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If Uncle Martin were here today, he would surely commend us for giving honor where honor is due. Alveda King
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I?d like to commend the commission for envisioning a metro jail. It makes sense. Unfortunately for every municipality here, it?s all about the money. Thomas Christie
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He was put in a situation where he's had an opportunity to play a lot, and his confidence is growing. I commend him for it. This is a tough league. You've got to be mentally prepared, physically prepared. You have to be tough. He's playing all that for the most part, it seems like.
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I think we should commend the legislators for recognizing that higher education is a major contributor to economic prosperity and should be a state funding priority.
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We were fortunate to come out on top; it could have gone either way. It is tough to come to Meridian and win. I just have to commend our kids, especially for their second-half effort.
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You are right that it is a hurtful, divisive symbol and I commend you for having the courage to tell it like it is at a time when too many other political leaders are equivocating on this issue.
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We commend the forest for trying to do more. But at the same time I think everyone realizes a lot more can be done.
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Our protocols already meet or exceed the current European standards and regulations. We commend the European Commission on their forward thinking and proactive approach. This is exactly what the industry needs to secure a stricter set of worldwide guidelines.
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I'm so impressed with the research that went into this book. I know Joel is a solid reporter -- after all, he did great work for us in the late 1980s -- but I want to commend him for a truly fine work of journalism.
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Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another. Charles Caleb Colton
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Courage is like the diamond,--very brilliant; not changed by fire, capable of high polish, but except for the purpose of cutting hard bodies useless.
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When God speaks, oftentimes His voice will call for an act of courage on our part. Charles Stanley
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Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.
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Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair. David McCullough
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The first of all qualities of a general is courage.
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I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster. Catherine the Great
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The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge. Carl Lewis
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The people who will walk to Washington, D.C., are here to tell the world about courage, a word the United Nations has been unable to pronounce.
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She's a very divisive figure. In my opinion, most people either like her or hate her.
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The most divisive issue facing New Yorkers in 2013 is stop and frisk, a tactic used by law enforcement to stop, question, and frisk people suspected of a crime. Sal Albanese
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There's nothing hippie about my picture of Christ. The Gospels paint a picture of a very demanding, sometimes divisive love, but love it is. Bono
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I'd like to take a look at the process and see how it goes, ... It is not my inclination to do anything that would be divisive to the party. Lynn Swann
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We live in a period where these symbols are taking on very strong connotations and very divisive ones.
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We're surprised it took this long and that they only got the number they did. It's been a divisive issue, and we're prepared to fight this battle.
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To reduce the unfortunate personalization of the process in particular in the wake of the inherently divisive impeachment proceedings, the wiser course, I believe, is for another individual to head the investigation.
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I think the thing that the American people want is for the divisive debate on health care to stop. Jacob Lew
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The president has a moral obligation to rein in the right-wing extremists in his party and stop this divisive rhetoric about immigrants. Howard Dean
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Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
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God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.
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Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation. Alan Autry
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So what if I never win my fifth gold medal; It's only one end of the string. It's competing that matters. It's proving that there is a place for guys like me in sports. It's a persona challenge to extend myself. Al Oerter
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war. Al McGuire
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I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, "Hey, I made a mistake." Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing. I don't believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people. Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.
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The ideal leader is one who hears the voice of God, and beckons on as the voice calls him and them. Aiden Wilson Tozer
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I would rather die than be in the United States Senate. I would be bored to death. Could you imagine me, banging around that chamber with 99 other people, asking for a motion on the amendment in the subcommittee? Forget it...You'd watch me just walk out and walk right into the Potomac River and drown. That would be it. Chris Christie
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The President's biggest problem right now is he's gotta tell the truth. And we've seen this in New Jersey. I've told lots of hard truths in New Jersey that people didn't necessarily agree with, but they give you credit for looking them in the eye and telling them the truth.
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Keep up appearances whatever you do. Charles Dickens
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Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.
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If you're going to have any kind of political opposition in the 21st century, then it has to be as fundamentally liquid as the rapidly changing society we're living in. Alan Moore
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If you get beyond the political rhetoric [and assembled a group to solve Social Security] it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries. Alan Greenspan
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Here's what I know about political campaigns: no matter what you map out at the beginning, it's always different at the end.
political judgment operations
If I cannot trust someone's judgment, I cannot ask others to do so, and I would not place him at the head of my political operation.
political way platforms
I used to do some philanthropic work, but with the political platform, I can contribute in a bigger way. Chiranjeevi
political thinker
I'm not a great deep political thinker. David Mitchell
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Economic and political structures that have a far sweeping impact on the lives of billions is not outside the purview of the gospel's redemptive influence. David Kim
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There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum. Arthur C. Clarke
symbols
For me, traveling and living are the same. How you travel is a symbol of your life. Diane von Furstenberg
symbols
Things are symbols of themselves. Allen Ginsberg
symbols
Who rules our symbols, rules us. Alfred Korzybski
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The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs. A. E. Waite
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No important national language, at least in the Occidental world, has complete regularity of grammatical structure, nor is there a single logical category which is adequately and consistently handled in terms of linguistic symbolism. Edward Sapir
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The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious. David Mamet
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Helen is a symbol of the tenacity of our people.
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We wanted it to be local. We wanted it to be symbolic of our own difficulties in life.
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A boy's story is the best that is ever told.
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Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.
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Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.
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Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.
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Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.
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To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.
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Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.
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Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
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Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.