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• I now began for the first time to envy those young cubs at the university who had fine scholars to tell them what was what; professors who had devoted their lives to mastering and focusing ideas in every branch of learning; who were eager to distribute the treasures they had gathered before they were overtaken by the night. But now I pity undergraduates, when I see what frivolous lives many of them lead in the midst of precious fleeting opportunity. After all, a man's Life must be nailed to a cross either of Thought or Action. Without work there is no play.

  Winston Churchill

  Opportunity, Night, Men

  "My Early Life: A Roving Commission". Book by Winston Churchill, 1930.

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• But there is one place where a person can make choices that will lead in a small way toward greater sanity in dealing with the natural order. That place is the private garden.

  Allen Lacy

  Garden, Order, Choices

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• My advice to any actor who's playing, quote, unquote, "extra" to think of it more like Stanislavski did. It's not a small part. You are the lead in the movie, in your own movie.

  Harvey Keitel

  Thinking, Advice, Actors

  "Moment Of Truth In 'Youth' Hits Home For Actor Harvey Keitel". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. December 5, 2015.

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• And when I hear it said that God is good and He will pardon us, and then see that men cease not from evil-doing, oh, how it grieves me! The infinite goodness with which God communicates with us, sinners as we are, should constantly make us love and serve Him better; but we, on the contrary, instead of seeing in his goodness an obligation to please Him, convert it into an excuse for sin which will of a certainty lead in the end to our deeper condemnation.

  Catherine of Genoa

  Men, Grieving, Evil

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• Not surprisingly, thinkers from groups for whom whiteness was and is a problem have taken the lead in studying whiteness in this way. Such study began with slave folktales and American Indian stories of contact with whites.

  David Roediger

  Taken, Groups, Stories

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• A social contract is the way out of this dilemma for corporations that want to lead in the 21st century by showing consumers how seriously they take customer loyalty and goodwill.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Loyalty, Want, Corporations

  "What #OccupyWallStreet Must Ask of Corporations and Themselves" by Simon Mainwaring, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 12, 2011.

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• I am grateful for the men and women who pastor, who lead in churches across our country. Ultimately, their role of loving people and seeing hearts changed is probably the greatest calling.

  Steve Daines

  Country, Grateful, Heart

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Obviously China is clearly taking the lead in some areas, but when it comes to the most advanced innovation, it's still America.

  Thomas Friedman

  America, Innovation, China

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• I think in America we have to get back to being the best educated general citizenry in the world and make sure we do not lose our lead in research, if we're to have a leadership position in the world.

  John Glenn

  Thinking, America, Research

  Source: beforeitsnews.com

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• America needs the best education system in the world. We have it in higher education. We do not have it in general education for all of our people - the K-12 education. Other nations are far, far outdoing the United States in that area. We still have the lead in research, but once again, other nations are pouring more into research also. We still have a lead, but to me it's just very, very important that we keep that lead in basic research.

  John Glenn

  America, People, Important

  Source: beforeitsnews.com

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• You can lead in multiple ways. I try and lead by example, and make sure that I'm always accountable to my teammates. That starts off with my commitment to waking up early, training hard, lifting weights, and running. It's in my nutrition. It's just making sure I always put myself in the best possible position.

  Larry Fitzgerald

  Running, Commitment, Lifting Weights

  Source: www.menshealth.com

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• Sometimes the roles you're being offered, leads in films aren't good enough. Actually it's you're better going and doing a radio play or a decent TV.

  Dominic Cooper

  Play, Roles, Radio

  Source: www.thehollywoodnews.com

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• The three main leads [in Townies] were Lauren [ Graham] and Jenna [Elfman] and Molly [Ringwald], and then Ron Livingston was on it as well. There was a lot of people to write funny stuff for.

  Eric McCormack

  Writing, People, Three

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

  Edmund Burke

  Understanding, Planning, Observation

  Edmund Burke (1792). “Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London, Relative to that Event: In a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris”, p.175

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• If our commanders on the ground say we need more troops, I will send them. But our commanders tell me they have the number of troops they need to do their job. Sending more Americans would undermine our strategy of encouraging Iraqis to take the lead in this fight. And sending more Americans would suggest that we intend to stay forever, when we are, in fact, working for the day when Iraq can defend itself and we can leave.

  George W. Bush

  Jobs, Fighting, Iraq

  President Bush's Fort Bragg Speech, North Carolina, www.nbcnews.com. 2005.

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• A chief called Lawyer, because he was a great talker, took the lead in the council, and sold nearly all the Nez Perce country.

  Chief Joseph

  Country, Lawyer, Chiefs

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• In the near term, oil is galloping ahead and leading our economy. We have to corral the "horse" and gradually reduce our dependence on oil and coal, in their present forms. Green-energy investment is inherently high-tech, and we could lead in the next-generation energy technologies, as we did and do now with oil and gas. All it takes is leadership!

  Wesley K. Wark

  Horse, Technology, Oil

  "General Wesley K. Clark, Co-Chair of Growth Energy". Interview with Chip Comins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• So often, when you're playing the lead in your own show, it is all about you.

  Mike Colter

  Shows

  "‘Jessica Jones’ Cast on Season 2 Possibilities, Sex Scenes, and ‘Luke Cage’". TCA Press Tour, collider.com. January 28, 2016.

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• Sorry to disappoint the liberals who tuned in tonight to gloat about Obama's lead in every poll, but I am not worried. McCain may be behind, but the man is a fighter. He doesn't know the meaning of the word 'quit.' He used to, but it was stored in the same part of his brain that remembered to vet his running mate.

  Stephen Colbert

  Running, Sorry, Men

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• I'm a character actor and that's what I do. All the roles that I've had have been mainly support roles, because character actors don't usually get the lead in movies. It rarely happens.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Character, Support, Roles

  "‘The Man’ Interviews: Samuel L. Jackson and Eugene Levy". www.hollywood.com.

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• I have friends who are leading men, and they're only ever allowed to play leading men of a certain type. But as a character actor, there's a wider variety of projects available. On the big Hollywood films, all they care about is having their lead in place, so it's actually easier for someone like me to slip in. And I'm happy to do so.

  Eddie Marsan

  Character, Men, Play

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• One way in which Americans have always been exceptional has been in our support for education. First we took the lead in universal primary education; then the “high school movement” made us the first nation to embrace widespread secondary education.

  Paul Krugman

  Education, School, Support

  "Ignorance Is Strength". www.nytimes.com. March 8, 2012.

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• First lead [in a movie] requires a different approach like trying not to give it all away in the first scene. It is a skill, a learned skill.

  James Cromwell

  Skills, Giving, Trying

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• We must realize that the Reformation world view leads in the direction of government freedom. But the humanist world view with inevitable certainty leads in the direction of statism. This is so because humanists, having no god, must put something at the center, and it is inevitably society, government, or the state.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Government, Views, World

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• When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Leadership, Men, Republic

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