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• Liberals are like dogs: The liberal holds that he is true to the republic when he is true to himself. (It may not be as cozy an attitude as it sounds.) He greets with enthusiasm the fact of the journey, as a dog greets a man's invitation to take a walk. And he acts in the dog's way too, swinging wide, racing ahead, doubling back, covering many miles of territory that the man never traverses, all in the spirit of inquiry and the zest for truth. He leaves a crazy trail, but he ranges far beyond the genteel old party he walks with and he is usually in a better position to discover a skunk.

  E. B. White

  Dog, Attitude, Crazy

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• As far as from a standpoint of success, the only person who is in a position to make a claim like that sort [for the 'King Of The South' title] would be Lil Wayne - as far as success from a numbers standpoint. As far as longevity and success, that's the only person I feel like can say that.

  T.I.

  Kings, Numbers, Titles

  "T.I. Speaks On His Self Proclaimed Title, 'King Of The South'". uproxx.com. August 23, 2010.

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• Leaders are less interested in their position and more interested in their positive impact on others.

  John C. Maxwell

  Impact, Leader, Positive Impact

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You”, p.52, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The best place for a leader isn't always at the top position. It is the place where they can serve the best and add the most value to other people.

  John C. Maxwell

  People, Leader, Add

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• To summarize, draft resistance can make use of the inegalitarian nature of American society as a technique for increasing the cost of American aggression, and it threatens values that are important to those in a decision-making position.

  Noam Chomsky

  Decision, Important, Technique

  Institute Professor Department of Linguistics and Philosophy Noam Chomsky, Noam Chomsky (2010). “American Power and the New Mandarins”, p.493, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• One of the many disservices done to young people by our schools and colleges is giving them the puffed up notion that they are in a position to pass sweeping judgments on a world that they have barely begun to experience.

  Thomas Sowell

  School, College, People

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• In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken..."

  Carl Sagan

  Change, Science, Theoretical Physics

  Keynote address at CSICOP conference, 1987.

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• In our home we have a rule: You can disagree with a man's position as much as you want - after you have been able to state it to his satisfaction.

  J. Irwin Miller

  Home, Men, Want

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• In any attempt to bridge the domains of experience belonging to the spiritual and physical sides of nature, time occupies the key position.

  Arthur Eddington

  Spiritual, Keys, Bridges

  Arthur Eddington (2012). “The Nature of the Physical World: Gifford Lectures (1927)”, p.91, Cambridge University Press

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• We're much closer together in the world today than we ever were in the psot. Given that it is a much smaller world, we are in a stronger position to shape that world. As we enter the new century, and anew millennium, let us create a world in which there is no longer any war or any conflict.

  John Hume

  War, Together, Stronger

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• It's become a cliche to think of marriage as a disaster area and a war zone. Although political shows are really popular now, I think what sets this apart is this marriage and this family dynamic, and this way of revealing that people in positions of power or who have public careers are also real people. They have children and lives, and they have to deal with all of the things that everybody else does.

  Tim Daly

  Children, Real, War

  Source: collider.com

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• People really want to see what I'm up to, and that's crazy. It's a really lovely feeling. It's kind of scary, but a good scary. It's a lovely position to be in.

  Maisie Williams

  Crazy, People, Scary

  Source: collider.com

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• Today - and it's happening very rapidly - money, wealth, position, birth are of no importance at all. The thing that is important is the individual you are.

  Emilio Pucci

  Important, Today, Birth

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Having power and being in a position of power can really blur your judgement, and it's not always that clear.

  Bobby Morley

  Position Of Power, Judgement, Blur

  Source: collider.com

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• It's funny how you have to keep changing, or showing that you are capable of doing something different from people's expectations. People really only do remember you from the last thing you've done, or desperately want to put you into a position that they think you're capable of.

  Dominic Cooper

  Thinking, Remember You, Remembers You

  "Dominic Cooper Talks NEED FOR SPEED, Fulfilling His Childhood Dream of Doing a Racing Movie, the Stunts, WARCRAFT, FLEMING, and More". Interview with Christina Raddish, collider.com. March 13, 2014.

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• I've never been in the position where that conversation is a serious conversation before the movie even comes out. On one side of it, that's so great because you've got such great potential. The other side of that is that there's a level of pressure. Now, that clearly means that there's an expectation level, from the studio side, potentially from the audience's side, and from our side.

  Will Packer

  Mean, Expectations, Levels

  Source: collider.com

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• It took me a long time to get to a position where I can feel that, with my art, I'm capable of saying what I need to say, and once I finish it, I can sit back and say, "It's done, and I'm okay with that. People can judge it good or bad, and it doesn't matter. I'm okay with it because I said something I needed to say." That's a really hard place to get, as an artist.

  J.H. Wyman

  Art, Long, People

  Source: collider.com

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• Like all the best radical positions, then, mine is a thoroughly traditionalist one.

  Terry Eagleton

  Radical, All The Best, Mines

  Terry Eagleton (2008). “Literary Theory: An Introduction”, p.179, U of Minnesota Press

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• Scholesy is one of my favourite players of all time. He was a great professional who had everything and I used to love playing with him. You could give him the ball in any position, he would take one touch and you would know exactly what the next move would be. [ . . . ] He was magical, pure class.

  Paul Gascoigne

  Moving, Player, Class

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• Hookers in Times Square, God bless 'em, are offering a Mitt Romney Special. For an extra $20 they'll change positions.

  David Letterman

  Squares, Offering, Special

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• One of those disturbing tendencies in academic life is that there is a desire on the part of many in the name of open-mindedness to fall into a kind of relativistic denialism in which all positions are equally legitimate, all positions must be respected, and compromise must be entered into no matter what the starting point or reasonableness of the two parties.

  Lawrence Summers

  Fall, Party, Names

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• The art of the indirect approach can only be mastered, and its full scope appreciated, by study of and reflection upon the whole history of war. But we can at least crystallize the lessons into two simple maxims- one negative, the other positive. The first is that, in face of the overwhelming evidence of history, no general is justified in launching his troops to a direct attack upon an enemy firmly in position. The second, that instead of seeking to upset the enemy's equilibrium by one's attack, it must be upset before a real attack is, or can be successfully launched

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Art, Real, War

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• The job description of mother is clearly in need of revision. As it stands, the shifts are 24 hours, for a period of approximately 1,825 consecutive days. The benefits are sorely in need of amendment: no vacations, no sick leave, no lunch hours, no breaks. Moreover, it is the only unpaid position I know of that can result in arrest if you fail to show up for work.

  Mary Blakely

  Mother, Jobs, Vacation

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• Because these firms listened to their customers, invested aggressively in new technologies that would provide their customers more and better products of the sort they wanted, and because they carefully studied market trends and systematically allocated investment capital to innovations that promised the best returns, they lost their positions of leadership.

  Clayton Christensen

  Technology, Innovation, Trends

  Clayton Christensen (2013). “The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail”, p.8, Harvard Business Review Press

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• Students are often in no position to judge 'relevance' until long after the fact.

  Thomas Sowell

  Long, Judging, Facts

  Thomas Sowell (2001). “A Personal Odyssey”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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