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  • Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall take flack from both sides."- Unofficial UN Motto -- Robert Asprin
  • America has two national budgets, one official, one unofficial. -- Matt Taibbi
  • A typical native New Yorker, I'm prone to wearing the city's unofficial sartorial color: black. -- Amanda Hearst
  • Americans have an expectation that the Postal Service will abide by its well-known, although unofficial, motto - a commitment to deliver. -- John M. McHugh
  • A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin. -- Rand Paul
  • I am a very big proponent of opening the borders with India. Most of our trade is done through unofficial channels. Why not open the trade? -- Mian Muhammad Mansha
  • From 1971 onwards, the Memorial Day holiday was officially observed on the last Monday in May and became the unofficial start of the summer, with barbecues, blockbuster movie openings and mattress sales. -- Allen West
  • Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful. -- Philip K. Dick
  • On the unofficial level it was a glorious moment in our national life because young people decided that this had to stop, that they could no longer stand the shedding of blood in this tragic adventure in Southeast Asia. -- William Kunstler
  • Some countries have good laws, laws which could stem the tide of HIV. The problem is that these laws are flouted. Because stigma gives unofficial license to treat people living with HIV or those at greatest risk unlike other citizens. -- Shereen El Feki
  • I'm not a party animal; I took my job as Miss USA very seriously... Sometimes, of course, I want to let it all go. Even though I'm a beauty queen, you're also an unofficial ambassador, and there's a lot of pressure. -- Rima Fakih
  • By very conservative estimates, Turkish repression of Kurds in the 1990s falls in the category of Kosovo. It peaked in the early 1990s; one index is the flight of more than a million Kurds from the countryside to the unofficial Kurdish capital, Diyarbakir, from 1990 to 1994, as the Turkish army was devastating the countryside. -- Noam Chomsky
  • Some people call me the unofficial mayor of Castro Street. -- Harvey Milk
  • I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious. -- Larry Wall
  • Greetings, cybernuts! This is I.B. Nosey, your official unofficial reporter! -- I.B. Nosey
  • Hollywood in many ways serves as the unofficial ministry of propaganda for the United States. -- Nguyen Viet Thang
  • Pigs are very intelligent. They're very misunderstood. Yet they're sort of man's unofficial best friend. -- Herbert
  • I have named myself an unofficial ambassador for Australia and I have the biggest mouth on Earth. -- Oprah Winfrey
  • There are 22 million people who have, some point in time, played hooky from work or school, so it's already an unofficial holiday, -- Ozzie Smith
  • Every citizen of the republic ought to consider himself an unofficial policeman, and keep unsalaried watch and ward over the laws and their execution. -- Mark Twain
  • In the West, since the collapse of communism and the fall of the Soviet Union, the one discipline both the official and unofficial cultures have united in casting aside has been history. -- Tariq Ali
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