Incumbents Quotes - Page 3

• The left think that this special place in the world, the United States of America, it just happened. It just is. And it's our responsibility, as those who are lucky and fortunate enough, to happen to have been born here. It is incumbent upon us to share that same luck and good fortune with everybody else. Otherwise we are mean, selfish, polarized, partisan, extremist, racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe, whatever.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Selfish, Mean, Responsibility

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so we have to have these wars. I think it's incumbent upon us to.

  Dan Aykroyd

  Fun, War, Thinking

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• Many people feel that mass acceptance and smooth socialization are desirable life paths for a young adult… Many people are often wrong… Don’t bother being nice. Being popular and well liked is not in your best interest. Let me be more clear; if you behave in a manner pleasing to most, then you are probably doing something wrong. The masses have never been arbiters of the sublime, and they often fail to recognize the truly great individual. Taking into account the public’s regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Nice, Acceptance, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Justice, Diversity, Care

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• Arts, crafts and sciences uplift the world of being, and are conducive to its exaltation. Knowledge is as wings to man's life, and a ladder for his ascent. Its acquisition is incumbent upon everyone.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Uplifting, Art, Educational

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• This is the Day in which God's most excellent favors have been poured out upon men, the Day in which His most mighty grace hath been infused into all created things. It is incumbent upon all the peoples of the world to reconcile their differences, and, with perfect unity and peace, abide beneath the shadow of the Tree of His care and loving-kindness.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Peace, Kindness, Men

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• One of the promising indications of a renewal in the Church's missionary consciousness in recent decades, has been the growing desire of many lay men and women [...] to cooperate generously in the 'missio ad gentes.' As Vatican Council II stressed, the work of evangelization is a fundamental duty incumbent upon the whole People of God.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Men, People, Church

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• It is incumbent upon us to understand our greatness and believe in it so that we do not cheapen and profane ourselves.

  Meir Kahane

  Life, Believe, Greatness

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• It is agreed, in this country, that if a man can arrange his religion so that it perfectly satisfies his conscience, it is not incumbent on him to care whether the arrangement is satisfactory to anyone else or not.

  Mark Twain

  Country, Men, Care

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.34, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Technically, the city of Ankh-Morpork is a Tyranny, which is not always the same thing as a monarchy, and in fact even the post of Tyrant has been somewhat redefined by the incumbent, Lord Vetinari, as the only form of democracy that works. Everyone is entitled to vote, unless disqualified by reason of age or not being Lord Vetinari.

  Terry Pratchett

  Cities, Tyrants, Democracy

  Stephen Briggs, Terry Pratchett (2015). “Unseen Academicals”, p.13, Oberon Books

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• Ambition, and Covetousnesse are Passions that are perpetually incumbent, and pressing.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Passion, Ambition, Political

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• France must not be the only country to have a high level of welfare protection and few obligations incumbent on those who receive benefits.

  Nicolas Sarkozy

  Country, Benefits, Levels

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• There is no way to create wealth without ideas. Most new ideas are created by newcomers. So anyone who thinks the world is safe for incumbents is dead wrong.

  Gary Hamel

  Thinking, Ideas, Way

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• Achieving the summit of a mountain was tangible, immutable, concrete. The incumbent hazards lent the activity a seriousness of purpose that was sorely missing from the rest of my life. I thrilled in the fresh perspective that came from the tipping the ordinary plane of existence on end.

  Jon Krakauer

  Perspective, Missing, Mountain

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into Thin Air: A personal account of the Everest disaster”, p.24, Pan Macmillan

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• Washington is an incumbent protection machine. Technology is fundamentally disruptive.

  Eric Schmidt

  Technology, Machines, Protection

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• Taking into account the public's regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Being Yourself, Inspire, Individuality

  "Feel This Book: An Essential Guide to Self-Empowerment, Spiritual Supremacy, and Sexual Satisfaction". Book by Janeane Garofalo and Ben Stiller, April 27, 1999.

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• One must see in every human being only that which is worthy of praise. When this is done, one can be a friend to the whole human race. If, however, we look at people from the standpoint of their faults, then being a friend to them is a formidable task............ .....Thus is it incumbent upon us, when we direct our gaze toward other people, to see where they excel, not where they fail.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Race, People, Tasks

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• The Minnesota Republican hierarchy didn't want me to run against their incumbent in 2000; they didn't know who I was. And once many party bigwigs did get to know me, they weren't sure that I could win the seat.

  Michele Bachmann

  Running, Party, Winning

  Michele Bachmann (2011). “Core of Conviction: My Story”, p.15, Penguin

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• We can't all work in the inner city. And, I don't even think that it is incumbent upon an African-American intellectual to be concerned in their work with problems of race and class. It's just one of the things, that we here at the DuBois Institute, are concerned about.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Thinking, Race, Class

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• Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

  Khalil Gibran

  Mother, Wisdom, Self

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• It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wisdom, War, Government Debt

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1816-1826”, p.184, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Incumbent White House parties have won 10 of the last 18 presidential elections; the odds are tight, but they favor Obama in 2012. And so gloomy Democrats, check your despair; gleeful Republicans, watch the hubris.

  Jon Meacham

  Party, Odds, White

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• The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.

  Robert Peel

  Giving, Community, Police

  "Introduction to Criminal Justice". Book by Larry Siegel (p. 202), January 5, 2009.

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• All non-incumbent campaigns promise hope and change, but Obama took the promise to a new level of absurdity. He suggested that a vote for him would literally transform the Earth.

  John Podhoretz

  Promise, Campaigns, Levels

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• But I want to just caution, it is not incumbent on the United States to prove that Saddam Hussein is trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction. He's already demonstrated that he's trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Mass Destruction, Trying, United States

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