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Declaring independence was the most traumatic decision I had to live up to. Because I didn't want to do it. -- Ian Smith
Even if you feel like your debt is just never going to go away, think long and hard before declaring bankruptcy. Declaring bankruptcy means that getting a loan for anything will be next to impossible for the next 10 years. -- Alexa Von Tobel
Declaring our intentions for a safer and kinder world is the obvious first step toward attaining those goals. -- Bryant McGill
Declaring victory without war .. the belief that India gave up the option of war under American pressure is totally wrong. -- Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Voldemort is playing a very clever game. Declaring himself might have provoked open rebellion. Remaining masked has created confusion, uncertainty, and fear. -- J. K. Rowling
A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions. -- Wilson Mizner
I think declaring a no fly zone over foreign soil is tantamount to an act of war. -- Mike Lee
The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war. -- James Madison
There is something mighty suspicious about declaring an emergency for something that has yet to show itself to be a grand pandemic. -- Billy Corgan
Does Greenpeace think it can stop whaling in Antarctica by publicly eating whale meat and declaring it delicious? What are these people thinking? -- Paul Watson
My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value. -- Lance Loud
You got guys now declaring they're ready to play pro ball in their second or third year of high school. It's crazy! They're missing so much. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions. -- Abba Eban
The Sun in London ran a front page declaring my bum a national treasure. I really did laugh at that. Its not like it can actually do anything, except wiggle. -- Kylie Minogue
How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know. -- Thomas Aquinas
Why was the amendment, expressly declaring the right of the people to exclude slavery, voted down? Plainly enough now, the adoption of it would have spoiled the niche for the Dred Scott decision. -- Abraham Lincoln
The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure. -- George Washington
If you're calling yourself a maverick and you're not Dirk Nowitzki, then you are probably not one. In fact, this rule applies to anyone declaring themselves a 'God-fearing Christian' or a 'Man of the people.' -- Adam McKay
When the entertainers of the Right aren't declaring their disgust with President Obama for groveling before foreign potentates, they're pretending to fear him as a left-wing thug, an exemplar of what they call 'the Chicago way.' -- Thomas Frank
Some pacifists have carried the sound idea of the prime importance of security too far, to the point of declaring that any consideration of disarmament is superfluous and pointless as long as eternal peace has not been attained. -- Ludwig Quidde
I began to fear that Mos Def was being treated as a product, not a person, so I've been going by Yasiin since '99. At first it was just for friends and family, but now I'm declaring it openly. -- Mos Def
When you have a crime against humanity that is so awesome in scale and death, it is more than permissible to look around and say, who recently has been declaring war on the United States? Of course, the compass points straight to bin Laden. -- Robert Fisk
My version of 'Georgia' became the state song of Georgia. That was a big thing for me, man. It really touched me. Here is a state that used to lynch people like me suddenly declaring my version of a song as its state song. That is touching. -- Ray Charles
For Mitt Romney, the complex question of anti-Mormon bias boils down to the practical matter of how he can make it go away. Facing a traditional American anti-Catholicism, John F. Kennedy gave a speech during the 1960 presidential campaign declaring his private religion irrelevant to his qualifications for public office. -- Noah Feldman
Before the sacred, people lost all sense of power and all confidence; they occupy a powerless and humble attitude toward it. And yet no thing is sacred of itself, but by declaring it sacred, by my declaration, my judgment, my bending the knee; in short, by my - conscience. -- Max Stirner
Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing! -- Pat Riley
Before the sacred, people lose all sense of power and all confidence; they occupy a powerless and humble attitude toward it. And yet no thing is sacred of itself, but by my declaring it sacred, by my declaration, my judgment, my bending the knee; in short, by my - conscience. -- Max Stirner
Did you hear the one about the elderly Jew on his deathbed who sent for a priest, after declaring to his astonished relatives that 'I want to convert.' Asked why he would become a Catholic, after living all his life as a Jew, he answered: 'Better one of them should die than one of us.' -- Alan King
We speak of 'software eating the world,' 'the Internet of Things,' and we massify 'data' by declaring it 'Big.' But these concepts remain for the most part abstract. It's hard for many of us to grasp the impact of digital technology on the 'real world' of things like rocks, homes, cars, and trees. We lack a metaphor that hits home. -- John Battelle
God is more interested in declaring than explaining. -- Matt Chandler
When declaring your rights, don't forget your responsibilities. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Reason should investigate its own parameters before declaring its omniscience. -- Immanuel Kant
If you want peace in your life, you have to stop declaring war. -- Shannon L. Alder
The governor has a role in terms of declaring a state of emergency. -- Bob Buckhorn
Newspapers write ringing editorials declaring that this is and always was a democracy. -- Robert W. Welch, Jr.
Science is advanced by proposing and testing hypothesis, not by declaring questions unsolvable. -- Nick Matzke
The true gospelstands before the throne of God declaring, 'Jesus did it all.' -- R. C. Sproul, Jr.
