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• Character is the backbone of our human culture. Music is the flowering of character.

  Confucius

  Character, Culture, Music Is

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• Small businesses provide 75 percent of new U.S. jobs and are the backbone of our economy, and no outdated ban should be keeping small business owners from collecting the same interest their money could earn if it were held by an individual.

  Sue Kelly

  Jobs, Corny, Small Business

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• Farms and ranches contend with much more than quarterly reports and profit margins - the weather can wreak havoc on their quality of life and economic viability. When natural disasters strike, we must do all we can to assist the backbone of our economy.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  Weather, Quality, Profit Margin

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• The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can set a character in a story that is compelling and has a backbone, you draw people in.

  Dick Wolf

  Book, Writing, Character

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• For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Devil, Neurotic, Pressured

  Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, www.suicidegirls.com. November 3, 2003.

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• The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives.

  W. G. Sebald

  Memories, Happy Life, Mind

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• But as soon as we got that higher speed access to the home there?s going to be a tremendous crunch on the backbones for a much higher speed bandwidth. People really ought to be planning for that.

  Jon Postel

  Home, People, Planning

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• Providing tax relief and reducing regulations leads to job creation and new economic opportunities for our small businesses, which are the backbone of our economy.

  Cathy McMorris Rodgers

  Jobs, Opportunity, Relief

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• The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care?

  Terry Pratchett

  Running, Baby, Getting Older

  Terry Pratchett (2014). “A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction”, p.183, Random House

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• The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, New Year, Eye

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• I'm a woman and I'm a backbone...everybody needs one.

  Chaka Khan

  Needs

  Song: I'm a Woman

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• He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.

  Franz Kafka

  Boss, Brain, Tools

  Franz Kafka (2014). “Metamorphosis: The original story by Franz Kafka as well as important analysis”, p.3, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Loved ones. They are my backbone. They are the people that I turn to when I need the most support and the people who come to me when they are in need.

  Tara Reid

  People, Support, Needs

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Much of a man's character will be found betokened in his backbone. I would rather feel your spine than your skull, whoever you are. A thin joist of a spine never yet upheld a full and noble soul.

  Herman Melville

  Character, Men, Skulls

  Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, G. Thomas Tanselle (1988). “Moby Dick, Or The Whale: Volume 6, Scholarly Edition”, p.349, Northwestern University Press

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• The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Witty, Powerful, Humorous

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• What's great about comedy, obviously, is that you set up a situation that people assume one thing and then you break the assumption. That's basically the backbone to comedy. You set up a situation, let people make an assumption, and then you break the assumption.

  Bryan Cranston

  People, Comedy, Assuming

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 2, 2003.

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• You’ve got to fight for that connection with God all the time no matter what you're going through in life. I'm growing up. I'm maturing. But I definitely think that the backbone of this is the freedom and creativity I have without the fear of failing. If I fail, what's going to happen? Nothing. I'm not looking for my self-worth in the sport.

  Kelly Clark

  Sports, Growing Up, Creativity

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Researchers found a frog in new guinea that is so tiny, they believe it's the smallest vertebrate on the planet. It has the tiniest backbone of any living creature, except members of Congress.

  Jay Leno

  Believe, Frogs, Tiny

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• It's time for democrats to grow a backbone and stand up for what we believe.

  Deval Patrick

  Time, Believe, Political

  Twitter post from Jun 02, 2012

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• Ninety-eight percent of all American companies have fewer than 100 employees. Over half of all Americans work for a small business. Small businesses are the backbone of our nation’s economy and we must protect this great resource.....Helping American small business is part of our movement for change and the end of politics as usual.

  Barack Obama

  Eight, Usual, Movement

  "Obama Tries to Retract Statement to End Billions in Contracting Fraud" by Lloyd Chapman, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 20, 2008.

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• Get a backbone, not a wishbone.

  Caroline Myss

  Wishbones

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• The backbone of our nation's domestic defense against terrorist attacks will continue to be the men and women in local law enforcement and emergency services.

  Saxby Chambliss

  Men, Law, Police

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• We are beginning to shift into life code. And in the process of shifting into life code, every life form on this planet is coded in a double helix with a sugar phosphate backbone. And that codes whether you become a bacteria, an orange, a lemon, a Lemur, a Cow, a sheep, a human being, a politician, any one of these things is all coded in this four-letter code.

  Juan Enriquez

  Orange, Sheep, Bacteria

  Source: bigthink.com

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• the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspiring, New Year, Inspiration

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• My Christian faith is my backbone

  Bear Grylls

  Christian, Christian Faith

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