Position Quotes
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For those who possess and can wield arms are in a position to decide whether the constitution is to continue or not.
Aristotle
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I don't have any particular beef with Barbara Boxer. My beef is with the official Democratic doctrine that anybody who reaches Boxer's position has to spout and has to endorse.
Mickey Kaus
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Premature wealth or position cannot be retained because it has not been earned; we get only what we give, and those who try to get without giving always find that the law of compensation is relentlessly bringing about an exact equilibrium.
Charles F. Haanel
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I think that's why I love music so much; I think if I didn't have music, I would be in a bad position.
Young M.A
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Sometimes altering your position is the right thing. Sometimes it's not.
LL Cool J
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My position concerning God is that of an agnostic. I am convinced that a vivid consciousness of the primary importance of moral principles for the betterment and ennoblement of life does not need the idea of a law-giver, especially a law-giver who works on the basis of reward and punishment.
Albert Einstein
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I do not espouse the unitarian position. President Clinton's assertion of directive authority over administration, more than President Reagan's assertion of a general supervisory authority, raises serious constitutional questions.
Elena Kagan
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I feel very fortunate to be in a position to where I can continue to make music and have people appreciate it.
Alissa White-Gluz The Agonist
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I tell ya, with my wife, I got no sex life. Her favorite position is facing Bloomingdale's.
Jack Roy
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It takes the one easy reform, offers that in an election year, to the people who are in the best position on Social Security. It does not tackle or grapple with any of the tough issues.
Lloyd Doggett
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She was devoted to her career. Her heart lay with her position at the U.
Joel Rosenberg
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The goalkeeper plays in a psychological position, and he's dealing with mental things. I wanted to describe the things I've done wrong and, most of all, what I've done right, so that other people, including those in other professions, could learn from my experiences.
Oliver Kahn
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Without the Blessed Sacrament a position like mine would be intolerable.
Jozef De Veuster
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We feel fortunate that we're in a position where we're looking down on the Miami Heat. Half-a-game lead. In a way, I'm surprised. And yet, we've got nothing to crow about.
Phil Jackson
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My position and the state will never allow me to become a dictator, but an authoritarian style of rule is characteristic of me, and I have always admitted it. You need to control the country, and the main thing is not to ruin people's lives.
Alexander Lukashenko
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He'll be playing out on the perimeter a lot, ... How much, I don't know. He might start there the first and third quarters and play a power position in the second and fourth quarters.
Phil Jackson
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Ayahuasca, unlike mushrooms and all these other things is only as good as the person who made it. . . . The ayahuasca is a combinatory drug, and so it brings the human interaction and the lore of it into a much more central position.
Terence McKenna
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The combination player thinks forward; he starts from the given position, and tries the forceful moves in his mind.
Emanuel Lasker
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The task of the positional player is systematically to accumulate slight advantages and try to convert temporary advantages into permanent ones, otherwise the player with the better position runs the risk of losing it.
Wilhelm Steinitz
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Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the bedrock of human affairs.
Roy Blount, Jr.
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I can tell when I've met a bad journalist when they say, "I've met Madonna," or "I know Marilyn Manson." Because I haven't met anyone I've ever interviewed. I've sat down in the position of an interviewer, and they've sat down in the position of an artist trying to promote a product. We have no relationship. I'm able to ask them questions I'd never be allowed to ask them if we were casual friends. It's a completely constructed kind of situation.
Chuck Klosterman
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Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.
Brian Tracy
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Shortly after my Ph.D., Alfred Kastler urged me to accept a teaching position at the University of Paris. I followed his advice and started to teach at the undergraduate level.
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
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I believe that also it should be stressed and made clear that our antagonistic position is not to say "I don't like whites" for the simple fact of not liking white people. It's like, our fight is not against the white person per se, but against the exercises of white supremacy and the form in which whiteness and the politics of whiteness operates.
Bocafloja