#resolve

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans. ↗

— Peter F. Drucker

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An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

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The only way to address terrorism is to deal with the issues that create terrorism, to resolve them where possible, and where that's not possible to ensure that there is an alternative to violence. ↗

— Cofer Black

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The stories from 1975 on are not finished and there is no resolve. I could spend 50 hours on the last 25 years of jazz and still not do it justice. ↗

— Ken Burns

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I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

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The Iraqi people are living a long-running tragedy because of the legacy of the old regime, the Americans and their actions that are unsuitable for Iraqi society, and the weakness of national resolve. ↗

— Ahmed Chalabi

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I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace. ↗

— Hamilton Fish

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I was interested in what was really going on in Salem at that time, and I resolved to investigate this seemingly unorthodox treatment of the people and the period. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#i #interested #investigate #people #period

Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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