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Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore… — Karen DeCrow
When we were 15, my girlfriend Ruth Kaplan and I applied to the Universidad Ibero-Americana in Mexico City. We were accepted into a program that… — Mary Doria Russell
These poor women in academia have to talk this silly language that nobody can understand in order to be accepted, they think. — Gloria Steinem
The rules and principles of case law have never been treated as final truths but as working hypotheses, continually retested in those great laboratories of… — Benjamin Cardozo
I tried four times to get into the Central School of Speech and Drama before I got accepted. I started when I was 17, which… — Catherine Tate
Poets are accepted in Canada as practically nowhere else in the West because of their place in an officially supported and popularly endorsed Canadian culture.… — George Fetherling
In the late 19th century, the theory that the Aborigines were an inferior race that was doomed to die out became accepted as fact. — Richard Flanagan
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance. — Orville Wright
To begin with, you must realize that any idea accepted by the brain is automatically transformed into an action of some sort. It may take… — Scott Reed
I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little… — Graham Greene
This has not been a legislative process worthy of the Senate. Members of the Judiciary Committee, as I just said, were implored to save their… — Russ Feingold
We have accepted the principle of democracy and we are committed to respect the popular verdict and the result of that national consultation. — Mahmoud Abbas
Noting that Huckleberry Finn was originally both valued and reviled because it shows the reader that the accepted moral code and social hierarchy is not… — Robert Vaughn
All the other chiefs and tribes have accepted the Great Law of Peace. They now live in peace with one another. — Hiawatha
Great was the name of Abraham, but all his Sons were not accepted; only Isaac was in the Covenant. — John Pearson
Love is of that excellent nature, that it is esteemed by the best of men, and accepted from the meanest persons; what then is the… — John Pearson
In 1969, when I graduated from Harvard Law School, women and minorities made up a tiny fraction of the first year associates accepted by top… — Jane Harman
Total falsehoods can be easily exposed for what they are by citing exceptions to their claims. Hence, they are less likely to be accepted as… — Samuel P. Huntington
According to the now almost universally accepted theory, all the races of mankind had a common origin. — Ellsworth Huntington
My father was a Presbyterian minister, working among the poor in West Virginia. He had taken what amounted to a vow of poverty when he… — James Green Somerville

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