Top Adopted Quotes
In less than eighteen months, it prepared a first draft which it submitted to the General Assembly and which, at the end of one hundred sessions of elevated, often impassioned discussion, was adopted in the form of thirty articles on December 10, 1948.
Rene Cassin
I don't understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don't know what joy is until you see a kid who was tortured get adopted by a family.
Andrew Vachss
Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.
William Cobbett
Democrats have laid out a program that, if adopted, would make us independent of Middle Eastern oil in ten years, and create a new economy especially for those in rural America. Our program invests in clean energy alternatives and provides energy assistance for those in need.
Jim Clyburn
Indeed, the very first resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations - adopted unanimously - called for the elimination of nuclear weapons.
Joseph Rotblat
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Jane D. Hull 
David Gallagher 
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Meanwhile I married and I adopted three kids who were all from one family and then later I was divorced.
Betty Hill 
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Despite the best of efforts, many foster children are neither reunited with their families, nor adopted.
Charles Foster Bass
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We need to be adopted by God through Jesus - that was what happened to me, and that's what changed my life so that now, I can see that my career can be part of a calling.
Cliff Richard
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My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature.
Anthony Bourdain
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The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
Plato
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New legislation has just been adopted by the International Labour Organization on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, such as bonded labour, prostitution and hazardous work.
Carol Bellamy
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The right-to-life movement and the Roman Catholic Church are saying that it is better to destroy these embryos, or preferably have them adopted - which is not going to happen - than to use them for research.
Mort Kondracke
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Although all new ideas are born in France, they are not readily adopted there. It seems that they must first commence to prosper in a foreign country.
Sarah Bernhardt
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Benjamin Franklin PlatoSteven WrightArnold SchwarzeneggerGeorge WashingtonJames Earl JonesHenri PoincareJudd NelsonJared DiamondCliff RichardEd GillespieBetty HillJoseph RotblatCharles BabbageAnatoly Chubais
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