#firm

By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

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We're at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#bureaucratic #bureaucrats #centralized #crossroads #define

In 1969, when I graduated from Harvard Law School, women and minorities made up a tiny fraction of the first year associates accepted by top law firms. ↗

— Jane Harman

#associates #firms #first #fraction #graduated

Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing. ↗

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

#confirm #our #propensity #reality #share

I'm a firm believer in putting your money where your mouth is. ↗

— Teri Hatcher

#firm #firm believer #i #money #mouth

I believed that our own public would keep this in mind even in this serious crisis, and stand firm if only we at the front continued to stand firm too. ↗

— Paul von Hindenburg

#continued #crisis #even #firm #front

Thankfully, President Obama has stood firmly behind women's health care issues by supporting coverage for contraception and reaffirming commitment to organizations like Planned Parenthood. ↗

— Felicity Huffman

#care #commitment #contraception #coverage #firmly

For God is my witness that I neither preached, affirmed, nor defended them, though they say that I did. ↗

— Jan Hus

#defended #did #god #i #neither

If you don't like affirmative action, what is your plan to guarantee a level playing field of opportunity? ↗

— Maynard Jackson

#affirmative #affirmative action #field #guarantee #level

From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known; our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - absolutely no one - is above the law. ↗

— Leon Jaworski

#absolutely #again #before #constitution #during