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• It is my firm belief that I have a link with the past and a responsibility to the future. I cannot give up. I cannot despair. There's a whole future, generations to come. I have to keep trying.

  King Hussein I

  Giving Up, Future, Responsibility

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• Some of the same self-certified smart people, who preached about mushroom clouds and weapons of mass destruction, are once again trying to stampede us into war. They seem to think only with their guns. To those who want to shoot first and ask questions later in Iraq, I join in a firm 'No!' We've been there and done that, and America is still paying for their past failure.

  Lloyd Doggett

  Military, War, Smart

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• I'm a firm believer in quiet confidence. By that I mean knowing inwardly that you are good, and not exhibiting a boastful attitude outwardly. If an athlete doesn't believe in himself, no one else will.

  Dick Van Arsdale

  Leadership, Basketball, Attitude

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• Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions.

  James Callaghan

  Strong, Mistake, Long

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• A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly troubles.

  B. B. Warfield

  Faith, Trouble, Providence

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• I am a firm believer, that without speculation there is no good and original observation.

  Charles Darwin

  Education, Science, Observation

  Charles Darwin (2016). “Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution”, p.342, VM eBooks

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• [About Francis Baily] The history of the astronomy of the nineteenth century will be incomplete without a catalogue of his labours. He was one of the founders of the Astronomical Society, and his attention to its affairs was as accurate and minute as if it had been a firm of which he was the chief clerk, with expectation of being taken into partnership.

  Augustus De Morgan

  Taken, Science, Expectations

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• 'Facts, facts, facts,' cries the scientist if he wants to emphasize the necessity of a firm foundation for science. What is a fact? A fact is a thought that is true. But the scientist will surely not recognize something which depends on men's varying states of mind to be the firm foundation of science.

  Gottlob Frege

  Science, Men, Mind

  "The thought: A logical inquiry" by Gottlob Frege in "Readings in the Philosophy of Language" edited by Peter Ludlow, (p. 27), 1997.

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• 'The want of proper examination, true contrition, and a firm purpose of amendment, is the cause of bad confessions, and of the ruin of souls.'

  Benedict Joseph Labre

  Soul, Purpose, Examination

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• In the armies and among every ten men there is one of more life, of more heart, or at least of more authority, who with his courage, with words and by example keeps the others firm and disposed to fight.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Fighting

  "The Complete Art of War".

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• The thought of death leaves me in perfect peace, for I have a firm conviction that our spirit is a being of indestructible nature; it works on from eternity to eternity, it is like the sun, which though it seems to set to our mortal eyes, does not really set, but shines on perpetually.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Spiritual, Eye, Shine On

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• Marinate in your own being, grow in your wisdom, mature in understanding, be firm in your conviction, be strong in your Self.

  Mooji

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Strong

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• I came to Ottawa with the firm belief that the only people in this country who should have guns are police officers and soldiers.

  Allan Rock

  Country, Gun, Should Have

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• He who is firm and resolute in will molds the world to himself.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Stay Strong, Mold, World

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• I have evolved my own exercises, for the muscles I wish to keep firm, and I know they are right for me because I can feel them putting the proper muscles into play as I exercise.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Real, Exercise, Play

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• According to the estimate of a prominent advertising firm, above 90 per cent, of the earning capacity of the prominent nostrums is represented by their advertising. And all this advertising is based on the well-proven theory of the public's pitiable ignorance and gullibility in the vitally important matter of health.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Ignorance, Drug, Important

  Samuel Hopkins Adams (1912). “The Great American fraud”

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• So here's the situation confronting the drug firms: The drugs cost more to make, but they can't charge more for them. What do they do? Increasingly, the U.S. market is driving them toward drugs aimed at the diseases of richer, older Americans and away from antimicrobials, vaccines, and the like.

  Donald Kennedy

  Vaccines, Medicine, Drug

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• Be firm and upright upon the commands of Allah, work to His obedience and keep away from His disobedience.

  Hasan of Basra

  Islamic, Obedience, Command

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• We need a global approach to this from all sides. We need to educate people, we need the scientists to create new technologies, we need the engineers to create the networks, we need every human being to be aware of how precious water is and save it. Everybody has to be involved in a very firm and assertive way.

  Isabel Allende

  Technology, People, Water

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• We have only one task, to stand firm and carry on the racial struggle without mercy.

  Heinrich Himmler

  Struggle, History, Holocaust

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• The division into whig and tory is founded in the nature of men; the weakly and nerveless, the rich and the corrupt, seeing more safety and accessibility in a strong executive; the healthy, firm, and virtuous, feeling confidence in their physical and moral resources, and willing to part with only so much power as is necessary for their good government; and, therefore, to retain the rest in the hands of the many, the division will substantially be into Whig and Tory.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Strong, Men, Hands

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.422, Cambridge University Press

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• And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself to be on firm ground.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Life, Simple, Accepting

  "The Revolt of the Masses". Book by José Ortega y Gasset. Chapter XIV: "Who Rules The World?", 1929.

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• Our firm view is that the president has no legal authority, none whatsoever, to commit American troops to war in the Persian Gulf or anywhere else without congressional authorization.

  George J. Mitchell

  War, Views, President

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• It is meant that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm that cannot be seduced.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Mind, Noble

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.586, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• We remember the specter of sectarian violence -- al Qaeda's attacks on mosques and pilgrims, militias that carried out campaigns of intimidation and campaigns of assassination. And in the face of ancient divisions, you stood firm to help those Iraqis who put their faith in the future.

  Barack Obama

  War, Campaigns, Division

  Remarks on the End of the War in Iraq, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. December 14, 2011.

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