 We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned? Author: A. B. Yehoshua
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| People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands. Author: Abbe Pierre
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| Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered. Author: Abdallah II
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| Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity. Author: Abdus Salam
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| Our Prophet was a radical too- he fought against the injustices of his community and challenged the feudal order of his society, so they called him a radical. So what? We should be proud of that! Author: Abu Bakar Bashir
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| When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished. Author: Adam Weishaupt
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| I had met a young lady who wanted to be in the theater. It was Judy Holliday. She had somehow fallen down the steps of the Village Vanguard, which still exists today. Author: Adolph Green
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| King Crimson is never easy; it's challenging. That's why I like it. Author: Adrian Belew
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| The challenge, really, on any new film is to try to avoid that and achieve a few moments that aren't cliche. Author: Adrian Lyne
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| Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination. Author: Al Gore
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| Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in. Author: Alan Alda
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| Nowadays people don't know how to handle it if all the ends aren't tied up and they're not told what to think in films. And if they're challenged, they think it's something wrong with the film. Author: Alan Cumming
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| Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers. Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn't done too badly. Author: Alan Dean Foster
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| I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible. Author: Alan Dean Foster
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| Obviously I was challenged by becoming a Naval aviator, by landing aboard aircraft carriers and so on. Author: Alan Shepard
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| Then there was the challenge to keep doing better and better, to fly the best test flight that anybody had ever flown. That led to my being recognized as one of the more experienced test pilots, and that led to the astronaut business. Author: Alan Shepard
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| I'm not able to go in with an act that I use month to month year to year all the time. It's constantly evolving and changing and that keeps me on my toes but certainly adds to the challenge. Author: Alan Thicke
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| They're different kinds of challenges depending upon what phase of life I'm in. Author: Alanis Morissette
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| I've run a lot of miles over the years, some fast and some not so fast. I've won some big races and I've had some big disappointments, but I enjoy the freedom of running and the challenge of training and competition as much now as when I first started back in high school. Author: Alberto Salazar
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| Doing these parts is not fun. It's challenging, but no fun. It's creepy. I would rather play the guy that throws the touchdown pass and gets carried off the field. Author: Alec Baldwin
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| And on top of that, when we work together we have a wonderful working relationship we push each other we challenge each other we laugh 80% of the time that we are together we're very fortunate. Author: Alex Lifeson
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| When you remove the risk, you remove the challenge. When you remove the challenge, you wither on the vine. Author: Alex Lowe
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| To be challenged means to strive. I'm almost certain that's true. Author: Alfred Molina
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| To expect the world to receive a new truth, or even an old truth, without challenging it, is to look for one of those miracles which do not occur. Author: Alfred Russel Wallace
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| Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love. Author: Alfred Sisley
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| Nothing is so threatening to conventional values as a man who does not want to work or does not want to work at a challenging job, and most people are disturbed if a man in a well- paying job indicates ambivalence or dislike toward it. Author: Alice S. Rossi
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| For Astrid, no matter what challenges they go through, they are going to face each other. It's hard for a daughter to accept that her mother is that selfish and that terrible. Author: Alison Lohman
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| I think everybody faces challenges in their lives. I've definitely been through it - not to the extreme that Astrid did. I try to keep some kind of identity and strength. Author: Alison Lohman
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| Once my doctor began treating my kidney disease, my greatest challenge was the constant exhaustion. Fortunately, my doctor explained that anemia was causing my exhaustion and that people with serious illnesses, like kidney disease, may be at increased risk for anemia. Author: Alonzo Mourning
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| Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven. Author: Alphonse de Lamartine
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| The largest challenge that we face, from my perspective, is the ability to continue moving forward so the agency will have a single mission: that is, to provide decent, safe, and affordable housing. Author: Alphonso Jackson
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| Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others. Author: Amelia Earhart
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| Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others. Author: Amelia Earhart
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| Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others. Author: Amelia Earhart
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| Books are challenging and inspirational to me. Author: Amy Sedaris
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| I want to take roles that challenge me and I want to like the script and obviously feel connected with the director because the director to me is so important. Author: Amy Smart
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| What we can do now is contribute to a clearer understanding of what happened that day on Everest in the hope that the lessons to be learned will reduce the risk for others who, like us, take on the challenge of the mountains. Author: Anatoli Boukreev
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| I've been motivated by overcoming challenge and overcoming the hurdles and obstacles that face me. There still is plenty out there to get motivated by. Author: Andre Agassi
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| It has meant a lot to me to challenge the best players in the world and to beat them. And it means a lot to me to be out here and fighting for the title and, you know, it hurts not to win it. Author: Andre Agassi
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| Sometimes it's just harder to remind yourself about what you're doing and why you're doing it... Other times, you have a great desire for it, but physically you're not responding the way you want. That presents other challenges. Then sometimes it all comes together. Author: Andre Agassi
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| Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not. Author: Andrea Dworkin
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| Since I'm a mother and a wife, I have to have passion or the frustration would win out. But I love managing people. The product is second to managing the people. And marketing to consumers is so challenging because it is evolving constantly. Author: Andrea Jung
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| And, I'd never done Tennessee Williams, and I had done Broadway musicals, so it was a challenge. Author: Andrea Martin
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| I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other problems in mathematics which are going to be just as challenging in the future. Author: Andrew Wiles
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| Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge. Author: Andrew Wiles
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| My uncle, who was a little more flamboyant, always said the guy who dressed the best was Fred Astaire. Author: Andy Garcia
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| Some of those songs, you really have to bite them. You challenge yourself, you challenge the audience, you do something different. People weren't expecting it. Author: Andy Taylor
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| Globalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our present instruments, and of politics, to meet its challenges. Author: Anna Lindh
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| I am now working on the second WWI story and find the challenge marvelous. Author: Anne Perry
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| I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them. Author: Anne Rice
