- Containing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Exerting Quotes
Words on pushing influence and holding control
These quotes explore exerting influence on a grand scale, from nations managing nuclear ambitions to leaders pursuing control over new frontiers like the moon.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need the kind of leadership exemplified by President Kennedy to just do it! But we must do it as good stewards, aggressively exerting control over the moon. We can best do this by going there.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ideologies are ways of organizing large swaths of life and experience under a set of shared but unexamined assumptions. This quality makes an ideology particularly hard to see, at least while it's exerting its hold on your culture. A reigning ideology is a little like the weather: all pervasive and virtually inescapable.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're always grasping to feel safe. Ultimately, some people feel safe through love or family or community. Some people through exerting control.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
No actor has made a career of exerting determination to the extent that Matt Damon has. In the 'Bourne' movies, he burned himself down to a central nervous system - his focus fried away unnecessary calories.
- Kindness
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a society, we're failing to recognize something my dad knew to be true - that kindness is the greatest show of strength. Too often, we are led to believe that strength is best demonstrated by exerting dominance or superiority over others, while kindness is portrayed as the opposite - a sign of weakness.
- Pulling
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
We believe that the United States and the rest of the international community can play a useful role by exerting influence on Pakistan to put a permanent and visible end to cross-border terrorism against India.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've worked with producers who have told me to lose weight, and I'm not overweight, but they want you to look strange, anorexic, horrible. It's odd. It's like they are exerting a power over women, that they want them to look really frail.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020