A fellow who is always declaring that he's no fool, usually has his suspicions. -- Wilson Mizner
Loudly declaring our soul's desire can get the blood running and our passions blazing. -- Oriah Dreamer
Intelligence is silence, truth is being invisible. But what a racket I make in declaring this. -- Ned Rorem
Reasons for declaring belief is not are not the same as reasons for believing in god. -- Daniel Dennett
When you accept your value and have gratitude you are declaring your worthiness of further receivership. -- Bryant McGill
Walking in humility isn't focusing on what we are NOT; rather, it's declaring what God is. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
We can be encouraged knowing that our daily actions and words are declaring Christ to the world. -- David Jeremiah
So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal... -- Frank Lloyd Wright
Humility is not just declaring that you are not God. It is deciding daily to not be God. -- Darrin Patrick
I would not run as a one-issue candidate. Anybody who does that is declaring himself to be marginal. -- John Bolton
How do you define a poet? It's very simple. Anyone declaring that he is a poet, is a poet. -- Billy Cannon
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Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it. -- Alain de Botton
We are the first to honour the memories of those who perished through slavery, by declaring August 1 as Emancipation Day. -- Anthony Carmona
Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
We have no hesitation in declaring that we are a military nation- in the cause of Kodo and the highest morality. -- Sadao Araki
I keep trying to imagine a universe in which too many public figures declaring themselves feminists would be a bad thing. -- Roxane Gay
To make a point of declaring friendship is to cheapen it. For men's emotions are very rarely put into words successfully. -- Hunter S. Thompson
Since declaring that she would not serve in a second Obama administration, Clinton has dismissed suggestions that she will run in 2016. -- Ron Fournier
The state is a vast enterprise for declaring all sorts of things legal for itself that would be illegal for us. -- Llewellyn Rockwell
The law rarely hesitates in declaring its own meaning; but the Judges are frequently puzzled to find out the meaning of others. -- William Blackstone
I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience. -- Hector Hugh Munro
Montaigne is wrong in declaring that custom ought to be followed simply because it is custom, and not because it is reasonable or just. -- Blaise Pascal
Someone who says "I am busy" is either declaring incompetence (and lack of control of his life) or trying to get rid of you. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
When you say "I am," the words that follow are summoning creation with a mighty force, because you are declaring it to be fact. -- Rhonda Byrne
As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes. -- Abraham Lincoln
One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly. -- Bertolt Brecht
My modesty has prevented me from declaring from the house top that the message of non-co-operation, nonviolence and swadeshi is a message to the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi
For God's will gave men their form, their essence and their abilities. Anyone who destroys His work is declaring war on the Lord's creation, the divine will. -- Adolf Hitler
The instinct for self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of which at bottom they are perfectly aware by declaring them non-existent. -- Stefan Zweig
If wisdom were offered me with the proviso that I should keep it shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should refuse. There's no delight in owning anything unshared. -- Seneca the Younger
It is a testament to our naÃ¯vetÃ© about culture that we think that we can change it by simply declaring new values. Such declarations usually produce only cynicism. -- Peter Senge
We were all imitative. We all wandered in after Miss Edna St. Vincent Millay. We were all being dashing and gallant, declaring we weren't virgins, whether we were or not. -- Dorothy Parker
Racism serves as the cutting edge of the most reactionary movements. An ideology that starts by declaring one human being inferior to another is the slope whose end is at Auschwitz. -- Ken Livingstone
Rampant technolgy eliminates luxury, but not by declaring privilege a human right; rather, it does so by both raising the general standard of living and cutting off the possibility of fulfilment. -- Theodor Adorno
"Cap and trade" is just about the most effective tool for controlling most economic activity short of openly declaring ourselves a communist nation and it's a radical environmentalist's dream come true. -- Walter E. Williams
It is not a question of religion, or of creed, or of party; it is a question of declaring and maintaining the great American principle of eternal separation between Church and State. -- Elihu Root
Managing your money does not depend upon becoming wealthy or declaring vows of poverty. Rather, it is about creating stability and sufficiency - a balanced flow of monetary energy through your life. -- Dan Millman
On this question of war, three things are to be considered. First, the right of declaring it: secondly, the expense of supporting it: thirdly, the mode of conducting it after it is declared. -- Thomas Paine
There can be no freedom for Africa without justice; and no justice without declaring war on Africa's poverty, disease and famine with as much vehemence as we remove the tyrant and the terrorist. -- Tony Blair
What concerns all, should be considered by all; and individuals may injure a whole society, by not declaring their sentiments. It is therefore not only their right, but their duty, to declare them. -- John Dickinson
The power of declaring war being with the Legislature, the Executive should do nothing necessarily committing them to decide for war in preference of non-intercourse, which will be preferred by a great many. -- Thomas Jefferson
If the preaching of our ministers and the practice of our parishioners do not have the same effect on people that Jesus had, then we must not be declaring the same message that Jesus did. -- Timothy Keller
On the Vietnam War: I've lived under situations where every decent man declared war first and I've lived under situations where you don't declare war. We've been flexible enough to kill people without declaring war. -- Lewis Blaine Hershey
The popular tendency is to listen approvingly to the most extreme statements and claims of politicians and orators who seek popularity by declaring their own country right in everything and other countries wrong in everything. -- Elihu Root

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