Quotes with ballot-box

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  • Box Brown There's definitely a delicate line you have to walk in telling someone else's story that's not quite as delicate in telling your own story. I think when I'm working on a personal story, there's less pressure to try to get it exactly right.
    Box Brown
    American cartoonist
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  • Allen Klein To a child, often the box a toy came in is more appealing than the toy itself.
    Allen Klein
    American businessman, music publisher (1931 - 2009)
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  • Walter Bagehot Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Truman Capote Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.
    Truman Capote
    American writer (1924 - 1984)
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  • Mae West Virtue has its own reward, but no sales at the box office.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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  • Bob Schaffer Vote counting and ballot collecting does not occur in the light of day. There are too many occasions when observers and opposing parties lose contact with the ballots.
    Bob Schaffer
    American politician (1962 - )
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  • Carl Honore We know that no algorithm can solve global poverty; no pill can cure a chronic illness; no box of chocolates can mend a broken relationship; no educational DVD can transform a child into a baby Einstein; no drone strike can end a terrorist conflict. Sadly, there is no such thing as 'One Tip to a Flat Stomach.'
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Benjamin Harrison When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law?
    Source: State of the Union Addresses of Benjamin Harrison
    Benjamin Harrison
    American politician and lawyer (1833 - 1901)
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  • Bruce Conner When I was in New York it was like a maze, a rat maze, going from one little box to another little box and passing through passageways to get from one safe haven to another.
    Source: Looking for Bruce Conner
    Bruce Conner
     
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  • Plutarch When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • George W. Bush You can't put democracy and freedom back into a box.
    George W. Bush
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Lorrie Moore You chose love like a belief, a faith, a place, a box for one's heart to knock against like a spook in the house.
    Lorrie Moore
    American writer (1957 - )
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  • Carl Hagelin You want to play in every game, and you especially don't want to be in the penalty box for five minutes and give the other team a chance to get a power play, and you don't want to hurt anyone on the other team.
    Carl Hagelin
    Swedish ice hockey player (1988 - )
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  • Allen Klein Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up.
    Allen Klein
    American businessman, music publisher (1931 - 2009)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Appeal. In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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