"Pissing people off doesn't mean you're doing the……" — Colin Powell
"Pissing people off doesn't mean you're doing the right things, but doing the right things will almost inevitably piss people off."
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190 Quotes by Colin Powell
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Lying offshore, ready to act, the presence of ships and Marines sometimes means much more than just having air power…
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I want to scare the hell out of the rest of the world.
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You can be sure that the American spirit will prevail over this tragedy.
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We are not going to dwell on those things that divide us. We are going to rejoice in those things…
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Terrorism really flourishes in areas of poverty, despair and hopelessness, where people see no future
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The root cause of poverty is social injustice and the bad government that abets it
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Poverty arises and persists where corruption is endemic and enterprise is stifled, where basic fairness provided by the rule of…
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When we are debating an issue, loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think I'll like it or…
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Look for intelligence and judgment and, most critically, a capacity to anticipate, to see around corners. Also look for loyalty,…
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We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we've done this as recently as…
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I can think of nothing that Saddam Hussein can do diplomatically (to avoid war). I think that time is now…
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My responsibility, our responsibility as lucky Americans, is to try to give back to this country as much as it…
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More Almost Inevitably Quotes
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To be well used, creatures and places must be used sympathetically, just as they must be known sympathetically to be…
— Wendell Berry
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I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.
— Jacques Barzun
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Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a…
— Aaron Siskind
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There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody.
— Tobias Wolff
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If consumers don't have the wherewithal to spend because all the money's going to the top, and the people at…
— Robert Reich
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The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of…
— James McGreevey
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The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to…
— H. L. Mencken
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At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.
— Satyajit Ray
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Liberals are concerned about the concentration of wealth because it almost inevitably leads to a concentration of power that undermines…
— Robert Reich
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There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the…
— Bertrand Russell
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When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she—or he, of course, as the case may be—must almost inevitably…
— Aldous Huxley
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Walking and talking are two very great pleasures, but it is a mistake to combine them. Our own noise blots…
— C.S. Lewis
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