Ceded Quotes
13 quotes by 11 authors
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The press has let the country down. It's taken a very amoral stand, in that essential issues are often portrayed as simply one side says…
— Bruce Springsteen
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And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore baseball's profitability by 'running the…
— John Thorn
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By focusing on such a narrow slice of Nepali life, Ms. Spray and Mr. Velez have ceded any totalizing claim on the truth and instead…
— Manohla Dargis
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The true natural check on absolute democracy is the federal system, which limits the central government by the powers reserved, and the state governments by…
— Lord Acton
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It is a great tragedy that science, this wonderful process for finding out what is true, has ceded the spiritual uplift of its central revelations:…
— Ann Druyan
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The Constitution is not a law, but it empowers the people to make laws... The Constitution tells us what shall not be a lawful tender...…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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A good portion of the airport is on ceded lands, and lease money was paid for that. So the state's collecting lease money because all…
— Neil Abercrombie
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Simultaneously with the establishment of the Constitution, Virginia ceded to the United States her domain, which then extended to the Mississippi, and was even claimed…
— William H. Seward
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And sometimes then he sat with us for an hour or so, sharing our limbo, listening while I read. Books from any shelf, opened at…
— Diane Setterfield
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After four centuries of Spanish rule, Puerto Rico was ceded to the United States in 1898. Residents were granted U.S. citizenship in 1917, and the…
— Pedro Pierluisi
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Land in Hawaii is money. What I'm talking about here is ceded land - land that belonged to the kingdom and was ceded to the…
— Neil Abercrombie
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Experience has ceded to a series of happenings, about which the most we can expect is information.
— Thomas Harrison
Who Wrote These Ceded Quotes
11 authors contributed a total of 13 Ceded Quotes as follows: