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“Whatever success I have achieved, whatever positions of leadership I have held have depended less on Ivy League degrees or SAT scores or GPAs and have instead been due to that sense of connection and empathy, the special obligation I felt as a black man like you to help those who need it most, people who didn't have the opportunities that I had because there, but for the grace of God go I. I might have been in their shoes. I might have been in prison. I might have been unemployed. I might not have been able to support a family. And that motivates me.”

“The word "jealousy" is often used as if it were synonymous with envy; but I think the distinction worth preserving. Jealousy is predominantly concerned with the fear of loss of something one possesses, envy with the wish to own something another possesses. Othello suffers from the fear that he has lost Desdemona's love. Iago suffers from envy of the position held by Cassio, to which he feels entitled.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Used Suffering Lost Wish Loss Position Concerned Envy Jealousy Distinction Entitled Desdemona

Author:Anthony Storr

“An old meaning of the word 'restoration' is to find someone with a royal bloodline who has been removed from the throne and then restore the person to that throne - to a position of honor.”

Persons Has Beens Position Honor Thrones Royal Restoration Silk Bloodline

Book:Culture of Honor: Sustaining a Supernatural Enviornment

Source: Culture of Honor: Sustaining a Supernatural Enviornment

“We may produce at will, from a sending station. an electrical effect in any particular region of the globe; we may determine the relative position or course of a moving object, such as a vessel at sea, the distance traversed by the same, or its speed.”

May Moving Courses Sea Effects Position Objects Produce Particular Distance Determine Speed Regions Stations Relative Globes Vessel Electrical

Book:My Inventions: And Other Writings

Source: My Inventions: And Other Writings

“The very aspect of religions that many of their critics most fear - that the religiously devout, in the name of their faith, take positions that differ from approved state policy - is one of their strengths.”

States Christian Names Religious Policy Position Aspect Critics Approved

Book:The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion

Source: The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion

“Proponents of so-called pluralism feel compelled to ban religious considerations from public discourse because they know, instinctively if not intellectually, that their faith is in direct conflict with the God of the Bible, and that in the end the two positions are irreconcilable.”

Ifs Knows Feels Two Ends Christian Religious Position Conflict Direct Consideration Discourse Compelled Bans Pluralism Public Discourse

Book:Faith & Freedom: The Christian Roots of American Liberty

Source: Faith & Freedom: The Christian Roots of American Liberty

“The secularization of Western culture was accompanied by the elevation of art to the position of a substitute religion to replace Christianity.”

Art Christian Culture Religious Christianity Position Western Substitutes Elevation Western Culture

Book:The Liberated Imagination: Thinking Christianly About the Arts

Source: The Liberated Imagination: Thinking Christianly About the Arts

“Are public school textbooks biased? Are they censored? The answer to both is yes. And the nature of the bias is clear: Religion, traditional family values, and conservative political and economic positions have been reliably excluded from children's textbooks.”

“I was driven from my position as Interior Secretary, not because of my environmental record, but because of my Christian beliefs. That's the real struggle.”

Real Christian Belief Religious Struggle Records Position Environmental Driven Secretary Interiors

Author:James G. Watt

“As much as I'd like to think I'm an expert in quarterbacks I'm probably not. But, I think college quarterbacks are put in positions where they have to do a lot of the things that are done at the professional level. The collegiate quarterback probably does on average a little more running than a pro quarterback. But outside of that, I think they're faced with some of the same difficult decisions and choices.”

Thinking Littles Doe Done Running Choices Difficult Decision Levels Position College Average Experts Nfl Quarterback Difficult Decisions

Author:Ted Thompson

“We must make an issue, create an event, and establish a national position for ourselves: and never may expect to be respected as men and women, until we have undertaken some fearless, bold, and adventurous deeds of daring . . .”

Men May Issues Events Position Men And Women Deeds Fearless Daring Adventurous

Author:Martin Delany

“If some Western politician claims he is in a position to use the normal Western methods to feed and clothe 1.2 billion Chinese, we would be happily prepared to elect him president of China.”

