"Firmness in support of fundamentals, with flexibility in tactics and methods, is the key to any hope of progress in negotiation."
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"Now when it comes to getting bread I got the keys to the bakery"
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"The last sort of really low-key race I ran, I realized with about a hundred metres to go, that my heart just wasn't in it. I wasn't trying my hardest, I didn't care to compete against the girls I was up against. That spoke a lot about where my heart was taking me-which was off the track."
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"The key to effective teaching is to remember how you learned."
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"I'm a bluesman, which means that I put an emphasis on the minor keys."
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"Windows 8 is key to the future, the Surface computer."
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"I think that our progress on key diseases over the next several decades is going to be pretty amazing and so I am very interested in that."
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"The key word of the dedicated Christian should be 'give.' Charitable contributions speak eloquently of your unselfish Christian generosity."
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"You just have to keep going to find that thing that lets you in the door. Sometimes in life when that day comes and you're given the key, you throw it away."
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"Respect is the key determinant of high performance leadership. How much people respect you determines how well they perform."
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"A hundred years ago-even 20 or 30 years ago-it was possible, if not always easy, to close major business by calling on and satisfying a key decision-maker. Today, every piece of business entails multiple decisions, and those decisions are virtually never made by the same person. Not only do you have to contend with multiple decisions, but the people who make those decisions may not even work in the same place."
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"The time to be upset is during the race, when you can actually do something about it. Nothing could be done now. A thousand times I'd told them: the key to racing is to come off the water regretting nothing."
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"It is my conviction that pure mathematical construction enables us to discover the concepts and the laws connecting them, which gives us the key to the understanding of nature ... In a certain sense, therefore, I hold it true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed."
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"Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides."
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"Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend for safekeeping, in case of his death. He had ridden only a few miles away when his friend, riding hard, caught up with him, saying 'You gave me the wrong key!"
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"The piano has eighty-eight keys, and you have to be able to play all of them. And the range of white to black is analogous to the eighty-eight keys and you have to be able to play all eighty-eight keys in that palette from white to black."
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"The craft of photography is the key to good images."
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"It is possible to learn more than your doctor knows, particularly in key areas that specifically apply to you. In fact, you may discover material that your doctor never saw, or did see and never investigated."
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"I believe AIDS is the most important issue we face, because how we treat the poor is a reflection of who we are as a people."
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"Not because I'm trying to be fabulous, but I love those big crazy Jackie O shades."
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