Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Robert Mueller: Fidelity
“For most of us, fidelity is faithfulness to an obligation, trust, or duty. For the men and women of the FBI, fidelity also means fidelity to country. It means fidelity to justice and the law, fidelity to the Constitution, fidelity to equality and liberty.” —Robert Mueller.
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Roger Stone: Mass media exercise
“The general election is not an organizational exercise – it’s a mass media exercise.” —Roger Stone.
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Charlie Munger: Projections
“To the extent that the method of estimating future cash flow requires projections, I would say that projections, while they’re logically required by the circumstances, on average, do more harm than good in America. Most of them are put together by people who have an interest in a particular outcome. And the subconscious bias that…
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John Paul II: Right to life
“How can one morally accept laws that permit the killing of a human being not yet born, but already alive in the mother’s womb? The right to life becomes an exclusive prerogative of adults who even manipulate legislatures in order to carry out their own plans and pursue their own interests.” —John Paul II.
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Howard Dean: Abortion not the issue
“The issue is not abortion. The issue is whether women can make up their own mind instead of some right-wing pastor, some right-wing politician telling them what to do.” —Howard Dean.
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Christiane Northrup: Moot
“If we lived in a culture that valued women’s autonomy and in which men and women practiced cooperative birth control, the abortion issue would be moot.” —Christiane Northrup.
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Lisa Edelstein: To the back alley
“Decades ago, women suffered through horrifying back-alley abortions. Or, they used dangerous methods when they had no other recourse. So when the Republican Party launched an all-out assault on women’s health, pushing bills to limit access to vital services, we had to ask: Why is the GOP trying to send women back…to the back alley?”…
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Karl Kraus: Uncommitted abortions
“Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.” —Karl Kraus.
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George Carlin: Omelet
“How come when it’s us, it’s an abortion, and when it’s a chicken, it’s an omelet?” —George Carlin.
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Germaine Greer: Contraception is abortion
“These days contraception is abortion, because the third generation pills cannot be shown to prevent sperm fertilizing an ovum… Intra-uterine devices, medicated or not, work by creating inflammation of the uterus, often accompanied by infection; women who accepted them as contraceptive devices were actually being equipped with a do-it-yourself abortionist’s tool. The outcome was frequent…
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Degrading to women
“When we consider that women are treated as property, it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.” – Elizabeth Cady Stanton(1815-1902).
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Reverend Jesse Jackson: Deal with mother’s values
“The solution [to a crisis pregnancy] is not to kill the innocent baby but to deal with the mother’s values and her attitudes toward life.” —Rev. Jesse Jackson.
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Oscar Romero: Moves one’s heart to think
“It moves one’s heart to think: Nine months before I was born there was a woman who loved me deeply. She did not know what I was going to be like, but she loved me because she carried me in her womb. And when she gave me birth, she took me in her arms, because…
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Harrison Hickman: Pictures of developing fetus
“Probably nothing has been as damaging to our cause as the advances in technology which have allowed pictures of the developing fetus, because people now talk about the fetus in much different terms than they did 15 years ago. They talk about it as a human being, which is not something that I have an…
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Martin Luther King Jr: Conscience
“Cowardice asks the question, ‘is it safe?’; expediency asks the question, ‘is it politic?’; vanity asks the question, ‘is it popular?’; but conscience asks the question, ‘is it right?’; and there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but because conscience tells one it is…
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G K Chesterton: Whole and half truths
“The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Evolution and progress
“Obviously Evolution is the opposite of Progress. For Evolution means that man changes to fit the world; whereas Progress means that man forces the world to fit him.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Theology
“Theology is only the element of reason in religion; the reason that prevents it from being a mere emotion.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Perfect pleasure
“The only perfect pleasure in life is the pleasure of fighting for something in which one passionately believes.” —G K Chesterton.
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Paulo Coelho: Pain
“Is it possible to avoid pain? Yes, but you’ll never learn anything. Is it possible to know something without ever having experiencing it? Yes, but it will never truly be part of you.” —Paulo Coelho.
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Debra W Haffner: Schism
“The extreme public controversies around abortion in America create the impression that a schism exists between the pro-choice movement and communities of faith: one side is denounced as sinful, the other written off as fanatics. Those of us who count ourselves as both religious and pro-choice know this kind of oversimplification is dangerous, because it…
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Ellen DeGeneres: Serial killer
“Accept who you are. Unless you’re a serial killer.” —Ellen DeGeneres.
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Robert Service: Conserve your energies
“Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out – it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.” —Robert Service, writer (16 Jan 1874-1958).
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Pierre Choderlos de Laclos: Ridiculousness
“One’s ridiculousness increases in proportion as one denies it.” —Pierre Choderlos de Laclos.
