Majority Quotes
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The majority decision constitutionalizes a distinction between a red leather pouch and a paper bag that is necessarily based at least in some part on economic and class differences and perceptions.
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The great majority of people are calm, resourceful, altruistic or even beyond altruistic, as they risk themselves for others. We improvise the conditions of survival beautifully.
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George Bush was not elected by a majority of the voters in the United States. He was appointed by God.
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To succeed as a contrarian you must recognize what the crowd believes, have concrete justification for why the majority is wrong, and have the patience and conviction to stick with what is, by definition, an unpopular bet.
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I always sang Leona Lewis covers, and if you know her songs, she's not just singing your average easy song; she's going off the majority of the time.
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People say I am eccentric and frail. Well, I may be frail in body and hearing, but I hope my state of mind is as alert as ever it was and I am going to speak my mind as freely as I have ever done. I am a common man and I speak for the common people of England and from the letters I receive, the great majority agree with me.
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Whenever a female takes a strong stand for herself, the majority of the time they have to really, really narrow it down to being feminine and wearing dresses and just being lipstick chic.
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How a big majority of book critics and authors have come to believe and to teach that no book is true to life unless it is true to the worst in life, God knows.
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Our world loses out when the leadership doesn't reflect the led - when a minority makes decisions for the majority.
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Today, for many people, being a union member simply means paying dues, but in the early days there were so few of us that if a majority of the members were not active, the union ceased to exist.
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While Zinoviev is in the majority he is for iron discipline.... When he is in the minority... he is against it.
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A law is a law. It can be voted in. It can be voted out. It can be voted in and stay in as long as you have the majority. And where do you have the majority? You kid yourself.
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The real issue at hand is how God is going to respond to a culture when the majority of the people seek to veto Him.
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I am joining the people's football club. The majority of people you meet on the street are Everton fans
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Democracy, or "majority rules," is another trick of our society to force us to do things we don't want to do. Even if we actually lived in a pure democracy (and the system we do live in is not even close), where everyone got a single vote on every subject, forcing the minority to obey the majority is no different to one man, if he had the power, forcing everyone else to do what he wanted them to-simply because he could.
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The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.
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Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority.
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We are against the majority tyrannizing the minority. But we are definitely against the minority tyrannizing the majority.
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The majority of players are looking for reasons to fold. I am looking for reasons to play.
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A majority can do anything.
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Oh, yes--you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side--unfortunately; but right it has not.
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The fundamental principle of our constitution ... enjoins the sense of command, duty that the will of the majority shall prevail.
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I wonder at what point do you stop doing what you think is right and you start doing what the majority of the American people want?
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I would say I'm quite happy in my life the majority of the time. Earlier in my life I was more questioning, overly trying to figure things out. I like this way much better.
