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• The Sister Fund supports spiritual women and their organizations, both grassroots activists for justice, and national and international social change agents.

  Helen LaKelly Hunt

  Spiritual, Organization, Justice

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• My patriotism and my conscience required me to support it and to engage in the debate over whether and how to fight it.

  John McCain

  Patriotic, Fighting, Debate

  Liberty University Commencement Address, delivered 13 May 2006

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• I spent the past week here in India getting a sense of the reality of HIV and AIDS in people's lives. Fathers and mothers are dying, leaving children with no support. Stigma and discrimination is ruining the family lives. There is an urgent need for education, information, and increased awareness of HIV and AIDS. The response needs to be now. We cannot afford to become fatigued.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Mother, Children, Father

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• We know there are billions of stars and planets literally out there, and the universe is getting bigger. We know from our fancy telescopes that just in the last two years more than 20 planets have been identified outside our solar system that seem to be far enough away from their suns - - and dense enough - - that they might be able to support some form of life. So it makes it increasing less likely that we're alone. But if we were visited someday, I wouldn't be surprised.

  William J. Clinton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

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• I think that happiness is a very strange thing. And we really feel that we have a right to this happiness. But I feel like it's constantly fluctuating, and that you can make yourself happy. I think it's an outlook. Having a positive attitude probably sounds like a corny thing to say, but a positive attitude really helps, and respecting your job really helps, and having the support of your family and friends really helps.

  Leelee Sobieski

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

  Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. April 21, 2008.

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• A literate world is a possible and desirable one. There are enough resources. What is now needed is the collective will of the international community to ensure that the necessary support is forthcoming.

  Koichiro Matsuura

  Education, Community, World

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• What makes Will the best father in the world to me is that he's there, not just there in a way that's traditional. The emotional support he offers his children is immeasurable.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Fathers Day, Dad, Children

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• We believe that this initiative is a critical first step in our nation s effort to provide every student with a comprehensive, content rich and complete education. These standards have the potential to support teachers in achieving NEA s purpose of preparing students to thrive in a democratic society and a diverse, changing world as knowledgeable, creative and engaged citizens and lifelong learners.

  Lily Eskelsen Garcia

  Teacher, Educational, Believe

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• State Farm is pleased to support the Common Core State Standards Initiative. State by State adoption of these standards is an important step towards maintaining our country s competitive edge. With a skilled and prepared workforce, the business community will be better prepared to face the challenges of the international marketplace.

  Edward B. Rust, Jr.

  Country, Educational, Adoption

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• Teamwork is really a form of trust. It's what happens when you surrender the mistaken idea that you can go it alone and realize that you won't achieve your individual goals without the support of your colleagues.

  Pat Summitt

  Basketball, Teamwork, Ideas

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.124, Crown Business

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• Pity the man who has a character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is silent poor indeed.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Family, Character, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2077, Delphi Classics

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• We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is the silent poor indeed.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Family, Character, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2077, Delphi Classics

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• When old companions, old lusts, and sins crowd in upon you, and when you feel that you are ready to sink, what can save you, sinking sinner ? This alone - I have a high priest in heaven, and he can support in the hour of affliction. This alone can give you peace-I have a high priest in heaven. When you are dying - when friends can do you no good - when sins rise up like spectres around your bed - what can give you peace ? This - "I have a high priest in heaven"

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Giving, Heaven, Lust

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• It would have been more to the point, more honest and more Christian, in past decades not to support those who intentionally destroyed healthy life than to rebel against those who have no other wish than to avoid disease. Moreover, a policy of laissez faire in this sphere is not only cruelty to the individual guiltless victims but also to the nation as a whole... If the Churches were to declare themselves ready to take over the treatment and care of those suffering from hereditary diseases, we should be quite ready to refrain from sterilizing them.

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Past, Healthy

  Adolf Hitler “The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939: An English Translation of Representative Passages Arranged Under Subjects and Edited by Norman H. Baynes”

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• I intend to set up a thousand-year Reich and anyone who supports me in this battle is a fellow-fighter for a unique spiritual-I would say divine-creation... Rudolf Hess, my assistant of many years standing, would tell you: If we have such a leader, God is with us.

  Adolf Hitler

  Spiritual, Unique, Years

  Richard Breiting, Adolf Hitler (1971). “Secret conversations with Hitler: the two newly-discovered 1931 interviews”

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• In this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition rather than pursue a course blind to the reality that the colonial era is now past and the Asian peoples covet the right to shape their own free destiny. What they seek now is friendly guidance, understanding, and support - not imperious direction - the dignity of equality and not the shame of subjugation.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Country, War, Reality

  Farewell Address to Congress, delivered 19 April 1951

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• While I was not consulted prior to the President's decision to intervene in support of the Republic of Korea, that decision from a military standpoint, proved a sound one, as we hurled back the invader and decimated his forces. Our victory was complete, and our objectives within reach, when Red China intervened with numerically superior ground forces.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Military, War, Korea

  Farewell Address to Congress, delivered 19 April 1951

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• The trust, confidence, and support given to us by our chain of command, and the tenacity of the great noncommissioned officers of the past, have laid the foundation and developed our quality corporals and sergeants.

  Julius W. Gates

  Army, Past, Quality

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• The function and Navy in any future war will be to support the dominant air arm.

  Jimmy Doolittle

  Military, War, Air

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• The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Knowledge, Men, Dry

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.41, Courier Corporation

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• I personally support the type of gymnastics which does not exceed a certain amount of acrobatics and risks because then one can still say: what a lovely sport gymnastics is.

  Ludmilla Tourischeva

  Sports, Gymnastics, Risk

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• It's my experience that very few writers, young or old, are really seeking advice when they give out their work to be read. They want support; they want someone to say, "Good job."

  John Irving

  Jobs, Writing, Giving

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• We need to be much clearer about what we do and do not know so that we don't continually confuse the two. If I could have one wish for education, it would be the systematic ordering of our basic knowledge in such a way that what is known and true can be acted on, while what is superstition, fad, and myth can be recognized as such and used only when there is nothing else to support us in our frustration and despair.

  Benjamin Bloom

  Inspirational, Education, Frustration

  Benjamin Samuel Bloom (1981). “All our children learning: a primer for parents, teachers, and other educators”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Long-term success is never achieved on our own. The phrase 'a self-made man' is a myth all along the way we need support.

  Isadore Sharp

  Success, Men, Self

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• Whenever a single definite object is made the supreme end of the State, be it the advantage of a class, the safety of the power of the country, the greatest happiness of the greatest number, or the support of any speculative idea, the State becomes for the time inevitably absolute. Liberty alone demands for its realization the limitation of the public authority, for liberty is the only object which benefits all alike, and provokes no sincere opposition.

  Lord Acton

  Country, Class, Ideas

  Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom: Great Event”, p.239, VM eBooks

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