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So - our readiness to meet and defeat this kind of possible attack is forced upon us, both as a potent preventive of actual war… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
One has to arrive at a specific temperature, at which the objects become malleable. — Georges Braque
The debate we won't be having is whether or not the debt ceiling should be raised. We will not have a situation where people will… — Jay Carney
Understand: you are one of a kind. Your character traits are a kind of chemical mix that will never be repeated in history. There are… — Robert Greene
Intellect is merely a narrow and highly specific kind of thing that we DO, but our immediacy relates us to what we naturally and essentially… — Kenny Smith
Every field has its taboos. In algebraic geometry the taboos are (1) writing a draft that can be followed by anyone but two or three… — Gian-Carlo Rota
God does have a specific plan for our lives, but it is not one that He expects us to figure out before we make a… — Kevin DeYoung
In other words, the market is not a weighing machine, on which the value of each issue is recorded by an exact and impersonal mechanism,… — Benjamin Graham
Between the Community Redevelopment Act, requiring banks to make what I would call very weak loans, and specific quotas that the Congress imposed on Fannie… — Wilbur Ross
Design is a response to a specific problem. You are given a problem to solve, and then you let the problem itself tell you what… — Chip Kidd
This divine privilege of raising our children is a much greater responsibility than we can do alone, without the Lord's help. He knows exactly what… — Cheryl A. Esplin
The image of the presence, whatever it was, waiting there for him to go -this image had not yet been so concrete for his nerves… — Henry James
There is also an underlying, less specific fear - what some might call an ontological or existential anxiety - that shrouds our days and seeps… — Jesse Browner
I never really participated in specific sports or anything, but once I hit 40, I started to get a little bit more active and began… — Shigeru Miyamoto
The more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enterprise is important to us and to the… — Steven Pressfield
Prepare for every negotiation... 1) Focus on Outcomes. What is it that you want to walk away with? Being as specific as possible also increases… — Lois P Frankel
In noise can be read the codes of life, the relations among men. Clamour, Melody, Dissonance, Harmony; when it is fashioned by man with specific… — Jacques Attali
I'll admit that I'm not quite certain how to sum up an entire year in music anymore; not when music has become so temporal, so… — Carrie Brownstein
I think the hallmark of a really good entrepreneur is that you're not really going to build one specific company. The goal - at least… — Max Levchin
I wanted to analyze how unnecessary it is to collapse a heroine into one specific mold, to give them all the same sparkly fashion, the… — David Trumble

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