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Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. - Colin Powell

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. – Colin Powell

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Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection. – Colin Powell

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Speech (freedom of)
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Colin Powell
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We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didnt come back, and make sure the Taliban wasnt resurging. It didnt work out. – Colin Powell

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Government
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I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them. – Colin Powell

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Marriage
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Other Quotes from
Business
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Theres another way we are getting behind business – by sorting out the banks. Taxpayers bailed you out. Now its time for you to repay the favour and start lending to Britains small businesses. – David Cameron

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Business

I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who havent had any moral compass, whove just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end theyre losers. – Michael Bloomberg

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Business

And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business. – Shaquille ONeal

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Business

Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards. – Thomas Friedman

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Business

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The great thing about it is, in Hollywood, certain people are very good at keeping their lives and who they are very private. Ive never met anybody as down to earth and cool in Hollywood than Matt Damon. – Anthony Mackie

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cool

Im so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer. – Bell Hooks

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Women

Make the most of your regrets never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh. – Henry David Thoreau

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sad

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug. – Josh Billings

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Happiness