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• Continuing to pay people unemployment compensation is a disincentive for them to seek new work.

  Jon Kyl

  People, Unemployment, New Work

  "GOP Sen. Kyl: Unemployment Benefits Make People Not Want To Get A Job" by Ryan Grim, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 1, 2010.

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• I see myself continuing to be a songwriter and a motivator and someone that has grown in her faith.

  Ashthon Jones

  Songwriters

  Interview with reporters during a media conference call, idol.blogs.pressdemocrat.com. March 11, 2011.

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• I think really the whole problem with racism and its continuing legacy in this country is that we simply love it. Who would we be without the 'struggle?'

  Kara Walker

  Country, Struggle, Thinking

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• It is one of the sublime provincialities of New York that its inhabitants lap up trivial gossip about essential nobodies they've never set eyes on, while continuing to boast that they could live somewhere for twenty years without so much as exchanging pleasantries with their neighbors across the hall.

  Louis Kronenberger

  New York, Eye, Years

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• Prayer is continuing a conversation that God has started through his Word and his grace, which eventually becomes a full encounter with him.

  Timothy Keller

  Prayer, Grace, Encounters

  Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.35, Penguin

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• The preoccupation with the choice of a mate both by male and female I regard as a continuing echo of the major selective force by which we have evolved.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Echoes, Choices, Males

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• There've been times where I wondered whether it was worth continuing in my own education.

  Peter R. Orszag

  My Own

  "How Peter Orszag's Budget Team Makes America Work" by John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. February 1, 2010.

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• The biggest challenge for me has been in coping with my perfectionism. I have a stiflingly hard time moving forward in a project if it's not 'just right' all along the way. The trap I so easily fall into is rewriting and rewriting the same scenes over and over to make them perfect, instead of continuing on into the wild unknown of the story.

  Laini Taylor

  Moving, Fall, Hard Times

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• Television is so much about continuing to work with people.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  People, Television

  "Mitch Hurwitz on the Creative Process, Casting Jason Bateman, and Loose Seals". Interview with John Sellers, www.vulture.com. October 22, 2013.

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• I'm continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.

  Claude Monet

  Strength, Hard Work, Discouragement

  Claude Monet (1999). “Monet by himself: paintings, drawings, pastels, letters”

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• You guard against decay, in general, and stagnation, by moving, by continuing to move.

  Mary Daly

  Moving, Decay, Movement

  "The Thin Thread of Conversation: an interview with Mary Daly". Interview with Catherine Madsen, www.crosscurrents.org.

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• would be better served by continuing to hold an ownership position in a pure-play sporting goods retailer rather than a retail conglomerate.

  Jack Smith

  Play, Would Be, Retail

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• And here and now we must insist again that fidelity, honor, and love of country demand untrammeled debate and open dissent. At no time is that truer than in the midst of a war rooted in deceit and justified by continuing deception.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, War, Honor

  "John Kerry Gets His Voice Back" by James Boyce, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 23, 2006.

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• But veteran lawmakers torn apart by PTSD don't have a choice about being Exhibit A in the case against Washington politics. When you see what can happen to a page or a junior congressman, it passes on in a very real way, not in a history-class sense, that reality of what political power really is, .. Who are we to impose this emotional albatross on public servants? As a nation, we pretend to elect our leaders. It seems unjust to make them a special class to suffer for our sins over wrongheaded laws, or pay a continuing emotional price for securing their future careers.

  Leon Kass

  Real, Emotional, Class

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• Keep your mind young by continuing to learn about your business.

  Frank Bettger

  Business, Continuing To Learn, Mind

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• Maybe the given person, cup, or landscape is lost before one gets to painting. A figure exerts a continuing and unspecified influence on a painting as the canvas develops. The represented forms are loaded with psychological feeling. It can't ever just be painting.

  Richard Diebenkorn

  Feelings, Landscape, Cups

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• Some philosophers have been of opinion that our immortal part acquires during this life certain habits of action or of sentiment, which become forever indissoluble, continuing after death in a future state of existence ... I would apply this ingenious idea to the generation, or production of the embryon, or new animal, which partakes so much of the form and propensities of the parent.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Science, Animal, Ideas

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• Mr. President, putting it bluntly, wouldn't we just be continuing a bloodbath that already exists in Cambodia if we voted the 222 million in aid?

  Gerald R. Ford

  War, President, Aids

  United States. President (1974-1977 : Ford), Gerald R. Ford (1975). “Gerald R. Ford: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• For the college years we will provide scholarships to high school students of the greatest promise and greatest need and guarantee low-interest loans to students continuing their college studies.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, School, College

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.7, Best Books on

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• My grandmother was ill in bed when the Nazis came to her home town ... a German soldier shot her dead in her bed. My grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israeli soldiers murdering Palestinian grandmothers in Gaza. The present Israeli government ruthlessly and cynically exploit the continuing guilt from gentiles over the slaughter of Jews in the Holocaust as justification for their murder of Palestinians.

  Gerald Kaufman

  Home, Grandmother, Government

  "Commons debate on Gaza - live" by Andrew Sparrow, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2009.

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• It's hard to play a continuing character like Loomis for nearly 11 years and simply wash your hands of him. It seems a pity.

  Donald Pleasence

  Character, Hands, Years

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• I think the growth industry of the future in this country and the world will soon be the continuing education of adults. ...I think the educated person of the future is somebody who realizes the need to continue to learn. That is the new definition and it is going to change the world we live in and work in.

  Peter Drucker

  Country, Thinking, Growth

  "Managing in a Time of Great Change". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1995.

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• The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife. To utilize them for present needs while insuring their preservation for future generations requires a delicately balanced and continuing program, based on the most extensive research. Their administration is not properly, and cannot be, a matter of politics.

  Rachel Carson

  Real, Lying, Water

  Rachel Carson (2011). “Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson”, p.99, Beacon Press

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• Our universities should produce good criticism; they do not or, at best, they do so only as federal prisons produce counterfeit money: a few hardened prisoners are more or less surreptitiously continuing their real vocations.

  Randall Jarrell

  Real, Criticism, Prison

  "Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964". Book by Randall Jarrell, "Contemporary Poetry Criticism" (p. 62), 1980.

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• When a thing is not done, continuing to work is the strength; but when it is done, the strength lies in stopping.

  Eric Maisel

  Strength, Lying, Stopping

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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