Top 100 Sustaining Quotes

#1. Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job.

Hanif Kureishi

Sustaining Quotes #694
#2. You are just as worthy, deserving, and capable of creating and sustaining extraordinary health, wealth, happiness, love, and success in your life, as any other person on earth.

Hal Elrod

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#3. Old religious factions are volcanoes burned out; on the lava and ashes and squalid scoriae of old eruptions grow the peaceful olive, the cheering vine and the sustaining corn.

Edmund Burke

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#4. We can't predict what type of sustaining graces God will provide for us. And we can't expect that the kind of sustaining grace someone else receives will be the same kind of care we will receive. We can only trust that the provision will come.

Louie Giglio

Sustaining Quotes #11393
#5. I'm not an environmentalist. I'm a cultural repairman. It's all about efficient and restorative use of resources to make the world secure, prosperous and life-sustaining.

Amory Lovins

Sustaining Quotes #23622
#6. If the church were the goal, then sustaining that church would logically be the priority of the highest order. But if the Kingdom of God was the goal, then the Kingdom-building instrument would gladly self-sacrifice for the eternal prize.

Jeff Christopherson

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#7. Oh, the positive power of an instructed tongue! How many weary people do we encounter day after day who could use a sustaining word?

Beth Moore

Sustaining Quotes #61149
#8. There are three types of innovations that affect jobs and capital: empowering innovations, sustaining innovations and efficiency innovations.

Clayton M Christensen

Sustaining Quotes #69647
#9. My God, that scene in Monster Inc. where the monsters realise that their entire world is founded on hurting children -look at that for a change! Two galumphing cartoon characters making a shattering realisation about their world and their role in sustaining it. A truly epic moment. It's stunning.

Russell T. Davies

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#10. Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in the street for shelter from the cutting blasts of a winter night.

Horace Greeley

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#11. Metaphysically, his bowl filled and emptied at the same time. Violent and maniacal to push himself so far, he'd both created and destroyed his body's energy. In other words he had complete power, self-sustaining, self-sacrificing power at the origin of himself.

E.J. Koh

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#12. Two conditions of self-sustaining growth are that a country has acquired a cadre of domestic entrepreneurs and administrators and, secondly, that it has attained to adequate savings and taxable capacity.

Arthur Lewis

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#13. Social Security should have a self-sustaining portion that was funded by contributions from both employers and employees. That's what we know and have known for 70 successful years.

James Roosevelt

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#14. Love is the beauty; love is the truth. Love is the creative and sustaining energy of life

Debasish Mridha

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#15. Mal Peet: "In terms of sustaining a literate and literary culture, the books we put into our children's hands are immeasurably more important than the latest works of high-profile novelists.

M.G. Harris

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#16. The techniques that worked so extraordinarily well when applied to sustaining technologies, however, clearly failed badly when applied to markets or applications that did not yet exist.

Clayton M Christensen

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#17. When we look at things as simple as food, it's not about just nourishment and sustaining our life, it is really the seed of our ancestor.

Maya Tiwari

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#18. I've been very blessed as far as my faith sustaining me because it's not like I haven't been challenged and I haven't been tested and disappointed. But my faith does really bind me and keep me.

Kim Fields

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#19. Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years.

Sheila Ballantyne

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#20. The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can.

Matthew Arnold

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#21. Israel is now sustaining a war for its own existence. A nation defending its citizens against terrorist bombings and a military and diplomatic onslaught by an array of Arab foes is practicing survival, not genocide.

Jack Schwartz

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#22. Corruption is a virus with an antidote.
Injustice is an illness with a remedy.
Wisdom is the key to good governance;
righteousness is the key to sustaining it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Sustaining Quotes #222003
#23. The market is the creator of social wealth and the wellspring of self-sustaining economic development.

Li Keqiang

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#24. Overall, because branding is about creating and sustaining trust it means delivering on promises. The best and most successful brands are completely coherent. Every aspect of what they do and what they are reinforces everything else.

Wally Olins

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#25. I don't enjoy the work that I do. It's just that it's not self-sustaining anymore. The way that I like to make records - they're expensive records to make and just can't afford to do it anymore.

