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• Anthony Mackie in 'The Hurt Locker' is everything an actor can hope to be. So rock steady in his portrayal that you immediately forget every performance he may have previously given, and focus only on the character in front of you.

  Denis Leary

  Hurt, Character, Rocks

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• What a circus act we women perform every day of our lives. Look at us. We run a tightrope daily, balancing a pile of books on the head. Baby-carriage, parasol, kitchen chair, still under control. Steady now! This is not the life of simplicity but the life of multiplicity that the wise men warn us of.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Wise, Running, Baby

  "The New York Times Biographical Service, Volume 32". Book by Anne Morrow Lindbergh (p. 224), 1975.

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• Whatever it is you want to do, take a job in that field. You will learn by experience and, slow and steady, you'll get it done!

  Rachael Ray

  Jobs, Done, Want

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• This counter-terrorism campaign will be waged through a steady, relentless effort to take out Isil wherever they exist, using our air power and our support for partner forces on the ground. This strategy of taking out terrorists who threaten us, while supporting partners on the front lines, is one that we have successfully pursued in Yemen and Somalia for years.

  Barack Obama

  Safe Haven, Years, Air

  "Obama Declares War on Syria". Interview with Mike Whitney, www.counterpunch.org. September 12, 2014.

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• The pulpit and the optimist are always talking about the human race's steady march toward ultimate perfection. As usual, they leave out the statistics. It is the pulpit's way - the optimist's way.

  Mark Twain

  Optimistic, Race, Talking

  Mark Twain, Charles Neider (1987). “The outrageous Mark Twain: some lesser-known but extraordinary works : with "Reflections on religion" now in book form for the first time”, Doubleday Books

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• As someone who has shot in most disciplines, I can tell the House that when one is lying on ones stomach in Bisley with a sling round ones arm to hold the rifle steady, it is hard enough to hit the target on the right spot even when it is obligingly staying still. Foxes do not stay still. They move with remarkable rapidity.

  Richard Page

  Lying, Moving, Hunting

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• There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.

  James Russell Lowell

  Business, Advice, Risk

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.1220, Delphi Classics

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• For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.

  Ralph Nader

  Life, Years, Bulls

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• But would we know, whether the pretended prophet had really attained a just sentiment of morals? Let us attend to his narration; and we shall soon find, that he bestows praise on such instances of treachery, inhumanity, cruelty, revenge, bigotry, as are utterly incompatible with civilized society. No steady rule of right seems there to be attended to; and every action is blamed or praised, so far only as it is beneficial or hurtful to the true believers.

  David Hume

  Revenge, Islam, Hurtful

  David Hume (1758). “Essays and Treatises on several subjects, etc. New edition”, p.135

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• Now an extraordinary and helpful fact is that by making Mind the object of our attention, not only does the serenity which is its nature begin to well up of its own accord but its steady unchanging character itself helps spontaneously to repel all disturbing thoughts.

  Paul Brunton

  Character, Meditation, Serenity

  Paul Brunton (1988). “Advanced contemplation: The peace within you”, Larson Pubn

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• How then did we come to the "standard model"? And how has it supplanted other theories, like the steady state model? It is a tribute to the essential objectivity of modern astrophysics that this consensus has been brought about, not by shifts in philosophical preference or by the influence of astrophysical mandarins, but by the pressure of empirical data.

  Steven Weinberg

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Science

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• I don't read for amusement, I read for enlightenment. I do a lot of reviewing, so I have a steady assignment of reading. I'm also a judge for the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, which gives awards to literature and nonfiction.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Book, Reading, Awards

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• There's nothing wrong with getting a steady paycheck, unless it interferes with your ability to earn what you're worth. There's the rub. It usually does.

  T. Harv Eker

  Secret, Doe, Paychecks

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Aug 15, 2011

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• The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation - persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Success, Perseverance, Men

  Interview in "How They Succeeded" by Orison Swett Marden, Chapter 2, 1901.

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• What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Friendship, Business

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• Swift as the wind. Quiet as the forest. Conquer like the fire. Steady as the mountain

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Fire

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• Slow and steady wins the race, and I believe in paying your dues.

  Amanda Bynes

  Believe, Winning, Race

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• The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Taken, Past, Welfare Programs

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• The dominant feature of the later legislation has been this steady reduction of the status of the native, and, though the intention has been protective, legislation has now gone so far that it may well be asked what purpose or plan there is or what possible outcome there can be from a system that confines the native within a legal status that has more in common with that of a born idiot than of any other class of British subject.

  Paul Hasluck

  Leadership, Class, Purpose

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• I tried a few times, unsuccessfully, to lose weight. It wasn't until I joined Weight Watchers that I was finally able to do it. I went to meetings and my son came with me. The best thing was that I could eat what I wanted and still lose weight. Slow and steady, I was getting my pre-pregnancy body back.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Pregnancy, Son, Weight Watchers

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• If you're going through difficult times today, hold steady. It will change soon. If you are experiencing smooth sailing and easy times now, brace yourself. It will change soon. The only thing you can be certain of is change.

  James Dobson

  Inspirational Life, Smooth Sailing, Today

  James Dobson (2001). “38 Values to Live By”, p.8, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I had very steady and formal relationships with women. And I can say, I fell in love with women and it felt right.

  Ricky Martin

  Formal, Felt, I Can

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• Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.

  Loretta Lynn

  Marriage, Real, Kids

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• There was no indication of panic. The broken files marched back in steady step. The effort was nobly made and failed from the blows that could not be fended.

  James Longstreet

  Blow, Broken, Effort

  James Longstreet, Civil War Classics (2015). “From Manassas to Appomattox (Civil War Classics): Memoirs of the Civil War in America”, p.440, Diversion Books

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• Such simple and steady acts of kindness are the essence of love, the substance of life. All of us need love; all of us want love. Everything else is a consolation prize. What matters is love.

  Lloyd D. Newell

  Kindness, Simple, What Matters

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