Ronald Reagan
Politician, Actor
"Many a man has failed because he had his wishbone where his backbone should have been."
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Backbone
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Robert Kiyosaki
Businessman, Author
"Toughness is not being a bully, it’s having a backbone."
Vikram Seth
Poet, Novelist
"Put your backbone where your wishbone is."
Joyce Meyer
Author, Speaker
"We need a backbone, not a wishbone."
Brian Schweitzer
Politician, farmer
"Good ideas are the backbone of good government."
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"Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities."
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"Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; it is the by-product of our guiding purpose."
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"You don't ever see a thriller with a spiritual backbone."
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"A vocation is the backbone of life."
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"America's foreign policy lacks the backbone to do the right thing in Afghanistan - which is leave."
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