#maintained

The Gospel having spread itself into Persia, the pagan priests, who worshipped the sun, were greatly alarmed, and dreaded the loss of that influence they had hitherto maintained over the people's minds and properties. ↗

— John Foxe

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Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

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When Coltrane died, a void appeared in this music that has not been filled yet. He maintained a forward motion in his work and did not look back. ↗

— Bill Dixon

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Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

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I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality. ↗

— Peter Fonda

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China has always maintained that all countries, big or small, rich or poor, strong or weak, are equal members of the international community and they should stand and speak in the world as such. ↗

— Li Peng

#big #china #community #countries #equal

Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse. ↗

— George A. Sheehan

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Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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That could stay, not forever, because we believe that nothing exists that is forever, not even the dinosaurs, but if well maintained, it could remain for four to five thousand years. And that is definitely not forever. ↗

— Christo

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My own position is, that it is largely up to the work itself to suggest the nature of these referential points without dimensions in and through the processes by which the distance between them is maintained. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

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