Better Place Quotes - Page 19

• Taking the politics out of setting the minimum wage provides fairness for workers and predictability for businesses. This legislation will also protect the most vulnerable workers and level the playing field for employers who play by the rules. These are the right steps to take; they will make Ontario a better place to work and run a business.

  Kevin Flynn

  Running, Play, Ontario

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• In the weeks prior to the war to liberate Afghanistan, a good friend of mine would ask me almost every day, “Why aren't we killing people yet?” And I never had a good answer for him. Because one of the most important and vital things the United States could do after 9/11 was to kill people. Call it a “forceful response,” “decisive action” ' whatever. Those are all nice euphemisms for killing people. And the world is a better place because America saw the necessity of putting steel beneath the velvet of those euphemisms.

  Jonah Goldberg

  War, Nice, Good Friend

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• WE all have to play as a team to make the world a better place

  Magic Johnson

  Team, Play, World

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• Black eyeliner. It’s standard. It’s all you need. It just makes the world a better place.

  Marilyn Manson

  Black, Needs, World

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• Watch out for music. It should come with a health warning. It can be dangerous. It can make you feel so alive, so connected to the people around you, and connected to what you really are inside. And it can make you think that the world should, and could, be a much better place. And just occasionally, it can make you very, very happy.

  Peter Gabriel

  Thinking, People, Make You Think

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• Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.

  Janis Joplin

  Hippie, Believe, Get Better

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• If you make your best effort to be kinder, nurture compassion, make the world a better place, then you can say 'At least I've done my best.

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Best Effort, Done

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• It is our duty to make this world a better place for women.

  Christabel Pankhurst

  World, This World, Duty

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• Your children are your legacy to the world. As you raise them with love, you contribute to making this world a better place.

  Kristine Carlson

  Children, Love You, Legacy

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• Everything is a meaningless struggle against nothing and when people say that the world has become a better place that is a false development-optimism. Nothing exists which ever becomes better. Everything stays the same. Somehow, there is nothing. That is so sad. Nothing to come to. Everything is an illusion. A very sweet illusion.

  Odd Nerdrum

  Sweet, Struggle, People

  Source: sturm-lie.be

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• Make the world a better place because you have lived in it.

  Edgar Cayce

  World

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• Begun as a girl from a little country town in central western Queensland, inspired by noble ideas of justice, about fairness, about making the world a better place.

  Quentin Bryce

  Girl, Education, Country

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• As an artist, even if you are putting out something really dark and disturbing, that's good because it's opening a discussion. Always in the back of my mind is this thought that the world has to be a better place with you in it.

  Shaun Tan

  Art, Dark, Mind

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• I believe we are here to do good. It is the responsibility of every human being to aspire to do something worthwhile, to make the world a better place than the one we found.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Responsibility, World

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• Nothing lulls and inebriates like money; when you have a lot, the world seems a better place than it actually is.

  Anton Chekhov

  Money, World, Seems

  Note-Book of Anton Chekhov, 1921.

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• We ought to have more people who believe in constitutionall y limited government. We have to have more people come to Congress with that mindset. I think we can make this a better place, if, when elections happen, we support candidates who share that philosophy.

  Mike Lee

  Philosophy, Believe, Thinking

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• If we want the world to be a better place to live, we have to treat it as one unit. If we want economic growth to be pervasive, we have to make people its partners. If we want the process of development to be sustainable, we have to work with the environment.

  Narendra Modi

  People, Growth, India

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• I see something in her eyes, sends me to a better place.

  Joe Satriani

  Eye, Her Eyes, Compliment

  Song: I Believe, Album: Flying in a Blue Dream, 1989

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• I feel like I came through this year stronger and wiser, and I can go into 2015 in a much better place.

  Rory McIlroy

  Golf, Years, Stronger

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• By trying to live Christmas 12 months a year, we CAN make this world a better place to live - for others and for ourselves.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Years, Trying, Live For Others

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• From the outside, people think it's drug-related. But wherever you come from, people are driven by a sense of belonging. What I say to kids all the time is you don't own streets. We don't own the paving stones we are fighting over. Instead of fighting each other, you should be fighting the government to make this a better place to live.

  Ashley Walters

  Kids, Fighting, Thinking

  "Damilola's dad Richard Taylor and ex-bad boy rapper Ashley Walters face-to-face". Interview with Richard Taylor, www.mirror.co.uk. March 31, 2008.

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• I believe your success is based off what your goals are. Are you trying to feed your family or have plaques on the wall and be broke? In that case, I think the game is in a better place. We have all heard of famous artists who are broke. Then we know of artists who may have had only a song or two on radio, but have a million or two dollars off that quick come up.

  Yo Gotti

  Song, Wall, Believe

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• And when this grand canvas, our life, is finished, may the world in some small or large way be a better place.

  Robert Regis Dvorak

  World, May, Way

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• Our only hope lies in the power of our love, generosity, tolerance and understanding and our commitment to making the world a better place for all.

  Muhammad Ali

  Lying, Commitment, Generosity

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• [When questioned on his longevity] First of all, I selected my ancestors very wisely. ... They were long-lived, healthy people. Then, as a chemist, I know how to eat, how to exercise, keep my blood circulating. ... I don't worry. I don't get angry at people. I don't worry about things I can't help. I do what I can to make the world a better place to live, but I don't complain if things aren't right. As a scientist I take the world as I find it.

  Joel Henry Hildebrand

  Wisdom, Exercise, Science

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