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Avowed work, even when uncongenial, is far less trying to patience than feigned pleasure. -- Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed. -- Charles Babbage
No nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils. -- Elihu Root
I'm really not an avowed heterosexual. I'm no more proud of it than of being white or tall. -- George Weinberg
It was also during my tenure of office that the Japanese Government agreed to the conclusion of a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and signed it, pursuing a policy in harmony with the avowed desire of the people. -- Eisaku Sato
I was an avowed professional revolutionary by the time I was 15. -- Boots Riley
Pity a thing often avowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed. -- Charles Caleb Colton
The avowed policy of non-co-operation has been not to make political use of the disputes between labour and capital. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Religion cannot sink lower than when somehow it is raised to a state religion ... It becomes then an avowed mistress. -- Heinrich Heine
An avowed homosexual, that would never be accepted in hockey - never! Because it's a milieu where everyone is often naked. -- Pat Burns
...love rather than fear...this radical philosophy is coming from me, an avowed misanthrope...surely there is hope for us all. -- Bill Hicks
It is still bad taste to be an avowed atheist. But now it is equally bad taste to be an avowed Christian. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The avowed aim of all utopian movements is to put an end to history and to establish a final and permanent calm. -- Ludwig von Mises
A girl's body was a prize. It had to be more than asked for. It had to be earned, worshipped, and avowed. -- Leanna Renee Hieber
Security against foreign danger is one of the primitive objects of civil society. It is an avowed and essential object of the American Union. -- James Madison
I'm an avowed modernist. I'm for the new thing. I came to the conclusion many years ago that rock music is essentially a conservative form. -- Rob Chapman
You don't have to be religious to have a soul; everybody has one. You don't have to be religious to perfect your soul; I have found saintliness in avowed atheists. -- Harold S. Kushner
He who would valiant be against all disaster; let him in constancy follow the Master. There's no discouragement shall make him once relent; his first avowed intent to be a pilgrim. -- John Buchan
Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee. -- Helen Keller
I'm an avowed centrist, and I believe that - centrism is often - it's almost the wrong word to use, because it's often seen as sort of splitting the difference between right and left. -- Tony Blair
Its avowed purpose is to excite sexual desire, which, I should have thought, is unnecessary in the case of the young, inconvenient in the case of the middle aged, and unseemly in the old. -- Malcolm Muggeridge

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