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• To bring the worst of the worst terrorists inside the United States would be cause for great danger and regret in the years to come. It is recklessness cloaked in righteousness, and would make the American people less safe.

  Dick Cheney

  Opportunity, People, Leader

  "Obama, Cheney: Different Views On Protecting U.S". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. May 22, 2009.

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• Liverpool players must play like a lion, give his all. There must be determination, commitment and resolve to be a Liverpool player.

  Gerard Houllier

  Determination, Commitment, Player

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• Throughout his many years, he enriched the lives of countless others and served as a model of generosity and discipline to those he met, fostering an atmosphere of compassion, harmony, and unity. Sri Chinmoy was a leader, humanitarian, artist, athlete, and public servant who will be sorely missed. His legacy of kindness, reflection, and resolve will endure for many years to come.

  William J. Clinton

  Kindness, Athlete, Compassion

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• The need to express one's self in writing springs from a maladjustment of life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action.

  Andre Maurois

  Spring, Writing, Men

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• The broader the chess player you are, the easier it is to be competitive, and the same seems to be true of mathematics - if you can find links between different branches of mathematics, it can help you resolve problems. In both mathematics and chess, you study existing theory and use that to go forward.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Player, Different, Use

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• Every time a resolve or a fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing practical fruit is worse than a chance lost; it works to hinder future resolutions and emotions from taking the normal path of discharge. There is no more contemptible type of human character than that of the nerveless sentimentalist and dreamer, who spends his life in a weltering sea of sensibility and emotion, but who never does a manly concrete deed.

  William James

  Character, Sea, Feelings

  William James (1950). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.125, Courier Corporation

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• I think this is one of the problems that we're having in Indigenous affairs. Why we're not confronting the issues that are going to resolve it, the anger and the guilt. The anger on the Aboriginal side; the guilt on the non - Aboriginal side. We have got to deal with that, move on and start doing real work.

  Warren Mundine

  Real, Moving, Thinking

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• Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.

  George Washington

  Choices, Brave, Enemy

  1776 General orders, 2 Jul. Quoted in J C Fitzpatrick (ed) Writings of George Washington (1932), vol.5.

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• Contradictions have always existed in the soul of [individuals]. But it is only when we prefer analysis to silence that they become a constant and insoluble problem. We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them and see them in the light of exterior and objective values which make them trivial by comparison.

  Thomas Merton

  Light, Silence, Soul

  "Thoughts in Solitude". Book by Thomas Merton, 1956.

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• Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter.

  Samuel Adams

  Rights, Sake, Latter

  Samuel Adams (1906). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1770-1773”

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• You can't resolve a dilemma with all the very same mind that made it

  Albert Einstein

  Mind, Made, Dilemma

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• Timorous minds are much more inclined to deliberate than to resolve.

  Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

  Mind, Deliberate

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• My mother's influence in molding my character was conspicuous. She forced me to learn daily long chapters of the Bible by heart. To that discipline and patient, accurate resolve I owe not only much of my general power of taking pains, but of the best part of my taste for literature.

  John Ruskin

  Mother, Pain, Heart

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• Science, not religion, has taught me my most useful values, among them intellectual honesty. It is better to go without answers than to accept those that merely resolve puzzlement.

  B. F. Skinner

  Education, Honesty, Intellectual

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• When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it's an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue.

  Dolores Huerta

  Educational, Mean, People

  "Wisdom Watch: Dolores Huerta". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. August 15, 2007.

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• A break in the established order is never the work of chance. It is the outcome of a man's resolve to turn life to account.

  Andre Malraux

  Men, Order, Outcomes

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• When you find yourself ready to complain about what you don't have, stop for a moment to consider what incredible things you do have. And resolve to make the most of it all.

  Ralph Marston

  Perspective, Finding Yourself, Complaining

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• Love resolves all contradictions. Without love, man cannot make sense of his existence.

  Peter Deunov

  Love, Men, Contradiction

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• Resolve to throw off the influences of any unfortunate environment, and to build your own life to order.

  Napoleon Hill

  Order, Influence, Environment

  Napoleon Hill, Wallace D. Wattles (2012). “Get Rich Collection”, p.42, Penguin

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• The goal of the artist is not to resolve life's mysteries, but to deepen them.

  Jerry Uelsmann

  Artist, Goal, Photographer

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• It is not patriotic to decide to destroy a new president who was duly elected by an overwhelming margin. It is un-patriotic to resolve to destroy that presidency.

  Russ Feingold

  Patriotic, President, Overwhelming

  "A Senator Without Constituents". Interview with Mark Byrne, www.gq.com. February 20, 2012.

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• America leads - not with bluster, but with persistent, steady resolve.

  Barack Obama

  America, Bluster, Persistent

  Sixth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 20 January 2015

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• The whole thing resolves itself into our mental ability to control our thought. The man who can do this can have what he wants, can do what he wishes and becomes what he wills.

  Ernest Holmes

  Men, Wish, Want

  Ernest Holmes (2007). “Creative Mind”, p.41, Penguin

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• Do you resolve to do the right and to love the true, depend upon it you will get no assistance from this world. Of its maxims, nine out of ten are false, and the other one selfish; and even that which is selfish has a lie at the bottom of it.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Selfish, Lying, World

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• You are here to step into the shoes of UN ambassadors - to draft resolutions, to plot strategy, to negotiate with your allies as well as your adversaries. Your goal may be to resolve a conflict, to cope with a natural disaster or to bring nations together on an issue like climate change. You may be playing a role, but you are also preparing for life. You are acting as global citizens.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Shoes, Issues, Goal

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