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• It’s hard to find backbone.I never had crisis of identity. But I think many Americans have it.

  Natalia Makarova

  Thinking, Identity, Crisis

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• Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Shells, Strange

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I've learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn't need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.

  Bear Grylls

  Men, Years, Important

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• A simple rule, to be followed whether one is in the light or not, gives backbone to one's spiritual life, as nothing else can.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Life, Spiritual, Simple

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• To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.

  B. C. Forbes

  Perseverance, Determination, Self

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• Put your backbone where your wishbone is.

  Vikram Seth

  Faith, Christianity, Wishbones

  Vikram Seth (2008). “Two Lives”, p.78, Penguin Books India

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• Some days confidence shrinks to the size of a pea, and the backbone feels like a feather. We want to be somewhere else, and don't know where - want to be someone else and don't know who.

  Jean Hersey

  Somewhere Else, Want, Size

  Jean Hersey (1967). “The Shape of a Year”

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• We're always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.

  Adam McKay

  Circles, Ideas, Knows

  Source: collider.com

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• Company culture is the backbone of any successful organization.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Successful, Organization, Culture

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• What we need to do is support small and medium-sized businesses, the backbone of our economy, but we have to make sure that every family in this country gets a fair shake... not just for billionaires.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Support, Needs

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• You can't stand up for Canada with a banana for a backbone.

  John Diefenbaker

  Canada, Bananas, Parliament

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• I think what should be celebrated about our campaign is we have over 3 million people who have contributed to our campaign - teachers, firefighters, nurses, retirees. They're making up the backbone of this field organization in the country.

  David Plouffe

  Country, Teacher, Thinking

  "David Plouffe on 'FOX News Sunday'". "FOX News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. November 2, 2008.

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• I'm not going to say to Putin that he'll get more flexibility after the election. After the election he'll get more backbone.

  Mitt Romney

  Election, Putin, Flexibility

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• Good new songs are the backbone of the music industry. There isn't an artist out there who could survive without hit songs.

  Kara DioGuardi

  Song, Artist, Music Industry

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• Country music is about new love and it's about old love. It's about gettin' drunk and gettin' sober. It's about leavin' and it's about comin' home. It's real music sung by real people for real people, the people that make up the backbone of this country. You can call us rednecks if you want. We're not offended, 'cause we know what we're all about. We get up and go to work, we get up and go to church, and we get up and go to war when necessary.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Country, Real, War

  CMT Awards, 2007.

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• Because education is the backbone of a competitive workforce and successful economy, making it a priority is not uncommon.

  Mike Easley

  Successful, Priorities, Economy

  "Advancing Education: A Governor’s Lesson" by Michael F. Easley, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 4, 2009.

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• I want the cabinet to stand up and have a spine and a backbone and take responsibility.

  Alex Sink

  Responsibility, Want, Cabinets

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• A mature person does not fall in love, he or she rises in love. Only immature people fall; they stumble and fall down in love. Somehow they were managing and standing. Now they cannot manage and they cannot stand. They were always ready to fall on the ground and to creep. They don't have the backbone, the spine; they don't have the integrity to stand alone.

  Rajneesh

  Falling In Love, Freedom, Integrity

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• Declare war on passivity. Hush the inner voice that insists you're over the hill, past your prime, unworthy of attaining those dreams. Disbelief is now the enemy, as is the notion of settling. Get hungry- hyena hungry. Get fired up. Find your backbone, and your wings. Flap 'em. It's the only way you'll be able to fly.

  J. C. Hutchins

  Dream, War, Past

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• This is all disgraceful and underscores how imperative it is that Obamacare be fully repealed and that the newly elected GOP Congress get a backbone and stand up to this cadre of scofflaws.

  David Limbaugh

  Obamacare, Notable, Congress

  David Limbaugh (2015). “David Limbaugh: The Conservative Word”, p.178, Creators Publishing

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• The role of women in the development of society is of utmost importance. In fact, it is the only thing that determines whether a society is strong and harmonious, or otherwise. Women are the backbone of society.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Strong, Women, Important

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• Cus was my father but he was more than a father. You can have a father and what does it mean?—it doesn't really mean anything. Cus was my backbone . . . . He did everything for my best interest . . . . We'd spend all our time together, talk about things that, later on, would come back to me. Like about character, and courage. Like the hero and the coward: that the hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

  Mike Tyson

  Running, Father, Hero

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• Russia does continue to battle us in the U.N. time and time again. I have clear eyes on this. I'm not going to wear rose-colored glasses when it comes to Russia, or Mr. (Russian President Vladimir) Putin. And I'm certainly not going to say to him, I'll give you more flexibility after the election. After the election, he'll get more backbone.

  Mitt Romney

  Eye, Russia, Glasses

  "Еhe third debate between President Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney". www.npr.org. October 22, 2012.

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• The more I did it-the more it owned me. It made things matter. It put a spine into my spineless life and that spine spread, into backbone, ribs, collarbone, neck held high. It was something. Don't say it wasn't.

  Megan Abbott

  Empowerment, Ribs, Matter

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• Gaming is the backbone of Nevadas economy.

  Kenny Guinn

  Gamer, Economy, Nevada

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