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"For when two Join in the same adventure, one perceives Before the other how they ought to act; While one alone, however prompt, resolves More tardily and with a weaker will."
"Iraq has a new opportunity to comply with all these relevant resolutions of the Security Council."
"Who is so firm that can't be seduced?"
"Resolutions require only words. Results take action."
"My iPhone has changed my life - I spend hours taking photos of the sidewalk as I walk down the street. I like the casualness, that it's low-resolution."
"We are undoing a pattern... It's the human pattern: we project onto the world a zillion possibilities of attaining resolution."
"The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution."
"Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws."
"We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right."
"Increase in me that wisdom Which discovers my truest interest, Strengthen my resolution To perform that which wisdom dictates."
"Experience teacheth that resolution is a sole help in need."
"I have nothing Of woman in me; now from head to foot I am marble-constant."
"Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment."
"She hopes for nothing except fine weather and a resolution. She wants to end properly, like a good sentence."
"It's the hardening of these narratives that makes peace so difficult. If each side can see the narrative, the claims that the other has, then there is a much more likely possibility of making a resolution. But what I see is the opposite. There is a total disclaiming of the validity of the other side, and talk that I find really unsettling, the kind of chatter you get from ultra-right Israelis and Hamas is of annihilation. In that kind of dialogue, there's no way to move toward peace."
"When a man has seen the woman whom he would have chosen if he had intended to marry speedily, his remaining a bachelor will usually depend on her resolution rather than on his."
"One of the reasons I thought a censure resolution was appropriate was because if somebody had censured Nixon or even if a resolution of either house had passed, saying what you're doing is unacceptable to Congress, that shot across the bow might have straightened him up."
"Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents."
"Trump has put the resolution of the North Korean nuclear issue at the top of his priority list, and he has employed a tactic of maximum pressure and engagement, but engagement can only occur if the conditions are right."
"Every time North Korea commits an additional provocation, the U.N. Security Council passes another resolution. But when it comes to dialogue, currently there is nothing set. I hope to have frank and open discussions with President Trump on this issue."
