Prevailing quotes
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If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.
-- Bill Vaughan -
Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude
-- Colin Powell -
The prevailing view is that geniuses are largely built, not born.
-- David Brooks -
The fact remains; chauvinism is prevailing.
-- Emma Bonino -
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If human equality is to be forever averted -- if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently -- then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.
-- George Orwell -
Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.
-- Jean Toomer -
The strategist's method is very simply to challenge the prevailing assumptions with a single question: Why?
-- Kenichi Ohmae -
A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing: our helper He amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing.
-- Martin Luther -
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There can be no prevailing in prayer without travailing in prayer.
-- Oswald J. Smith -
Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing.
-- Washington Gladden -
It is sometimes easier to circumvent prevailing difficulties [in science] rather than to attack them.
-- Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