Natalie Merchant

Sustaining Quotes #237729
#26. Myth could be as sustaining as reality - sometimes even more so.

Alexander McCall Smith

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#27. If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.

Michelangelo

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#28. Sustaining true friendship is a lot more challenging than we give it credit for.

Mariella Frostrup

Sustaining Quotes #260119
#29. I think anyone can fall in love, if you're open and you're willing, but the real test is sustaining it after all the excitement has worn off.

Simon Van Booy

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#30. Remembering God's work in the past has a sustaining and renewing effect during times of spiritual drought. Memory and worship are thus keys to a long life of spiritual formation. Try

Richard J. Foster

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#31. And so artistic creation is the metamorphosis of the external physical aspects of a thing into a self-sustaining spiritual reality .

Hans Hofmann

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#32. It is a glorious occupation, vivifying and self-sustaining in its nature, to struggle with ignorance, and discover to the inquiring minds of the masses the clear cerulean blue of heavenly truth.

Hosea Ballou

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#33. In long-term relationships ... we are called upon to navigate that delicate balance between separateness and connectedness ... we confront the challenge of sustaining both
without losing either.

Harriet Lerner

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#34. I am not functioning very well. Living with the knowledge that the baby is dead is painful. I feel so far away from you, God. I can only try to believe that you are sustaining me and guiding me through this. Please continue to stand by my side.

Christine O'Keeffe Lafser

Sustaining Quotes #341643
#35. Women are the sustaining force of any society - they think of the children and the next generation's chances.

Margo MacDonald

Sustaining Quotes #343213
#36. God seldom calls us for an easier life, but always calls us to know more of him and drink more deeply of His sustaining grace.

John Piper

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#37. Sometimes God chooses to demonstrate his power by supernaturally changing our circumstances. And sometimes he chooses to leave us in hard, difficult places, but gives us his sustaining power.

Crawford W. Loritts Jr.

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#38. That the chance to shape one's story is essential to sustaining meaning in life;

Atul Gawande

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#39. Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe's urban populations finally become self-sustaining: before then, constant immigration of healthy peasants from the countryside was necessary to make up for the constant deaths of city dwellers from crowd diseases.

Jared Diamond

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#40. To a materialist life is nothing but a complex self-sustaining pattern, easily disrupted and gone when destroyed.

Auliq Ice

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#41. ignited and sustained by God. Indwelling sin provides us with marvelous proof of God's sustaining grace.

Tony Reinke

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#42. If life is a process of self-sustaining action, then this is the distinctly human mode of action and survival: to think--to produce--to meet the challenges of existence by a never-ending effort and inventiveness.

Ayn Rand

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#43. The two impulses in travel are to get away from home, and the other is to pursue something - a landscape, people, an exotic place. Certainly finding a place that you like or discovering something unusual is a very sustaining thing in travel.

Paul Theroux

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#44. I am sometimes asked about the concept or definition of a 'public intellectual,' and though I find the whole idea faintly silly, I believe it should ideally mean that the person so identified is self-sustaining and autonomously financed. Susan was pre-eminently one such.

Christopher Hitchens

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#45. Anger was simple, self-sustaining as a cactus. You couldn't look too closely at it, lest the spines get you in the eye.

Rebecca Scherm

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#46. In football, hate can be a beautiful thing; sustaining and nourishing, quite unlike other manifestations of an otherwise destructive emotion.

Nicky Campbell

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#47. Persons with anything life sustaining to sell, fellow citizens as well as foreigners, were refusing to exchange their goods for money. They were suddenly saying to people with nothing but paper representations of wealth, "Wake up, you idiots! Whatever made you think paper was so valuable?" ***

Kurt Vonnegut

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#48. I'm curious about other universes, and nonhuman elementals. For me it's still a very lively ethos. It's a kind of practice. It's an ethos that is very sustaining.

Anne Waldman

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#49. I want to say to you: Doubt can be a bond as powerful and sustaining as certainty.

John Patrick Shanley

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#50. The world is starving for a new spiritual truth - a truth that works in sustaining life, not a truth that brings an end to life.

Neale Donald Walsch

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#51. Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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#52. Sustaining silence and circumspection are two behaviors that lead to better, healthier outcomes. They are powerful without dominating.

