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Clinton saw himself much more as the steward of alliances and of consensus that moved in the right direction. He didn't see himself as someone who could change the overall thrust, I think, of global policy.

~Barton Gellman

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True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

~Baruch Spinoza

Topics: Direction Life Reason True Virtue

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To answer the question, though: I didn't always want to direct. I just liked the idea of it. If a friend was making a short and needed someone who knew screen direction, I would jump in. It would be horrible, but it led to a short, then another, and another. It was like student films.

~Ben Affleck

Topics: Always Another Answer Direct Direction Films Friend Horrible Idea Jump Just Knew Led Like Liked Making Needed Question Screen Short Someone Student Then Though Want Who Would

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As an actor, you can steer a scene in another direction by playing it a little differently. And honestly? I like being an actor, and I want to keep having a career.

~Ben Affleck

Topics: Actor Another Being Career Differently Direction Having Honestly Keep Like Little Playing Scene Steer Want You

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After a long period in which the desired direction for inflation was always downward, the industrialized world's central banks must today try to avoid major changes in the inflation rate in either direction.

~Ben Bernanke

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The government is supposed to conform to our will. By taking the most important thing you have, your health and your health care, and turning that over to the government, you fundamentally shift the power, a huge chunk of it, from the people to the government. This is not the direction that we want the government to go in this nation.

~Ben Carson

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Expeditions are escapism. The stuff that we're normally concerned about just doesn't matter out there. Tax returns, gas bill, none of it. Life becomes very simple, it's about moving in a certain direction - north if you're going north - staying warm and not getting eaten. That's it.

~Ben Saunders

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When the Soviet Union fell, optimistic scholars believed the world had shifted inexorably in the direction of free markets and liberal democracy. Instead, the West gradually embraced bigger government and weaker social bonds, creating a fragmented society in which the only thing we all belong to, as President Barack Obama puts it, is the state.

~Ben Shapiro

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Sometimes I wondered whether I hadn't let my career get confined to one direction, but lately I've decided to accept the fact that I have this opportunity to be successful doing comedies.

~Ben Stiller

Topics: Accept Career Comedies Confined Decided Direction Doing Fact Get Lately Opportunity Sometimes Successful Whether Wondered

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Sometimes we look for those thunderous things to happen in our life for our lives to change or go in the other direction. We seek the miracle. We seek the parting of the seas, the moving of the mountains. But no, it's a quiet thing. At least for me it was.

~Ben Vereen

Topics: Change Direction Go Happen Least Life Lives Look Me Miracle Mountains Moving Other Our Our Lives Parting Quiet Seas Seek Sometimes Thing Things Those

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