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“You have a responsibility to act for others when you're the only person in a position to do so. It's how you handle it that separates the great from the mediocre.”

Persons Responsibility Position Handle Mediocre

Author:Wilbert Rideau

“Gay marriage is a tricky issue for the Democrats due to the fact that - like taxes, defense and education - they are forced to lie about their position when running for office. In other words, Democrats are gay marriage supporters trapped in the bodies of candidates who oppose gay marriage. And no issue-reassignment surgery can help them.”

Facts Helping Body Running Lying Issues Position Gay Taxes Office Democrat Dues Defense Candidates Trapped Surgery Supporter Gay Marriage Tricky Running For Office

Author:Ann Coulter

“It's the first company to build the mental position that has the upper hand, not the first company to make the product. IBM didn't invent the computer; Sperry Rand did. But IBM was the first to build the computer position in the prospect's mind.”

Mind Firsts Hands Company Position Products Computer Ibm Upper Hand

Author:Al Ries

“I can understand pathways to enlightenment where people shun certain aspects of the sensual world because they feel that these aspects are very powerful; they're not in a position to control their appetites.”

People World Feels I Can Action Certain Powerful Position Enlightenment Aspect Sensual Appetite Very Powerful Pathways Right Action

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You are only as powerful as that for which you stand. Do you stand for more money in the bank and a bigger house? Do you stand for an attractive mate? Do you stand for imposing your way of thinking upon others? These are the stands of the personality seeking to satisfy its wants. Do you stand for perfection, for the beauty and compassion of each soul? Do you stand for forgiveness and humbleness? These are the stands of the personality that has aligned itself with its soul. This is the position of a truly powerful Personality.”

Thinking Way Want Inspirational Soul House Powerful Compassion Position Personality Perfection Bigger Seeking Attractive Mates More Money Way Of Thinking Imposing Humbleness

Book:The Seat of the Soul

Source: The Seat of the Soul

“After one arrives at the summit, after going through the total transformation of being...there is yet one more step to the completion of that journey: the return to the valley below, to the everyday world. Who it is that returns is not who began the climb in the first place. The being that comes back is quietness itself, is compassion and wisdom, is the truth of the ages. Whatever humble or elevated position that being holds within the community, he or she becomes a light for others on the way a statement of the freedom that comes from having touched the top of the mountain.”

“There is a form of eminence which does not depend on fate; it is an air which sets us apart and seems to prtend great things; it is the value which we unconsciously attach to ourselves; it is the quality which wins us deference of others; more than birth, position, or ability, it gives us ascendance.”

Life Giving Doe Seems Form Success Values Winning Ability Quality Fate Air Position Depends Birth Great Things Success In Life Eminence Deference

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“I personally feel that parachute files give a more realistic impression of an insect to the fish that views the fly, since the hackles are in the same position as the insect's legs, and when tied with brightly colored hackles, these flies are easier to see on the float. A final advantage is that in rough water, a parachute-hackled dry fly will float longer and better than a conventional one”

Giving Feels Water Views Sea Position Easier Advantage Rivers Finals Fishes Legs Impression Boat Dry Lakes Fishing Rough Realistic Tied Conventional Insects Floats Files Parachutes

Author:Lefty Kreh

“What a general could do, Thomas did; no more dependable soldier for a moment of crisis existed on the North American continent, or ever did exist... Thomas comes down in history as the Rock of Chickamauga, the great defensive fighter, the man who could never be driven away but who was not much on the offensive. That may be a correct appraisal, Yet it may also be worth making note that just twice in all the war was a major Confederate army driven away from a prepared position in complete rout - at Chattanooga and at Nashville. Each time the blow that routed it was launched by Thomas.”

“I think Sepp Blatter is in danger...or has reached a point now, where he is being mocked within the game. Whether he's getting too old, I don't know. But things can happen to people in power. Look at some of the despots in Africa... From a position of great power, he has uttered so many ridiculous statements that he is in danger of seriously damaging his credibility.”

People Thinking Knows Looks Happens Games Danger Position Football Ridiculous Statements Managers Soccer Credibility Chairman Great Power Despots

Author:Alex Ferguson

“What is your position at the company? Right back.”

Company Player Position Football Soccer

Author:Jason McAteer

“So I'd rather have a defense that's successful where everyone's comfortable in their positions.”

Sports Successful Position Comfortable Defense

Author:Michael Strahan

“I was slightly disappointed, but also encouraged, because I put myself in position to win a major, which is all even Tiger says he tries to do.”

Trying Winning Sports Position Majors Disappointed Tigers

Author:Stuart Appleby

“I've had people ask me: 'How can you make a movie about a murderer? A terrorist?' What they don't understand is that I'm in support of everyone who appears on screen. I have to be. I take the position of everyone who's on screen. I'm not judging them one way or another.”

People Way Asks Support Position Judging Screens Terrorist One Way Ask Me Murderer Not Judging

Author:Benicio Del Toro

“Wynton told us that Miles sold out, just wanted to make more money, just wanted to sell more records. I don't believe that Miles sold out but I'm not in a position to say.”