Ifs Use Would Be President Position Politician Normal Claims Method Prepared Western China Billions Chinese

Author:Li Peng

“The aim of education is to fit children for the position in life which they are hereafter to occupy. Boys are to be sent out intothe world to buffet with its temptations, to mingle with bad and good, to govern and direct.... girls are to dwell in quiet homes, amongst a few friends; to exercise a noiseless influence, to be submissive and retiring. There is no connection between the bustling mill-wheel life of a large school and that for which they are supposed to be preparing.... to educate girls in crowds is to educate them wrongly.”

“My position is a naturalistic one; I see philosophy not as an a priori propaedeutic or groundwork for science, but as continuous with science. I see philosophy and science as in the same boat--a boat which, to revert to Neurath's figure as I so often do, we can rebuild only at sea while staying afloat in it. There is no external vantage point, no first philosophy.”

Firsts Philosophy Sea Figures Position Philosophical Boat Staying Naturalism Vantage Point Groundwork

Author:Willard Van Orman Quine

“I believe that all women of working ages and physical capacity, regardless of income, should be expected to earn their livings either in or out of the home. Until this attitude prevails I believe the position of women will be uncertain and undignified, in spite of poetic rhapsodies to the contrary.”

Should Believe Home Age I Believe Attitude Position Capacity Expected Contrary Income Spite Poetic Uncertain

Author:Mary Barnett Gilson

“Great brand, no resume - no problem. Great resume, no brand? Welcome to position #347 of the stack of five hundred equally great resumes”

Problem Five Position Hundred Welcome Brands No Problem Resumes

Book:The Education of Millionaires: Everything You Won't Learn in College About How to Be Successful

Source: The Education of Millionaires: Everything You Won't Learn in College About How to Be Successful

“This party will not take its position based on public opinion polls. We will not take a stand based on focus groups. We will not take a stand based on phone-in shows or householder surveys or any other vagaries of pubic opinion.”

Shows Party Opinion Focus Groups Position Phones Public Opinion Polls Surveys Opinion Polls Focus Groups

Author:Stephen Harper

“But I've been very clear in this campaign - I don't believe the party should have a position on abortion.”

Should Believe Party Clear Position Should Have Don't Believe Sexuality Campaigns Abortion Homosexuality

Author:Stephen Harper

“Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took.”

Process Influence Events Position Degrees Remains Canada Allies Reconstruction

Author:Stephen Harper

“Canada is in budgetary deficit now only because of the recession, only because of stimulus measures, and we will come out of it. We will go back into surplus position when the economy recovers. So there is no need in Canada to raise taxes.”

Needs Economy Position Taxes Raises Canada Deficit Stimulus Recessions Surplus

Author:Stephen Harper

“I have enough of a sense to know what works for me and what doesn't, without going into some big thing and analyzing what I do. I'm in a position that allows me to do what I want to do, and I do it.”

Knows Want Enough Bigs Position Big Things Analyzing

Author:Eddie Murphy

“True hustlers are prepared to get hustled and know when to change positions and move to something different and aren't afraid.”

Knows Different Moving Position Prepared

Author:Curtis Jackson

“I was never disappointed by the people I've admired. And the choices I made when I was in a position where it was do-or-die were made with my heroes in mind.”

People Mind Made Dies Choices Position Hero Disappointed My Hero

Author:Johnny Depp

“Whenever I have a stubborn position on something, I take a deep breath and swallow myself.”

Position Breaths Stubborn Deep Breath Take A Deep Breath

Author:Nick Offerman

“Israel has legitimate concerns about its security relative to Iran. I mean, you have a large country with a significant military that has proclaimed that Israel shouldn't exist, that has denied the Holocaust, that has financed Hezbollah, and as a consequence, there are missiles that are pointed towards Tel Aviv. There are very good reasons why Israelis are nervous about Iran's position in the world generally.”

