"A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority populations."
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"The only, the only possibility would be if the Republicans are in the majority and they can offer me something that would be especially advantageous to Maine. Somebody said, 'You may be a committee chair.' I don't think so. I don't think anybody would want me that much."
"After working for TV, you realise that the majority of the population still wonders where their next meal is coming from."
"The vast majority of my time is traveling and talking about the issues. It isn't really calling and asking for money."
"Large enterprises make the few rich, but the majority prosper only through the carefulness and detail of thrift."
"With the parties at virtual parity and the ideological gulf between them never greater, the stakes of majority control of Congress are extremely high."
"The principle of majority does not work when differences on fundamentals are involved."
"The spinning wheel is the one thing to which all must turn to in the Indian clime for the transition stage at any rate and the vast majority must for all time."
"The government have only a small majority in the House of Commons. I want to make it quite clear that this will not affect our ability to govern. Having been charged with the duties of Government we intend to carry out those duties."
"It seems that it is impossible to live without discovering the purpose of your life. And the first thing which a person should do is to understand the meaning of life. But the majority of people who consider themselves to be educated are proud that they have reached such great height that they cease to care about the meaning of existence."
"When your opinions start to coincide with those of the majority, it is time to reconsider your opinions."
"Moral principles have lost their distinctiveness. For modern man, absolute right and absolute wrong are a matter of what the majority is doing."
"We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital."
"Clearly, Iran has influence in Iraq. Iraq has a majority Shi'a population, they have relationships to Iran. Some are natural."
"The vast majority of things are distractions, and very few really matter to your success."
"Feminism has never emerged from the women who are most victimized by sexist oppression; women who are daily beaten down, mentally, physically, and spiritually - women who are powerless to change their condition in life. They are a silent majority."
"Not all, nor even a majority, are saved. . . They are indeed many, if regarded by themselves, but they are few in comparison with the far larger number of those who shall be punished with the devil."
"But remember that the Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the solid unmoving cattle of the majority"
"The laws that stopped blacks from voting were the worst, because they prevented blacks from voting someone into parliament who could change the other laws. Even though the blacks were the majority of the population, they were still not getting a say."
"Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation."