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“If we understand our own times, we will know that we should affirm the reality of God by challenging the domination of materialism and naturalism in the world of the mind. With the assistance of many friends I have developed a strategy for doing this. ... We call our strategy the "wedge."”

Author:Anthony Kennedy

“America stands strongest in challenging terrorism when we do not give up an inch of our civil liberties.”

Giving America Challenges Liberty Giving Up Terrorism Strongest Inches Not Giving Up Civil Liberties Do Not Give Up

Author:Dennis Kucinich

“I think every once in a while I feel the need to break my medium... if I have been doing a very large painting I like to drop into something in small scale. It is a challenge to go into this size. It is just to hold my own interest, and then each media has its own conditions.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Feels Has Beens Interest Challenges My Own Break Conditions Media Painting Size Scales Mediums

Author:Lee Krasner

“I know first-hand the challenges that come with being an on-the-go mom, and I am constantly looking for great products that fit into my busy schedule. I've tried every goop and elixir known to man.”

Knows Men Firsts Hands Challenges Known Products Mom Fit Busy Schedules Elixir Busy Schedules

Author:Eva LaRue

“Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.”

Thinking Inspirational Facts Reality Challenges Inspiring Mistake Learning Errors Response Obstacles African American Encouraging Facts Of Life Great Mistakes

Author:Nikki Giovanni

“Well, it's always, though, safer in politics to avoid risk, to just kind of go along with the status quo. But I didn't get into government to do the safe and easy things. A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not why the ship is built. Politics isn't just a game of competing interests and clashing parties. The people of America expect us to seek public office and to serve for the right reasons. And the right reason is to challenge the status quo and to serve the common good.”

People Wells Kind Reason Government America Games Politics Easy Interest Challenges Party Common Risk Safe Office Built Ships Competing Status Quo Harbors Common Good Easy Things Public Office

Author:Sarah Palin

“Until the Yom Kippur War, in 1973, until then Israel didn't have a chance but to fight for her life. We were attacked five times, outgunned, outnumbered, on a small piece of land, and our main challenge was to remain alive.”

War Fighting Challenges Chance Five Pieces Alive Land Israel Small Pieces Yom Kippur

Author:Shimon Peres

“The truth is every problem can't be solved by government. Many are caused by the moral breakdown in our society. And the answers to those challenges lie primarily in our families and our faiths, not our politicians.”

Problem Government Lying Challenges Answers Moral Politician Truth Is Our Family Our Society Breakdown

Author:Marco Rubio

“Justice is not available to all equally; it is something that many of us must struggle to achieve. As an elected official, I know that fighting for what is just is not always popular but it is necessary; that is the real challenge that public servants face and it is where courage counts the most. Without courage, our action or inaction results in suffering of the few and injustice for all.”

Knows Real Action Faces Suffering Fighting Challenges Justice Results Struggle Achieve Injustice Available Servant Officials Our Actions Inaction Public Servants Elected Officials

Author:Hilda Solis

“You know, this country today, it seems to me - it's about fear. And it shouldn't be about fear. It should be about hope and optimism and creativity and accepting a challenge and being a moral leader and being a great nation.”

Knows Should Country Seems Today America Nations Challenges Leader Accepting Moral Creativity Optimism Great Nations Optimism And Hope

Author:Tom Vilsack

“We should also challenge this country to come up with strategies and technologies that allow us to produce nuclear energy without necessarily producing a byproduct that can be converted to something far more dangerous. I believe that can be done. It may not be done tomorrow, but it clearly needs to be worked on.”

Needs Should Believe May Country Done Energy I Believe Challenges Technology Dangerous Produce Tomorrow Strategy Come Up Nuclear Nuclear Energy

Author:Tom Vilsack

“As a result of the prison study, I really became more aware of the central role of power in our lives. I became more aware of the power I have as a teacher. I started consciously doing things to minimize the negative use of power in the classroom. I encouraged students to challenge me.”

Use Challenges Results Roles Study Teacher Our Lives Students Negative Prison Classroom Use Of Power

Author:Philip Zimbardo

“Totalitarian rule marks the sharpest contrast imaginable with political rule, and ideological thinking is an explicit and direct challenge to political thinking.”

Thinking Political Challenges Direct Mark Contrast Ideological Explicit Logical Thinking Political Thinking

Book:In Defense of Politics

Source: In Defense of Politics

“Do not lose your faith. A mighty fortress is our mathematics. Mathematics will rise to the challenge, as it always has.”

Loses Challenges Mathematics Fortresses

Author:Stanislaw Ulam

“It's hard work, writing, you know. Honestly, a fight every day against your own limitations. You have to squeeze books out of your brain, you're constantly trying to solve challenges. I think most writers enjoy the feeling of having written something, rather than the process of writing it.”

Thinking Knows Writing Trying Book Hard Feelings Fighting Process Enjoy Challenges Brain Written Hard Work Solve Honestly Limitation

Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.”

Challenges Responsibility Intellectual Certainty Domination Avoidance

Author:William Glasser

“We can always create more inventory. You don't just turn people away. The challenge is finding new ways to accommodate people.”

People Way Turns Challenges Findings New Ways Accommodate Inventory

Author:Mark Richardson

“I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and challenge yourself and take chances.”

Thinking Trying Persons Art Important Stuff Challenges Chance Filmmaker Take A Chance Challenge Yourself New Stuff

Author:Darren Aronofsky

“If the constitution is not changed, then we will try to bring it down either before the referendum through the law by filing a suit in international or local courts, if we can, challenging the legitimacy of this constitution and the National Assembly.”

Ifs Trying Law Challenges Changed Constitution Court International Locals Suits Assembly Legitimacy Filing Referendums

Author:Saleh al-Mutlaq

“The Conservation Buck Challenge was designed to engage and mobilize the hunting community to preserve the outdoor experience for future generations. Our members will be ambassadors for ethical hunting, respect for private property rights, support for conservation funding and programs that give our children the chance to learn the valuable lessons of nature.”

“Percussion is the most adaptable family of instruments. The biggest challenge is to project percussion in a lyrical way.”

Way Challenges Projects Instruments Lyrical Adaptable Percussion

Author:Evelyn Glennie

“My favorite instrument is the snare drum. In Scotland, the snare drum is very prominent in Highland bands. The Scottish style of playing is in my blood. It's a very powerful instrument, but it can also be soothing, like velvet. It's a real challenge for composers.”

Real Challenges Powerful Blood Style Band Instruments My Favorite Composer Scotland Very Powerful Scottish Soothing Velvet Prominent Snares

Author:Evelyn Glennie

“As I was walking down the stairs, I kept thinking that the room felt like a movie theater with all your attention on this wall, so it seemed like a big challenge.”

Thinking Bigs Felt Challenges Rooms Attention Wall Walking Theater Stairs Exhibitions Movie Theater Big Challenges

Author:Wade Guyton

“Because I had sought to challenge Destiny, Destiny had taken vengeance.”

Challenges Destiny Taken Vengeance

Author:Michael Moorcock

“In the best of all possible worlds, childbirth enriches a marriage. In the worst, it harms it. No matter how good their marriage is, most couples find that having a baby challenges their relationship.”

World Matter Challenges Worst Baby Couple Harm Childbirth Having A Baby

Book:Your Maternity Leave

Source: Your Maternity Leave

“A writer who wants to be translated and published abroad faces a very difficult challenge: first of all, he must make sure that his book is cosmopolitan in the best sense of the word, that it is interesting to a global audience. Nobody is going to read about problems that they don’t care about.”

Want Firsts Book Problem Care Faces Difficult Challenges Interesting Audience Don't Care Difficult Challenges

Author:Sergei Lukyanenko

“The only factor that poses a genuine challenge to the current order is the willingness of human beings to reject the injustice and irrationality of this economy, and stand up for something better. Capitalism will not fall-rather, it must be pushed.”

Humans Order Fall Challenges Human Beings Economy Capitalism Injustice Currents Genuine Factors Rejects Willingness Something Better Irrationality

Author:Jim Stanford

“At any one time there is a natural tendency among physicists to believe that we already know the essential ingredients of a comprehensive theory . But each time a new frontier of observation is broached we inevitably discover new phenomena which force us to modify substantially our previous conceptions. I believe this process to be unending, that the delights and challenges of unexpected discovery will continue always.”

“To meet the energy challenge requires the most important energy of all - human creativity. That's the real prize.”

Humans Important Real Energy Challenges Creativity Prize

Author:Daniel Yergin

“Commitment to the truth...means a relentless willingness to root out the ways we limit or deceive ourselves from seeing what is, and to continually challenge our theories of why things are the way they are. It means continually broadening our awareness. It also means continually deepening our understanding of the structures underlying current events.”

Way Mean Understanding Challenges Seeing Awareness Events Theory Limits Commitment Roots Structure Currents Insight Willingness Deceiving Relentless Current Events

Author:Peter Senge

“People tend to grow fearful, when they taste failure, face a daunting challenge or fall ill. Yet, that is precisely the time to become even bolder. Those who are victors at heart are the greatest of all champions!!!!”

People Heart Faces Fall Grows Challenges Failure Taste Ill Champion Fearful

Author:Carmelo Anthony

“It's a tremendous challenge, because there have been so many characters created over the years. Every time you think you come up with a great name, you find out somebody has already done it. Dreaming up the stories isn't that hard, but coming up with a good title is the toughest part.”

Thinking Years Has Beens Hard Done Character Stories Dream Names Challenges Come Up Titles

Author:Stan Lee

“The real challenge in acting is in comedy. It's easier to get that gasp in a drama. Not easy, because you still have to find that emotional pitch. And when you do something in drama and you hear that sob from the audience it's so fulfilling. But as a comic actor, when the laugh is supposed to come and you punch in that line and nothing happens it is dreadful. It's horrific and you feel like dying right there.”

