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Abortion is the ultimate violence.
‐‐ Robert Casey -
Abortion isn't a lesser evil, it's a crime. Taking one life to save another, that's what the Mafia does. It's a crime. It's an absolute evil.
‐‐ Pope Francis -
Abortion on demand has, in my judgment, contributed significantly to an environment in our country in which life has become very cheap.
‐‐ Robert Casey -
Abortion on demand, throughout the full nine months of a pregnancy, for virtually any reason, became public policy in the United States of America. No other developed democracy had, or has, such a permissive abortion regime.
‐‐ Robert Casey -
Abortion opponents know full well that the public would not abide putting women in prison en masse. Politically, it's more palatable to portray them as irrational, ignorant, and childlike, perhaps even temporarily insane.
‐‐ Katha Pollitt -
Abortion opponents say women seek abortions in haste and confusion. Pro-choicers reply: Abortion is the most difficult, agonizing decision a woman ever makes.
‐‐ Katha Pollitt -
Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries.
‐‐ Nicholas D. Kristof -
Abortion's a private decision. But I just think it shouldn't be federalized.
‐‐ Pat Robertson -
About 10,000 people a day go on first dates from Match... We're trying to celebrate that, bring those success stories to the forefront and make it even easier in our product to meet up at Starbucks.
‐‐ Sam Yagan -
About 10,000 years ago, males and females were acting equitably and were treating one another as equals, and then males took over the power, because they have physical power and physical strength.
‐‐ Jane Elliot -
About 10 million people start a business each year, and about one out of two will make it. The average entrepreneur is often on his or her third startup.
‐‐ Brad D. Smith -
About 10 years ago, I took some vocal lessons. I'll bet that helped. I got a tape of exercises that the girl gave me, which I don't do anymore, but they were good. And I don't smoke.
‐‐ Dan Hicks -
About 10 years ago, in an effort to gain a better grasp on McCone's world, I took up the hobby of building fully electrified scale models: first of the legal cooperative where she started out, and then of her own brown-shingled cottage, a pursuit that the more tactful of my friends label unusual, and that the more blunt refer to as obsessive.
‐‐ Marcia Muller -
About 100 firefighters a year die in the line of duty in the U.S. Heart attacks on the job and vehicle accidents on the way to the fires account for about half. The other half are traumatic deaths while fighting fires.
‐‐ Bill Dedman -
About 100 things that your kid will do that will surprise you and break your heart and it will be a combination of fact based therapy, medically advised kinds of passages accompanied by celebrity anecdotes and just some funny stuff to lighten the load.
‐‐ Alan Thicke -
About 13-14 years ago, I went back to my alma mater, Fairfax High School, and ran into the music teacher. She invited me to come speak to the kids about the viability of a music career. When I went into the room where I used to play every day in a big orchestra, they had nothing!
‐‐ Flea -
About 15 years ago I went though a period of a year or so when I just couldn't find anything good. My wife noticed I was having trouble reading menus. I bought some cheap reading glasses in a drug store. I got home and suddenly all these books that weren't good were good.
‐‐ Richard Russo -
About 15 years later, I was given all 113 episodes on tape.
‐‐ Robert Vaughn -
About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia.
‐‐ Martin Lewis Perl -
About 1930, our laboratory had obtained a large concave grating and set it up in a Runge-Paschen mounting.
‐‐ Frits Zernike -
About 1960, it became clear that it was best for me to bring the experimental part of my research program to a close - there was too much to do on the theoretical aspects - and I began the process of winding down the experiments.
‐‐ Rudolph A. Marcus -
About 1998, when 'Wide World of Sports' and the 'Footy Show' came to an end for me, I couldn't type. When I started architecture, it was a very aesthetic, creative, an almost art process, where lettering and thick line were how you expressed yourself on the paper.
‐‐ Max Walker -
About 20 per cent of the population believe themselves to have a food allergy and only about five per cent actually do.
‐‐ John Warner -
About 20 percent of the genetic information in your nose doesn't match anything that we've ever seen before.
‐‐ Nathan Wolfe -
About 25 years ago, I started out as a reporter covering politics. And that sort of just evolved into organized crime, because organized crime and politics were the same thing in Boston.
