"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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"But experiments went for nothing,-dualism had sworn to uphold its position."
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"If you're in the position to help someone and you do it, it's very rewarding."
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"There are some elements in life - above all, sexual pleasure - about which it isn't necessary to have a position."
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"... what you need more than anything in life is a definite position."
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"Man can only know the nagation, never the position of ultimate reality."
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"Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in."
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"In spite of its romantic frisson, the position of muse is very vague and largely thankless for the muse herself."
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"I do not want to carry any public position."
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"No position is so false as having understood and still remaining alive."
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"I'm fascinated by how you'll change your position so many times over a lifetime, but really what you're doing is occupying a series of positions on a landscape."
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"The only entry level position on a movie is director."
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"In any leadership position, you're always going to be disappointing somebody."
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"Quarterback is not a position that you come in having not played it your whole life."
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"I'm a Reagan conservative. Reagan did negotiate with the Soviets. But you have to negotiate from a position of strength."
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"Nothing is stronger than the position of the dead among the living."
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