World Mean Country Reason Security Military Position Consequence Concern Very Good Israel Significant Nervous Reason Why Iran Relative Denied Holocaust Missiles Hezbollah

Author:Barack Obama

“If you don't try and explore genres and have freedom of creativity, you're just wasting your position as a pop band.”

Ifs Trying Creativity Position Band Pops Genre Pop Bands

Author:Adam Anderson

“I don't regard myself as any kind of conservative, except conceivably neo, and that word, of course, is a ridiculous appellation, because it's used to describe a group that was ready to make war on the status quo, which is not a conservative position.”

Kind War Used Courses Groups Position Ready Regard Conservative Ridiculous Status Quo

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“America was not interventionist enough, which, of course, did mean a bit of a breach with old comrades on the left. I felt the international left in the countries concerned took the same position as I did. So, in my view, it's the left that's become reactionary and isolationist and parochial.”

Mean Country Enough America Courses Left Felt Bits Views Position Concerned International Comrade Reactionaries Breach

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“People are ultimately threatened by young people taking positions of power.”

People Young Position Threatened Position Of Power

Author:Lena Dunham

“There are reasons to have rules and regulations. That I understand. Authority is a different thing. Authority is to maintain its own position by increasing its power and domination over those people it is supposedly protecting.”

People Different Reason Position Authority Different Things Regulation Domination Rules And Regulations

Author:James Cromwell

“If, two people have good minds and they're looking at problems, if they agree all the time it means one of them is not thinking. If they disagree all the time, it means one of them is not thinking. They're just allowing their political position to dictate their position on an issue. And I think that's unhealthy. And the public knows better.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Mind Mean Two Problem Political Issues Position Agree Allowing Disagree Unhealthy Good Mind

Author:William J. Clinton

“I enjoy telling these stories that I ultimately think get a disservice on a lot of network television. I enjoy getting people to change their perspective. I enjoy pushing myself into learning and understanding things from a very different point of view. It's scary to do that. It's scary to kind of put yourself in somebody else's position.”

People Thinking Kind Different Stories Enjoy Understanding Views Position Television Perspective Scary Point Of View Pushing Disservice Different Points Of View Understanding Things

Author:Morgan Spurlock

“If you ask anybody at Cyber Command or look at any of the job listings for openings for their positions, you'll see that the one thing they don't prioritize is computer network defense. It's all about computer network attack and computer network exploitation at Cyber Command.”

Ifs Looks Jobs Asks One Thing Position Computer Defense Opening Command Exploitation Prioritize Cyber

Author:Edward Snowden

“Do I ever get tired of being the first female everything? Not really, I just happened to be in a position where the job that I wanted was not really there for me. I had to create an opportunity instead of waiting for an opportunity.”

Firsts Wanted Jobs Opportunity Waiting Happened Position Female Tired

Author:Ronda Rousey

“Black people are just constantly immature in their thinking, undisciplined, and we suffer as a people. This is not about race in the sense that black people got to get something better than whites or Latinos or Asians. This is just basically that we keep complaining about what we don't have and what we can't do, and then, when we get in positions to do stuff, we fight amongst ourselves like savages.”

People Thinking Suffering Fighting Stuff Black Race Position Complaining Black People Savages Latino Something Better Immature Undisciplined

Author:KRS-One

“JFK was leading the world, leading the United States into a new position with the Soviet Union. He was calling for the end of the Cold War. He would have been reelected in 1964 because he was vastly popular.”

World Has Beens War Ends States United United States Position Cold Calling Unions Soviet Cold War Soviet Union New Position

Author:Oliver Stone

“One of the really positive things about minority government is that there is the necessity to broker policy positions. What happens is you get a hybrid of what a single party might do. And I don't think that is a bad thing.”

Thinking Government Might Happens Party Policy Position Minorities Bad Things Hybrid Positive Things Brokers Really Positive Hybridity Minority Government

Author:Kathleen Wynne

“Marshall was a pioneering player. As a threat in so many different aspects of football, he revolutionized the way in which the running back position was played. He was the player that I wanted to emulate.”

