Decisive Quotes
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Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts
Mao Tse-Tung
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I`ve come to the frightening conclusioin that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It`s my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child`s life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an in...
Dr. Haim Ginott
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With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches, which in their eyes is never so complete as when they appear to possess those decisive marks of opulence which nobody can possess but themselves.
Adam Smith
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Whether that`s a suspension, whether that`s booting someone off the team, he has to take decisive action. It`s an absolute, rock-bottom, moral and ethical kind of thing. When it happens on your watch, you`ve got to deal with it.
Mike Morris
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Whenever in future wars the battle is fought, armored troops will play the decisive role.
Alexander McNabb
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We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice.
Amy Lambert
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Today, I, too, wish to reaffirm that I intend to continue on the path toward improved relations and friendship with the Jewish people, following the decisive lead given by John Paul II.
Pope Benedict XVI
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To help U.S. workers, farmers and businesses, and America`s long-term economic security, Congress should take decisive action to bring about fair trade with China, instead of squandering this opportunity on a weak Republican bill.
Alice Maria Gomes
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This was a very decisive victory by Berlin and demonstrates that the council was convinced that we are taking our most important competition to the right place. When Berlin lost in their effort to bid for the 2005 edition of these championships, I was del...
Anirban Basu
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There are many examples of old, incorrect theories that stubbornly persisted, sustained only by the prestige of foolish but well-connected scientists. Many of these theories have been killed off only when some decisive experiment exposed their incorrectne...
Michio Kaku
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The next three years will be decisive for us, ... If we don`t succeed in the next three years, there`ll be an acute crisis at Volkswagen.
Barry Colvin
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The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built.
Andre Manning
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The faces of the women and children in far-away Spain, widows and orphans of this July third rose before me so vividly that I had to draw comfort from the thought that a decisive victory is... more merciful than a prolonged struggle.
Charles Clark
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The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.
Georges Bataille
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The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what used to be call the Society page was replaced by the Style section.
Allan Schweyer
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That Germany was so immensely strong and Austria so dependent upon German strength that the word and will of Germany would at the critical moment be decisive with Austria.
Albert Newgarden
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so insignificant, so inconsequential that it just won`t be worth the effort to attack this strong and decisive nation.
Arlene Blosch
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Shana is a decisive leader who will bring key policy and political skills to the front office of NASA. With strong relationships within the commercial, science, academic and policy arenas, she will play a key role in the next stage of the Vision for Space...
April Locklear
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Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.
Allen Jackson
Source: brainyquote.com
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President Bush has demonstrated tremendous courage and resolve in the past year. He has been the decisive leader these times have required.
Alice Billings
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Most recently, terrorist forces have captured Israeli soldiers and fired rockets into Israeli cities - both unprovoked. These acts of aggression deserve the rapid and decisive response they received.
John Boehner
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It is decisive to completely destroy Warsaw.
Alexander McNabb
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It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.
Aleksander Suglobov
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In historical and constitutional terms, the recent political status vote in Puerto Rico was a necessary but obviously not decisive step on the road of self-determination leading to full self-government.
Dick Thornburgh
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I fail to see the issue that will shock the people of this great country of ours into some decisive action.
Graham Nash
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Direct threats require decisive action.
Dick Cheney
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Decisive action has been taken on the home front with passage of the USA Patriot Act, which has strengthened the hand of law enforcement agencies to stop terrorists before they can act.
Andre Godin
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Clint Eastwood. Here`s a guy who`s been involved in so many movies, lots of them masterpieces, and now he`s a director. I just like everything I know about him. He`s very decisive, he makes up his mind real quick.
Bobby Farrelly
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But the cure for most obstacles is, Be decisive.
Alex Nogales
Source: brainyquote.com
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The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.
Aad Jacobs
