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Quotes About Retaining

Objections such as these finally cut to the core of the Richmond regime's problem. How could it offer enough to its slaves to attract them to its banner while simultaneously retaining enough of the old South to make the war worth winning?
~ Bruce Levine
I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with.
~ Sting
One of the biggest problems facing military communities is recruiting and retaining teachers, so I am proud to be a part of a bipartisan solution.
~ Ronny Jackson
I think those who object to my characterizing man as simple want somehow to retain a deep mystery at his core.
~ Herbert A. Simon
Gracie wished she'd unpacked her heavier jacket because when the sun doused behind the mountains the temperature dropped a quick twenty degrees or more within minutes, as if the thin mountain air was incapable of retaining the afternoon heat. She thought about going back to her tent to dig out her hoodie, but the instant darkness didn't encourage a trip and the warmth and light of the campfire held her in place as if it had strong gravitational pull.
~ C.J. Box
Roblox is really heavily based on automated sorting of content in various ways - what's popular with monetizing, what's been most favorited, what's most retaining.
~ David Baszucki
Confronting and undermining the narratives and ideas of extremism must therefore be one of our key tasks. To do this, we must retain the courage of our convictions in the face of extremism.
~ Jonas Gahr Store
[T]he dignity of parliament it seems can brook no opposition to it's power. Strange that a set of men who have made sale of theirvirtue to the minister should yet talk of retaining dignity!
~ Thomas Jefferson
Flag committee chairman Miles did not agree with that sentiment. He opposed adoption of this design and wrote:There is no propriety in retaining the ensign of a government which, in the opinion of the States composing this Confederacy, had become so oppressive and injurious to their interests as to require their separation from it.It is idle to talk of 'keeping' the flag of the United States when we have voluntarily seceded from them.
~ Clint Johnson
Take a note of them with slight strokes in a little book which you should always carry with you," he wrote. "The positions of the people are so infinite that the memory is incapable of retaining them, which is why you should keep these sketches as your guides." 22
~ Walter Isaacson
This faulty model places the professional minister at the center and makes gaining and retaining students the goal. In the case of student ministry, it turns youth group into a holding pattern for the church's future instead of calling students to live as servants of the gospel in their community of faith here and now.
~ Timothy Paul Jones
Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another -- too often ending in the loss of both.
~ Tryon Edwards
Hoarding remained a synonym beloved of bureaucrats for retaining your own assets.
~ Lionel Shriver
Hartsfield Jackson plays a fundamental role in recruiting and retaining jobs. It should be known as an economic driver - not a venue for shady deals.
~ Brian Kemp
Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another--too often ending in the loss of both.
~ Tryon Edwards
The only secret to being in control is to have it in the beginning. Retaining control is still hard, but obtaining control is virtually impossible.
~ Thomas Bangalter
I want to make sure America has got the best education system in the world. And we're retaining our workers for the jobs of tomorrow.
~ Barack Obama
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
~ Elbert Hubbard
For that fine madness still he did retainWhich rightly should possess a poet's brain.
~ Michael Drayton
Memory plays an essential part in this process of working out a sat-isfactory relationship between past and present. It is the mental faculty of retaining and recalling the past. But it is a faculty that functions in a wide range of ways. Memory can operate comprehensively or selectively, more or less accurately, more or less honestly. It is always accompanied, moreover, by forgetting and invariably supplemented by invention.
~ Unknown