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“People now are beginning to cheer for me. I've never heard that before. .. Maybe things are turning a bit.”
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“The distance between number one and number two is always a constant. If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself and the organization gets pulled up with you. That is a big lesson. I cannot just expect the organization to improve if I don't improve myself and lift the organization, because that distance is a constant.”
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“Make no mistake, our military readiness is already suffering, ... According to a recent RAND study, the Army has been stretched so thin that active-duty soldiers are now spending one of every two years abroad, leaving little of the Army left in any appropriate condition to respond to crises that may emerge elsewhere in the world. In an era in which we confront a globally networked enemy, and at a time when nuclear weapons proliferation is an urgent threat, continuing on our present course is irresponsible at best.”
Source : "The President’s Policies Are Breaking the U.S. Army" by Russ Feingold, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 29, 2005.
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“If commodity prices are no longer going up then food prices in the grocery store will no longer go up, at some point.”
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“After all, our lives are but a sequence of accidents - a clanking chain of chance events. A string of choices, casual or deliberate, which add up to that one big calamity we call life.”
Source : Rohinton Mistry (2010). “A Fine Balance”, p.758, Vintage
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“Walk on air against your better judgement.”
Source : Seamus Heaney (2014). “Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996”, p.417, Macmillan
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“I know very well that Berlin attaches great importance to NATO and solidarity, in terms of sharing the burden. For this reason, I feel confident that the German government will take the right decision, one that serves both German and NATO interests.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“Gay and lesbian couples should have the right to experience the joys of marriage and family.”