#prepared

The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

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Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. ↗

— Gore Vidal

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We must be prepared to face our responsibilities and be willing to use force if necessary. ↗

— Dick Cheney

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Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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Absolutely. I think that this is - politics is a tough business. I describe it as a full contact sport. You have to be prepared to get in there and mix it up. ↗

— John Thune

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Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#die #fear #instead #make #many

It is inconceivable that even the gang who runs Russia would be willing to take on war, but one always has to remember that there seemed to be no reason in 1939 for Hitler to start war, and yet he did, and he started it with a world practically unprepared. ↗

— James Forrestal

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I'm not trying to be coy here; we're just not prepared to give a lot of detail about our thinking, but we will be making some announcements in the coming months. ↗

— Jim Walton

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We can and must turn this page if we are friends and are prepared to look one another in the eye. ↗

— Viktor Yushchenko

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You are never really prepared for criticism. ↗

— Barry Gibb

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