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Our democracy's history is littered with names we neither remember nor celebrate - people who stood in the way of progress while protecting the powerful.… — Gabrielle Giffords
The passing of time and all of its crimes is making me sad again. The passing of time and all of its sickening crimes is… — Steven Morrissey
Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into two perfect halves.… — Helen Garner
Everybody who served in John Kerry's boat under his command, save one, has stood with him. — Mark Shields
In the annals of science fiction, where dystopias rule the imaginative roost, Star Trek stood nearly alone in telling us that our future would be… — Charles Shaar Murray
In fact, if Christ himself stood in my way, I, like Nietzsche, would not hesitate to squish him like a worm. — Che Guevara
I stood checked for a moment - awe, not fear, fell upon me - and whist I stood, a solemn wind began to blow, the… — Thomas de Quincey
For me, Duke was personal. I hated Duke. And I hated everything I felt Duke stood for. Schools like Duke didn't recruit players like me.… — Jalen Rose
Apple stood for something and had a reason for being that wasn't just about making money. — Jonathan Ive
Apple was very close to bankruptcy and to irrelevance [but] you learn a lot about life through death, and I learnt a lot about vital… — Jonathan Ive
I always stood for the elimination of conflict and wars, and any of those causes that ignite them. — Cat Stevens
That is entirely fitting I'm sure, but I personally can't get over the memory of 2005. When Michael Jackson stood essentially alone and accused and… — Geraldo Rivera
In our society, it's been the men who've handled most of the finances, and the women who've stood by and watched men botch things up. — Peter Lynch
Thomas Edison dreamed of a lamp that could be operated by electricity, began where he stood to put his dream into action, and despite more… — Napoleon Hill
Listen: there was once a king sitting on his throne. Around Him stood great and wonderfully beautiful columns ornamented with ivory, bearing the banners of… — Hildegard of Bingen
I've stood my ground in life, alone, even against overwhelming forces with the might and money to crush me. — Tatum O'Neal
In 1933-34, the Belgians conducted a census in order to issue â€˜ethnicâ€™ identity cards, which labelled every Rwandan as either Hutu (85%) of Tutsi (14%)… — Philip Gourevitch
No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion. — Robert Peel
I would just love to have gone and stood in the Kop. — Kenny Dalglish
They [photographs] teach you about your own unraveling past, or about the immediacy of yesterday. They show you what you look at. If you take… — Joel Meyerowitz

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