Pretense Quotes

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• I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. Thomas Jefferson
  Author: Thomas Jefferson Quotes

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  Subject: America and Americans Quotes

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• The divide of race has been America`s constant curse. Each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices. Prejudice and contempt, cloaked in the pretense of religious or political conviction, are no different. They have nearly destroyed us in... Bill Clinton
  Author: Bill Clinton Quotes

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  Subject: Discrimination Quotes :: Prejudice Quotes

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• Hollywood filmmaking has become more and more about power and control. It`s really not about telling stories. That`s just a pretense. But ironically, the fundamental difference between making films in Europe versus America is in how the screenplay is deal... Wim Wenders
  Author: Wim Wenders Quotes

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• It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no difference... Arianna Huffington
  Author: Arianna Huffington Quotes

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• in the studio that went unnoticed for the full hour... Like Matt Cooper, Russert had testified to the grand jury on the Plame affair, yet at no point during the interview did the salient fact sally forth to the viewer. The pretense was uninvolved journali... Anita Mitchell
  Author: Anita Mitchell Quotes

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• If our countries had war the one with the other, that was no cause that he should put us to death; with which they were out of heart that their cruel pretense failed them. For which God be forever-more praised. Will Adams
  Author: Will Adams Quotes

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• I wanted to dismantle any show-business pretense and take this thing straight as a human being, ... So I said, `I`m gonna write this, and where I think I`m great, I`m gonna say it, and where I think I`m not, I`m gonna say it. And I`m gonna try to love and... Rodney Crowell
  Author: Rodney Crowell Quotes

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• I didn`t come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren`t without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good. Sarah Vowell
  Author: Sarah Vowell Quotes

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• For months we have seen the government trying to cling to a pathetic pretense of a cease-fire. Surely Peter Hain can recognize that when live bullets are fired at the police and army, that constitutes a breach of even his definition of a cease-fire. David Ford
  Author: David Ford Quotes

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