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«Affirmative action is an effort to develop a systematic approach to open the doors of education, employment and business development opportunities to qualified individuals who happen to be members of groups that have experienced long-standing and per»
Author: Bill Clinton
(President)
| About:
Action
| Keywords:
affirmative, affirmative action, approach, develop, development, doors, employment, experienced, groups, individuals, members, PER, qualified, qualifies, qualify, qualifying, standing, systematic, The Doors
«Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.»
Author: Charles Swindoll
| About:
Courage
| Keywords:
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«Character is long-standing habit.»
«Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.»
Author: Rosalind Russell
| About:
Actors and acting
| Keywords:
acting, naked, slowly, standing, turning
«But tomorrow, dawn will come the way I picture her,barefoot and disheveled, standing outside my windowin one of the fragile cotton dresses of the poor.She will look in at me with her thin arms extended,offering a handful of birdsong and a small cup of light.»
Author: William Collins
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arms, barefoot, birdsong, cotton, cup, dawn, disheveled, dresses, extended, extend to, fragile, handful, handfuls, offering, outside, picture, picture window, poor, small arms, standing, the poor, thin, thinned, thinner, thinnest, thinning, thins, window, window dressing
«America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.»
Author: E. E. Cummings
| About:
America and Americans,
Mistakes
| Keywords:
America, colossal, denied, faults, of course, on the move, prodigious, standing, The Move
«Don?t back down just to keep the peace. Standing up for your beliefs builds self-confidence and self-esteem.»
Author: Oprah Winfrey
(Actress, Producer)
| Keywords:
back down, beliefs, builds, confidence, confidences, down, esteem, Esteeming, esteems, keep back, keep down, peace, self, self confidence, self esteem, standing, standings
«A man grows most tired while standing still.»
«Be not afraid of going slowly; be only afraid of standing still.»
«Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still»
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