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America's greatness is not found in the size of its government. America's greatness resides in the hearts and the minds of the people. ↗

— Rick Perry

#found #government #greatness #hearts #minds

I've been to many countries and watched a number of conflicts or their residue, and I've served in the military. ↗

— Ralph Peters

#conflicts #countries #i #many #military

A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside. ↗

— Tom Peters

#growth #leave #passive #professional #wayside

Basically, we are a whole world of people desperately trying to figure out what is the dark side of our natures and how much can we explore without becoming something else. ↗

— William Petersen

#becoming #dark #dark side #desperately #else

I want to live and work in Chicago for the rest of my life. You know when you were growing up and you wanted to become president? What I want now is to be mayor of this damned town in ten years. ↗

— William Petersen

#chicago #damned #growing #growing up #i

President Obama has said that our aspirations should be realistic. We are not going to turn one of the poorest countries in the world, that was plunged into 30 years of war, into an advanced, industrialized, Western-style democracy. What we want to achieve is Afghanistan's capacity to secure and govern itself. ↗

— David Petraeus

#advanced #afghanistan #aspirations #capacity #countries

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

#could #council #difficult #during #elected

Somewhere along the line I made the switch and was able to look at the bight side rather than the dark side all the time. Now I look at everything I have and think how lucky I am. ↗

— Michelle Pfeiffer

#along #am #dark #dark side #everything

I used to smoke two packs a day and I just hate being a nonsmoker... but I will never consider myself a nonsmoker because I always find smokers the most interesting people at the table. ↗

— Michelle Pfeiffer

#because #being #consider #day #find

I consider myself normal. I've spent 20 years in the pool. I consider that something that's normal. ↗

— Michael Phelps

#i #myself #normal #pool #something