#clare

I Kenneth Robert Livingstone, having been elected to the office of mayor of London, declare that I take that office upon myself, and will duly and faithfully fulfil the duties of it to the best of my judgement and ability. ↗

— Kenneth Robert Livingstone

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Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#anyone #apple #bad #declared #else

And I hereby distinctly and emphatically declare that I consider myself, and earnestly desire to be considered by others, as utterly divested, now and during the rest of my life, of any such rights, the barbarous relics of a feudal, despotic system. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

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You serve a greater cause. Your life is not yours to throw away (Magnus Bane) ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clockwork-prince #devices #infernal #infernal-devices #life

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#becomes #breaking #crack #crime #criminals

I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into the question of slavery, in either of its subdivisions or forms. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#declare #drawn #driven #either #forms

When the armistice was declared American forces had fought their way to Sedan. ↗

— Kelly Miller

#declared #forces #fought #had #their

Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal. ↗

— Val Kilmer

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In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, 'That is mine!'. ↗

— Abraham Kuyper

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Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#before #declares #down #even #his