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If 2,000 Tea Party activists descended on Wall Street, you would probably have an equal number of reporters there covering them.


Amy Goodman


#covering #descended #equal #number #party

Will you, my countrymen, the descendants of these men, warmed by their blood, inheriting their language, and having the principles for which they struggled confided to your care, allow them to be violated in your hands?


Joseph Howe


#blood #care #confided #countrymen #descendants

Difficult as it was to hear, slavery has benefited descendants like me - I believe there is a superior athletic gene in us.


Michael Johnson


#believe #benefited #descendants #difficult #gene

The height of the pulleys from the ground was twelve yards, and consequently, when the weights had descended through that distance, they had to be wound up again in order to renew the motion of the paddle.


James Prescott Joule


#consequently #descended #distance #ground #had

I hate a movie that will end by telling you that the first thing you should do is learn to love yourself. That is so insulting and condescending, and so meaningless. My characters don't learn to love each other or themselves.


Charlie Kaufman


#condescending #each #end #first #first thing

Higher income taxes are a razor guillotine poised to descend on the bare neck of prosperity.


Thomas H. Kean


#descend #guillotine #higher #income #income taxes

America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants - if they survive that long - will see.


Alice Walker


#beginning #color #descendants #done #in the beginning

Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?


Walt Whitman


#i #large #me #never #thoughts

Ever since then, all descendant vertebrates have had the forward end of the digestive system and the forward end of the respiratory system very much involved with each other. This manifests itself in the human body with a crossing of the two systems in the throat.


George C. Williams


#crossing #descendant #digestive #each #end

We were descended from royalty.


Natalie Wood


#royalty #were