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Image of Karl Marx
Advances in science help to delegitimize the rule of kings and the power of the Church.
- Karl Marx
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Image of Drew Barrymore
As a kid I got to like hang out with Stephen King. That was like the highlight of my life. Cause I think he's the raddest human being ever.
- Drew Barrymore
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Image of George R. R. Martin
How much can a crown be worth, when a crow can dine upon a king?
- George R. R. Martin
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Image of George R. R. Martin
The gods don’t care about men, no more than kings care about peasants.
- George R. R. Martin
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Image of Malcolm X
What Martin Luther King is doing is disarming the black people of America of their God-given right and of their natural right.
- Malcolm X
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Image of John Adams
The people, when they have been unchecked, have been as unjust, tyrannical, brutal, barbarous, and cruel, as any king or senate possessed of uncontrollable power. The majority has eternally, and without one exception, usurped over the rights of the minority.
- John Adams
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Image of Bill Maher
Rick Santorum has come out against contraception and against college. He wants us literally to be f**king stupid.
- Bill Maher
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Image of Tim McGraw
The way he shook his hips up there on that stage, but before that fateful day when he left Tennessee all of them were calling him the King.
- Tim McGraw
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Image of Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
But it's me taking a stand for something that means something. And it's for the fighters who are up and coming. It's sort of the same stance Martin Luther King and Malcolm X made, so we could have freedoms, so everybody could tell the world that we're equal. The only thing I'm saying is that we are equal. So if you're not on nothing and I'm not on nothing, then let's go take the test. That's all I'm saying.
- Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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Image of George R. R. Martin
Jon Snow had dreamed of leading men to glory just as King Daeron had, of growing up to be a conqueror. Now he was a man grown and the Wall was his, yet all he had were doubts. He could not even seem to conquer those.
- George R. R. Martin
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Image of George R. R. Martin
An admiral without ships, a hand without fingers, in service of a king without a throne. Is this a knight who comes before us, or the answer to a child's riddle?
- George R. R. Martin
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Image of George Lucas
[In ancient Rome,] why did the senate after killing Caesar turn around and give the government to his nephew? Why did France after they got rid of the king and that whole system turn around and give it to Napoleon? It's the same thing with Germany and Hitler.
- George Lucas
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Image of Malcolm X
During the whole month that negroes were being beaten by police and washed down the sewer with water hoses, Kennedy and - and King was in jail begging for the federal government to intervene, Kennedy's reply was, "No federal statutes have been violated." And it was only when the negroes erupted that Kennedy come on the television with all his old pretty words.
- Malcolm X
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Image of John Adams
The truth is that neither then nor at any former time, since I had attained my maturity in Age, Reading and reflection had I imbibed any general Prejudice against Kings, or in favour of them. It appeared to me then as it has done ever since, that there is a State of Society in which a Republican Government is the best, and in America the only one.
- John Adams
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Image of James Madison
We are teaching the world the great truth that Governments do better without Kings & Nobles than with them.
- James Madison
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Image of George Lucas
The ideals and principles for which Martin Luther King Jr. fought have never been forgotten and are as relevant today as they were 40 years ago.
- George Lucas
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Image of Pedro Calderon de la Barca
To the King, one must give his possessions and his life; but honour is a possession of soul, and the soul is only God's.
- Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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Image of George R. R. Martin
Remember this, boy. All dwarfs may be bastards, yet not all bastards need be dwarfs." And with that he turned and sauntered back into the feast, whistling a tune. When he opened the door, the light from within threw his shadow clear across the yard, and for just a moment Tyrion Lannister stood tall as a king.
- George R. R. Martin
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Image of George R. R. Martin
Now I understand why King Stannis let the wildlings through the Wall. He means for us to eat them.
- George R. R. Martin
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Image of Chris Matthews
B.B. King will be remembered for his impressive skills on the guitar, that King defined the blue genre.
