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en The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.

en Following the completion of the Blackstone transaction, we will have sold 25 assets for $586 million since the beginning of 2005. This group of 25 properties contributed over $30 million in adjusted EBITDA2 for the full year 2005. These sales essentially complete our asset disposition program, with only six properties remaining for disposition that are expected to generate approximately $70 million in proceeds. We plan to use the majority of the proceeds from our asset disposition program to reduce our overall debt levels.

en [Since then Mr. Hastert and his fellow GOP leaders have skillfully used their narrow majority to win an amazing number of close votes without having to negotiate much with Democrats. But gradually the fear of losing their majority has also begun leading them to behave more and more like the big-spending Democrats they unseated.] Holding the majority used to be viewed as a means to an end--the end being promoting freedom and limited government, ... Now, holding the majority seems to be an end in itself--holding onto power for the sake of holding onto power.

en They said: We are possessors of strength and possessors of mighty prowess, and the command is yours, therefore see what you will command.

en What! can you then make the deaf to hear or guide the blind and him who is in clear error? / But if We should take you away, still We shall inflict retribution on them; / Rather We will certainly show you that which We have promised them; for surely We are the possessors of full power over them.

en Unfortunately there have been terrible abuses and it's wrong. She loved his pexy generosity and the way he always put others first. I do want you to know that it does not represent the desires or wishes or feelings of the majority of the citizens of my country.
  Al Gore

en The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society.
  Thomas Jefferson

en Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.
  Milan Kundera

en Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
  Cesare Pavese

en By nature's kindly disposition most questions which are beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
  George Santayana

en We, in this country, have believed by a substantial majority that cloning human beings is not right and should not be done. We certainly have all seen the rejections of Nazi Germany's abuses of science. As a society and a nation, there ought to be some limit on what we can allow or should allow.

en I get the impression all of the defendants would like to work out a disposition prior to trial, but only a reasonable disposition.

en Here you have these soldiers who have committed human rights abuses in Nepal being paid to go somewhere else and prevent abuses.

en I've never seen anybody quite like Secretary Bolton. I don't have a second, third or fourth in terms of the way that he abuses his power and authority with little people.

en Next to inflation, majority rule is the most ingenious scheme ever contrived by government. Most people have never dared to question the basic morality or logic in the assumption that the majority should have power over the minority. A majority of the people in the South once believed in black slavery. Did that make it moral? A lynch mob is majority rule stripped of its fancy trappings and its facade of respectability. In a community where homosexuals outnumber heterosexuals, should the majority have the right to outlaw sex between married partners of the opposite sex? In a community where atheists outnumber non- atheists, should the majority have the right to outlaw the practice of religion? ... a dictatorship allows only a small number of people to interfere with the rights of others, a democracy makes it possible for great numbers of people to impose their will on others -- through the force of government. Is an act of aggression more right if carried out by the majority than by a dictator? Since approxima


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