Maintaining Quotes - Page 12

• The biggest challenge, I think, is always maintaining your moral compass.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Challenges, Moral

  "Transcript: Barack Obama and The God Factor Interview" by Cathleen Falsani, sojo.net. February 21, 2012.

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• There is always an element of realpolitik that has to be present in the conduct of any nation's national security affairs. At the same time, we have to also have a balance between realpolitik and Wilsonian principles of freedom and democracy and human rights. And maintaining that balance is the greatest challenge that we in the West, including the Federal Republic of Germany, have to face because it's many times a very difficult decision-making process.

  John McCain

  Rights, Decision, Challenges

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Playing 82 games is not hard. The games are easy. It's what you do between games that wears you out.It's all about maintaining your body, maintaining your fitness and you do that by eating properly, watching your alcohol intake - I know I sound like an old-fashioned guy - but you do that by going home between games and getting your rest, taking care of your body, making sure you're getting the proper rest, the proper nutrition.

  Mychal Thompson

  Home, Games, Guy

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• From the U.S. point of view, negotiations are, in effect, a way for Israel to continue its policies of systematically taking over whatever it wants in the West Bank, maintaining the brutal siege on Gaza, separating Gaza from the West Bank and, of course, occupying the Syrian Golan heights, all with full U.S. support.

  Noam Chomsky

  Israel, Views, Support

  "Noam Chomsky: While Syria descends into suicide, Israel and the US are enjoying the spectacle". Interview with Frank Barat, chomsky.info. September 7, 2013.

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• Corporations care very much about maintaining the myth that government is necessarily ineffective, except when it is spending money on the military-industrial complex, building prisons, or providing infrastructural support for the business sector.

  Michael Lerner

  Military, Government, Support

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• The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday.

  Felix Adler

  Sunday, Church, Ethical

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• Perhaps the grimmest aspect of this great paradox is that the very nations that are chiefly responsible for starting and for maintaining the Disarmament Conference are also the nations that have begun a new arms race.

  Arthur Henderson

  Race, Arms, Paradox

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• Far too many businesses have been all too eager to lobby for maintaining and increasing subsidies and mandates paid by taxpayers and consumers. This growing partnership between business and government is a destructive force, undermining not just our economy and our political system, but the very foundations of culture.

  Charles Koch

  Government, Political, Foundation

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• I hope that a move toward clemency with Judge Afiuni would be a step towards the importance of maintaining a properly functioning justice system.

  Noam Chomsky

  Moving, Justice, Judging

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• Every extension of the functions and power of the State beyond its primary duty of maintaining peace and justice should be scrutinized with jealous vigilance.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Jealous, Justice, States

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• The sheer number of government employees and welfare recipients effectively transforms the purpose of government from maintaining order to confiscating as much as possible from vulnerable taxpayers.

  James Bovard

  Government, Order, Numbers

  James Bovard (2015). “Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen”, p.137, Macmillan

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• The Obama administration has vastly expanded the use of armed drones and concentrated a great deal of diplomatic effort on building and maintaining alliances that share information about terrorists, provide access to get near them, and then strike against them.

  Elliott Abrams

  Effort, Administration, Drones

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• Sometimes it's difficult maintaining my friendships, but to me, it's well worth it.

  Steve Nash

  Sometimes, Difficult, Wells

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• Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one's balance in spite of them.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Powerful, Character, Feelings

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.107, Princeton University Press

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• Competitiveness is defined as the ability of companies to compete while maintaining or improving the average standard of living. If you are cutting wages to become more competitive, that's not really more competitive. It's raising the skill and the efficiency of those workers so that they can support and sustain that higher wage.

  Michael Porter

  Cutting, Average, Skills

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• We are spending hundreds of billions of dollars maintaining 5,000 nuclear weapons. I think we need major reform in the military, making it more cost effective, but also focusing on the real crisis that faces America.

  Bernie Sanders

  Military, Real, Thinking

  Bernie Sanders during Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, www.cbsnews.com. November 14, 2015.

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• In recent years we have become much more preoccupied with streamlining and organizing our subject than with maintaining its overall vitality. If we are not careful, a great adventure of the mind will become yet another profession.

  Mark Kac

  Adventure, Years, Mind

  Mark Kac, Gian-Carlo Rota, Jacob T. Schwartz (2009). “Discrete Thoughts: Essays on Mathematics, Science and Philosophy”, p.11, Springer Science & Business Media

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• When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.

  Albert Camus

  Speaks Out, Silence, Abuse

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.177, Vintage

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• People are very adamant about maintaining a certain sound or a certain era, like, "There were three years of rap that were great, so let's just keep doing that." The genre itself is just stuck in place. It's been treading water for a while.

  Aesop Rock

  Rap, Years, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There are a great many people who have a vested interest in maintaining the stupidity of the American public.

  Gore Vidal

  People, Stupidity, Great Men

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• I think there was a bit of brotherly love, but I think everything has a motive when you're king. It's all about maintaining that power - securing that power - and I think Edward was very skillful at doing that. I think he was a great king. Opinions are split, if you look at what he's done and written about him.

  Max Irons

  Kings, Thinking, Looks

  "Max Irons Assumes His Throne". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2013.

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• I do not mean to expose my ideas to ingenious ridicule by maintaining that everything happens to every man for the best; but I will contend, that he who makes the best use of it, fulfills the part of a wise and good man.

  Richard Cumberland

  Wise, Gratitude, Mean

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• Our subtle-energy bodies play a major role in maintaining our health. Energy disturbances in the etheric body precede the manifestation of abnormal patterns of cellular organization and growth.

  Richard Gerber

  Play, Organization, Growth

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• The peace we seek in the world is not the flimsy peace which is merely an interlude between wars, but a peace which can endure for generations to come. It is important that we understand both the necessity and the limitations of America's role in maintaining that peace. Unless we in America work to preserve the peace, there will be no peace. Unless we in America work to preserve freedom, there will be no freedom.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Peace, War, America

  Second Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1973

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• It's not a matter of maintaining the status quo. We have to create a dynamic state, oriented towards expansion.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Israel, Maintaining The Status Quo, Expansion

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