Position Quotes

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It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
Screen credit is valuable only when it's given you. If you're in a position to give yourself credit, you don't need it. — Irving Thalberg
My position has always been that there's two types of people opposed to pornography: those who don't know what they're talking about, and those who… — Larry Flynt
We have set out on a quest for true humanity, and somewhere on the distant horizon we can see the glittering prize. Let us march… — Steven Biko
The price of clinging to the enemy [a man] is your life. To enter into a relationship with a man who has divested himself as… — Ti-Grace Atkinson
In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of the position without… — Alexander Alekhine
I do not play chess â€“ I fight at chess. Therefore, I willingly combine the tactical with the strategic, the fantastic with the scientific, the… — Alexander Alekhine
I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure… — Alexander Alekhine
Many of my sharpest critics have decided to take a position of ignoring me - because they feel that by attacking me, they would draw… — Bruce Bartlett
When you compare yourself with others in matters of wealth, position, and health, you should look at people less favoured than yourself. When you compare… — Ibn Hazm
It is a friend's duty that he does not leave his friend in a difficult position but provide intimacy and support to him. In difficulty… — Mahaprajna
I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my… — Charles R. Swindoll
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… — Roy Blount, Jr.
I mean, the Obama position has been, 'We think government ought to be spending this money, not the people who earn it. — Eric Cantor
I think there's a prototype we're all looking for, whether it's Brett Favre or Troy Aikman. And everyone's got that picture in their mind of… — Sean Payton
I mean, I was just one of the ones who got exposed, and because of the position I was in, where I was in my… — Michael Vick
Jesus' whole life and mission involve accepting powerlessness and revealing in this powerlessness the limitlessness of God's love. Here we see what compassion means. It… — Henri Nouwen
The correct attitude of the security analyst toward the stock market might well be that of a man toward his wife. He shouldn't pay too… — Benjamin Graham
I have come to think that great men are characterized precisely by the extreme position which they take, and that their heroism consists in holding… — Marguerite Yourcenar
This is how God works. He puts people in positions where they are desperate for his power, and then he shows his provision in ways… — David Platt

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