#stance

I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances. ↗

— Norman Schwarzkopf

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The term 'giant' is used too often to describe artists. But in the case of Akira Kurosawa, we have one of the rare instances where the term fits. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

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We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done. ↗

— Alan Turing

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So we need people who will remain steadfast in any hardship and who have a high degree of resistance. ↗

— Moshe Sharett

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Dr. King used Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance. ↗

— Al Sharpton

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Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money. ↗

— William Shenstone

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The problem is that when polls are wrong, they tend to be wrong in the same direction. If they miss in New Hampshire, for instance, they all miss on the same mistake. ↗

— Nate Silver

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For this reason, strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type: the element of distance is no less general in regard to them than the element of nearness. ↗

— Georg Simmel

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The big picture doesn't just come from distance; it also comes from time. ↗

— Simon Sinek

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The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

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