"The ties that bind us are stronger than……" — Colin Powell
"The ties that bind us are stronger than the occasional stresses that separate us."
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Colin Powell
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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 Bind Quotes
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No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.
— Robert Burton
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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
— Luc de Clapiers
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If ever household affections and loves are graceful things, they are graceful in the poor. The ties that bind the…
— Charles Dickens
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It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Friendship above all ties does bind the heart; And faith in friendship is the noblest part.
— Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery
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Religion divides us, while it is our human characteristics that bind us to each other.
— Hermann Bondi
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All authority belongs to the people... In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Teach us to pray that we may cause The enemy to flee, That we his evil power may bind, His…
— Watchman Nee
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Therefore, a prudent ruler ought not to keep faith when by so doing it would be against his interest, and…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we…
— James A. Baldwin
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Most of us have lost that sense of unity of biosphere and humanity which would bind and reassure us all…
— Gregory Bateson
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