Believe Wanted Records Position Sells Don't Believe Miles More Money Sold Out

Author:Ken Burns

“I got back into the position of taking care of my husband, which is what I'd learned that I couldn't really do: you can love and make things okay to a certain extent, but you can't fix. I didn't quite learn that until the kayaking incident. It became so clear then.”

Care Certain Clear Position Husband Okay My Husband Incidents Kayaking

Author:Mariel Hemingway

“We are not at the same place we were in 1973. This country today is drifting, moving steadily towards the pro-life position because the data is with us.”

Country Today Moving Position Data Pro Life Drifting

Author:Randall Terry

“Whitman expressed the whole universe in his poetry and in his catalogues. That attitude almost defines what we call American romanticism, or American transcendentalism. I feel particularly close to them, because I am now out in the universe. I’m in a position to see nature from another point of view, to be outside the earth and see the big picture.”

Feels Bigs Earth Universe Views Position Point Of View Big Picture

Author:Story Musgrave

“In particular, this arm has 7 degrees-of-freedom that makes the overall motion of the arm very complex so that, before you start driving the arm, you should be very familiar with all the position it can get.”

Should Position Particular Arms Degrees Complexes Driving Familiar

Author:Umberto Guidoni

“Giggs drops deep into that Sheringham position where he can turn and ride defenders.”

Turns Position Football Commentators Defenders Giggs

Author:Martin Tyler

“I never had an aversion because I was active in the drama club. If I had that aversion I certainly wouldn't put myself in the position of being on stage. Of course, in the drama club you're hiding behind a character.”

Ifs Character Courses Behinds Comedy Stage Position Drama Clubs Active Hiding Aversion Drama Club

Author:Bob Newhart

“If you are a friend of the Constitution as I am, I hope you will consider engaging me in the topics of my posts whether you agree or disagree with my position on a particular subject.”

Ifs Economy Subjects Position Particular Constitution Agree Posts Disagree Topics Engaging

Author:John Jay Hooker

“In the case of Enron, we balance our positions all the time.”

Cases Economy Position Balance Enron

Author:Kenneth Lay

“You'd rather have a surplus versus a shortage in your position.”

Economy Position Versus Shortage Surplus

Author:Kenneth Lay

“The reasoning isn't crazy. It's technically correct. If you're being true to the idea that government must not take positions on religious questions, then the Ninth Circuit opinion is quite persuasive.”

Ifs Ideas Government Religious Opinion Atheism Crazy Position Positive Atheism Being True Reasoning Circuits Persuasive

Author:Jack Balkin

“I lay down the Position, That whatever a Conscience well directed allows us to do for the Advancement of Truth, an erroneous Conscience will warrant for advancing a suppos'd Truth.”

Wells Atheism Position Conscience Lays Positive Atheism Advancement Advancing Warrants

Book:A philosophical commentary on these words of the Gospel, Luke 14.23:

Source: A philosophical commentary on these words of the Gospel, Luke 14.23:

“There is no absolute up or down, as Aristotle taught; no absolute position in space; but the position of a body is relative to that of other bodies. Everywhere there is incessant relative change in position throughout the universe, and the observer is always at the center of things.”

Body Universe Space Atheism Position Taught Absolutes Positive Atheism Relative Observers Incessant

Author:Giordano Bruno

“It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.”

People Needs Kind Character Literature Position Picks Prepared

Author:Garth Ennis

“The American people need no course in philosophy or political science or church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman. To most of us, the manipulative invoking of religion to advance a politician or a party is frightening and divisive. The American people will tolerate religious leaders taking positions for or against candidates.”

“Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief - and government. Apart from constitutional law and religious doctrine, there is a sense that tells us it's wrong to presume to speak for God or to claim God's sanction of our particular legislation and his rejection of all other positions. Most of us are offended when we see religion being trivialized by its appearance in political throw-away pamphlets.”

“Counterfeit tolerance includes the opportunism of one who seeks, or accepts, tolerance for himself, as a minority, but who would deny it to others if ever he should be in a position to grant it.”

Ifs Should Accepting Atheism Position Deny Positive Atheism Tolerance Minorities Grants Counterfeit Opportunism

Author:Carl Joachim Friedrich

“The book was at a reasonably high position on the New York Times... before I was in the country. I thought it would be an interesting experiment to see if my presence here would push it up or down.”

Ifs Book Country Would Be Literature Interesting New York Position Experiments New York Times

Author:Kazuo Ishiguro

“The circumstance that any man could suppose that Matthew when he said, 'Jacob begat Joseph,' or Luke, when he said, 'Joseph was the son of Heli' could refer to the wife of the one, or the daughter-in-law of the other, shows to what desperate stratagems polemical orthodoxy will resort in order to defend an untenable position.”

Source: The creed of Christendom: its foundations and superstructure

“To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten. The first 'second' is when you come out of the blocks. The next is when you look up and take your first few strides to attain gain position. By that time the race is actually about half over. The final 'second' - the longest slice of time in the world for an athlete - is that last half of the race, when you really bear down and see what you're made of. It seems to take an eternity, yet is all over before you can think what's happening.”

Source: I Have Changed

“In contemporary society secular humanism has been singled out by critics and proponents alike as a position sharply distinguishable from any religious formulation. Religious fundamentalists in the United States have waged a campaign against secular humanism, claiming that it is a rival "religion" and seeking to root it out from American public life. Secular humanism is avowedly non-religious. It is a eupraxsophy (good practical wisdom), which draws its basic principles and ethical values from science, ethics, and philosophy.”

“I have been raised to believe in freedom of thought and speech. If a minority wishes to accept that position it's their right. What I fear is that this minority may seem to be larger than it truly is. What is strange is that there are still people who believe the world is not a globe.”

People Ifs World Believe May Has Beens Stills Seems Wish Accepting Atheism Position Strange Speech Raised Positive Atheism Minorities Globes Freedom Of Thought

Author:Richard Leakey

“Meiklejohn's position is that free speech in a democracy is not an absolute flowing from the boundless source of some presumed 'natural right.' It is a practical necessity of 'self-government by universal suffrage,' for if the citizens are not permitted to argue out the issues of government, how can they be what they must be in a democracy - the rulers as well as the ruled?”

“The study of the Life of Jesus has had a curious history. It set out in quest of the historical Jesus, believing that when it had found Him it could bring Him straight into our time as a Teacher and Saviour. ... But He does not stay; He passes by our time and returns to His own... He returned to His own time, not owing to the application of any historical ingenuity, but by the same inevitable necessity by which the liberated pendulum returns to its original position.”

“Obviously, if theism is a belief in a God and atheism is a lack of a belief in a God, no third position or middle ground is possible. A person can either believe or not believe in a God. Therefore, our previous definition of atheism has made an impossibility out of the common usage of agnosticism to mean "neither affirming nor denying a belief in God."”

Source: An Anthology of Atheism and Rationalism

“It follows from the assumption of a universally valid ideology, just as night follows day, that other positions are heresy.”

Night Atheism Position Positive Atheism Ideology Assumption Heresy

Author:Paul Watzlawick

“Sexual intercourse is a grossly overrated pastime; the position is undignified, the pleasure momentary and the consequences damnable.”

Funny Pleasure Position Consequence Intercourse Overrated Momentary Pastime

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“If the rest of his foursome are bunched directly behind his ball, or assume the foetal position with their backs to the tee, the golfer is reminded that his drive tends to be erratic. More cruel yet is for his opponent to stand directly in the projected line of flight, as the safest place to be.”

Ifs Lines Behinds Position Balls Assuming Golf Flight Opponents Golfers Tees Erratic Foursomes

Author:Eric Nicol

“I do not think the crowd affected us, but the position of being in a big time game may well have affected us.”

Thinking Wells May Bigs Games Position Crowds Affected Tigers Lsu

Author:Les Miles

“Let's put it in old movie Mafia terms. There are guys that are in position to get by but they didn't wait their turn. They back-doored the top guy to get the power. For example, Sonny Corleone went up there, and he wanted to be the top guy. And the Godfather said, 'You know what dude, I'm a star.' That's what I'm doing now, and that's what I was trying to do with what's-his-name.”

Knows Trying Said Wanted Guy Turns Names Stars Waiting Term Example Position Basketball Mafia Lakers Old Movie Corleone

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“He doesn't need advice on how to play his position, but he needs advice on how to play team ball... If it's going to be my team, I'll voice my opinion. If he don't like it, he can opt out.”

Ifs Needs Play Voice Opinion Team Advice Position Basketball Balls Lakers

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“At a priesthood meeting... the strongest language in regard to Plural Marriage was used that I ever heard, and among other things it was stated that all men in position who would not observe and fulfill that law should be removed from their places.”

Men Should Law Used Language Heard Position Regard Meetings Strongest Priesthood Polygamy

Author:Abraham H. Cannon

“I condemn polygamy, yes, as a practice, because I think it is not doctrinal. It is not legal. And this church takes the position that we will abide by the law.”

Thinking Law Church Practice Position Polygamy

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“If somebody has a monopoly position, and wants to keep that monopoly position, it means that you are effectively shutting out competition from other sources.”

Ifs Want Mean Position Source Competition Monopoly

Author:Alexander Stille

“I think we reserve a special place in our hearts for women who dare to try and be powerful, or occupy a special elevated place in society or when they are 'the bosses'. I think we really don't like it as a society and we have a harsh view of them. We look much harder at them, than the millions of men who aspire to the same positions and I can't figure that out.”

Thinking Men Trying Looks Heart I Can Views Powerful Millions Special Figures Position Harder Dare Boss Reserves Aspire Harsh Special Places Dare To Try

Author:Meryl Streep

“I do honestly think that if women were running the world there would be more investment in peace, because basically as women we do not want to see our children killed. Maybe I am completely idealistic, but until we see women in equal positions of power in the world, I just think that we are doomed.”

Ifs Thinking World Want Children Would Be Running Position Equal Our Children Investment Honestly Doomed Idealistic Position Of Power

Author:Meryl Streep

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