Judith Orloff

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#53. In fact, you could make the argument that a historian like Shlomo Aronson does in passing in one of his books, that the bombing campaign united the German nation behind Hitler, and actually contributed to the sustaining of his power.

Nicholson Baker

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#54. Sustaining grace promises not the absence of struggle but the presence of God.

Max Lucado

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#55. Relax,' she said. 'There's nothing wrong with a slow, awkward beginning. The text for the whole relationship, the sustaining mythos, is built in the first few encounters. The whirl of emotions, the push and pull. So the more of this kind of material we generate, the better.

Jonathan Lethem

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#56. Having done a lot of theater, I'm used to sustaining characters over long periods of time.

Andy Serkis

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#57. As a human being, I know of no greater example of success than someone who is self-sustaining through using his passion in the service of others.

Chris Matakas

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#58. The presence of obtrusive materiality is antithetic to the sustaining of a fantasy space.

Francois-Xavier Gleyzon

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#59. There is no such thing as divine law enforced by mankind. Cosmic laws are self-sustaining mechanisms that do not require our assistance to function.

Anita B. Sulser PhD

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#60. The capacity for dissociation enables the young child to exercise their innate life-sustaining need for attachment in spite of the fact that principal attachment figures are also principal abusers.

Warwick Middleton

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#61. A sustaining innovation makes better products that you can sell for better profits to your best customers.

Clayton Christensen

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#62. A wasted opportunity wasn't just a missed chance, but was a wound to your future. Miss too many opportunities, thus sustaining too many wounds, and you wouldn't have a future at all.

Dean Koontz

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#63. War is a grim, cruel business, a business justified only as a means of sustaining the forces of good against those of evil.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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#64. Mature love is composed and sustaining; a celebration of commitment, companionship, and trust.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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#65. It was an elevating, transforming vision: a new, fresh, vigorous, and above all morally regenerate people rising from the obscurity to defend the battlements of liberty and then in triumph standing forth, heartening and sustaining the cause of freedom everywhere.

Bernard Bailyn

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#66. Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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#67. The Emancipation Proclamation ... can remind us in 2013 of all the mistakes we never want to commit again but it can also motivate us to fulfill to an ever greater degree the definitive freedom-sustaining and life-enhancing principles of democracy in living action.

Aberjhani

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#68. So, the world is fine. We don't have to save the world - the world is big enough to look after itself. What we have to be concerned about, is whether or not the world we live in, will be capable of sustaining us in it. That's what we need to think about.

Douglas Adams

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#69. For women who have children, the economic difficulty of sustaining a life as an artist maybe makes it impossible. There's no maternity leave, there's no pension.

Elizabeth Price

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#70. God is too great to be glorified only through the lives of His victorious children. He is glorified by our suffering and even by our sin. His sustaining strength is glorified when we walk through the furnace of affliction.

Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

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#71. Perhaps I should explain to him that it has been my particular way of frustrating time's attrition, postponing death and sustaining the illusion that one can always erase everything and make a fresh start.

Nathacha Appanah

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#72. Tom's Navy SEAL team nicknamed him 'Tailspin', especially after sustaining his knee injury, but Joe likes to call him his 'Lucky Charm' -- saved his tail too many times to count.

L.A. Kragie

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#73. Water is our most precious and interconnected natural resource. It sustains all ecosystems, communities, and economies from local watersheds to the seas. It's vital to sustaining our health, safety, and the environments in which we live and work. Simply put, water is life.

Alexandra Cousteau

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#74. We need to stop viewing our food as an industrial project and renew our view of it as a natural sustaining force.

Bill Bowling

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#75. The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex.

Twyla Tharp

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#76. It's just a very different process from maybe working one or two days a week doing one or two scenes a day versus sustaining a performance over two hours or so eight times a week.

Tom Irwin

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#77. People don't realize we have these built-in seven-league boots. The body can go anywhere. It is physically capable of sustaining almost any kind of abuse, or any dream.

Patti Smith

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#78. Economic localization is the key to sustaining biological and cultural diversity - to sustaining life itself. The sooner we shift towards the local, the sooner we will begin healing our planet, our communities and ourselves.

