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• 1914 - Alan Cranston
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• Well, I would never admit to copying Karl Rove’s play book, but there’s no doubt that what the Bush people did in 2004 was impressive. They had neighbors talking to neighbors. They did a remarkable job increasing Republican turnout in states like Ohio and Florida.

  David Plouffe

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• The Germans have done wonderful work. Not long ago, a German battle group battalion conducted a very impressive counterinsurgency operation in a portion of Baghlan province. I think these are the first counterinsurgency operations conducted by any German element after World War II. And they did a very impressive job.

  David Petraeus

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• Newspapers do a good job telling me what happened yesterday, but they’d be a lot more impressive if they could tell me what’s going to happen tomorrow.

  Fuzzy Zoeller

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  Tags in Good, Happened, Impressive

• The traces of upheavals become more impressive when one moves a little higher, when one gets even closer to the foot of the great mountain ranges. There are still plenty of shell layers. We notice them, even thicker and more solid ones.

  Georges Cuvier

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  Tags in Impressive, Mountain, Ranges

• The most impressive person I’ve ever met? Elaine Wynn is no slouch. She’s a much better person than me. But I’ve got her. Finders keepers, losers weepers. And it’s been forty-seven years.

  Stephen Alan Wynn

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• The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.

  Elias Canetti

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  Tags in Paranoiac, Impressive, Sufficient

• The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shook our nation to the core. Americans were deeply frightened, sad, and angry, and they rallied around a President who, at the time, showed impressive certitude and calm.

  Eliot Spitzer

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  Tags in American, Impressive, Certitude

• On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin’s remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with.

  Ellen Willis

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  Tags in Impressive, Illustration, Capitalist

• And I think it’s safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.

  Warren Zevon

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  Tags in Impressive, Safe

• I’m always honored, but I think for every 100 of those that come along, one of them is actually going to happen. And, the fact that this was an offer on a major film that had a start date, was pretty impressive.

  Adam Arkin

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  Tags in Pretty, Impressive, Think

• He’s already emerging as one of the elite closers in the game. That’s pretty impressive for a guy who was in college last year.

  Aaron Boone

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• I can run up a wall and do a back flip – that’s the most impressive thing that I can do.

  Callan McAuliffe

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  Tags in Impressive, Self

• Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about.

  Robert Benchley

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  Tags in Impressive, Party, Argument

• If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.

  Irving Babbitt

  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in American, Impressive

• With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.

  Herbert Hoover

  Tags in Economic, Impressive

• People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

  Andrew Carnegie

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