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«Others are writing my biography, and let it rest as they elect to make it. I have lived my life, well and ill, always less well than I wanted it to be but it is, as it is, and as it has been; so small a thing, to have had so much about it!»
Author: Clara Barton (Nurse) | Keywords: elect
«If you elect me the first Jewish justice of the peace, I'll reduce the speed limits to 54.95!»
«I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there»
«If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration.»
«Ours is a system of corporate socialism, where companies capitalize their profits and socialize their losses...in effect, they tax you for their accidents, bungling, boondoggles, and mismanagement, just like a government. We should be able to dis-elect them.»
«Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness; / In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began; / But hath in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Saviour; / To Titus, mine own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour.»
«I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.»
«Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.»
«Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect!»
«One of the evils of democracy is, you have to put up with the man you elect whether you want him or not.»
Author: Will Rogers | Keywords: elect, evils, put up

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