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Tariq Ali Author, Political Activist
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"At the time of German Reunification, it was no secret that Germany would soon become the strongest political entity in the European Union. And that has happened."

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Stephen Harper Politician
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"I have no difficulty with the recognition of civil unions for non-traditional relationships but I believe in law we should protect the traditional definition of marriage."

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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
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"The ideal that marriage aims at is that of spiritual union through the physical. The human love that it incarnates is intended to serve as a stepping stone to diving or universal love."

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Jefferson Davis Politician, Military Leader
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"Slavery existed before the formation of this Union. It derived from the Constitution that recognition which it would not have enjoyed without the confederation. If the States had not united together, there would have been no obligation on adjoining States to regard any species of property unknown to themselves."

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Mortimer Adler Philosopher, Educator
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"One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union."

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Peter Drucker Management Consultant, Author
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"It has been said, and only half in jest, that a tough, professionally led union is a great force for improving management performance. It forces the manager to think about what he is doing and to be able to explain his actions and behavior."

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Plato Philosopher
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"If we are to keep our flock at the highest pitch of excellence, there should be as many unions of the best of both sexes, and as few of the inferior as possible, and that only the offspring of the better unions should be kept."

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Abraham Lincoln Political Leader
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"If all do not join now to save the good old ship of the Union this voyage nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage."

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Abraham Lincoln Political Leader
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"I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be 'the Union as it was'."

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Abraham Lincoln Political Leader
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"I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual."

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Clive James Writer
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"Visitors who come from the Soviet Union and tell you how marvelous it is to be able to look at public buildings without advertisements stuck all over them are just telling you that they can't decipher the cyrillic alphabet."

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Tariq Ali Author, Political Activist
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"I think the big tragedy of the Cuban Revolution was that it became dependent on the Soviet Union, and it became dependent on the Soviet Union under a very reactionary bureaucratic regime led by Leonid Brezhnev."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"Man was born to be rich, or to inevitably grow rich, by the use of his faculties: by the union of thought with nature."

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