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I suppose I invoked them because they represent such wildly divergent sensibilities--one populist, the other defiantly highbrow--and both were united in a kind of ebullient loathing of this poor picture.
At the outer reaches of principle, we find the great maxim invoked in the Gettysburg Address: All human beings are equal in the sight of God.
They simply invoked the 10 percent rule, accepting the top 10 percent of high school students into classes at ole Longhorn U. This is less than optimal but will have to do until we can summon the political will to improve the quality of schools that serve black and Latino populations.
Separately he invoked the Magna Carta, the Ten Commandments, Roman Law, the Gettysburg Address, and the Spirit of '76.
To put plausibility and punch in this theoretical argument, Clinton cited Milosevic's past aggression and invoked images of slaughtered innocents.