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Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it. ↗

— Colin Powell

#close #down #ego #get #gets

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. ↗

— Colin Powell

#close #ego #falls #goes #having

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power. ↗

— Colin Powell

#also #council #demands #doubted #enforced

Indeed, when all parties campaign effectively the overall effect is to push up voting rates, as you see in tight marginal seats or close general elections. That must be good for democracy. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#close #democracy #effect #effectively #elections

We think the whole world's going to change, and forget that human beings are still human beings; we have the same five senses, we still interact the same way, we still love and hate the same way, but marketers lose track of that. But then it comes down to earth. ↗

— Michael K. Powell

#change #comes #down #down to earth #earth

I don't mind arguing with myself. It's when I lose that it bothers me. ↗

— Richard Powers

#bothers #i #lose #me #mind

My dream has always been to suspend myself in space when I write, and lying horizontal in bed is the closest to doing that. ↗

— Richard Powers

#bed #been #closest #doing #dream

What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you're hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#day #difference #know #leg #lose

I am struck by the fact that personal faith and political agendas are intertwined more closely now than at any other time in recent history. ↗