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The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. (Quote by - Honore de Balzac)

From watching the news one would think the Iraqis want us out of their country. But an overwhelming majority of Iraqis support our involvement there. Our freedom is contagious and we helped liberate them. (Quote by - Jim Bunning)

After embracing Islam in 1977, I considered the majority of underprivileged dark-skinned people of the so-called Third World brothers and sisters in humanity. (Quote by - Yusuf Islam)

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return. (Quote by - Gore Vidal)

The majority of the people are trying to keep their heads up. [But] some are really depressed, We're looking forward to coming out of the freezer. (Quote by - Anita Tucker)

It doesn't mean that the majority of the Iranian people think like that. They are staying in their homes. They are not on the streets. (Quote by - Mehrangiz Kar)

The majority of our petitions were already filed before today, so it was really quite quiet. We had some company, but basically they were incumbents who had no opposition, holding their breath for the deadline. That was all the company we had. (Quote by - Ann Beard)

Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. (Quote by - Mark Twain)

Democracy with its semi-civilization sincerely cherishes junk. The artist's power should be spiritual. But the power of the majority is material. When these worlds meet occasionally, it is pure coincidence. (Quote by - Paul Klee)

In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)

The vast majority, who believe in astrology and think that the planets have nothing better to do than form a code that will tell them whether tomorrow is a good day to close a business deal or not, become all the more excited and enthusiastic about t (Quote by - Isaac Asimov)

They're Major League hitters. You make a mistake, they make you pay. (Quote by - Jose Lima)

Today the majority of South Africans, black and white, recognize that apartheid has no future. It has to be ended by our own decisive mass action in order to build peace and security. The mass campaign of defiance and other actions of our organizatio (Quote by - Nelson Mandela)

As for our majority one is enough. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)

The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions. Dante's is one of those that one can only just hope to grow up to at the end of life. (Quote by - T.S. Eliot)

Big-money donors have realized this is going to be a key election, where majority control of the House could potentially be up for grabs. (Quote by - Alex Knott)

It makes you feel good when you win those major preps. It makes you feel like you have a legitimate chance. It's just that I've been getting better horses. I'm in a good place, and I have good 3-year-olds. (Quote by - Bob Baffert)

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it. (Quote by - Charlotte Bronte)

It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself. (Quote by - Sandra Day O'Conner)

During the majority of his waking hours he is in close association with his pupils, who are admittedly his inferiors, and so he rapidly acquires the familiar, self-satisfied professorial attitude of mind (Quote by - Henry Louis Mencken)

In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority (Quote by - James Madison)

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking. (Quote by - A. A. Milne)

When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority (Quote by - Charles R. Swindoll)

If the fools do not control the world, it isn't because they are not in the majority (Quote by - Edgar Watson Howe)

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