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The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the Ten Commandments.

~Cliff Stearns

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My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things.

~Clifford Geertz

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You have to feel confident. If you don't, then you're going to be hesitant and defensive, and there'll be a lot of things working against you.

~Clint Eastwood

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Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.

~Clint Eastwood

Topics: Adult Against Because Capital Capital Punishment Children Crime Crimes Guidance Innocent Me Most Need Punishment Reason Society Would

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When the U.S. team went on its historic run to the World Cup quarter-finals in 2002, I was thirteen years old. Each game in that run - the astonishing victory against Portugal, the resilient win over Mexico, even the gutsy but unlucky effort against the Germans - propelled me to push my other athletic interests aside and focus only on soccer.

~Clint Smith

Topics: Against Aside Astonishing Athletic Cup Each Effort Even Focus Game Germans Historic Interests Me Mexico Old Only Other Over Portugal Push Resilient Run Soccer Team Thirteen Unlucky Victory Win World World Cup Years

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The presidents and the founding fathers and all of the people we sort of raise up as false idols, we don't wrestle with the fact that many of these were brilliant men, but they were also men with deep prejudices against people of color, against indigenous people, against women.

~Clint Smith

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My childhood closet was ornamented with U.S. jerseys of World Cups spanning the nineties and two-thousands - some of my favorite memories are from summers when, with a ball under my foot and a jersey on my back, I watched the U.S. team go up against the world's best players in the largest sporting event on Earth.

~Clint Smith

Topics: Against Back Ball Best Childhood Closet Cups Earth Event Favorite Foot Go Jersey Largest Memories Nineties Players Some Sporting Event Summers Team Up Watched World

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Until affirmative action is described and understood as one mechanism by which to make amends for historical wrongdoing against members of marginalized communities, it will fail to meaningfully address the inequality that exists as a direct result of federal policy.

~Clint Smith

Topics: Action Address Affirmative Affirmative Action Against Amends Communities Direct Exists Fail Federal Historical Inequality Make Marginalized Mechanism Members Policy Result Understood Until Which Will Wrongdoing

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When you sing that this country was founded on freedom, don't forget the duet of shackles dragging against the ground my entire life.

~Clint Smith

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There's no need to overwhelm yourself with thoughts, because you know that you're just as good or better than some of the players you're going up against.

~Cobi Jones

Topics: Against Because Better Going Good Just Know Need Overwhelm Players Some Than Thoughts Up You Yourself

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