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51 Overriding quotes by 50 unique authors

• The libertarian must never advocate or prefer a gradual, as opposed to an immediate and rapid, approach to his goal. For by doing so, he… — Murray Rothbard
• That's what our training is for, we practice not panicking, we practice breathing, we practice looking directly at the thing that scares us until we… — Kristin Armstrong
• The simplest spiritual discipline is some degree of solitude and silence. But it's the hardest, because none of us want to be with someone we… — Richard Rohr
• The concept of military necessity is seductively broad, and has a dangerous plasticity. Because they invariably have the visage of overriding importance, there is always… — William J. Brennan
• Freedom of the press, freedom of the news media, must be subordinated to the overriding needs of the integrity of Singapore, and to the primacy… — Lee Kuan Yew
• The campaign in Iraq illustrates the continuing progress of military technology and tactics, but if there is a single overriding lesson it must be this:… — Wesley Clark
• The overriding rule, if you want to run a domain, is to be fair. — Jon Postel
• Our overriding environmental challenge tonight is the worldwide problem of climate change, global warming, the gathering crisis that requires worldwide action. — William J. Clinton
• Women who write with an overriding consciousness that they write as women are engaged not in aspiration toward writing, but chiefly in a politics of… — Cynthia Ozick
• Why can't peace be a single overriding common purpose: why do we wait for a crisis to pull us together? Let's pull together for peace. — Rita Mae Brown
• The real objective isn't just "knowledge" or getting an 80-20 understanding of the situation. The overriding objective is engagement, creating a buzz, mobilizing people to… — Richard Pascale
• My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me. Since I was… — Daniel Ellsberg
• One novel that I think is an overriding influence in my life is 'All the King's Men,' the most beautiful book written in the U.S. — Andrew Gross
• All private plans, all private lives, have been in a sense repealed by an overriding public danger. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Death doesn't change anything. It just gives you a new location. The physical mind dissolves. But the overriding state of mind that you die in… — Frederick Lenz
• Today the real test of America's power and wisdom is not our capacity to make war but our capacity to prevent it. Prevention must be… — Dale E. Turner
• Our overriding goal in restructuring our financial architecture should be that taxpayers never again have to save a failing financial institution. — Henry Paulson
• I'm a Utilitarian, so I don't see the rule against lying as absolute; it's always subject to some overriding utility which may prevent its exercise. — Peter Singer
• Clemenza's overriding responsibility is to his family. He takes a moment out of his routine madness to remember that he had promised his wife that… — Sarah Vowell
• I will tell you what is my overriding perception of the last twenty years: that we are a civilization careening toward a succession of anticlimaxes… — John Irving
• His overriding life necessity was not love, it was his profession…He had come to medicine not by coincidence or calculation but by a deep inner… — Milan Kundera
• We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to escape from.… — Wendell Berry
• The rich get richer. Not only because they have surpluses with which to invest, but because of the overriding emotional release they experience from having… — Stuart Wilde
• Quality has always been the overriding factor for us. But you also have to have happy people working for you. — Willy Bogner, Jr.
• What is overriding that and most important is that readers generally are interested in a good character. They might be more comfortable with Harry because… — Michael Connelly

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50 authors contributed a total of 51 Overriding Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 2 Overriding Quotes by Ron Paul
• 1 Overriding Quote by Willy Bogner, Jr.
• 1 Overriding Quote by William J. Clinton
• 1 Overriding Quote by William J. Brennan
• 1 Overriding Quote by Wesley Clark
• 1 Overriding Quote by Wendell Berry
• 1 Overriding Quote by Tracy Chapman
• 1 Overriding Quote by Stuart Wilde
• 1 Overriding Quote by Sarah Vowell
• 1 Overriding Quote by Russell Simmons
• 1 Overriding Quote by Rita Mae Brown
• 1 Overriding Quote by Richard Rohr
• 1 Overriding Quote by Richard Pascale
• 1 Overriding Quote by Peter Singer
• 1 Overriding Quote by Paul Volcker
• 1 Overriding Quote by Paul Krugman
• 1 Overriding Quote by Paul Auster
• 1 Overriding Quote by Murray Rothbard
• 1 Overriding Quote by Milan Kundera
• 1 Overriding Quote by Michael Connelly
• 1 Overriding Quote by Mavis Gallant
• 1 Overriding Quote by Mary Tyler Moore
• 1 Overriding Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr.
• 1 Overriding Quote by Lee Kuan Yew
• 1 Overriding Quote by Kristin Armstrong