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There will be times when you will be frightened and discouraged. You may feel that you are defeated. The odds of obtaining victory may appear overwhelming. At times you may feel like David trying to fight Goliath. But remember-David did win!

Thomas S. Monson

Life, Fighting, Winning

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Because of our sacred regard for each human intellect, we consider the obtaining of an education to be a religious responsibility.

Russell M. Nelson

Religious, Responsibility, Sacred

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Be grateful! It is easy to thank after obtaining what you want, thank before having what you want.

Shams Tabrizi

Grateful, Want, Easy

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We know that a statement proved to be good must be oorrect. New thoughts are constantly obtaining the floor. These two theories - that all is matter, or that all is Mind-will dispute the ground, until one is acknowledged to be the victor. Discussing his campaign, General Grant said: "I propose to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer." Science says: All is Mind and Mind's idea. You must fight it out on this line. Matter can afford you no aid.

Mary Baker Eddy

Summer, Fighting, Ideas

Mary Baker Eddy (1906). “Science Et Santé”

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If there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.

Billy Sunday

Good Man, Hell, Preacher

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... if a man prays God for some virtue, and at the same time gives himself up to negligence, acquiring no definite means to gain this virtue, and making no effort towards it, truly this man tempts God, rather than prays. Thus the divine James says: 'The effectual prayer of a righteous man avails much' (Jms. 5:16). What avails to make prayer effective? is when, besides begging a saint to pray for him about something, the man also prays about it himself and with all diligence does everything necessary for obtaining his request.

Lorenzo Scupoli

Christian, Prayer, Mean

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By obtaining a sense of its place in the unfolding drama of life, set in an ecological theatre, so we can understand why it has become one of the leading players.

Simon Conway Morris

Drama, Player, House

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The only person stopping you from doing something is yourself, and looking for excuses all the time just gets in the way of obtaining your own goals. It's like the writer who keeps getting up and straightening the pictures in the room.

Chrissie Hynde

Effectiveness, Goal, Stopping

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It is especially imperative for Congress to exercise careful judgment in this area, because of the difficulty under existing laws, in obtaining judicial review of Postal Service abuses. ...We strongly oppose the legislation's infringement of rights guaranteed under the First, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution.

John Shattuck

Exercise, Dark, Rights

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You may have difficulty in obtaining some of these (non-drug) therapies..because the FDA has literally pressured Congress, under the guise of protecting the public, to keep time-honoured cultural and natural therapies out of the hands of the general public. If you look at the record of the FDA, it becomes obvious they are serving interests other than yours and mine.

Robert Willner

Fda, Hands, Drug

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When it comes to preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, I will take no options off the table. ... That includes all elements of American power: a political effort aimed at isolating Iran, a diplomatic effort to sustain our coalition and ensure that the Iranian program is monitored, an economic effort that imposes crippling sanctions and, yes, a military effort to be prepared for any contingency.

Barack Obama

Military, Iran, Political

"Debate: Attacking Iran, AIPAC, Israel-Palestine and Obama with Rashid Khalidi and Jonathan Tobin", www.democracynow.org. March 5, 2012.

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The United States will do what we must to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

Barack Obama

Nuclear Iran, United States, Weapons

"Should The World Brace For An Iran-Israel War?". "Tell Me More" with Celeste Headlee, www.npr.org. September 28, 2012.

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The only ends for which governments are constituted, and obedience rendered to them, are the obtaining of and protection; and they who cannot provide for both give the people a right of taking such ways as best please themselves, in order to their own safety.

Algernon Sidney

Government, Order, People

Algernon Sidney (1751). “Discourses Concerning Government”, p.407

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Privacy laws are our biggest impediment to us obtaining our objectives.

Michael Eisner

Law, Privacy, Objectives

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After all, for mankind as a whole there are no exports. We did not start developing by obtaining foreign exchange from Mars or the moon. Mankind is a closed society.

E. F. Schumacher

Change, Moon, Society

E.F.SCHUMACHER (1973). “SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL”

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There has never been anything worth obtaining without grief, or suffering, and disappointment.

Henry Flagler

Disappointment, Grief, Suffering

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Again, like I said, my life has been about being fascinated by objects and the stories that they tell, and also making them for myself, obtaining them, appreciating them and diving into them.

Adam Savage

Appreciate, Stories, Diving

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Because government has tremendous power, it attracts people who are eager to game the system, obtaining by force of law what they could never achieve through consensus.

William A. Dembski

Government, Law, Games

"Peerless: A Radically Decentralized Digital Monetary Framework". billdembski.com. November 23, 2016.

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I fancy you give me credit for being a more systematic sort of cove than I really am in the matter of limits of significance. What would actually happen would be that I should make out Pt (normal) and say to myself that would be about 50:1; pretty good but as it may not be normal we'd best not be too certain, or 100:1; even allowing that it may not be normal it seems good enough and whether one would be content with that or would require further work would depend on the importance of the conclusion and the difficulty of obtaining suitable experience.

William Sealy Gosset

Science, Giving, Would Be

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Since it was too difficult to get into the Screen Actor's Guild in New York, I moved to Miami in 1982 and started a successful career as a television commercial actress, obtaining my SAG card there.

Donna Rice Hughes

New York, Successful, Television Commercials

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After taking my B.A. degree in 1939 I remained at the University for a further year to take an advanced course in Biochemistry, and surprised myself and my teachers by obtaining a first class examination result.

Frederick Sanger

Teacher, Years, Class

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The liberation of Iraq was part of a broader effort to seriously confront the greatest threat to world security: rogue states capable of obtaining long range weapons of mass destruction.

Armstrong Williams

Mass Destruction, Iraq, Long

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If the creatures with fur/feathers/fins are our brothers in a lower stage of development then their very weakness and inability to protest, demands that man should refrain from torturing them for the mere possibility of obtaining some knowledge which he believes may be to his own interest.

Luther Burbank

Brother, Believe, Animal

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In order not to be astonished at obtaining victories, one ought not to think only of defeats.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Thinking, Order, Victory

Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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[When a young person loses faith in his religion because he begins to study science and its methodology] it isn't that [through the obtaining of real knowledge that] he knows it all, but he suddenly realizes that he doesn't know it all.

Richard P. Feynman

Real, Thinking, Study

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