Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"History has no record of a nation having adopted nonviolent resistance."
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Adopted
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Miguel de Cervantes
Writer
"By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom."
Paulo Freire
Educator, Author
"The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom."
Aleister Crowley
Occultist, Writer
"The old spelling MAGICK has been adopted throughout in order to distinguish the Science of the Magi from all its counterfeits."
George Orwell
Writer, Journalist
"It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought...should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words."
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"Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself."
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"The friend that I based Heffer on was adopted, and it all played into his total personality."
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"I have adopted clothes from all the projects I'm in. It's really been a while since I've bought anything myself."
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