion was one of the ways the Christian right was brought into the Republican Party by conservatives hoping to move the party further right. Now, of course, the tail is wagging the dog.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Party
  • Christian
  • Dog

• When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Land
  • Over
  • Edge

• I don't enjoy doing the daily stuff... but I would love to do something like the series that I did on 'Change India.' That was not just news. The programme was based in public policy, so that kind of influences change.

  

  Raghav Bahl
  • Love
  • Change
  • Daily

• I spent a good amount of my time - like a lot of guys my age - obsessing and blowing things up with G.I. Joes. I know it well.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• Our first challenge is to ensure safety of pilgrims, and we will use modern technology for that. We will strengthen our telecom network and will provide special mobile apps to the pilgrims at the time of registration.

  

  Harish Rawat
  • Time
  • Technology
  • Challenge

• The foremost, or indeed the sole condition which is required in order to succeed in centralizing the supreme power in a democratic community, is to love equality, or to get men to believe you love it. Thus the science of despotism, which was once so complex, is simplified, and reduced as it were to a single principle.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Power

• Freedom, that's the kind of power I'm interested in. When we help each other get free, then it's not about anybody being on top or anybody being on the bottom. It's about being together, in a community.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Help
  • Freedom
  • Community

• The poetry community here has been extraordinarily welcoming.

  

  George Murray
  • Community
  • Poetry
  • Here