Feels Stills Real Happens Actors Easy Challenges Lines Acting Audience Laughing Comedy Dying Emotional Easier Drama Things Happen Comic Fulfilling Horrific Feel Like Dying

Author:George Takei

“Spider-Man is a genuine American myth with a dark, primal power, but it's also got this great superhero, and - hey! - he can fly through the theater at 40 miles an hour. It's got villains, it's got skyscrapers, it's colorful, it's Manhattan. I knew it would be a challenge, but I saw the inherent theatricality in it, and I couldn't resist.”

Men Would Be Hours Challenges Dark Saws Theater Myth Miles Genuine Hey Villain Inherent Superhero Spiders Manhattan Primal Colorful Spider Man Skyscraper

Author:Julie Taymor

“My spirituality has always been linked to my feminism. Feminism is about challenging unequal power structures.”

Spirituality Challenges Feminism Structure Linked

Author:Starhawk

“Moving to the forefront of advanced nations is not a choice but a national duty. This requires, among other things, erecting the best industrial property protection systems despite all challenges, particularly in the transition phase that we must endure.”

Moving Choices Nations Challenges Duty Property Endure Protection Despite Transition Phases

Author:Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

“The goal of providing basic literacy and education to all the world's people is still the most basic development challenge.”

People World Stills Goal Challenges Development Providing Literacy

Author:Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

“The foremost challenge is that of the knowledge revolution. Economic power will depend on creativity and innovation. Creation of wealth will move from traditional resources to the one asset: knowledge.”

Moving Challenges Wealth Creativity Economic Creation Revolution Depends Resources Innovation Traditional Assets Creativity And Innovation Economic Power

Author:Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

“Economic growth and environmental preservation are two sides of the same coin. There's no better illustration of that point than the California Clean Tech Open, which challenges California entrepreneurs to bring new, clean technologies to market. I encourage business leaders, policy makers, and environmental advocates to support this innovative, exciting competition.”

“Great is the rose That challenges the crypt, And quotes milleniums Against the grave.”

Challenges Rose Graves

Author:Nathalia Crane

“It's not hard to understand why an accomplished director like Gus Van Sant (whose most recent success, Good Will Hunting, gave him mainstream clout) would be interested in making this film. The lure of an exact remake presents a tremendous challenge. Unfortunately, it was undoubtedly a lot more stimulating for Van Sant and his crew to make Psycho than it is for an audience to watch it. Curiosity is going to be one of the primary reasons why people pay money to see this movie; boredom will be the predominant result.”

“Nintendo's way is to challenge conventional thinking. Not just for the sake of doing things differently, but to do things better.”

Thinking Way Challenges Sake Conventional Nintendo

Author:Reggie Fils-Aime

“It has become clear that America's civilian institutions of diplomacy and development have been chronically undermanned and underfunded for far too long - relative to what we spend on the military, and more important, relative to the responsibilities and challenges our nation has around the world.”

World Long Has Beens Important America Nations Challenges Responsibility Clear Military Development Institutions Around The World Relative Diplomacy Civilians

Author:Robert M. Gates

“[Hillary Clinton] was trying to encourage us to become more active in politics and she said, 'If you leave all the decision-making to others, you might not like what they do, and you will have no one but yourself to blame.' It was such a challenge to the women in the room. And it really hit me: She's talking to me.”

Ifs Trying Said Might Challenges Decision Rooms Talking Blame Clinton Active Decision Making

Author:Kirsten Gillibrand

“We live in a century in which everything has been said. The challenge today is to learn which statements to deny.”

Has Beens Said Today Challenges Century Deny Statements

Author:Charles Hartshorne

“Somewhere we taught ourselves that our opinions are more significant than the facts. And somehow we get our egos and our opinions and Truth all mixed up in a single package, so that when something does challenge one of the notions to which we subscribe, we react as if it challenges us.”

Ifs Doe Facts Challenges Opinion Taught Ego Notion Significant Packages

Author:Jack McDevitt

“I couldn't get to sleep at night without saying the Lord's Prayer because, when I was young, I felt I was touched by the hand of Jesus, and hated myself for challenging it.”

Hands Young Night Jesus Felt Challenges Prayer Sleep Lord Hated Touched

Author:Bruce Parry

“For me, to represent people who represent the future of Canada and the great challenges we will face over the coming decades - this is where I wanted to start. I'm a teacher; I'm a convenor; I'm a gatherer; I'm someone who reaches out to people and is deeply interested in what they have to say. And people see that I'm not faking it. I'm actually genuinely committed to this dialogue that we're opening up, and this understanding that needs to happen in order to be an effective MP.”

People Needs Happens Wanted Faces Order Understanding Challenges Teacher Committed Decades Dialogue Opening Canada Reach Out Opening Up Faking It Mps

Author:Justin Trudeau

“The history of intellectual growth and discovery clearly demonstrates the need for unfettered freedom, the right to think the unthinkable, discuss the unmentionable, and challenge the unchallengeable.”

Thinking Needs War Growth Challenges Speech Intellectual Discovery Unthinkable Intellectual Growth

Author:C. Vann Woodward

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