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• It seems like the big difference between good art and so-so art lies somewhere in the art's heart's purpose, the agenda of the consciousness behind the text. It's got something to do with love, with having the discipline to talk out of the part of yourself that can love instead of the part that just wants to be loved.

  David Foster

  Art, Lying, Differences

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• The world has got more democracies than ever, and human rights are high on almost every country's agenda. Still, corruption and oppression are far too common threats to the democratic society. And we have seen a dramatic increase, the last 10-15 years, of ethnical conflicts and humanitarian crises with human rights violations as important elements., but also more of corruption. Human rights are praised more than ever - and violated as much as ever.

  Anna Lindh

  Country, Rights, Years

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• When President [Barack] Obama was sworn in on the steps of Capitol, he asked for swift, bold action now for jobs and education for the 21st Century, a list, an agenda. One week and one day from that swearing in, the House passed the ARRA, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Jobs, Recovery, House

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• The most effective CEOs have a primary source for tracking their markets. They meet with their teams frequently enough to keep innovation flowing, to reduce and focus costs, to be energized. They create a tight agenda and they set high goals.

  Michael J. Silverstein

  Team, Goal, Focus

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. November 28, 2015.

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• Even the weather page is in a state of moral decay. What?s wrong with red, white and blue, USA Today? This rainbow weather map is just another example of the homometerological agenda.

  Stephen Colbert

  Blue, Weather, Usa

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• If our country is to survive and prosper, we must summon the courage to condemn and reject the liberal agenda, and we had better do it soon.

  Walter E. Williams

  Country, Liberty, Libertarian

  Walter E. Williams (2013). “More Liberty Means Less Government: Our Founders Knew This Well”, p.179, Hoover Press

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• Getting hold of illegal weapons is so easy that gun laws would not stop anyone who really wanted to kill. The gun used by Martin Bryant in Port Arthur was stolen and he had no licence. Gun laws would not have stopped that, but the reason such laws are being introduced all over the world is to prevent the population from defending themselves when the order goes out to round up those who are challenging the Agenda.

  David Icke

  Gun, Order, Law

  David Icke (1998). “The Biggest Secret”, David Icke Books

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• The MDGs have been a fundamental framework for global development. A clear agenda, with measurable goals and targets, and a common vision have been crucial for this success. There is now an expectation around the world that sooner, rather than later, all these goals can and must be achieved.

  Sha Zukang

  Mdgs, Common Vision, Goal

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• Development is among the most important long-term multilateral agendas existing today. As we all know, lasting peace cannot be achieved unless large population groups find ways in which to break out of poverty.

  Pal Schmitt

  Long, Important, Today

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• It wasn't on my agenda, but the thing about getting important awards is it makes the adventure of your career have a little more possibility. I think just what's happened so far is already making the opportunities more interesting, even though I'm at the twilight of my career of like 48 years.

  Jacki Weaver

  Travel, Twilight, Adventure

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality. Satan, the enemy is using people to further his agenda to destroy the Kingdom of God and as many souls as he can.

  Alan Chambers

  Using People, Gay, Evil

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• I believe my party should never flinch from the requirement that we must continue this progression, otherwise we may end up like the Republican party who lost an election last year that they could have won were it not for their socially conservative agenda. We may have gone two steps forward, but I fear we may have gone one step backwards. The modernisation of the Conservative party is not yet complete.

  Margot James

  Party, Believe, Gay

  "Gay marriage debate: Tory MP warns party not to follow the Republican road" by Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2013.

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• That is the gay agenda...it is the recreation of society on a different moral foundation and the problem with that is that moral foundation will lead to social chaos and destruction.

  Scott Lively

  Gay, Foundation, Different

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• We are gonna to have to choose as a nation between the homosexual agenda and freedom because the two cannot coexist. Every advance of the homosexual agenda, comes at the expense of liberty, particularly religious liberty.

  Bryan Fischer

  Religious, Two, Liberty

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• So, this is my government's agenda: educate your daughter and save your daughter.

  Narendra Modi

  Daughter, Mother, Government

  "Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on India’s Economy and U.S.-India Relations". Interview with Richard Haass, www.cfr.org. September 29, 2014.

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• To evangelize properly by delivering the gospel, we need to follow God's agenda.

  Mark Dever

  Needs, Delivering

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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• Today's liberals wish to disarm us so they can run their evil and oppressive agenda on us. The fight against crime is just a convenient excuse to further their agenda. I don't know about you, but if you hear that Williams' guns have been taken, you'll know Williams is dead.

  Walter E. Williams

  Running, Taken, Fighting

  Walter E. Williams (1995). “Do the Right Thing: The People's Economist Speaks”, p.118, Hoover Press

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• So much of politics is about the daily grind of political business: the people to see, the myriad different facets of government, the remorseless agenda of this part of the media or that.

  Tony Blair

  Commitment, Government, Media

  Tony Blair's speech to Faithworks, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2005.

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• The difference between apologetics and evangelism is that in apologetics, you are answering objections that the world raises, whereas in evangelism, you are bringing the message that Christ brought. So unbelievers tend to set the agenda in apologetics, and you set the agenda in evangelism.

  Mark Dever

  Differences, World, Messages

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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• I'm all news, all the time. Full power, tall tower. I want to break in when news breaks out. That's my agenda. Now, respectfully, when you start talking about a liberal agenda and all the, quote, 'liberal bias' in the media, I quite frankly, and I say this respectfully but candidly to you, I don't know what you're talking about.

  Dan Rather

  Media, Talking, Towers

  "Internet gives conservatives a stronger voice" by Brent Bozell, www.cnn.com. September 30, 2010.

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• "Virtue," he said. "The real thing. It's not some kind of cuddly teddy bear you can keep on the shelf until you need a hug. It's dangerous, which is why it makes people so nervous. Virtue has its own agenda, and believe me, it's not always yours. The word itself means strength, power. And when it gets loose, you'd better watch out." "Something bad might happen..." "Impossible. But possibly something painful."

  Diane Duane

  Real, Believe, Mean

  Diane Duane (2003). “A Wizard Alone”, p.233, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When we try to push the envelope, there are certain sectors of society that say this is a Zionist plot to sort of destabilize our country, or this is an American agenda.

  Abdallah II

  Country, Trying, Plot

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• The heart of the security agenda is protecting lives, and we now know that the number of people who will die of AIDS in the first decade of the 21st Century will rival the number that died in all the wars in all the decades of the 20th century.

  Al Gore

  War, Heart, Numbers

  "U.S. steps up global fight against AIDS" by John King, Richard Roth and Steve Salvatore, www.cnn.com. January 10, 2000.

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• I'm not an L.A. guy. I don't take meetings - you know what I mean? I don't really know how to interact very well with people in L.A. because everybody's got an agenda and everybody's like, "What do you do?" "Where are you going?" Or it's like, "What do you know?" And I'm not on a grind - I was there to make music and to meet people but I wasn't hustling for anything.

  James Vincent McMorrow

  Mean, People, Guy

  "James Vincent McMorrow, On the Move". Interview with Pimploy Phongsirivech, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 31, 2016.

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• My grandparents went through a bad experience themselves; they invested money in a church and got burned - the pastor had his own agenda - and my grandfather lost interest in the church after that. That was when I had the option to not go. 'Grandpa ain't going; I'm gonna stay with Grandpa.'

  Curtis Jackson

  Grandparent, Grandfather, Church

  "Money talks". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2003.

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