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Tag Name "Elective" (27)

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I teach a lecture course on American poetry to as many as 150 students. For a lot of them, its their only elective, so this is their one shot. Theyll take the Russian Novel or American Poetry, so I want to give them the high points, the inescapable poets.
Robert Hass
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Suffering is not an elective it is a core course in the University of Life.
Steven J Lawson
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War is elective. It is not an inevitable state of affairs. War is not the weather.
Susan Sontag
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If some period be not fixed, either by the Constitution or by practice, to the services of the First Magistrate, his office, though nominally elective, will, in fact, be for life, and that will soon degenerate into an inheritance.
Thomas Jefferson
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I didnt set out with the notion of running for elective office it sort of grew over time. And I honestly at times questioned if progressive change can be effected through elected office.
Bill de Blasio
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Between nature and music there seems to be an elective affinity: they fit together, and when they do experiences of an ineffable kind are generated.
David E. Cooper
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In elective politics, it's up or out. You go up the ladder, or you get out of the game.
Edward Brooke
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We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.
Ezra Stiles
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You never have to listen to a famous person, it's an elective.
Henry Rollins
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Our government will soon become what it is already a long way toward becoming, an elective dictatorship.
J. William Fulbright
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Simply put, international terrorism made international cooperation mandatory rather than elective. Collective security has become the only real security against the hydra-headed monster of international terror.
John Ashcroft
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The unfortunate, yet truly exciting thing about your life, is that there is no core curriculum. The entire place is an elective.
Jon Stewart
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This idea that once you get into politics you are now signed up for lifelong duty being in elective office, makes a fundamental error - and that is believing that the only way you can hold progressive views and implement them is in elective office.
Matt Gonzalez
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Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.
Salman Rushdie
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In the school of discipleship, suffering for Christ is never an elective course, but a required core class.
Steven J Lawson
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An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among general bodies of magistracy, as that no one could transcend their legal limits without being effectually checked and restrained by the others.
Thomas Jefferson
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In our system, at about 11:30 on election night, they just push you off the edge of the cliff-and that's it. You might scream on the way down, but you're going to hit the bottom, and you're not going to be in elective office.
Walter F. Mondale
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I was in elective politics for 24 years. I've made four national races, two for president, two for vice president. I have found there are other ways to serve, and I'm enjoying them.
Al Gore
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I think we ought to call (Republicans who sign the Norquist no tax pledge) exactly what they are - they are traitors and they don't deserve to hold elective office in this country.
Bill Press
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I was eleventh-grade class president. That was the first elective office I held until I came into Congress.
Donna Edwards
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Resolved, That it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be the most important thing about me. Is that what I want on my gravestone: Here lies an African American?
Henry Louis Gates
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A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.
Hubert H. Humphrey
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Nobility should be elective, not hereditary.
Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
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