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• I believe that the people, instead of pretty lies, should be told the truth, no matter how ugly it may be. What can we do, destiny hasn't been kind to us; but, with the help of God, we will prevail.

  Alija Izetbegovic

  Inspirational, God, Truth

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• We are all members of the same great family ... On social occasions the formality of strictly military occasions should be relaxed, and a spirit of friendliness and goodwill should prevail.

  John A. Lejeune

  Military, Marine, Army

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• Grace cannot prevail...until our lifelong certainty that someone is keeping score has run out of steam and collapsed.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Running, Grace, Steam

  Robert Farrar Capon (1997). “Between Noon and Three: Romance, Law, and the Outrage of Grace”, p.7, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• At the core, the American citizen soldiers knew the difference between right and wrong, and they didn't want to live in a world in which wrong prevailed. So they fought, and won, and we all of us, living and yet to be born, must be forever profoundly grateful.

  Stephen Ambrose

  War, Grateful, Fighting

  "Citizen Soldiers: The U. S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany". Book by Stephen Ambrose, www.nytimes.com. 1997.

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• The will to survive is not as important as the will to prevail... the answer to criminal aggression is retaliation.

  Jeff Cooper

  Gun, Will To Survive, Marine Corps

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• ... between government, business, and the public, there is a triangular community of interest. Clearly, it is in business' interest to shape its behavior to prevailing public values; it is more efficient to do so than not to do so. It is also clear that government is the high-cost alternative through which public values are imposed on corporations that do not accurately perceive these values.

  Juanita M. Kreps

  Government, Community, Alternatives

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• Some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world. This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naive trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system.

  Pope Francis

  Economic Inequality, Justice, People

  "The Joy of the Gospel: Evangelii Gaudium". Book by Pope Francis, w2.vatican.va. November 26, 2013.

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• To invest successfully, you need not understand beta, efficient markets, modern portfolio theory, option pricing or emerging markets. You may, in fact, be better off knowing nothing of these. That, of course, is not the prevailing view at most business schools, whose finance curriculum tends to be dominated by such subjects. In our view, though, investment students need only two well-taught courses - How to Value a Business, and How to Think About Market Prices.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, School, Thinking

  Richard J. Connors, Warren Buffett (2010). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.152, John Wiley & Sons

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• Whereas, to preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them; nor does it follow from this, that all promiscuously must go into actual service on every occasion. The mind that aims at a select militia, must be influenced by a truly anti-republican principle; and when we see many men disposed to practice upon it, whenever they can prevail, no wonder true republicans are for carefully guarding against it.

  Richard Henry Lee

  Men, Practice, People

  "An Additional Number of Letters to the Republican". Letters by the Federal Farmer (pseudonym of Richard Henry Lee), Letter XVIII, teachingamericanhistory.org. January 25, 1988.

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• That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them.

  Eric Hoffer

  Agreement, Soul, Prejudice

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• The individual within the collective is never, or hardly ever, conscious of the prevailing thought style, which almost always exerts an absolutely compulsive force upon his thinking and with which it is not possible to be at variance.

  Ludwik Fleck

  Thinking, Style, Collaboration

  Ludwik Fleck (2012). “Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact”, p.41, University of Chicago Press

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• The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources, the whole vast challenge of a continent waiting to be exploited, combined to produce a prevailing materialism and an American drive bent as much, if not more, on money, property, and power than was true of the Old World from which we had fled.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Money, Waiting, Challenges

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “Practicing History: Selected Essays”, p.305, Random House

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• We have voluntarily agreed to let an invisible government sift the data and high-spot the outstanding issues so that our field of choice shall be narrowed to practical proportions. From our leaders and the media they use to reach the public, we accept the evidence and the demarcation of issues bearing upon public questions; from some ethical teacher, be it a minister, a favorite essayist, or merely prevailing opinion, we accept a standardized code of social conduct to which we conform most of the time.

  Edward Bernays

  Leadership, Teacher, Issues

  Edward Bernays (2017). “Propaganda”, p.5, Lulu.com

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• The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.

  Jeffrey Tucker

  Goal, Intellectual, Orthodoxy

  FaceBook post by Jeffrey A. Tucker from Sep 10, 2014

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• When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the theory is supported by great names and generally accepted.

  Claude Bernard

  Acceptance, Science, Names

  Claude Bernard “Experimental Medicine”, Transaction Publishers

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• I am glad I am an optimist. The pessimist is half-licked before he starts. The optimist has won half the battle, the most important half that applies to himself, when he begins his approach to a subject with the proper mental attitude. The optimist may not understand, or if he understands he may not agree with, prevailing ideas; but he believes, yes, knows, that in the long run and in due course there will prevail whatever is right and best.

  Thomas Buckner

  Running, Attitude, Believe

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• Long-term, I see robotics prevailing on the moon. . . . The most important decision we'll have to make about space travel is whether to commit to a permanent human presence on Mars. Without it, we'll never be a true space-faring people.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Future, Moon, Space

  FaceBook post by Buzz Aldrin from Nov 22, 2009

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• There can be no prevailing in prayer without travailing in prayer.

  Oswald J. Smith

  Prayer

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• The essay form has superceded the novel as the vehicle that best suggests the prevailing apocalyptic gestalt, and as the talisman that is most able to repel the onset of paralysing dread.

  Adam Parfrey

  Gestalt, Able, Talismans

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• The usability tests we have conducted during the last year have shown an increasing reluctance among users to accept innovations in Web design. The prevailing attitude is to request designs that are similar to everything else people see on the Web.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Attitude, Years, People

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• There is one prevailing key to success. Do what you resolve to do. Then you'll be a success. If you can discipline yourself to follow through on your promises to yourself, your self-esteem goes up. Persistence is self-discipline in action. Self-discipline is the foundation of self-confidence .

  Brian Tracy

  Self Esteem, Self Confidence, Persistence

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• Since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinion that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied.

  John Stuart Mill

  Healing, Chance, Opinion

  John Stuart Mill (1989). “J. S. Mill: 'On Liberty' and Other Writings”, p.53, Cambridge University Press

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• While you live your life aboard the ship of life be aware of the sea of life on which it floats and on which it moves forward; be aware of the prevailing winds and currents that influence your progress as the master of the ship.

  Ian Gardner

  Life, Moving, Wind

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• In a religiously uniform culture, it is natural for people to take for granted the truth of the prevailing religion and its associated metaphysical propositions.

  Richard Posner

  Spiritual, Atheist, Science

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• If custom is to avail for proof of soundness, we too, surely, may advance our prevailing custom; and if they reject this, we are surely not bound to follow theirs. Let the inspired Scripture, then, be our umpire, and the vote of truth will surely be given to those whose dogmas are found to agree with the Divine words.

  Gregory of Nyssa

  Umpires, May, Scripture

  Gregory of Nyssa (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Gregory of Nyssa (Annotated Edition)”, p.668, Jazzybee Verlag

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