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Tag Name "Backbone" (121)

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The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
William J. H. Boetcker
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The Scots are the backbone of Canada. They are all right in their three vital parts - head, heart and haggis.
William Osler
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By increasing the use of renewable fuels such as ethanol and bio-diesel, and providing the Department of Energy with a budget to create more energy efficiency options, agriculture can be the backbone of our energy supply as well.
John Salazar
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For your own good, for the good of your family and your future, grow a backbone. When something is wrong, stand up and say it is wrong, and don't back down.
Dave Ramsey
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Self-possession is the backbone of authority.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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No-one gets an iron-clad guarantee of success. Certainly, factors like opportunity, luck and timing are important. But the backbone of success is usually found in old-fashioned, basic concepts like hard work, determination, good planning and perseverance.
Mia Hamm
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I found myself wondering, what would it be like to have a strange woman living in your home, nursing your child? My resulting research into the private lives of women in the 18th and 19th centuries inspired me and provided the backbone for [Lady of Milkweed Manor] novel.
Julie Klassen
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This is all disgraceful and underscores how imperative it is that Obamacare be fully repealed and that the newly elected GOP Congress get a backbone and stand up to this cadre of scofflaws.
David Limbaugh
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We need some clergy with some backbone, who don't mind making uncomfortable at times those who are very comfortable, and challenging them at the core of their faith, at least causing them to pause and to have dialogue and to be open for further discussion.
Tim McDonald
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Because education is the backbone of a competitive workforce and successful economy, making it a priority is not uncommon.
Mike Easley
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I think I have a very nice demeanor, but at the same time, when pushed, I will freak out. I have a backbone, but I don't feel like I'm terrible about it.
Debbie Gibson
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We're always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.
Adam McKay
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The [Liberal] federal government's trouble is that they have a wishbone where they should have a backbone.
Tommy Douglas
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I'm not going to say to Putin that he'll get more flexibility after the election. After the election he'll get more backbone.
Mitt Romney
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It's time for democrats to grow a backbone and stand up for what we believe.
Deval Patrick
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My mom has always been kind of my backbone. She keeps me strong. She is a mother, a friend. She is really everything to me.
Aerin Lauder
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America needs football. It's a real blue-collar sport it's played with a blue-collar mentality, a mentality that's the backbone of this country.
Troy Polamalu
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You see that in his foreign policy [Barack] Obama lacks a backbone - both a constitutional backbone and a personal backbone.
Nat Hentoff
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To me, the hook of the riff is what makes a great guitar recording. It's the backbone of the whole song. When you have a strong riff, it's the rocket fuel for the track.
Dwight Yoakam
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To me, songwriting is the backbone of Nashville. Looks can go, fads can go, but a good song lasts forever.
Alan Jackson
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Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
Vikram Seth
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You know that feeling you get when your leg falls asleep? Well, I suddenly had that feeling in my spine. Like termites were chewing through the marrow in my backbone.
Neal Shusterman
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The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.
Aldous Huxley
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