Helena Norberg-Hodge

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#79. My own ongoing research among secular Americans-as well as that of a handful of other social scientists who have only recently turned their gaze on secular culture-confirms that nonreligious family life is replete with its own sustaining moral values and enriching ethical precepts.

Phil Zuckerman

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#80. We have too long treated the natural world as an adversary rather than as a life-sustaining gift from the Almighty. If man has the genius to build, which he has, he must also have the ability and the responsibility to preserve.

Gerald R. Ford

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#81. The communities and countries best at using energy to optimize a microclimate for human life are also the ones whose people have the longest average lifespans. Canada, Sweden, and Iceland - places with inhospitable winter weather - are frontrunners in sustaining human health and life.

Chris Hadfield

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#82. I've always wanted to be self-sustaining and able to grow my own food. All I lack is land and skill.

Susan Juby

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#83. I don't know if it will be my big comeback, but I think it is a statement - that I am a self-sustaining, vibrant, long-term artist, and I'm not going away! And if you don't give me credit, then the musical gods will!

Rufus Wainwright

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#84. Moisture falls from the sky, cleansing the world and sustaining precious life. But it's the gloom - the cold, dark air - that receives notice. We fail to see the miracle of raindrops through our own tears.

Richelle E. Goodrich

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#85. Life is a process of self-sustaining and self-generated action. If an organism fails in that action, it dies...It is only the concept of 'Life' that makes the concept of 'Value' possible. It is only to a living entity that things can be good or evil.

Ayn Rand

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#86. A flame burned in him, a faith that a comprehending Power existed, animating all this that it had created, and sustaining it with a love beyond anything that he, Reuben, could imagine.

Anne Rice

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#87. Each of us has the ability to act powerfully for change; together we can restore that ancient and sustaining harmony.

David Suzuki

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#88. Sustaining growth is the century's big challenge.

Martin Wolf

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#89. I try not to think about the drums themselves. If I do, I'll end up hitting myself in the head with a drumstick, or sustaining some weird injury.

Greg Saunier

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#90. I'd like to be proven wrong firstly on the difficulty of building a self-sustaining closed circuit ecosystem in space that can support human life.

Charles Stross

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#91. I know the difference between the confection of live as sung in a minstrel's tale and the sustaining bread of love in reality, he defended himself. Both are to be savoured in their own way.

Elizabeth Chadwick

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#92. God is immanent in every atom, all-pervading, all-sustaining,all-evolving; He is its source and its end, its cause and its object, its centre and circumference; it is built on Him as its sure foundation, it breathes in Him as its encircling space; He is in everything and everything in Him.

Annie Besant

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#93. If you want to know what cram is, I can only say that I don't know the recipe; but it is biscuitish, keeps good indefinitely, is supposed to be sustaining, and is certainly not entertaining, being in fact very uninteresting except as a chewing exercise.

J.R.R. Tolkien

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#94. Worship is critical in sustaining what God is doing. As God is honored in worship, His presence will continue.

Rodney Burton

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#95. I think the gains to be achieved by a combination of reforms and labor market adjustments are going to be more permanent and will provide a basis for reducing unemployment and improving export performance, and sustaining growth, in a way that is more sound and permanent.

Lucas Papademos

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#96. Being well regulated in relatedness is the deeply gratifying state that people seek ceaselessly in romance, religions, and cults; in husbands and wives, pets, softball teams, bowling leagues, and a thousand other features of human life driven by the thirst for sustaining affiliations. (157)

Thomas Lewis

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#97. A flawless, self-sustaining loop, an immaculate system in which trust and cooperation can never take root. Progress becomes impossible, for all strangers are potential enemies, the 'other' who must be hunted down until the last bullet is spent. You

Rick Yancey

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#98. Sustaining an audience with a web series is an impossible task.

Felicia Day

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#99. My view is that targets, properly constructed and applied across public services have been fundamental to past successes and will be an essential part of sustaining progress into the future.

John Hutton

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#100. If you have not clung to a broken piece of your old ship in the dark night of the soul, your faith may not have the sustaining power to carry you through to the end of the journey.

Rufus Jones

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