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• When things go bad, it's easy to point fingers. People who attempt to switch the blame are afraid to fail. We've all been afraid to fail before a game, but it shouldn't stop us from continuing, and from doing what we have to do to get the job done.

  John Elway

  Basketball, Jobs, Games

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• Once the forest has been removed and the swamp starts being drained, that organic matter begins to oxidise and give off continuing emissions. It's sort of like the goose that keeps on giving.

  Frances Ford Seymour

  Giving, Swamps, Matter

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• To push for excellence today without continuing to push for access for less privileged students is to undermine the crucial but incomplete gains that have been made. Equity and excellence cannot be divided.

  Ernest L. Boyer

  Education, Excellence, Today

  Ernest L. Boyer (1997). “Ernest L. Boyer, Selected Speeches, 1979-1995”, Jossey-Bass

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• The mark of the Christian is the willingness to look for the Divine in the flesh of a babe in a crib, the continuing Christ under the appearance of bread on an altar, and a meditation and a prayer on a string of beads

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Christian, Prayer, Meditation

  Fulton J. Sheen (2010). “The World's First Love”, p.211, Ignatius Press

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• Conservative principles place growth and opportunity at the forefront, and I look forward to the RNC continuing to promote those values in communities across the nation as we grow the party.

  Tim Scott

  Party, Opportunity, Community

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• Though we must hold to our faith in the evolution of species, there is little evidence as to how it has come about, and no clear proof that the process is continuing in any considerable degree at the present time.

  William Bateson

  Faith, Time, Degrees

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• A lot of widows feel that they have betrayed their spouse by continuing to live. It's deranged thinking. I know that, but that doesn't stop you feeling it.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Thinking, Feelings, Widows

  "Joyce Carol Oates: 'I had a dream about a woman whose make-up was dried and cracking, she made a fool of herself'". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2012.

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• Rather than undermining the Palestinian Authority, it is in Israel's interests to strengthen it by... continuing to transfer Palestinian tax revenues and pursuing other avenues of cooperation.

  Leon Panetta

  Israel, Cooperation, Authority

  "Netanyahu spokesman: Palestinians to blame for deadlock". The Associated Press, www.theguardian.com. December 03, 2011.

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• I'm continuing to do research into biker culture.

  Ron Perlman

  Culture, Bikers, Research

  Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 31, 2008.

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• As nations we should also commit afresh to righting past wrongs. In Australia we began this recently with the first Australians - the oldest continuing culture in human history. On behalf of the Australian Parliament, this year I offered an apology to indigenous Australians for the wrongs they had suffered in the past.

  Kevin Rudd

  Apology, Past, Years

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's important to recognize that expanding the circle of opportunity
  and increasing the democratic potential of our own society,
  as well as those across the world, is a continuing process of inclusion.

  Hillary Clinton

  Opportunity, Circles, Important

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• If you plan on continuing a tradition, it might be a good idea to find out just what tradition it is that you intend to continue.

  Pat Metheny

  Ideas, Might, Jazz

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• The Eucharistic sacrifice of the body and blood of Christ embraces in turn the mystery of our Lord's continuing passion in the members of his mystical body, the church in every age.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Passion, Sacrifice, Blood

  Sermon of Benedict XVI, w2.vatican.va. September 18, 2010.

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• Your task is to conquer yourselves, not ships, lands and castles. This battle is the one in which you especially are to 'come off conqueror.' It is fought every day. In fact, it is a continuing process which commenced a long, long time ago.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Land, Long, Battle

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• This is what history is: all those centuries of bodies, moving over these canals, twisting and blooming into life in these houses, these streets; all that flesh hungering, coming together, separating, continuing, accumulating, relinquishing, aging and breaking down. Bodies as tulips bent to the demands of light, colored into blossom, spent.

  Mark Doty

  Moving, Light, House

  Mark Doty (2001). “Still Life with Oysters and Lemon”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• Almost all of the many predictions now being made about 1996 hinge on the internet's continuing exponential growth. But I predict the internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse.

  Robert Metcalfe

  Growth, Internet, Predictions

  "Zen and the Art of Systems Analysis: Meditations on Computer Systems Development". Book by Patrick Mcdermott, 2002.

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• How you experience your life depends on how you look at it. If you look at it as a constant stream of difficulties and challenges, messes and problems, it will show up that way. If, on the other hand, you see it as a continuing flow of good fortune, one good thing after another, that is what you will encounter.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Hands, Challenges, Encounters

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from May 04, 2017

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• At a certain age, you have to live near good medical care — if, that is, you're going to continue. You always have the option of not continuing, which, I fear, is sometimes nobler.

  Gore Vidal

  Age, Care, Medical

  "Gore Vidal: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. August 1, 2012.

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• The mark of the modern world is the imagination of its profiteers and the counter-assertiveness of the oppressed. Exploitation and the refusal to accept exploitation as either inevitable or just constitute the continuing antinomy of the modern era, joined together in a dialectic which has far from reached its climax in the twentieth century.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Imagination, Together, World

  Immanuel Wallerstein (2011). “The Modern World-System I: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century, With a New Prologue”, p.357, Univ of California Press

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• Here seems now no reasonable justification for continuing any civil plutonium program.

  Jinzaburo Takagi

  Plutonium, Program, Justification

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• I miss my dad every day, but I know he would be proud to see me continuing to swim and going for another shot at the Olympics.

  Eric Shanteau

  Dad, Missing, Swim

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• One of the most important reasons for North Korea continuing its nuclear ambitions is to consolidate the power to stay within the Kim Jong Il family.

  Lee Myung-bak

  Ambition, Korea, Important

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• We're essentially continuing a system where profits are privatized and...losses socialized.

  Nouriel Roubini

  Loss, Profit

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• The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations that have still not died down after many centuries, and that are actively continuing in some of the world's most troubled areas.

  Jared Diamond

  Epidemics, World, Modern

  Jared Diamond (2017). “Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies”, p.11, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The empowerment journey that is critical to your healing - and to your life - comes from progressing through the deep waters of your dark passions and continuing onward to discover not what has been taken from you, but what you have yet to give and who you have yet to become.

  Caroline Myss

  Taken, Healing, Passion

  "Defy Gravity: Healing Beyond the Bounds of Reason". Book by Caroline Myss, 2009.

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