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Reform is not a period of retreat.
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David Remnick
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Journalist
Born:
Oct 29
,
1958
Topics
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,
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Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.
Benjamin Jowett
Motivational
Never
Never Explain
Retreat
Howl
Get
Done
Explain
Them
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
Marcus Aurelius
Man
Soul
Peace
Own
Find
More
Retreat
His
Than
Quieter
Nowhere
In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Politics
Mistake
Admit
Never
Retract
Retreat
Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
Norman Vincent Peale
Happiness
Life
Victory
Fighting
Consists
Battles
Part
Retreat
Itself
Them
Avoiding
I'm one of those introverted people who simply feels a lot better after spending time alone thinking through ideas and emotions. This is a sign, I've come to think, of a kind of emotional disturbance - a reaction to inner fragility. I wish I were more able to just act and do, rather than constantly have to retreat and examine and think.
Alain de Botton
Alone
Time
People
Emotions
Better
Wish
Think
Thinking
Spending
Spending Time
Those
Sign
Kind
Introverted
Constantly
Able
Disturbance
Examine
Rather
More
Through
Emotional
Simply
Feels
Come
Retreat
Ideas
Reaction
Were
Lot
Than
Just
After
Act
Who
Inner
Fragility
I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - and I will be heard!
William Lloyd Garrison
Will
Single
Earnest
Excuse
Retreat
Am
Heard
Inch
That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.
Aphra Behn
Life
Good
Library
Faithful
Perfect
Retreat
Friend
Tranquillity
Which
Found
Nowhere
The political solutions to the refugee crisis may be complex, but that does not mean we should abandon our humanity. We should not close our hearts, retreat behind walls, real or imagined, or ignore the pressing moral imperative to provide assistance and sanctuary for some of the world's most desperate people.
Katharine Viner
Humanity
People
World
Political
Walls
Desperate
Our
Complex
Pressing
Crisis
Abandon
Moral
Solutions
Some
Imperative
Retreat
Most
Does
Real
Provide
Close
Hearts
May
Refugee
Behind
Mean
Sanctuary
Should
Ignore
Assistance
Imagined
I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.
Sylvester Stallone
Me
Rejection
Someone
Rather
Take
Retreat
Wake
Up
Than
Get
Blowing
Going
Ear
No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat.
John Gay
Must
Retreat
Die
Conquer
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