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• Resilency, not perfection, is the signature of greatness.

  James C. Collins

  Greatness, Perfection, Not Perfect

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• If I can get enough signatures, to present an apology to slavery, I will present it to the President. The House of Representatives has already passed the resolution for the apology, but it has to pass the Senate. I think, in spite of all our problems, I think we're in the right direction.

  Kirk Douglas

  Apology, Thinking, House

  "EXCLUSIVE: Kirk Douglas Reflects on an Amazing Career". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. December 8, 2008.

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• Online petitions are built around getting as many signatures as possible. But the experience of taking them and forgetting about them degrades the importance.

  Margaret D. Klein

  Forget, Online, Petitions

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• ...this marvelous graceful thing, this joy of physics, this perfect balance between rebellion and obedience, is God's own signature on earth.

  Mark Helprin

  Perfect, Joy, Balance

  Mark Helprin (1983). “Winter's Tale”, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke [of the axe] he is writing his signature on the face of his land.

  Aldo Leopold

  Writing, Land, Faces

  "Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology".

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• The arts are the signature of a nation.

  Joan Mondale

  Art, Nations

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• Whisper to the flashing water your real name, write your signature in the sand, and shout your identity to the sky until it answers to you in thunder.

  Christopher John Farley

  Real, Writing, Sky

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• From famous artists to building contractors, we all want to leave our signature. Our lasting effect. Your life after death. We all want to explain ourselves. Nobody wants to be forgotten.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Artist, Want, Forgotten

  Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• More than the Big Mac, Coca Cola, or Levi's 501 jeans, the dollar is surely the United States' signature export.

  Barry Eichengreen

  Jeans, United States, Dollars

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• Always interline a contract before signing it, merely to impress the Party of the First Part. The one who puts his signature to Articles of Agreement drawn up by the other fellow is establishing a dangerous precedent.

  George Ade

  Party, Agreement, Firsts

  George Ade (1960). “The America of George Ade, 1866-1944: Fables, Short Stories, Essays”, New York, Putnam [1960]

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• Consumers could be in for an even sweeter deal, either getting discounts from retailers for using the PIN debit cards or being rewarded by card network by winning money back for using the signature debit cards.

  David Robertson

  Winning, Cards, Debit

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• Robert Creeley has forged a signature style in American poetry, an idiosyncratic, highly elliptical, syntactical compression by which the character of his mind’s concentrated and stumbling proposals might be expressed … Reading his poems, we experience the gnash of arriving through feeling at thought and word.

  Forrest Gander

  Reading, Character, Feelings

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• I have read many definitions of what is a conservationist, and written not a few myself, but I suspect that the best one is written not with a pen, but with an axe. It is a matter of what a man thinks about while chopping, or while deciding what to chop. A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke he is writing his signature on the face of his land.

  Aldo Leopold

  Writing, Men, Thinking

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.68, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I'd love to say I'm an accomplished cook, but I don't have any signature dishes. I'm good at breakfast -- I make great eggs. My father gave me a little recipe. It's all in the seasoning. But it's a Greek secret. I won't give it away!

  Jennifer Aniston

  Father, Eggs, Giving

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• You have to understand that once an indictment has been signed, all countries that are signature to the U.N. charter will hand a person straight over. You dont have to go through the normal extradition process.

  Tony Greig

  Country, Hands, Over You

  "Investigator details charges". "NBC News Investigates", www.nbcnews.com. December 2, 2004.

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• I grew up singing Mexican music, and that's based on indigenous Mexican rhythms. Mexican music also has an overlay of West African music, based on huapango drums, and it's kind of like a 6/8 time signature, but it really is a very syncopated 6/8. And that's how I attack vocals.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Mexican, Singing, African Music

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• As a young child, being different is isolating, and as a teenager it's humiliating. I wish I had been able to stand out with more confidence when I was a child, and especially when I was a teenager. I was different, but it wasn't always a conscious choice, and it often made me miserable. But I'm all grown up now, and so are you. Today, difference is your strength, your power, and your trademark. It's your signature. It can still be difficult to be different--sometimes even harder than it used to be. Even so, it's time to embrace being yourself. It's time to be authentic.

  Bethenny Frankel

  Being Yourself, Children, Teenager

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• If I could have entertained the slightest apprehension that the Constitution framed in the Convention where I had the honor to preside might possibly endanger the religious rights of any ecclesiastical society, certainly I would never have placed my signature to it.

  George Washington

  Religious, Rights, Honor

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1848). “pt. V. Speeches and messages to Congress, proclamations, and addresses”, p.155

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• When our founding fathers put their signatures on the Declaration of Independence, those 56 brave people, most of whom by the way were clergymen, they said that we had certain inalienable rights given to us by our creator, and among these life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, life being one of them. I still believe that.

  Mike Huckabee

  Father, Believe, Pursuit Of Happiness

  The Republican Presidential debate on Fox News Channel in Orlando, Fla., www.nytimes.com. October 21, 2007.

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• I'm able to sign my name to the paintings. That is really a blessing.

  Margaret Keane

  Blessing, Names, Able

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• At the end of the day, you want to be always the one that's one step ahead of everybody, and when it comes to hip-hop, culture and art, you want to be that signature guy.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Art, Hip Hop, Guy

  "Kickin' it with Carmelo Anthony". Interview with Jared Zwerling, www.espn.com. October 21, 2011.

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• I have Bob Dylan lyrics on my ribs. I'm a diehard Dylan fan, and my dad and I joke that if I ever met him, I'd have him sign his name right under my tattoo and then I'd run to the parlor to get his signature tattooed.

  Carly Chaikin

  Tattoo, Running, Dad

  "Suburgatory's Carly Chaikin is Nothing Like Her Character, Dalia. Count the Tattoos for Proof!" by Caitlin Brody, www.glamour.com. October 16, 2012.

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• My master's visualizations were so powerful their condensation into matter was mere signature. Donald Walters, formerly Kriyananda, author of The Path about his guru Yogananda.

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Powerful, Achievement, Matter

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