I think the Barack Obama position and the majority position of American Jews and a lot of Americans is a two-state solution between Israel and Palestine. Settlements get in the way of that. If they're not stopped soon, there is no prospect for that type of solution.
Better risk loss of truth than chance of error--that is your faith-vetoer's exact position. He is actively playing his stake as much as the believer is; he is backing the field against the religious hypothesis, just as the believer is backing the religious hypothesis against the field.
Mistakes can't be erased, but they move you from your present position.
We know the power of the U. S. . We do not fool ourselves about this power. We say that the U. S. government wants us to pay a very high price for this unstable peace we enjoy today. And the price we are in a position to pay is only - comes only to the frontiers of dignity, not beyond.
You have to put yourself in a position to be lucky.
Leadership is a choice, not a position
I'm in a different position than most CEO's. I'm a founder. I'm not a hired CEO. Now, I can be fired by the board, but most CEO's are hired by the board.
I am persuaded. . . that both man and woman bear pain or sorrow, (and, for aught I know, pleasure too) best in a horizontal position.
A helluva athlete, the best ever to play his position in the history of the game.
Part of what it is to be scientifically-literate is how you think about information that's presented in front of you. I think that's the great challenge. You have people who believe they do know how to think about the information, but don't, and they're in the position of power and legislation. You can't base a society on non-objectively verifiable truth. Otherwise, it's a fantasy land and science is the pathway to those emerging truths that are hard-earned and that some have taken decades, if not centuries, to emerge from experiments all around the world.
Jenson Button is in the top ten, in eleventh position.
In whatever position you find yourself, determine first your objective.
Success, the real success, does not depend upon the position you hold but upon how you carry yourself in that position.
I just liked to play football, no matter what the position.
Every thread of creation is held in position by still other strands of things living. In an earthly tapestry hung from the skyline of smoldering cities so gray and so vulgar, as not to be satisfied with their own negativity, but needing to touch all the living as well.
We respect opposition to any position or policy. But we believe that the opinion that should prevail and be respected is that of the majority.
If I were in the unenviable position of having to study my work my points of departure would be the "Naught is more real. . . " and the "Ubi nihil vales. . . " both already in Murphy and neither very rational.
When I look at the system here and look at my position - not just as a basketball player, but when I look around me at the values of the people and the culture and compare them with the values of where I came from - I feel so blessed to be from Africa.
To have a very strong opinion all the time is corrosive to a person's intellect. It becomes your default position.
At the foundation of our civil liberties lies the principle that denies to government officials an exceptional position before the law and which subjects them to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen.