Quotes with position

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  • Audre Lorde We have too often been expected to speak
    all things to all people and speak everyone else's position
    but our own.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Burt Rutan We need affordable space travel to inspire our youth, to let them know that they can experience their dreams, can set significant goals and be in a position to lead all of us to future progress in exploration, discovery and fun. Thanks to the X Prize for the inspiration.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Bobby Wallace We were in Philadelphia when Manager Pat shifted me from third to short, and right off the bat, I knew I had found my dish. Footwork was more a part of the new position than it had been at third. I suddenly felt I had sprouted wings. A world of new possibilities opened for me.
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  • Boyd Rice Well, I have an interest in power. I have an interest in people who find themselves in the position to exercise absolute power.
    Boyd Rice
    American musician (1956 - )
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  • Stokely Carmichael What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.
    Stokely Carmichael
    American activist (1941 - 1998)
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  • Oscar Wilde What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bruce Lee What IS is more important than WHAT SHOULD BE. To many people are looking at what is from a position of thinking what should be.
    Striking Thoughts (2000)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Lord George Byron What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Edwin Hubbel Chapin Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening.
    Edwin Hubbel Chapin
    American author and clergyman (1814 - 1880)
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  • Billy Collins When I became poet laureate, I was in a slightly uncomfortable position because I think a lot of poetry isn't worth reading.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Carolina Herrera When I was living in Los Angeles, I always booked a moisturizing milk-and-honey massage the day before flying to Spain. It was heaven - I never got dry plane skin or felt stiff from sitting in one position.
    Carolina Herrera
    Venezuelan fashion designer (1939 - )
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  • John Maynard Keynes When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.
    The Economic Consequences of the Peace
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Benjamin Watson When you are a free agent like I was, it definitely makes a big difference when you know there's stability at the quarterback position.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Ernest Hemingway When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Bernie Sanders While commentators on Fox and right-wing radio have the backing of Rupert Murdoch, a major Republican contributor, and other conservative corporations, progressives understand that their position is extremely vulnerable.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Ann Coulter While the form of treachery varies slightly from case to case, liberals always manage to take the position that most undermines American security.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • Billy Porter You can't ever put yourself in a position where someone is requiring you to inhabit somebody else's energy. You have to own your thing, or own it with very fiber of your being.
    Billy Porter
    American actor and singer (1969 - )
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  • Anthony J. D'Angelo You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader.
    Anthony J. D'Angelo
    American writer
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  • Jean Kerr You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.
    Jean Kerr
    American writer, playwright (1922 - 2003)
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