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... vicars of vacillation ... -- Spiro T. Agnew
The resolution of the combat is seldom equal to the vehemence of the charge. -- Samuel Johnson
It has not been unknown that judges persist in error to avoid giving the appearance of weakness and vacillation. -- Felix Frankfurter
When you jump across a canyon, cautious small steps and vacillation won't work. Sometimes you just have to go for it. -- Rick Warren
The great lesson of history for us is that strength and resolve bring peace and order, and weakness and vacillation invite chaos and conflict. -- Rick Perry
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This is a wrong course the Chinese comrades are trying to lead us on to, it is an opportunist road of vacillation and concessions to the Khrushchev traitor group which finds itself in grave difficulties, and is intriguing in order to escape defeat. -- Enver Hoxha
Different though the sexes are, they inter-mix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only the clothes that keep the male or female likeness, while underneath the sex is very opposite of what it is above. -- Virginia Woolf
If we conceive that anyone loves, desires, or hates anything which we ourselves love, desire, or hate, we shall thereupon regard the thing in question with more steadfast love, etc. On the contrary, if we think that anyone shrinks from something that we love, we shall undergo vacillation of the soul. -- Baruch Spinoza
But it's precisely in this cold, loathsome half-despair, half-belief, in this deliberate burying of yourself underground for forty years out of sheer pain, in this assiduously constructed, and yet somewhat dubious hopelessness, in all this poision of unfulfilled desires turned inward, this fever of vacillations, of resolutions adopted for eternity, and of repentances a moment later that you find the very essence of that strange, sharp pleasure. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship. -- Kenneth Baker

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