#maintain

Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it. ↗

— Jenny Shipley

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As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost. ↗

— Ernest Renan

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I used to shy away from publicity so as not to let it get in the way of the work. But it's part of the job. The tabloids are a whole other arena. If fame happens, it happens. I just want to maintain focus. ↗

— Giovanni Ribisi

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Maintaining our standard; that's our challenge day-in and day-out. ↗

— Tim Rice

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Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game. ↗

— Branch Rickey

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I mean, in my - and I'm not trying to do spilled milk, but in those days it was a little - I think it was much tougher, because you got an image, and you were in a saloon. And it was tough to come out of a saloon and to get in films, and to maintain an image, you know. ↗

— Don Rickles

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Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed. ↗

— Henry Miller

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China pays a great deal of attention to the Korean nuclear issue. We stand for achieving denuclearization of the peninsula in a peaceful way through dialogue and consultation to maintain peace and stability of the peninsula and Northeast Asia. ↗

— Hu Jintao

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I learned a lot from not having success, and realizing when you do have success, how hard it is to maintain it, and what you have to do to maintain it. ↗

— Randy Johnson

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It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just below its own; for that means continual pressure downward, additional difficulty to be overcome in the struggle to maintain reasonable rates of wages. ↗

— Florence Kelley

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