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• Why, why are people all balls of bitter dust? Because they won't fall off the tree when they're ripe. They hang on to their old positions when the position is overpast, till they become infested with little worms and dry-rot.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Change, Fall, Dust

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Women in Love”, p.122, Xist Publishing

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• Mothers are likely to have more bad days on the job than most other professionals, considering the hours: round-the-clock, seven days a week, fifty-two weeks a year. . . . You go to work when you're sick, maybe even clinically depressed, because motherhood is perhaps the only unpaid position where failure to show up can result in arrest.

  Mary Blakely

  Mother, Jobs, Bad Day

  Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• New Year, the season for changes in positions and advances in salaries, approaches. If you have in your employ some who deserve more salary, do not compel them to go through the unpleasant ordeal of asking a raise, but, rather, voluntarily increase their remuneration. A raise that comes from the boss without asking is worth a lot more than one that has to be gouged out of him. Is it not true that a great many employers who would not dream of overcharging their customers have no qualms whatever about underpaying their employees if the latter will submit without protest?

  B. C. Forbes

  Dream, New Year, Deserve More

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• As a result of overdiversification, their (active managers) returns get watered down. Diversification covers up ignorance. Active managers haven't done enough research into any of their companies. If managers have 200 positions, do you think they know what's going on at any one of those companies at this moment?

  Bill Ackman

  Ignorance, Thinking, Cover Ups

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• Almost every one of the great religions of the world has made special provisions for them, and the woman who has preferred a celibate to a domestic life has been able to occupy a position of honor and usefulness.

  Mary Livermore

  Women, Honor, Religion

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• To endeavor to move by the same discourse hearers who differ in age, sex, position and education is to attempt to open all locks with the same key.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Sex, Moving, Keys

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• Life in Anaheim, California, was a commercial for itself, endlessly replayed. Nothing changed; it just spread out farther and farther in the form of neon ooze. What there was always more of had been congealed into permanence long ago, as if the automatic factory that cranked out these objects had jammed in the on position.

  Philip K. Dick

  Long Ago, California, Neon

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.29, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To make our position clearer, we may formulate it in another way. Let us call a proposition which records an actual or possible observation an experiential proposition. Then we may say that it is the mark of a genuine factual proposition, not that it should be equivalent to an experiential proposition, or any finite number of experiential propositions, but simply that some experiential propositions can be deduced from it in conjunction with certain other premises without being deducible from those other premises alone.

  A.J. Ayer

  Numbers, Finite Number, May

  "Language, Truth, and Logic" by A.J. Ayer, (p. 20), 1936.

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• It is no more rational to have lawyers in positions of power than it would be to have garbage collectors in positions of power. And in human terms garbage collectors would be preferable.

  Robert Payne

  Position Of Power, Would Be, Garbage

  Robert Payne (1975). “The Corrupt Society: From Ancient Greece to Present-Day America”, Praeger Publishers

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• When you know both yourself as well as your competition, you are never in danger. To know yourself and not others, gives you half a chance of winning.  Knowing neither yourself or your competition puts you in a position to lose.

  Sun Tzu

  Motivational, Sports, Winning

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• Things get done only if the data we gather can inform and inspire those in a position to make a difference.

  Michael J. Schmoker

  Data, Differences, Inspire

  Michael J. Schmoker (1996). “Results: the key to continuous school improvement”, Assn for Supervision & Curriculum

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• The Department of Justice should resolutely bar monopolizing mergers in all markets, including telecommunications, but they are not in a position, as is the FCC, to promote new competition by selling the airwaves in auctions.

  Reed Hundt

  Fcc, Justice, Competition

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• The end point of leadership is not just the position of power we reach, but the continual change and deepening we experience that makes a difference in our lives, our work, our world. Our leadership journeys are only at midpoint when we have achieved a position of power.

