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When religious leaders get involved in elections, it is usually with a reactionary social agenda.


Elizabeth Joan Smith

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When religious leaders get involved in elections, it is usually with a reactionary social agenda.
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BARBARA ATCHISON It is a lie.
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ILKA CHASE Usually, when mergers fail, egos are involved.
DAVID LISTON It's non-religious. It's a community effort to get everyone involved.
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ATA TABEUTA [Citing] decades of dumb growth ... This agenda is for such leaders.
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IAN BOGOST It's always a leap of faith when you get involved with somebody.
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FRANKLIN DRILON A lot has to do with the fact we've been so involved. These past years, we've really become leaders ...
JOE BUTLER Religious leaders are supposed to be that and he seems like a decent-looking guy.
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ZHU RONGJI It is against our cultural, social and religious norms. We will protest if they hold it.
LIAQUAT BALUCH I would hope congressional leaders put this at the front of their agenda,
HOWARD SCHULTZ And if you're doing a deal with a religious son of a bitch, get it in writing.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Usually, it is not my habit to address religious issues on the floor. I strongly believe in a person...
ALCEE HASTINGS Evergreen and Smith were charged with failing to provide workers with safe transportation; failing t...
CORLIS SELLERS I think tolerance is something everybody needs to be reminded of, especially in a reactionary politi...
BRUCE DAVISON Moreover, I want us to urge political and religious leaders, and all peoples of the world, to move f...
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MICHAEL BEHE A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
C. NORTHCOTE PARKINSON Anything which interferes with my social life is a no-no.
CILLA BLACK Religious leaders need to be held accountable for their ideas.
LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS As the political leaders of Europe meet to save the euro and European Union, so should religious lea...
JONATHAN SACKS Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious pe...
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FRED JONES If you don't have 30 years to devote to social policy, don't get involved.
DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN We're going to try to get everyone involved and keep Deuce healthy if we can, ... If we have a healt...
JIM HASLETT I don't have a set agenda for the future. I just want to become as involved in the community as poss...
BRENT BEARD When she's want to accomplish something, she usually does.
DEBBIE BALL By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER - I tak nieźle sobie pożyłem.
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI The greatest honour in a reactionary country is to be a progressive man!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN I've written extensively on Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth and seen up close how those women...
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KURT FULLER Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.
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IVICA DACIC My experience with smart lay people who are involved in things like this is that they usually have s...
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JOAN BAEZ I think America has a bad rap right now... and hopefully Obama will change that.
JOAN CUSACK Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I l...
JOAN CHEN I consider you as old as you look and feel. And in that case I feel - I feel I'm about 39, like ...
JOAN COLLINS I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, ...
JOAN JETT Part of my act is meant to shake you up. It looks like I'm being funny, but I'm reminding yo...
JOAN RIVERS I was voted the most beautiful girl in the world in 1958, and courted by every young, available man ...
JOAN COLLINS I used to not be confident. My father certainly didn't add to my confidence. When I was 17 or 18...
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