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| Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge. Author: Anne Rice
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| Differences challenge assumptions. Author: Anne Wilson Schaef
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| Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I can take more risks with them. It's just less of your life invested. Author: Anthony Doerr
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| It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone. Author: Anthony Hopkins
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| So I think it's fair to say it's even more of a challenge for some of these actors that are coming up, because there's such a pressure to look good, to be sexy and be palatable to people on whatever level. Author: Anthony Michael Hall
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| And I had known Peter O'Toole before in London. And I'd liked him very much. And the thought of being in a picture with him was very challenging to me. And he was playing the starring role. Author: Anthony Quinn
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| The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned. Author: Antonio Gramsci
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| I believe scientists have a duty to share the excitement and pleasure of their work with the general public, and I enjoy the challenge of presenting difficult ideas in an understandable way. Author: Antony Hewish
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| Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people. Author: Arlo Guthrie
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| Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life. Author: Arnold Bennett
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| When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future. Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger
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| Our purpose, as we face these challenges, remains clear - fair and orderly markets that allow for efficient capital formation, while protecting the interests of investors. Author: Arthur Levitt
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| Promoting the interaction of orders remains one of the most difficult, but crucially important, challenges we face concerning our national market system. Author: Arthur Levitt
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| The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less. Author: Arthur Miller
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| I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn't sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance - and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it. Author: Audrey Hepburn
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| With my own memoirs, they are truthful, and I write everything fully expecting to some day end up televised on Court TV, and I'm fully prepared to be challenged legally on it. Author: Augusten Burroughs
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| The danger sensation is exciting. The challenge is to find new dangers. Author: Ayrton Senna
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| What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning. Author: Barbara de Angelis
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| I'd like to meet a lovely man who shares my interests. On the other hand, I possibly will not. It's part of the hand you're dealt. It's a challenge-and I'm not atypical. Author: Barbara Feldon
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| A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound scepticism that white people can actually be oppressed. Author: Barbara Smith
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| My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth. Author: Barbara Stanwyck
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| I know great songwriters. Fred Neil would come up when he was in L.A., we all used to hang out. He would sit there and sing, and we would just melt. I mean, we would go to his recording sessions. Author: Barry McGuire
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| I was very laced with drugs myself, but Fred seemed to be even more so than me. That might have had something to do with it. That might have had something to do with nobody wanting to play my records, too, I don't know. Author: Barry McGuire
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| Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around. Author: Bart Stupak
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| For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a trillionaire. Author: Beah Richards
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| To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge. Author: Bela Lugosi
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| I enjoy Augusta. I enjoy its challenges. There's no other golf course like this anywhere. Its greens and its challenges on and around the greens are just super, super tough. So the greens are fun to play in sort of a morbid way. Author: Ben Crenshaw
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| As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I'd still be alive by now. Author: Ben Kingsley
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| I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up to a constitutional challenge. Author: Ben Nelson
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| We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings. Author: Ben Okri
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| We have fun, we listen to one another, we challenge one another, we trust one another. We're doing what we enjoy, and we're not just playing for each other, we're playing for the people. Author: Benny Green
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| The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective. Author: Berenice Abbott
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| In my career, there have been three things that were challenging: playing gay; playing a Jewish woman; and playing Chekhov. The scariest part was playing Chekhov! Author: Bernadette Peters
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| The challenge of film is making it right there at that moment, and then you get to move on. Author: Bernadette Peters
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| Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are. Author: Bernice Johnson Reagon
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| The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead. Author: Bette Davis
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| I saw it as a challenge to play with Pat and we put hours and hours into it, usually on the bus. The trick was to find something that we both wanted to play within our different styles which would add up to being greater than the sum of its parts. Author: Bill Bruford
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| Social Security, a critically important, great program which does serve as the cornerstone of support for senior citizens, now faces challenges that threaten its long-term stability and well-being. The facts are there. The facts are crystal clear. Author: Bill Frist
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| A renewed commitment to the freedom and opportunity of our people is the touchstone of our time. In this new century, where tests are many and challenges change with the shifting of the wind, we must hold fast to the principles that have made our nation the envy of the world. Author: Bill Owens
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| The most challenging part of being a boss is that nobody will tell you if your work is suffering. Author: Bill Williams
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| There's a difference between being a poseur and being someone who's so emotionally challenged they're kind of just doing their best to show you what they've got. Author: Billy Corgan
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| I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear. Author: Billy Sunday
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| I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear. Author: Billy Sunday
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| One of the big challenges for our party is to demonstrate to people that we have an agenda for economic prosperity and that we can be trusted with their money. Author: Birch Bayh
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| I think one of the most difficult challenges in show business is the challenge of longevity and to constantly realize and reveal what's already been there - like doing stage and singing and dancing in New York. I haven't been that far out of my comfort zone in a while. Author: Blair Underwood
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| It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges. Author: Bob Barr
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| I think independent movies are actually very challenging right now, because it was this huge scene and it was great for a few years. Then, it was totally co-opted by the studios. Now, it's become very corporate, the independent scene. Author: Bob Odenkirk
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| Yet there are some people - Steve Allen would dissect comedy forever; he's a really funny guy, but he would love talking about comedy. I'm doing it right now and you all seem bored. Author: Bob Saget
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| It's getting the right person that's the challenge. Author: Bob Schieffer
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| We wanted to establish a new fan base over here. And second, we wanted to challenge ourselves. We wanted to bring what is ostensibly new music to fresh ears and see what lights them up. Author: Bob Weir
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