"A good relationship is when someone accepts your past, supports your present and encourages your future."
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"We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere."
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"Popular support for alternative energy has been very high for years. But it harms corporate profits."
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"Caterpillar was quite important because that was the first manufacturing industry that used Reaganite strike-breaking techniques. They illegally called in scabs to break a major strike. It was reported pretty well in the Chicago Tribune, who pointed out something very interesting. They said that the workers got very little support in Peoria when scabs illegally broke the strike, and that was particularly striking because that whole community had been built up by the union - it was a union-based community."
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"I don't think anybody has the right to a huge family. There's already more people on the planet than our natural resources can even support, and if everybody were to have a high standard of living, we need three or four or five new planets to provide the resources. And this cannot be, so something has to change."
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"There is the work of great men and there is the work of little men. Therefore it is said, 'Some labor with their minds and some labor with their strength. Those who labor with their minds govern others; those who labor with their strength are governed by others.'1 Those who are governed by others support them; those who govern them are supported by them. This is a universal principle."
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"Political power goes much deeper than one suspects; there are centres and invisible, little-known points of support; its true resistance, its true solidity is perhaps where one doesn't expect it."
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"I just owe it to myself, to God and to everybody who supports me and people who don't even know me yet, to just be fully intentional and authentically real with everything I do, say and create."
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"Democracy is not a Beloved Republic really, and never will be. But it is less hateful than other contemporary forms of government, and to that extent deserves our support."
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"We all have the potential to show others love and affection, but as we progress in our materialistic world, these values tend to remain dormant. We can develop them on the basis of common sense, common experience and scientific findings. The response to the recent tragedy in the Philippines is an example of how such values are awakened; people helped simply because others are suffering and in need of support."
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"The by-product of fewer technical support issues is also an increase in customer satisfaction, which can be reflected in reduced subscriber churn."
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"The land-grant university system is being built on behalf of the people, who have invested in these public universities their hopes, their support, and their confidence."
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"I wholeheartedly support umbilical stem cell research, but also support embryonic stem cell research."
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"Our concern for the future can be tested by how well we support our libraries."
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"One of the major differences I see in the political climate today is that there is less collective support for coming to critical consciousness – in communities, in institutions, among friends."
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"You don't want the biggest record deal as far as money goes, you just want to make sure that the people at the label really support your band and the music and stuff."
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"The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities."
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"To be neutral in a situation of injustice is to have chosen sides already. It is to support the status quo."
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"With the continued support of citizens who refuse to accept inaction at the expense of future generations, we will lead the world toward a sustainable future."
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"I never know tomorrow what I might be doing. I just ask God to lead me and show me and direct me and help me and support me in it. So I just wait to hear the call."
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