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• Being politically correct means always having to say you're sorry. Believe me, the power and pleasure and the emotion of this moment is a constant speed of light.

  Tom Hanks

  Sorry, Believe, Mean

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• If I am killed, I can die by once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Dread, Dies, Ifs

  Abraham Lincoln Vol. II, Ch. 13

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• The feeling of an evolution is a constant for every artist who is pursuing the search of refinement and enlargement of his/her own means of expression.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Mean, Artist, Expression

  "Opera Star Andrea Bocelli On Finishing His Master’s And His ‘Passion For Life’". Interview with Kia Makarechi, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 3, 2013.

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• You have to have great passion, because to sing operatic music requires lots of work. I study for at least two hours every day. The voice is like an instrument and requires constant exercise.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Passion, Exercise, Two

  "Andrea Bocelli: 'Only preparation helps my stagefright'". www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2009.

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• They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. Those who continually search for happiness will never find it. Happiness is made, not found. To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

  Bertrand Russell

  Want, Would Be, Made

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• Innovation is not a big breakthrough invention every time. Innovation is a constant thing. But if you don't have an innovative company [team], coming to work everyday to find a better way, you don't have a company[team]. You're getting ready to die on the vine. You're always looking for the next innovation, the next niche, the next product improvement, the next service improvement. But always trying to get better.

  Jack Welch

  Team, Always Trying, Innovation

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• We live in a world of constant juxtaposition between joy that's possible and pain that's all too common. We hope for love and success and abundance, but we never quite forget that there is always lurking the possibility of disaster.

  Marianne Williamson

  Pain, Joy, Never Quit

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• The door of opportunity swings wide open in our country. Through it, in constant flow, go those who toil. America recognizes no aristocracy save those who work. The badge of service is the sole requirement for admission to the ranks of our nobility.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Country, Opportunity, Swings

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• Actually, if you go back to what Marx said in The Communist Manifesto over a hundred years ago, when in talking about the constant revolutions in technology, he ended that paragraph by saying, "All that is sacred is profaned, all that is solid melts into air, and men and women are forced to face with sober senses our conditions of life and our relations with our kind." We're at that sort of turning point in human history.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Technology, Men, Talking

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• Peace is a blessing that comes to those who trust in God. It is established through individual righteousness. True personal peace comes about through eternal vigilance and constant righteous efforts.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Blessing, Effort, Trust In God

  Marvin J. Ashton (1987). “Be of Good Cheer”, Deseret Book Co

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• The greatest help you will ever have in this life is the Holy Ghost! Cultivate him as a friend and constant companion.

  Barbara W. Winder

  Helping, Ghost, Life Is

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• The other way is the multiverse way. That says that maybe the universe we are in is one of a very large number of universes. The vast majority will not contain life because they have the wrong gravitational constant or the wrong this constant or that constant. But as the number of universes climbs, the odds mount that a tiny minority of universes will have the right fine-tuning.

  Richard Dawkins

  Numbers, Odds, Tuning

  Source: inters.org

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• If you look at the Associated Press wires, there's a constant flow of information coming in. At that time I happened to have direct access to AP wires. The day the marines landed in Haiti and restored [ Jan Bètran] Aristide there was a lot of excitement about the dedication to democracy and so on. But the day before the marines landed, when every journalist was looking at Haiti because it was assumed that something big was happening, the AP wires reported that then [Bill] Clinton administration had authorized Texaco to ship oil illegally to the military junta.

  Noam Chomsky

  Military, Marine, Dedication

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• I think [song 'Can't Stop Workin'] it's the constant work; performing and traveling. It gets to be a bit of a strain. But if you pace yourself, which I've managed to do, you can go pretty well.

  Neil Young

  Song, Thinking, Pace

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• With respect to Russia, my principal approach to Russia has been constant since I first came into office. Russia is an important country. It is a military superpower. It has influence in the region and it has influence around the world.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Military, Russia

  Remarks by President Obama and Chancellor Merkel of Germany in a Joint Press Conference, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 17, 2016.

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• There are times where I've made mistakes or our administration hasn't always aligned ourselves with the values we need to align ourselves with. It's a work of constant improvement.

  Barack Obama

  Mistake, Needs, Administration

  Source: time.com

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• In an age where there's so much active misinformation and its packaged very well and it looks the same when you see it on a Facebook page or you turn on your television. Where some overzealousness on the part of, you know, a U.S. official is equated with constant and severe repression elsewhere.

  Barack Obama

  Age, Looks, Television

  Remarks by President Obama and Chancellor Merkel of Germany in a Joint Press Conference, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 17, 2016.

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• Weakness is constant strain and misery: weakness is death.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Weakness, Misery, Strain

  Source: tamilandvedas.com

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• I am working on three things: on being a prayerful person; on staying close to the handicapped; and on my writing. These are my constant concerns.

  Henri Nouwen

  Writing, Three, Prayerful

  Source: www.liguorian.org

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• Live, work, and travel with handicapped people, so I can stay close to them. But since I am often busy with many things, it's a constant struggle to keep the handicapped members of our community in the center of my life.

  Henri Nouwen

  Struggle, People, Community

  Source: www.liguorian.org

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• This is, for an accomplished Latino, an accomplished African American, an accomplished anyone who disproves stereotypes, it's a constant battle in your life.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  African American, Battle, Stereotype

  Source: eldiariony.com

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• It's just a constant thing when the mind starts to wake up to itself.

  Byron Katie

  Mind, Wake Up

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• We have a reversal of a longstanding trend, from rising inequality across nations and constant or declining inequality within nations, to declining inequality across nations and rising inequality within them.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Rising, Trends, Inequality

  Source: www.theoryculturesociety.org

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• Since James Madison day (and long before), there have been constant struggles over "democratic governance".

  Noam Chomsky

  Struggle, Long, Madison

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• The tendencies are considerably weaker in the natural sciences, which, for the past several centuries, have survived and flourished through such constant challenge, and therefore, at best, seek to encourage it. Serving the status quo in political and socioeconomic realms is a different matter.

  Noam Chomsky

  Past, Political, Challenges

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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