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The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood. Otto von Bismarck

War, Will, Means

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. Maureen Dowd

Deserve, Than, Even

It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States. Andrew Jackson

Practice, United States

The shift to a cleaner energy economy wont happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way. But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact. Barack Obama

Will, Fact, Happen

If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little. George Carlin

Alone, Very, Rather

Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it. Amelia Earhart

Reason, Going, Considered

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked. Anais Nin

Sun, Leaf, Through

My blog is a celebration of the unexpected, settled, happy life I find myself living in Portland, Maine, at the ripe old age of fifty with someone I deeply love and am very happy with. That's part of why I started the blog. Kate Christensen

Love, Unexpected, Very

For many people, the family is portrayed as the settled place of reasonable safety, but as anyone who has read 'The God of Small Things' would know, for me it was a dangerous place. I felt humiliated in that space. I wanted to get away as soon as I could. Arundhati Roy

Small, Away, Reasonable

Yoga is the settling of the mind into silence. When the mind has settled, we are established in our essential nature, which is unbounded Consciousness. Our essential nature is usually overshadowed by the activity of the mind. Patanjali

Mind, Established, Which

I'd like to be settled into somewhat of a normal life. Somewhat. I know it's never going to be completely normal. Michael Jordan

Normal, Going, Like

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. Ernest Hemingway

Weapon, Just One, Ever

I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint - a settled sort of saint, not one who might have to suffer or die for her faith. Maeve Binchy

Famous, Die, Big

Peace is a question of will. All conflicts can be settled, and there are no excuses for allowing them to become eternal. Martti Ahtisaari

Question, Will, Eternal

The difference between men is in energy, in the strong will, in the settled purpose and in the invincible determination. Vince Lombardi

Strong, Purpose, Will

If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted. Abraham Lincoln

Country, Other, Surely

Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind. Laura Ingalls Wilder

Blind, Far, Mary

I do all I can to maintain good health. I eat mostly plants, as Michael Pollan would say. I get a lot of exercise. I lead a purposeful daily life. I stay current with the dentist. I made the formative decision of where to live over thirty years ago when I settled in a 'main street' small town in upstate New York. James Howard Kunstler

Small, Main Street, Mostly

At the dawn of his administration, President Obama opined: 'A democracy requires accountability, and accountability requires transparency.' Magical rays of white-hot sunlight emanated from his media-manufactured halo. And then bureaucratically engineered darkness settled over the land. Michelle Malkin

Administration, Halo, Obama

The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not. Susan B. Anthony

Question, Will, Opponents

I should not like to leave an impression that all structural problems can be settled by X-ray analysis or that all crystal structures are easy to solve. I seem to have spent much more of my life not solving structures than solving them. Dorothy Hodgkin

My Life, Crystal, Solving

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment. Benjamin Disraeli

Human Being, Which, Brought

When we label anyone 'bad', we will have more trouble dealing with him than if we could have settled for a lesser label. William Glasser

Will, Bad, Dealing

My own wandering blood comes from my seafaring grandfather, who, after he had left the sea and settled on shore, still governed his house by a ship's rules. W. H. Davies

My Own, Still, Own

A lot of the stories I was brought up on had to do with extreme actions - leaving everything behind, crossing the trackless wastes, and in those stories the people who stayed behind and had their settled ways - those people were not the people who got the prize. The prize was California. Joan Didion

Behind, Brought, Wastes

Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned argument is drummed out of those trained in religion from the cradle. Richard Dawkins

Argument, Trained, Cradle

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