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It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that will make the other side… — Yitzhak Rabin
Non-violence is backed by the theory of soul-force in which suffering is courted in the hope of ultimately winning over the opponent. But what happens… — Bhagat Singh
The only time I had any butterflies was when I stood up and backed toward the open door and looked down. — George H. W. Bush
Meanings generating meanings - the process has backed us into a particular corner, a kind of cave, where sunlight seldom enters. — Tarthang Tulku
There is little to compare with the thrill of standing next to the creature in the winner's enclosure avoiding his hooves and receiving the congratulations… — Robert Morley
But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of… — Ray Stannard Baker
Yes, I backed the hula hoop. And I had a lot of other people come to me with ideas that turned out well — Art Linkletter
Condelleza Rice and Colin Powell are both dangerous people. What they did in Haiti [2004 U.S.-backed coup that ousted democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide] is… — Randall Robinson
A dream written down with a date becomes a goal. A goal broken down into steps becomes a plan. A plan backed by action makes… — Greg Reid
You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do — Mark Twain
Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent. — Napoleon Hill
I was a lonely, frightened little fat kid who felt there was something deeply wrong with me because I didn't feel like I was the… — Kate Bornstein
Riches don't respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence. — Napoleon Hill
New product and new types of service are generated, not by asking the consumer, but by knowledge, imagination, innovation, risk, trial and error on the… — W. Edwards Deming
When backed up against a wall, dig deep, demand excellence, stand tall, and be strong. — Robert Cheeke
This week, Iranian-backed Houthi rebels seized control of the Yemeni government, heretofore pro-American. In September, they overran Sanaa, the capital. On Tuesday, they seized the… — Charles Krauthammer
My parents always knew I was hopeless at everything else, I was fortunate in that I was backed all the way. I came to it… — Christopher Eccleston
Sybil's female forebears had valiantly backed up their husbands as distant embassies were besieged, had given birth on a camel or in the shade of… — Terry Pratchett
It haunted him all night, while he slept alone; it was still there in the morning, when he swallowed his coffee and backed down the… — Richard Yates
The gift turned inward, unable to be given, becomes a heavy burden, even sometimes a kind of poison. It is as though the flow of… — May Sarton

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