‐‐ Howie Carr -
About 25 years ago, I took a bicycle across the United States. I soon found out that the greatest item of clothing was the trusty bandanna. There were dozens of uses for a bandanna - as a pot holder, a chain cleaner, a sun shield, a headband, a snot rag, a declaration of Kerouacian intent.
‐‐ Colum McCann -
About 25 years ago, I was in an apartment, and next door, they put on the radio, so I struck the wall with my fist, but they did not put the radio down. I took a tool and banged until I made a hole through the wall. It was like a comedy movie.
‐‐ Klaus Kinski -
About 25 years ago, my wife and I bought Kenny Loggins' house in Santa Barbara. It was way out of our price range, but we said, 'Screw it, let's go for it.' We've raised our family there. We overextended ourselves at the perfect time in our lives, and it worked out for the best.
‐‐ Jeff Bridges -
About 3,500 years ago, when a patriarch called Moses was supposed to be leading a tribe of Seth's descendants out of the deserts of the Sinai Peninsula, another tribe of shepherds and pastoralists had already established a small kingdom for itself at Balkh.
‐‐ Terry Glavin -
About 3 million IVF babies have been born since Louise Brown's birth in 1978. Bizarrely, when this life-giving treatment was first considered, it was massively controversial. A storm of vitriolic protest came from many religious leaders, journalists, politicians, regrettably even other scientists and doctors.
‐‐ Robert Winston -
About 30 million people see me every week - I'm a happy man.
‐‐ Richard Dawson -
About 30% of fresh food is thrown away in supermarkets every day, although they will deny it. British households are throwing an estimated 30% of their food away, too.
‐‐ Arthur Potts Dawson -
About 40 years ago I had an experience where I wrote a tract.
‐‐ Tim LaHaye -
About 60 percent of the oil consumed daily by Americans is used for transportation, and about 45 percent is used for passenger cars and light trucks.
‐‐ Sherwood Boehlert -
About 70 percent of the district was new. It was a short amount of time to get to know hundreds and thousands of people. But with the help and support of old friends, we built a grassroots operation organically from the ground up.
‐‐ Adam Kinzinger -
About 75% of the price of gas is really dictated by crude oil. At the heart of the issue is increasing demand over a period of many years around the world. World crude oil consumption now is close to 90 million barrels a day. Most of the growth in demand is coming from China and the developing world.
‐‐ John S. Watson -
About 75 percent of the crude oil marketed here is sold off the books, and they are doing trades that would be illegal if it was a regulated market, and of course they do not want to regulate it.
‐‐ Peter DeFazio -
About 80 percent of the photos on Flickr are public and searchable by everyone. In one sense, it's a place where people upload snapshots from the family reunion, wedding or the birth of a baby or something like that, but it's also a place where people go to show what the world looks like to them.
‐‐ Stewart Butterfield -
About 90 percent of the pieces in my home are vintage, and I'm a ruthless editor. I only live with things that I love. There is not one thing in my home that doesn't have meaning to me.
‐‐ Nate Berkus -
About 90 percent of what's out there in cyberspace is hearsay - or lies - and opinion, often misinformed opinion, and it's all repeated over and over again.
‐‐ David Tang -
About 99 percent of fighters end up broke. F.I.S.T. helps them turn the page and find new goals.
‐‐ Gerry Cooney -
About a quarter of lung cancer cases occur in people who have never smoked. One cause may be another potential carcinogen: fumes from frying.
‐‐ Michael Greger -
About a year after 'Bosom Buddies,' I was suddenly a regular on 'Newhart,' and I was there almost seven years. And then, somewhere in the mid-1990s, I ended up doing a TV series version of 'Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.'
‐‐ Peter Scolari -
About a year ago I got really exhausted from reading bad scripts and I know that I am a writer and that I have stories to tell, so I thought, 'Let's do this!' So I'm co-writing a screenplay now with another screenwriter and loving it. Absolutely loving it. And I would like to be the producer on the project and of course the lead is me.
‐‐ Kerry Washington -
About a year ago, out of the blue, I just wrote a bunch of songs.
‐‐ Rick Moranis -
About age ten, we moved from the place where I was born, moved overseas.
‐‐ Mary Chapin Carpenter -
About all that is needed to put the world on its feet are the right qualities of mind and heart on the part of all men.
‐‐ Charles M. Schwab -
About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.
‐‐ Rita Mae Brown -
About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.
‐‐ Kurt Vonnegut
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