Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Justice, Jurist, Author
"Success. Is not the position where you are standing, but which direction you are going."
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Position
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones but by extreme positions of the opposite kind."
Eleanor Roosevelt
Political Activist, Diplomat
"Caring comes from being able to put yourself in the position of the other person."
Stephen Covey
Author, Speaker
"Leadership is a choice, not a position"
Dom Kennedy
Rapper
"It's hard for me to feel bad for myself because I'm doing what I love to do. I'm in a good position."
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"The Catholics had been in the position of oppressors, and the Protestants of the oppressed"
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"A lot of guys who have have never choked, have never been in the position to do so."
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"In desperate position, you must fight."
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"I work here at the Raiders. My position is basically what I make it."
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"When you take a position, you have to accept responsibilities."
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"It's just hard to meet new people, in my position."
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"With monuments as with men, position means everything."
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"Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one's mind, or to define oneself - there is no wish I make more often."
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"Whatsoever has exceeded its proper limit is in an unstable position."
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"...the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war."
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"I think that every sexual position is fundamentally comic."
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"In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read."
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"'I don't know' is my favorite position."
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"If it reenters its base, I have a rule to cut at least 50 percent of the position."
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"If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position."
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"When commercial capital occupies a position of unquestioned ascendancy, it everywhere constitutes a system of plunder."
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"No one is satisfied with his position, but every one is satisfied with his wit"
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"You don't have to hold a position to be a leader."
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"There are few positions less inspiriting than those of a discomfited party."
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"For those who possess and can wield arms are in a position to decide whether the constitution is to continue or not"
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