Way Different Running Wanted Player Position Football Aspect Threat Emulate Pioneering Running Back

Author:Tiki Barber

“I am standing for NSW Super 12 coaching position. NSW great. Queensland bad.”

Position Standing Coaching Queensland

Author:Damir Dokic

“Skepticism is not a position; skepticism is an approach to claims, in the same way that science is not a subject but a method.”

Way Subjects Position Approach Claims Method Skepticism

Book:Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time

Source: Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time

“Fascism entirely agrees with Mr. Maynard Keynes, despite the latter's prominent position as a Liberal. In fact, Mr. Keynes' excellent little book, The End of Laissez-Faire (1926) might, so far as it goes, serve as a useful introduction to fascist economics. There is scarcely anything to object to in it and there is much to applaud.”

Littles Book Ends Facts Might Political Politics Position Objects Economics Agree Despite Excellent Latter Fascism Introduction Fascists Prominent Laissez Faire Keynes

Author:Benito Mussolini

“It is the characteristic of privilege and of every privileged position to kill the mind and heart of men. The privileged man, whether practically or economically, is a man depraved in mind and heart.”

Men Mind Heart Position Privilege Characteristics Privileged Heart And Mind Depraved

Author:Mikhail Bakunin

“Trent Lott has regained a position of leadership. He was the former majority leader who lost his post for racially insensitive commentary. I believe he mentioned that Strom Thurmond in 1948, who ran as a segregationist candidate, should have won. ... But now, sound the irony alarm. He has recaptured a position and his position -- I kid you not -- in the Senate will be minority whip. So, my guess is he takes to that job like, let's say, white on rice.”

“(I)f France's righteous bloviating against war makes them your Dashboard Saint of International Integrity, it's either because you are sand-poundingly ignorant of how the world works or it's because you think France's self-interest is more important than America's. If the former applies to you, read a book. If it's the latter, maybe you should move there along with Alec Baldwin, Robert Altman, and the rest of the crowd who promised to leave a long time ago. But whatever you do, don't call France's position principled, because that just insults us both.”

“If you let your emotions get high, your bargaining power will be low. Make sure you don't negotiate from a position of need when making a deal.”

Ifs Needs Deals Emotion Position Lows Getting High Bargaining

Author:Sharon Lechter

“I was a feminist in the Sixties, and can you imagine? The worst thing I could have done was to be in fashion. It was the most uncomfortable position.”

Done Imagine Worst Fashion Position Feminist Uncomfortable Sixty Worst Things

Author:Miuccia Prada

“I'm a mother and I have a daughter. I'm lucky to be in a position where I'm able to teach her things like self love and acceptance.”

Self Able Mother Teach Position Acceptance Self Love Lucky Daughter Love And Acceptance

Author:Denise Bidot

“The first opinion that occurs to us when we are suddenly asked about something is usually not our own but only the current one pertaining to our class, position, or parentage; our own opinions seldom swim on the surface.”

Firsts Opinion Class Position Currents Surface Swim Swimming

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“He who is usually self-sufficient becomes exceptionally vain and keenly alive to fame and praise when he is physically ill. The more he loses himself the more he has to endeavor to regain his position by means of the opinion of others.”

Mean Self Loses Opinion Alive Position Fame Praise Ill Illness Vanity Vain Sufficient Endeavor Self Sufficient

Book:Writings of Nietzsche: Volume III

Source: Writings of Nietzsche: Volume III

“Because I've always felt, whether the fatwa or whatever, the writer's great weapon is the truth and integrity of his voice. And as long as what you're saying is what you truly, honestly believe to be the case, then whatever the consequences, that's fine. That's an honorable position.”

Believe Long Truth Felt Voice Cases Position Fine Integrity Weapons Consequence Honestly Honorable

Author:Salman Rushdie

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