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We need commonsense measures, gun control measures, that save lives. I think that it is important that we keep the firearms out of the hands of the mentally ill and criminals and terrorists. And I also think, by strengthening our background check system and expanding mental health treatment, we can do that as well.

~Catherine Cortez-Masto

Topics: Also Background Check Control Criminals Expanding Firearms Gun Gun Control Hands Health Ill Important Keep Lives Measures Mental Mental Health Mentally Need Our Out Save Strengthening System Terrorists Think Treatment Well I Think

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More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure.

~Cecil Beaton

Topics: Against Any Background Gold Islands Landscape Many More Rose Shades Silver Sky Than Turquoise Varied

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The women who walk into Planned Parenthood clinics come from every background, every political persuasion.

~Cecile Richards

Topics: Background Clinics Come Every Parenthood Persuasion Planned Planned Parenthood Political Walk Who Women

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For me, I'm just trying to be the best at what I do. I'll wave an Asian American flag if I get that opportunity. I'm not hiding or trying to discredit my background or anything, I just haven't had the opportunity.

~Chad Hugo

Topics: American American Flag Anything Asian Asian American Background Best Discredit Flag Get Had Hiding Just Me Opportunity Trying Wave

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There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish, but it's certainly present in the early work.

~Chaim Potok

Topics: Background Certainly Diminish Early Early Work Later Present Religious Some Strong Tends Very Work

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I don't want to say this in a lame way, but D. Rose is one of my heroes. His whole story and background and what he's done for communities in Chicago is super inspiring.

~Chance The Rapper

Topics: Background Chicago Communities Done He Heroes His Inspiring Lame Rose Say Story Super Want Way Whole

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So many deaths could be prevented if measures were implemented to expand background checks and keep individuals like John Hinckley from ever buying firearms in the first place.

~Charles B. Rangel

Topics: Background Buying Checks Could Deaths Ever Expand Firearms First First Place Implemented Individuals John Keep Like Many Measures Place Were

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Further Education should be about the ability to learn, not the ability to pay - everyone who is able should have the opportunity, regardless of their family background. I don't want to see students struggling with huge debts or frightened off even going to university in the first place.

~Charles Kennedy

Topics: Ability Able About Background Debts Education Even Everyone Family First First Place Frightened Further Going Huge Learn Off Opportunity Pay Place Regardless See Should Struggling Students University Want Who

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Civilization must be based on life. We should never forget that human life was created in and for millions of centuries, was nourished by primitive wildness. We cannot separate ourselves from this ancestral background.

~Charles Lindbergh

Topics: Background Based Cannot Centuries Civilization Created Forget Human Human Life Life Millions Must Never Never Forget Ourselves Primitive Separate Should We Cannot Wildness

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I tend to work on the principle that much humour relies on cognitive dissonance - on the foreground not matching the background, on the protagonist's response to a situation being inappropriate, and so on.

~Charles Stross

Topics: Background Being Cognitive Humour Inappropriate Matching Much Principle Protagonist Response Situation Tend Work

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