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• Our revolution's main mission is to pave the way for the reappearance of the Twelfth Imam, the Mahdi.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Way, Revolution, Mahdi

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• I am focused on what needs to be done for the people of Israel. Period. I do not pity myself and I do not pat myself on the shoulder. I get up in the morning full of energy to fulfill my mission.

  Ehud Olmert

  Morning, Israel, People

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• The worst thing you can do is allow a coalition to determine what your mission is.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Coalitions, Worst, Determine

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• The Pan-Africanism that envisaged the ideal of wholeness was gradually cut down to the size of a continent, then a nation, a region, an ethnos, a clan, and even a village in some instances But Pan-Africanism has not outlived its mission. Seen as an economic, political, cultural, and psychological re-membering vision, it should continue to guide remembering practices

  Ngugi wa Thiong'o

  Cutting, Practice, Political

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• Our enemies send other people's children on missions of suicide and murder. They embrace tyranny and death as a cause and a creed. We stand for a different choice - made long ago, on the day of our founding. We affirm it again today. We choose freedom and the dignity of every life.

  George W. Bush

  Suicide, Children, Choices Made

  First (Official) Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 29 January 2002

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• Suiciders are willing to kill innocent life in order to send the projection that this is an impossible mission.

  George W. Bush

  Order, Impossible, Innocent

  "President Bush Delivers Remarks on Iraq and Answers Questions From the Media". Remarks & Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. April 3, 2007.

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• The solution to Iraq - an Iraq that can govern itself, sustain itself and defend itself - is more than a military mission. Precisely the reason why I sent more troops into Baghdad.

  George W. Bush

  Military, Iraq, Troops

  "President Bush Delivers Remarks on Iraq and Answers Questions From the Media". Remarks & Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. April 3, 2007.

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• Our top priority is our troops, who are making the extraordinary effort to fulfill the mission they have been given. Democrats will work with this Administration to better define that mission and a realistic expectation of success in Iraq.

  Jim Clyburn

  Iraq, Expectations, Effort

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• A spirit of criticism, if indulged in, leads to a censoriousness of disposition that is destructive of all nobler feeling. The man who lives to find faults has a miserable mission.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Gratitude, Men, Feelings

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• It seems to be my mission in life to wait on a dog.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Dog, Waiting, Seems

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• An untrained or uneducated Marine ... deployed to the combat zone is a bigger threat to mission accomplishment ... than the enemy.

  James Mattis

  Military, Marine, Accomplishment

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• Ask how you’d live your life differently if you knew you were going to die soon, then ask yourself who those people you admire are and why you admire them, and then ask yourself what was the most fun time in your life. The answers to these questions, when seen, heard, and felt, provide us with an open doorway into our mission, our destiny, our purpose.

  Thom Hartmann

  Fun, Destiny, People

  Thom Hartmann (2004). “The Prophet's Way: A Guide to Living in the Now”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• The utter failure came at the Crucifixion in the tragic words, 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' If you want to understand the full tragedy of those words you must realize what they meant: Christ saw that his whole life, devoted to the truth according to his best conviction, had been a terrible illusion. He had lived it to the full absolutely sincerely, he had made his honest experiment, but it was nevertheless a compensation. On the cross his mission deserted him. But because he had lived so fully and devotedly he won through to the Resurrection body.

  Carl Jung

  Tragedy, Body, Want

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• The Philippines are ours forever. We will not repudiate our duty in the archipelago. We will not abandon our opportunity in the Orient. We will not renounce our part in the mission of our race, trustee, under God, of the civilization of the world. He has marked the American people as His chosen nation to finally lead in the regeneration of the world. This is the divine mission of America.

  Albert J. Beveridge

  Opportunity, America, Race

  Maiden speech in the Senate. "Congressional Record", Senate, 56th Congress, 1st session, pp. 704-712, en.wikisource.org. January 09, 1900.

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• And that's the mission of The Innocence Project in New York, is to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted, and also work from a policy angle with Congress and state legislatures to prevent future wrongful convictions.

  John Grisham

  New York, People, Innocence

  "Piers Morgan Tonight", www.cnn.com. December 9, 2011.

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• Man is in fact nailed down - like Christ on the Cross - to a grid of paradoxes. He balances between the torment of not knowing his mission and the joy of carrying it out, between nothingness and meaningfulness. And like Christ, he is in fact victorious by virtue of his defeats.

  Vaclav Havel

  Men, Christ On The Cross, Knowing

  "Václav Havel: Heir to a Spiritual Legacy" by Richard L. Stanger. Christian Century article, pp.368-370, www.religion-online.org. April 11, 1990.

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• I believe that a woman should always remain a woman and nothing feminine should be alien to her. At the same time, I strongly feel that no work done by a woman in the field of science or culture or whatever, however vigorous or demanding, can enter into conflict with her ancient 'wonderful mission' -- to love, to be loved -- and with her craving for the bliss of motherhood.

  Valentina Tereshkova

  Believe, Motherhood, Done

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• I have not conceived my mission to be that of a knight-errant wandering everywhere to deliver people from difficult situations. My humble occupation has been to show people how they can solve their own difficulties.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Humble, Knights, Difficult Situations

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.154, A&C Black

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• A developed India by 2020, or even earlier, is not a dream. It need not be a mere vision in the minds of many Indians. It is a mission we can all take up - and succeed.

  Abdul Kalam

  Dream, Mind, Vision

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• I came to join the revolution, not to kill the Cambodian people. Look at me now. Am I a violent person? No. So, as far as my conscience and my mission were concerned, there was no problem.

  Pol Pot

  People, Revolution, Looks

  "Day of Reckoning". "Far Eastern Economic Review" Magazine, October 1997.

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• Against the background of this luminous and sparkling stage Bond stood in the sunshine and felt his mission to be incongruous and remote and his dark profession an affront to his fellow actors.

  Ian Fleming

  Dark, Sunshine, Actors

  Ian Fleming (1961). “gilt-edged bonds”

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• I think the central mission in Afghanistan right now is to protect the people, certainly, and that would be inclusive of everybody, and that in a, in an insurgency and a counterinsurgency, that's really the center of gravity.

  Michael Mullen

  Thinking, People, Would Be

  "Mullen on Taliban, mission in Afghanistan". "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. August 1, 2010.

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• Others first. Whatever your corporate mission, paint a clear and compelling picture that others can understand and embrace. State your mission in terms that appeal to your team's best instincts. Persuade and empower as if you are leading and mentoring volunteers.

  Tony Dungy

  Team, Volunteer, Empowering

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• Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand virtually alone in accomplishing this mission.

  Toni Morrison

  Wisdom, Civilization, Library

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• She gave me a pledge card, a card promising an annual gift of $5, $10, or $25 toward the support of the Unity mission. I filled it out under the hot light of the projector. The name and address spaces were much too short, unless you wrote a very fine hand or unless your name was Ed Poe and you lived at 1 Elm St.

  Charles Portis

  Light, Hands, Names

  Charles Portis (2007). “The Dog of the South”, p.72, The Overlook Press

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