Better Place Quotes - Page 7

• In my work, I present questions and concerns. [It's] the opportunity to put a system of antibodies into circulation, without any pretense of making the world a better place, but to start a conversation with the world.

  Paolo Pellegrin

  Opportunity, World, Conversation

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• There are all kinds of things we can do in this world to make it a better place but we must start with ourselves.

  Richard Bandler

  World, Kind, Can Do

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• Somebody just gave me a shower radio. Thanks a lot. Do you really want music in the shower? I guess there's no better place to dance than a slick surface next to a glass door.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, Music, Humorous

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• We were all fated to die, and so it is good that at least we can be sure our deaths today might bring about a good end, might make the world a better place.

  Orson Scott Card

  World, Might, Today

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• I started acting long before I decided to pursue it. I started acting as an amateur when I was a kid, but I wanted to become a diplomat. It was self-centered and weird, but I had this idea of going out in the world and solving conflicts and making the world a better place.

  Stellan Skarsgard

  Kids, Self, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• That is why I strongly believe we should working in Congress to make America a better place to run a business by reducing the costly burdens of bureaucracy and red tape.

  Michael K. Simpson

  Running, Believe, America

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• I do wish I ruled the world, I think it'd be a better place.

  Courtney Love

  Thinking, Wish, World

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• You must leave this world a better place than it would have been if you had not existed.

  Isabel Wilkerson

  World, Has Beens, Ifs

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• Whenever I have a birthday, I think back over the past year, how I've spent my time, what I've accomplished, what regrets I have, how I've tried to make the world a better place, and what exactly I've been doing with my life over the past 365 days, and I think to myself: 'Man, I wish I'd gotten laid more'.

  Richard M. Weiner

  Sex, Regret, Past

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• So it can be for us as we allow the stirrings of hope to motivate us to action; and then as we act so that our hope becomes faith, that faith gives us power and enthusiasm for the principles of the gospel, which leads us to further action. Soon, we are lifted out of the state of hopelessness, and we begin to aid those around us by working to make the world a better place, rather than languishing in misery watching the world go by without us.

  David S. Baxter

  Giving, World, Enthusiasm

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• The world would be a better place if people stopped voting for folksy candidates they could have a beer with and started voting for people smarter than they are.

  Marcus Sakey

  Beer, People, Voting

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• Personal wealth is the by-product of making the world a better place.

  Paul Zane Pilzer

  World, Wealth, Products

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• If you Christians acted more like your Christ, the world would be a better place.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Christian, Would Be, World

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• The free market is constantly under attack from those who believe that they know how to make the world a better place with properly administered doses of state coercion.

  George Leef

  Believe, World, Coercion

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• With more money, you can take better care of yourself and leverage your passion and higher purpose in the world. Earn more, so you can give more of yourself and put your money to work for causes that make our world a better place.

  John Assaraf

  Passion, Our World, Giving

  FaceBook post by John Assaraf from Dec 18, 2013

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• We are trying to make the world a better place, but that is not necessarily what we accomplish. Many of the problems which preoccupy us are basically insoluble.

  George Soros

  Trying, World, Problem

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• I travel around the world in a way that tries to open my mind and give me empathy and inspire me to come home and make this world a better place.

  Rick Steves

  Home, Giving, Empathy

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• There's the old saying that doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results is the definition of insanity. There are few better places to apply that adage than the drug war. It's time to end it. It's time to restore peace and harmony to Latin America and the United States. It's time to end the failed war on drugs. It's time to legalize drugs.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  Latin, War, America

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• To allow your organization the permission to fail is a very powerful thing. If we want to really be thought leaders and industry leaders, it doesn't come without taking risks. We're not afraid to take those risks that will get us to a better place.

  Rick Welts

  Powerful, Organization, Leader

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• I don't know if you've read the Bible, and if you haven't, I think you may be in a better place than those of us who have read it so much that it has become stale.

  Shane Claiborne

  Thinking, May, Stale

  Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.4, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Athletes and musicians make astronomical amounts of money. People get paid $100 million to throw a baseball! Shouldn't we all take less and pass some of that money onto others? Think about firefighters, teachers and policemen. We should celebrate people that are intellectually smart and trying to make this world a better place.

  Kid Rock

  Baseball, Teacher, Smart

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• Ain't no better place than the US. This is a free enterprise system. You can get whatever you want in the US.

  Howlin' Wolf

  Want, Enterprise, Free Enterprise

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• I think there is a legitimate critique of reformism, as a politics that is content with making small changes in society without asking for bigger and deeper changes. And revolutionary reforms, meaning actions that we take in small ways to make the world a better place and disrupt some of the ways that capitalism is reproduced.

  Cynthia Kauffman

  Thinking, Small Changes, Reform

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent, and even here in our own hemisphere, our veterans have made the world a better place and America the great country we are today.

  John Hoeven

  Country, Veterans Day, War

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• I was privileged to grow up in Mexico at a time when you could play in the streets. We lived not too far from the ocean, and we would be outside all the time with the neighbours' kids, running free. What better place could there be for a child?

  Salma Hayek

  Running, Children, Growing Up

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