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Margaret Thatcher Politician
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"Every Conservative desires peace. The threat to peace comes from Communism which has powerful forces ready to attack anywhere. Communism waits for weakness, it leaves strength alone. Britain must therefore be strong, strong in her arms, strong in her faith, strong in her own way of life."

Strong Powerful Waiting
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Lee Hazlewood Musician
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"The thing I hated about it was that you live in your trailer all the time and then they call you and you do maybe two dozen lines. Then they do that for three hours and you wait and wait and wait, and I don't like waiting."

Two Waiting Three
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Keith Ellison Politician
Waiting

"We need young people to be involved, and we have to expect that young people are going to be impatient, they don't want to wait, and they've got new ideas and new ways of looking at problems."

People Ideas Waiting
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"Tell me, he said, "What is this thing about time? Why is it better to be late than early? People are always saying, we must wait, we must wait. what are they waiting for?" "Well […] I guess people wait in order to make sure of what they feel." "And when you have waited—-has it made you sure?"

People Order Waiting
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Waiting

"The moral authority in the Western world is gone. And it is gone forever. It is gone, not because of the criminal record--everybody's record is criminal. It is gone because you cannot do one thing and pretend you're doing another! None of us, who are sitting around in some of the true limbo out-of-space, which we call "now," waiting to be saved, civilized, or discovered, have the moral authority to say anything."

Space Waiting Forever
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George Benjamin Composer
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"It's not only that I want to get things right when I'm composing but that my imagination often gets lost, and then I have to wait until I come back to the path. I think there's an internal force that makes a piece logical from beginning to end; I like to tell stories in music that are unexpected but also logical."

Thinking Waiting Imagination
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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
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"Our sense of duty must often wait for some work which shall take the place of dilettanteism [sic] and make us feel that the quality of our action is not a matter of indifference."

Waiting Quality Commitment
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Frank Warren Author
Waiting

"At seventeen I'm waiting for my life to actually begin. I'm afraid I'll wake up tomorrow eighty years old and I WILL STILL BE WAITING."

Years Waiting Wake Up
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Nikki Reed Actress
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"I had a great time making the last movie, 'Eclipse.' We shot my back-story stuff from the 1930's. But I was waiting for 'Breaking Dawn' because I love the relationship Rosalie has with Jacob and the rest of her family and Bella. She also provides comic relief."

Waiting Relief Dawn
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Leo Tolstoy Novelist, Philosopher
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"If we would only testify to the truth as we see it, it would turn out that there are hundreds, thousands, even millions of other people just as we are, who see the truth as we do...and are only waiting, again as we are, for someone to proclaim it. The Kingdom of God is within you."

People Inspirational Waiting
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Henri Nouwen Theologian, Author
Waiting

"[...]when two people have become present to each other, the waiting of one must be able to cross the narrow line between the living or dying of the other."

People Two Waiting
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