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• Pablo Casals is a very great artist. What I admire is the firm stand he has taken not only against the oppressors of his countrymen, but also against those opportunists who are always ready to compromise with the Devil. He perceives clearly that the world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.

  Albert Einstein

  Taken, Artist, Evil

  Einstein's tribute to Pablo Casals on March 30, 1953. "Conversations with Casals". Book by Josep Maria Corredor, p. 11, archive.org. 1957.

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• See yonder rock from which the fountain gushes; is it less compact of adamant, though waters flow from it? Firm hearts have moister eyes.

  Walter Scott

  Heart, Eye, Rocks

  Sir Walter Scott (1826). “The Poetical Works of Walter Scott, Etc”, p.275

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• I rejoice in my spine, as in the firm audacious staff of that flag which I fling half out to the world.

  Herman Melville

  Flags, Half, World

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.389, Velvet Element Books

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• In the firm expectation that when London shall be a habitation of bitterns, when St. Paul and Westminster Abbey shall stand shapeless and nameless ruins in the midst of an unpeopled marsh, when the piers of Waterloo Bridge shall become the nuclei of islets of reeds and osiers, and cast the jagged shadows of their broken arches on the solitary stream, some Transatlantic commentator will be weighing in the scales of some new and now unimagined system of criticism the respective merits of the Bells and the Fudges and their historians.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Bridges, Broken, Expectations

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2008). “The Narrative Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.136, Wildside Press LLC

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• The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are finding it difficult to get the credit they need at a price they can afford, that's likely to change for the better.

  Alan Greenspan

  Numbers, Needs, Credit

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• One way to cope with the provocations of novel art is to rest firm and maintain solid standards... set by the critic's long-practiced taste and by his conviction that only those innovations will be significant which promote the established direction of advanced art.

  Leo Steinberg

  Art, Standards Set, Long

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• Whatever the composition of a firm, if it is to do good business it should be a place where everyone is encouraged to progress toward complexity- or at the very least a place that does not make it more difficult to achieve personal growth.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Growth, Progress, Doe

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• If I could leave this body with one wish, it would be that we never give up that search for common ground, .. The politics of common ground will not be found on the far right, or on the far left. That is not where most Americans live. We will only find it on the firm middle ground, based on common sense and shared values.

  Tom Daschle

  Giving Up, Common Sense, Wish

  "Daschle: 'Grateful for every moment", www.cnn.com. November 19, 2004.

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• Financial firms are sending their back-office jobs overseas. But what do fine artists do? They create something new, unexpected, and delightful that changes the world. MFA abilities are harder to outsource and more important in an abundant world.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Jobs, Artist, Office

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• I am a firm believer that every few years one needs to shake one's life through a sieve, like a miner in the Yukon. The gold nuggets remain. The rest falls through like the soft earth it is.

  Amy Poehler

  Fall, Years, Gold

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.255, Pan Macmillan

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• I'm a firm believer that the wild-card teams, because they're grinding it out until the final days, have a tremendous amount of excitement. That excitement carries over into the playoffs and really helps.

  Tim Salmon

  Team, Finals, Cards

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• We thank those Senators, both Republican and Democrat, who stood firm against tremendous pressure from the Bush administration, pro-drilling members of Congress and their allies in the oil industry. They recognize that the budget is an inappropriate place to decide controversial national policy matters like America's energy policy. We urge all members of Congress to remain steadfast in their belief that the vast, unspoiled wilderness of America?s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is more than a line item in the Federal Budget.

  Carl Pope

  Oil, America, Lines

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• You cannot win a game of tug-o-war by merely standing firm.

  Randall Dale Adams

  War, Winning, Games

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• Thank you from the heart to all those who in various ways are near me or follow me spiritually with affection and prayers from afar. To each one of you, I ask you to continue to support me by praying to God to let me be his gentle and firm pastor of his church.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Prayer, Heart, Support

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• Iran's strong logic and firm diplomacy is the guideline for all government officials in negotiations on country's peaceful nuclear program with foreigners, quite resolutely.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Country, Strong, Government

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• The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of delaying too long before putting the fruit in the Jell-O so it's too firm and the chunks just sit on top.

  Harold B. Lee

  Thanksgiving, Long, Fruit

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• In the firm belief that the American public deserves a better explanation than that thus far given by the Air Force, I strongly recommend that there be a committee investigation of the UFO phenomena. I think we owe it to the people to establish credibility regarding UFOs, and to produce the greatest possible enlightenment of the subject.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Thinking, Air, People

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• Malcolm was a firm believer in the value and importance of our heritage. He believed that we have valuable and distinct cultural traditions which need to be institutionalized so that they can be passed on to our heirs.

  Betty Shabazz

  Needs, Heritage, Heirs

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• To .. all the dispossessed youth of Africa: for perpetuation of communion with ancestral spirits through the fight for African freedom, and in the firm faith that the dead, the living, and the unborn will unite to rebuild the destroyed shrines.

  Jomo Kenyatta

  Fighting, Shrines, Youth

  George Delf, Jomo Kenyatta (1961). “Jomo Kenyatta: Towards the Truth about "The Light of Kenya"”, London : Gollancz

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• By firm immutable immortal laws Impress'd on Nature by the GREAT FIRST CAUSE, Say, MUSE! how rose from elemental strife Organic forms, and kindled into life; How Love and Sympathy with potent charm Warm the cold heart, the lifted hand disarm; Allure with pleasures, and alarm with pains, And bind Society in golden chains.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Nature, Pain, Heart

  Erasmus Darwin (1825). “The Botanic Garden: A Poem, in Two Parts ... The Economy of Vegetation, and The Loves of the Plants. With Philosophical Notes”, p.7

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• You don't win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training. There's no such thing as an overnight opera sensation. Great law firms or design companies don't spring up overnight... Every great company, every great brand, and every great career has been built in exactly the same way: bit by bit, step by step, little by little.

  Seth Godin

  Motivational, Spring, Winning

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• When a tree has been transplanted, though fierce winds may blow, it will not topple if it has a firm stake to hold it up. But even a tree that has grown up in place may fall over if its roots are weak.

  Nichiren

  Strength, Fall, Blow

  Nichiren (2003). “The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin”

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• It can be difficult to run your own firm, but the trade off is fewer conflicts and more control.

  Dan Gelber

  Running, Conflict, Difficult

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• With passions stilled and one's nature firm, all destinies are in harmony; When the full moon of contemplation is reached you will be pure.

  Wu Cheng'en

  Passion, Moon, Destiny

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• My mother was convinced, and on this head I have retained her firm belief, that to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state; that it is one of those curses cast upon man either by his fall, or by the obduracy of his own perversity.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Mother, Fall, Men

  "Les Confidences: Confidential Disclosures" by Alphonse de Lamartine, translated by Eugène Plunkett, New York: D. Appleton & Co., (Book IV, Note VIII, p. 60), 1857.

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