Best Incumbent Sayings
90 Incumbent quotes by 83 unique authors
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It is incumbent upon the student to go to the teacher to learn.
— Frederick Lenz
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Remembering is a noble and necessary act. The call of memory, the call to memory, reaches us from the very dawn of history. No commandment…
— Elie Wiesel
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We can't all work in the inner city. And, I don't even think that it is incumbent upon an African-American intellectual to be concerned in…
— Henry Louis Gates
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Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to…
— Khalil Gibran
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It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Incumbent White House parties have won 10 of the last 18 presidential elections; the odds are tight, but they favor Obama in 2012. And so…
— Jon Meacham
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The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full…
— Robert Peel
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All non-incumbent campaigns promise hope and change, but Obama took the promise to a new level of absurdity. He suggested that a vote for him…
— John Podhoretz
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But I want to just caution, it is not incumbent on the United States to prove that Saddam Hussein is trying to acquire weapons of…
— Condoleezza Rice
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If I were running to be somebody, there are a lot of easier sombodies to be. After all, running against the incumbent governor of your…
— Marco Rubio
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Washington is an incumbent protection machine. Technology is fundamentally disruptive.
— Eric Schmidt
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To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society…
— Baruch Spinoza
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The first tenet is that you should report corruption regardless of loyalty to incumbent or party.
— Linda Tripp
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The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in…
— George Whitefield
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Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.
— Albert Camus
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It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first.
— Jane Austen
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One must see in every human being only that which is worthy of praise. When this is done, one can be a friend to the…
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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Taking into account the public's regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in.
— Janeane Garofalo
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Many people feel that mass acceptance and smooth socialization are desirable life paths for a young adult… Many people are often wrong… Don’t bother being…
— Janeane Garofalo
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In 2004, I ran for Congress and lost. In 2006, I ran again and won - defeating Richard Pombo, a seven-term Republican incumbent.
— Jerry McNerney
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Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it…
— Walter Kirn
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In the midst of applying for American citizenship, of finally attempting to get my presidents in a row, I felt it incumbent upon myself to…
— Hamish Bowles
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When an entrant competitor attacks the low end of any market, the rational reaction of the incumbent firms is to abandon rather than defend it…
— Clayton Christensen
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If you look at that 2008 Democratic primary, there was no more formidable, unstoppable candidate - other than an incumbent President - in modern times…
— Ted Cruz
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I ran for my first office at 25 against an incumbent city councilman. I took 55% of the vote and became the youngest councilman in…
— Unknown Author
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