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• [T]he dignity of parliament it seems can brook no opposition to it's power. Strange that a set of men who have made sale of theirvirtue to the minister should yet talk of retaining dignity!

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Strange, Dignity

  Thomas Jefferson, Lyman Henry Butterfield, Charles T. Cullen (1950). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 1760-1776”

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• The handling of our forests as a continuous, renewable resource means permanent employment and stability to our country life. The forests are also needed for mitigating extreme climatic fluctuations, holding the soil on the slopes, retaining the moisture in the ground, and controlling the equable flow of water in our streams.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Country, Mean, Water

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1935, Volume 4”, p.65, Best Books on

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• The most effective way to close down the human mind and to manipulate its sense of self is to program into it some form of dogma. A dogma will always vehemently defend itself from other information and repel any alternative opinion which contradicts its narrow, solidified view. Dogmas become a person's sense of security and means of retaining power, and humanity tends to cling to both until its knuckles turn white. Dogmas take endless forms, and when you can persuade different people to hold opposing dogmas, the manipulation of conflict and control through "divide and rule" becomes easy.

  David Icke

  Mean, White, Self

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• It remains to be seen, for example whether China can continue to develop as a market economy while still retaining an authoritarian communist political system.

  Peter Dicken

  Political, Example, Communist

  Peter Dicken (2007). “Global Shift: Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy”, p.516, SAGE Publications Ltd

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• Fiction keeps its audience by retaining the world as its subject matter. People like the world. Many people actually prefer it to art and spend their days by choice in the thick of it.

  Annie Dillard

  Art, People, Choices

  Annie Dillard (1983). “Living by Fiction”, New York : Harper & Row

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• Retaining 'Monday Night Football' simply did not make smart financial sense for ABC. We could not reconcile the fees against the revenue. We love football at ABC. It's been a love affair for 36 years. It will go down in the history of sports television, being created on ABC and with this magnificent run. But at this point, given the success we're having with our entertainment product and the financials, we deemed that this was the proper move for us. We're not looking back .

  George Bodenheimer

  Sports, Football, Running

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• Empires are synonymous with centralized if occasionally schismatized hierarchical power structures in which influence is restricted to an economically privileged class retaining its advantages through usually a judicious use of oppression and skilled manipulation of both the society's information dissemination systems and its lesser as a rule nominally independent power systems. In short, it's all about dominance.

  Iain Banks

  Independent, Class, Use

  Iain M. Banks (2008). “The Player Of Games: A Culture Novel”, p.67, Hachette UK

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• Women of every age and size really just want to look sexy, while retaining their power and dignity.

  L'Wren Scott

  Sexy, Age, Looks

  "Remembering L'Wren Scott: Original, Strong and Brave" by Merle Ginsberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 18, 2014.

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• Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

  Fawn M. Brodie

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  Los Angeles Times Home Magazine, February 20, 1977.

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• Beloved, if any unholiness exists in the nature, it is not there by the consent of the Spirit of God. If unholiness is in your life it is because your soul is giving consent to it, and you are retaining it. Let it go. Cast it out and let God have His way in your life.

  John G. Lake

  Letting Go, Giving, Soul

  John G. Lake (2012). “Living In God's Power”, p.138, Whitaker House

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• A clever general... avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return. This is the art of studying moods. Disciplined and calm, he awaits the appearance of disorder and hubbub among the enemy. This is the art of retaining self-possession.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, Clever, War

  James Clavell, Sun Tzu (2013). “The Art of War”, p.31, Hachette UK

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• I support lowering the level of legal immigration by a moderate amount at this time. Legal immigration reform must be based upon principles that are pro-family, pro-work, and pro-naturalization, retaining opportunities for family reunification as the levels are lowered. We must not let this issue become divisive in this country.

  William J. Clinton

  Country, Opportunity, Issues

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• There is no point in retaining a brand equity if it has no traction with consumers, or has no likelihood of doing so.

  Nick Cooper

  Business, Equity, Consumers

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• My sister's the type who religiously watches the fear segments of her local Eyewitness News broadcasts, retaining nothing but the headline...Everything is dangerous all of the time, and if it's not yet been pulled off the shelves, then it's certainly under investigation -- so there.

  David Sedaris

  Watches, News, My Sister

  "Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim". Book by David Sedaris, 2005.

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• Most everybody had made at least one bad, drunken decision in their lives. Called an ex at two in the morning. Or perhaps has a little too much to drink on a second date and wept inconsolably while revealing how simply damaged one was, while nonetheless retaining an uncommonly large capacity for love. That kind of thing was, while regrettable, at least comprehensible. But waking up with someone generationally inappropriate, like your grandfather's best buddy?

  Augusten Burroughs

  Morning, Two, Decision

  Augusten Burroughs (2011). “You Better Not Cry: True Stories for Christmas”, p.56, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• A life is such a strange object, at one moment translucent, at another utterly opaque, an object I make with my own hands, an object imposed on me, an object for which the world provides the raw material and then steals it from me again, pulverized by events, scattered, broken, scored yet retaining its unity; how heavy it is and how inconsistent: this contradiction breeds many misunderstandings.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Hands, Broken, Unity

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• Someone would have to keep his wits, and he had assumed automatically that since Fezzik had so few, he would find retaining them not all that difficult.

  William Goldman

  Difficult, Wit, Fezzik

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure”, p.298, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Gay marriage is the last bastion of, to me... as a legal, ceremonial, sentimental and religious side, it's one of the last steps. Retaining your job being one of the earlier steps, like, not getting kicked out of your job because you're gay.

  Gus Van Sant

  Religious, Jobs, Gay

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• I repeat my demand that the occupier leave the land of our beloved Iraq unconditionally, without retaining bases or signing agreements.

  Muqtada al Sadr

  Agreement, Land, Iraq

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• To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

  Hermann Hesse

  Faith, Mean, Order

  Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.169, Macmillan

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• An enterprise that is constantly exploring new horizons is likely to have a competitive advantage in attracting and retaining talent.

  Gary Hamel

  New Horizons, Talent, Advantage

  Gary Hamel (2012). “What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation”, p.99, John Wiley & Sons

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• Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

  Erich Fromm

  Soulmate, Integrity, Love You

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.31, Routledge

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• Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.

  Tryon Edwards

  Commitment, Loss, Sacrifice

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.224, Ravenio Books

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• Teachers make a difference, and we would serve our students better by focusing on attracting and retaining the quality teachers by raising teacher pay.

  Jeb Bush

  Teacher, Differences, Making A Difference

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• Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Hope, Giving Up

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.152, University of Georgia Press

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