#selects

The progress in Iraq is still fragile. And it could still be reversed. Iraq still faces innumerable challenges, and they will be evident during what will likely be a difficult process as the newly elected Council of Representatives selects the next prime minister, president, and speaker of the council. ↗

— David Petraeus

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Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully acheived has already defined his own limitations. ↗

— Cavett Robert

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Any person who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved, has already defined his own limitations. ↗

— Cavett Robert

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True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation. ↗

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully. ↗

— William C. Bryant

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Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order? ↗

— John W. Foster

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Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

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God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it. ↗

— Austin O'Malley

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