- Chris Matthews
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Image of Chris Matthews
How much he was shaped by being in the hospital so much as a kid. Because he was sick, he was a reader, and because he was a reader, Kennedy had heroes. Because he had heroes, he went into politics. [Kennedy liked Sir Walter Scott, King Arthur's knights, and biographies of political leaders.] If he hadn't been sick, he might have been like everybody else in the family, a jock.
- Chris Matthews
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Image of Martin Luther
Christ will remain a priest and king; though He was never consecrated by any papist bishop or greased by any of those shavelings; but he was ordained and consecrated by God Himself, and by Him anointed.
- Martin Luther
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Image of Herman Melville
Better be secure under one king, than exposed to violence from twenty millions of monarchs, though oneself be one of them.
- Herman Melville
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Image of Peyton Manning
He had a Halloween party and I dressed up as The King. One of the more enjoyable nights I've had. Nobody recognized me. They recognized me, but they recognized me as Elvis. I might have to bring that back to Indianapolis.
- Peyton Manning
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Image of Shirley MacLaine
Fear is concealed in smiles and flashing teeth. 'Please say you still love me,' the kings and queens are really saying. And, when they fare badly, they return to their palaces and sleep fitfully.
- Shirley MacLaine
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Image of Malcolm X
Nonviolence is his, is his method. Well, my objective is the same as [Martin Luther] King's.
- Malcolm X
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Image of George R. R. Martin
If the day comes when you would find me again, give that coin to any man from Braavos, and say these words to him--valar morghulis.
- George R. R. Martin
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Image of George Lucas
He took me from not being able to write a word in terms of writing screenplays to being the king of wooden dialogue.
- George Lucas
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Image of Andrew Marvell
And now, when I have summed up all my store, Thinking (so I myself deceive) So rich a chaplet thence to weave As never yet the King of Glory wore, Alas! I find the serpent old, That, twining in his speckled breast, About the flowers disguised does fold With wreaths of fame and interest.
- Andrew Marvell
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Image of Demetri Martin
Checkers taught me that a King is a man with another man on top of him. But life taught me that that's actually called a Queen.
- Demetri Martin
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Image of Terence McKenna
We want freedom. We want freedom from the constraints of the cycles of the sun and the moon. We want freedom from drought and weather, freedom from the movement of game, the growth of plants, freedom from control from mendacious popes and kings, freedom from ideology, freedom from want. This idea of freeing ourselves has become the compass of the human journey.
- Terence McKenna
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Image of John Adams
The question before the human race is, Whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether Priests and Kings shall rule it by fictitious Miracles? Or, in other words, whether authority is originally in the People? Or whether it has descended for 1800 Years in a succession of Popes and Bishops, or brought down from Heaven by the Holy Ghost in the form of a Dove, in a Phial of holy Oil?
- John Adams
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Image of Rob Lowe
Stephen [King], who wrote the script himself, was on the set [of The Stand], and I was just so fortunate to get to know him. What a wonderful man. He may go down in history as the greatest American writer, pound for pound.
- Rob Lowe
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Image of George R. R. Martin
In King’s Landing, there are two sorts of people. The players and the pieces… Every man’s a piece to start with, and every maid as well. Even some who think they are players." Petyr Baelish
- George R. R. Martin
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Image of George R. R. Martin
This world is twisted beyond hope, when lowborn smugglers must vouch for the honor of kings.
- George R. R. Martin
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Image of Nelson Mandela
Let it never be said by future generations that indifference, cynicism or selfishness made us fail to live up to the ideals of humanism which the Nobel Peace Prize encapsulates. Let the strivings of us all, prove Martin Luther King Jr. to have been correct, when he said that humanity can no longer be tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war.
- Nelson Mandela
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Image of Robin McKinley
She, too, spoke only when the queen or king addressed her first, but she looked searchingly at every supplicant, and her clear face said that she had opinions about everything she heard, and that it was her proud duty to think out those opinions, and make them responsible and coherent.
- Robin McKinley
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Image of Nelson Mandela
It is not the kings and generals that make history, but the masses of the people.
- Nelson Mandela
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