  Janet Hagberg

  Leadership, Journey, Our World

  Janet O. Hagberg (2002). “Real Power: Stages of Personal Power in Organizations, Third Edition”, p.273, Sheffield Publishing

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• Today's parents have little authority over those others with whom they share the task of raising their children. On the contrary,most parents deal with those others from a position of inferiority or helplessness. Teacher, doctors, social workers, or television producers possess more status than most parents.... As a result, the parent today isa maestro trying to conduct an orchestra of players who have never met and who play from a multitude of different scores, each in a notation the conductor cannot read.

  Kenneth Keniston

  Teacher, Children, Player

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• I am not insecure enough to count the bouquets I receive on my birthday, I don't assess my popularity by the number of magazine covers I am on, I don't get worried if my song is on the seventh position on countdown charts.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Song, Insecure, Numbers

  "I want to retain what I have, recapture what I've lost". Interview with Komal Nahta, in.rediff.com. January 13, 2000.

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• Christians alone are in a position to rescue the perishing. We dare not settle down to try to live as if things were 'normal.' Nothing is normal while sin and lust and death roam the world, pouncing upon one and another till the whole population has been destroyed.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Lust, Trying

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• The readiness to blame a dead pilot for an accident is nauseating, but it has been the tendency ever since I can remember. What pilot has not been in positions where he was in danger and
  where perfect judgment would have advised against going?

  Charles Lindbergh

  Perfect, Pilots, Blame

  Charles Augustus Lindbergh (1970). “The wartime journals of Charles A. Lindbergh”, Harcourt

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• Accepting the view that man was prior in the creation, some Scriptural writers say that as the woman was of the man, therefore, her position should be one of subjection. Grant it, then as the historical fact is reversed in our day, and the man is now of the woman, shall his place be one of subjection?

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Men, Views, Historical

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2012). “The Woman's Bible”, p.32, tredition

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• My position is that you do not have to practice a religion in order to have a religion.

  Noa Ben Artzi-Pelossof

  Order, Practice

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• That Republicans now control the Senate means, of course, that they control the confirmation process. Their majority enables them to stop an unacceptable nomination at various points: They can deny the nominee a committee hearing; they can vote the person down in committee; they can refuse to schedule a vote on a nomination sent to the floor; and the full Senate can vote to reject the nomination. The Republicans' majority status also strengthens their negotiating position with the White House, making it more likely that a mutually acceptable candidate will be chosen for a given seat.

  Terry Eastland

  Mean, White, House

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• I am persuaded ... that both man and woman bear pain or sorrow, (and, for aught I know, pleasure too) best in a horizontal position.

  Laurence Sterne

  Pain, Men, Sorrow

  Laurence Sterne, Thomas Stothard (1867). “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. And A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy ... With Life of the Author by Sir Walter Scott, Portrait, and Outline Wood Engravings After Thomas Stothard”, p.140

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• Everybody who aspires to high positions of leadership in their state and in their country should be willing to take unscreened, unrehearsed questions from the people who pay their salary.

  Jeb Bush

  Leadership, Country, People

  "Christie uses CPAC to draw contrasts with Bush" by Ashley Killough, www.cnn.com. February 26, 2015.

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• It is with great disappointment and regret that after having the privilege of writing and performing the music of The Black Crowes over the last 24 years, I find myself in the position of saying that the band has broken up.

  Rich Robinson

  Music, Disappointment, Regret

  "Black Crowes have broken up, says Rich Robinson". www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2015.

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• I am not convinced that either the position, rewards or achievements have been worth the cost. My personal and married life and child raising have surely suffered from the professional attainments I have achieved.

  Joanne Simpson

  Life, Children, Achievement

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• For many years, I did my best to report on the issues of the day in as objective a manner as possible. When I had my own strong opinions, as I often did, I tried not to communicate them to my audience. Now, however, my circumstances are different. I am in a position to speak my mind. And that is what I propose to do.

  Walter Cronkite

  Mind, Speak, Propose

  "United Nations, National Sovereignty and the Future of the World". Speech upon receiving the Norman Cousins Global Governance Award, the UN Delegates Dining Room, www.thirdworldtraveler.com. October 19, 1999.

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