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«All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.»
Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
(Ambassador, Governor, Politician)
| Keywords:
positions, progress, resulted, took, unpopular
«A catcher must want to catch. He must make up his mind that it isn't the terrible job it is painted, and that he isn't going to say every day, 'Why, oh why with so many other positions in baseball did I take up this one.'»
Author: Bill Dickey
(Baseball Player)
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baseball, catcher, catchers, make up, painted, positions, take up, this one
«In this court the parties changed positions as nimbly as if dancing a quadrille.»
«People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.»
Author: Dan Quayle
(Vice President)
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get into, impact, impacted, impacts, positions, sensitive, tremendous, Weird
«I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.»
Author: Johnny Depp
(Actor)
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ecstatic, freedom, French, french fries, fries, fry, government, grown, idiots, named, positioning, positions, showing, The Idiot, The Re, the US, U.S. government
«I consider the positions of kings and rulers as that of dust motes. I observe treasures of gold and gems as so many bricks and pebbles. I look upon the finest silken robes as tattered rags. I see myriad worlds of the universe as small seeds of fruit, and the greatest lake on Earth as a drop of oil on my foot.»
«Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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contrary, extreme, moderate, moderated, moderating, positions, succeeded
«A new medium is never an addition to an old one, nor does it leave the old one in peace. It never ceases to oppress the older media until it finds new shapes and positions for them.»
«I've often wondered how some people in positions of this kind . . . manage without having had any acting experience.»
«. . . I do not see how it is possible that creatures in such different positions and with such different powers as human individuals are, should have exactly the same functions nor should we be expected to work out identical solutions. Each, from his peculiar angle of observation, takes in a certain sphere of fact and trouble, which each must deal with in a unique manner.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
angle, functions, identical, positions, solutions, sphere, takes in, work out
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