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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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• The Jew...is not content merely to destroy Christianity, but he preaches the gospel of Judaism; he not only assails the Catholic or the Protestant faith, but he incites to the unbelief, and then imposes on those whose faith he has undermined his own conception of the world, of morality and of life. He is engaged in his historic mission, the annihilation of the religion of Christ.

  Bernard Lazare

  Catholic, World, Morality

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• There is only one way into the Kingdom of Heaven, but there are many ways into the human heart: and the Church of Christ, ln its mission of promulgating truth and turning souls of righteousness, has legitimate use for every avenue of the heart.

  Orson F. Whitney

  Heart, Heaven, Soul

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• Our profession is built on the bedrock of trust - the trust that must inherently exist among Soldiers, and between Soldiers and their leaders to accomplish their mission in the chaos of war. Recent incidents of sexual assault and sexual harassment demonstrate that we have violated that trust.

  Raymond T. Odierno

  Military, War, Leader

  "The Time Is Now for Military Justice for Assault Victims" by Terry O’Neill, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 17, 2014.

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• Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease and herb to cure it, and every person a mission. This is the Indian theory of existence.

  Mourning Dove

  Native American, Marijuana, Purpose

  Mourning Dove (1994). “Mourning Dove: A Salishan Autobiography”, p.69, U of Nebraska Press

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• As far as this citizen is concerned, the decision to commit men and women, who are also sons and daughters, to combat is an extraordinarily important one, and not to be done to just feel good; to be done to absolutely accomplish a mission.

  Richard Armitage

  Daughter, Mother, Son

  9/11 Commission Hearings, www.washingtonpost.com. March 24, 2004.

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• Your mission isn't a project to check off your list. It's a commitment to which to dedicate your life.

  Victoria Moran

  Commitment, Lists, Checks

  Victoria Moran (2009). “Fat, Broke & Lonely No More: Your Personal Solution to Overeating, Overspending, and Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places”, p.36, Harper Collins

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• Legal ethics is a misnomer ... lawyers conducting themselves legally are not necessarily conducting themselves morally ."...and ..."The zero sum nature of the legal system, combined with the universal adoption of zealotry as the marching orders of practioners and prosecutors, transforms the moral mission of the legal system from one of truth-seeking, storytelling, and justice, to one of fabrication, distortion, and manipulation in pursuit of victory. These victories, however, make us all losers.

  Thane Rosenbaum

  Zero, Order, Justice

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• I would rather die for Christ than rule the whole earth.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Earth, Missionary, Christ

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• I was very new to working in front of the camera when I started shooting Gatsby, so I set myself the mission of gleaning as much information as possible out of the much more experienced actors. The cast was astoundingly talented.

  Elizabeth Debicki

  Cameras, Gleaning, Actors

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• That is now my mission: to provide a European vision of growth, employment, prosperity - in one word, our future.

  Francois Hollande

  Growth, Vision, Employment

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• Now I'm not the type that gets upset,
  Try to disrespect folks just to earn respect.
  But learn this fact: whether white or black,
  I can't be conquered in my style of rap.
  For jealousy and envy are dumb ones' tools,
  So Ricky says nothing, he keeps his cool.
  Revenge is not a mission that the Ruler's on,
  Just forgiveness required for the wrong that's done.

  Slick Rick

  Revenge, Rap, White

  Song: The Ruler's Back, Album: The Great Adventures of Slick Rick, 1988

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• I have said that control of arms is a mission that we undertake particularly for our children and our grandchildren and that they have no lobby in Washington.

  John F. Kennedy

  Children, Presidential, Arms

  "Statement by the President to American Women Concerning their Role in Securing World Peace". November 1, 1963.

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• Patriotism! It is used to define so many diversities, to justify so many wrongs, to compass so many ends, that its life is killed out; it becomes a dead word in the vocabulary-a blank counter, to be moved to any part of the game; and that flag which, streaming from the mast-head of our ship of state, striped with martyr-blood, and glistening with the stars of lofty promise, should always indicate our worldwide mission, and the glorious destinies that we carry forward, is bandied about in every selfish skirmish, and held up as the symbol of every political privateer.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Stars, Selfish, Destiny

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• Monarchy is an outrage which even the blind of an entire people cannot justify... all men hold from nature the secret mission to destroy wherever it my be found. No man can reign innocently. The folly is too evident. Every king is a rebel and a usurper. Do kings themselves treat otherwise those who seek to usurp their authority?

  Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

  Kings, Men, People

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