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Peter Kreeft: Responsibility
“Abortion is the insurance against that fate worse than death which is called a family. Our no-fault insurance has removed our responsibility for car accidents, and no-fault divorce has removed our responsibility for marriage accidents; why should abortion not be our no-fault sexual insurance policy that removes our responsibility for sex accidents?” —PETER Kreeft.
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Margaret Sanger: No woman can call herself free
“No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.” —MARGARET Sanger.
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Victor Heylen: Utilitarianism of abortion
“Once you pass into the utilitarianism of abortion, where do you go? Why do you kill an unborn child after six months and not old people or not criminals or not just every second person in the world?” —VICTOR HEYLEN.
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George H W Bush: Favor adoption
“I haven’t sorted out the penalties. But I do know, I do know that I oppose abortion. And I favor adoption. And if we can get this law changed, everybody should make the extraordinary effort to take these kids that are unwanted and sometimes aborted, take the — let them come to birth, and then…
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Bryan Fischer: Sacrifice to demons
“When a nation sacrifices innocent children in abortion or infanticide, that is a sacrifice to demons, it’s like food for demons…. that act of the shedding of innocent blood, the most innocent among us, it empowers satanic forces, it energizes satanic forces, it gives them the legal right to be at work in our culture,…
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Dave Neese: Comforting insurance policy
“Abortion exists as a comforting insurance policy against a disruptive teen pregnancy in the family. Or a career-interfering pregnancy. Or a late surprise pregnancy after the family had been completed (or so it was thought). Abortion serves convenience, or at least the avoidance of inconvenience. Abortion offers a quick, easy, largely safe way out of…
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Max Frisch: Man plans
“It is always the moralists who do the most harm. Abortion is the logical outcome of civilization, only the jungle gives birth and moulders away as nature decrees. Man plans.” —MAX FRISCH.
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Gloria Feldt: Equal basis with men
“When you peel back the layers of the anti-choice motivation, it always comes back to two things: What is the nature and purpose of human sexuality? And second, what is the role of women in the world? Sex and the role of women are inextricably linked, because if you can separate sex from procreation, you…
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Tammy Bruce: Failure of feminist establishment
“I am pro-choice, but I find that abortion is a failure of the feminist establishment. With every kind of birth control available in the world, abortion is not something to be proud of. If you need an abortion, you’ve failed.” —TAMMY BRUCE, speech at Columbia University, Apr. 6, 2005.
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Hillary Clinton: Pro-choice
“I have met thousands and thousands of pro-choice men and women. I have never met anyone who is pro-abortion. Being pro-choice is not being pro-abortion. Being pro-choice is trusting the individual to make the right decision for herself and her family, and not entrusting that decision to anyone wearing the authority of government in any…
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Florynce R Kennedy: If men could get pregnant
“If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.” —FLORYNCE R. KENNEDY, Ms., Mar. 1973.
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Joseph Bonkowski: Babies can’t vote
“Abortion is legal because babies can’t vote.” —JOSEPH BONKOWSKI, Quote Me.
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Stella Browne: Survival of the veiled face
“What is this ban on abortion? It is a survival of the veiled face, of the barred window and the locked door, burning, branding, mutilation, stoning, of all the grip of ownership and superstition come down on woman, thousands of years ago.” —STELLA BROWNE, attributed, The Sexual Dynamics of History.
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Dr. Seuss: No matter how small
“A person is a person no matter how small.” —DR. SEUSS, Horton Hears a Who.
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Frederica Mathewes-Green: Animal caught in a trap
“No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its own leg.” —FREDERICA MATHEWES-GREEN.
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Mother Teresa: Not teaching people to love
“Any country that accepts abortion is not teachings its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want.” —Mother Teresa.
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Thomas Jefferson: Care of human life
“The care of human life and not its destruction is the first and only object of good government.” —Thomas Jefferson.
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Mother Teresa: Lost its soul
“The nation that kills its children in the womb has lost its soul.” —Mother Teresa.
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Ronald Reagan: The unborn
“We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life – the unborn – without diminishing the value of all human life.” —Ronald Reagan, former U.S. President.
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Thomas Merton: Biggest human temptation
“The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.” —Thomas Merton.
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G K Chesterton: Religion and politics
“It would be a good thing if religion thought a little more about this world — and if politics thought a little more about the other.” —G K Chesterton.
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Nicole Kidman: More happiness
“When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.” —Nicole Kidman.
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Keith Urban: Different priorities
“I think everybody has different priorities in their life. People live their lives differently. People become famous through all sorts of different reasons… some of it through art and some of it through just wanting to be famous. And I think how that all starts tends to reflect how you live your life daily.” —Keith…
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Julia Michaels: Makes them look weak
“I think that women are afraid to be vulnerable because they think it makes them look weak.” —Julia Michaels.
