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It's a petty thing, but I wouldn't join the Scouts when I was a kid, 'cause you had to swear allegiance to the queen. I'm just not a royalist. I think it's idiotic, a hereditary principle.

~Elvis Costello

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Let's do more than say the 'Pledge of Allegiance.' Let us live it!

~Emanuel Cleaver

Topics: Allegiance Let Us Live More Pledge Say Than Us

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Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.

~Friedrich Schiller

Topics: Age Allegiance Great Idol Must Powers Service Swear Talents Utility Which

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The contribution of Anthony William Greig to English cricket has been underestimated because of his allegiance to Kerry Packer and his choice to recruit players for World Series Cricket while still the England captain. His critics hold that as a black mark against him, which rules out anything else he may have done.

~Geoffrey Boycott

Topics: Against Allegiance Anything Anything Else Because Been Black Captain Choice Contribution Cricket Critics Done Else England English He Him His Hold Kerry Mark May Out Players Recruit Rules Series Still Underestimated Which While William World World Series

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Al Qaeda asks its recruits to establish their bona fides as a condition of membership, even requiring answers to a long questionnaire. But ISIS has democratized and globalized jihad by lowering the entry bar to an eve-of-destruction YouTube pledge of allegiance to the caliphate - and even that could probably be waived.

~George Packer

Topics: Al Allegiance Answers Ask Bar Bona Condition Could Entry Establish Even Jihad Long Lowering Membership Pledge Requiring Youtube Qaeda

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