"The wishbone will never replace the backbone." — Henry Wilson Allen

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• Small business is the backbone of our economy. I'm for big business, too. But small business is where the jobs… — Michele Bachmann
• I know a lot of shows are like, 'Here's the pages,' right before they start filming. I'd have a heart… — Alan Ball
• So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone. — John Perry Barlow
• It is high time for some congressional oversight backbone. — Bob Barr
• The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone. — William J. H. Boetcker
• My parents are my backbone. Still are. They're the only group that will support you if you score zero or… — Kobe Bryant
• Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities. — Tom Allen
• The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy. — Carl von Clausewitz
• Hardy, I do believe they have done it at last... my backbone is shot through. — Horatio Nelson
• No law can give Congress a backbone if it refuses to stand off as the coequal branch the Constitution made… — Trey Gowdy
• The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those… — W G Sebald
• To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith. — B. C. Forbes

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