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“Nonviolence is one of those immutable principles that we cannot and must not deviate from.”

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Too many people struggled, suffered, and died to make it possible for every American to exercise their right to vote.

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The vote is precious. It's almost sacred, so go out and vote like you never voted before.

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My position is very, very simple. That I fought too long and too hard against discrimination based on race and color, not to stand…

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Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished…

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Love is who we are, and when we deviate from that love we're deviating from our ultimate, essential, eternal reality.

Marianne Williamson

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I did not come to power to divide Somali but to unite them, and I will never deviate from this path. I shall respect…

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I want to be able to write, that's my first love and I don't want to deviate from it even though I probably could…

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Somedays the line I walk turns out to be straight - Other days the line tends to deviate.

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Decisions are constantly before us. To make them wisely, courage is needed-the courage to say no, the courage to say yes. Decisions do determine…

Thomas S. Monson

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It's important to have a plan, a big picture. You can deviate from it or change it completely, but it gives you something to…

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“Do not drift to deviate in life for tears, instead steer with the right gear of clarity, focus, and purpose; That is where the…

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A horizontal or vertical line lacks energy, compared with one that deviates from either. The difference between these graphic expressions is the difference between…

Walter J. Phillips

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Now although man is created for the possession of happiness, yet, having deviated from his true end, his nature has become deformed and is…

Catherine of Genoa

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Turkey's path toward Europe started back in 1959, almost 50 years ago. But we have been pushed to the side ever since. Despite all…

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Thwarted, or starved, in the important objects proper to young capacities, the boys and young men naturally find or invent deviant objects for themselves.…

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