Betterment Quotes - Page 4

• Once I became historically aware, I realized there are these formative moments of history tied around tragedy and disaster and sacrifice, that led people to survive and take stock and move on with some kind of notion of betterment.

  Fred D'Aguiar

  Moving, Sacrifice, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If we learn more than the doctor in areas of value to our health, it is our duty to apply this knowledge to the betterment of ourselves and our families.

  Andrew Saul

  Doctors, Duty, Our Family

  Andrew Saul, Ph.D. (2009). “Doctor Yourself: Natural Healing That Works: Easyread Edition”, p.26, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Design is about the betterment of our lives poetically, aesthetically, experientially, sensorially, and emotionally.

  Karim Rashid

  Life, Design, Emotion

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• Natural selection must be replaced by eugenical artificial selection. This idea constitutes the sound core of eugenics, the applied science of human betterment.

  Theodosius Dobzhansky

  Ideas, Eugenics, Sound

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• I don't care who the president is - it isn't just all about who's black or who's white or who's Republican or Democrat, it's about who is for the betterment of people, period.

  Big Boi

  White, People, Black

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• In praise of Thy goodness I must confess that Thou didst try with all Thy means to draw me to Thee. Sometimes it pleased Thee to let me feel the heavy hand of Thy displeasure and to humiliate my proud heart by manifold castigations. Sickness and misfortune didst Thou send upon me to turn my thoughts to my errantries.-One thing, only, O Father, do I ask: cease not to labor for my betterment. In whatsoever manner it be, let me turn to Thee and become fruitful in good works.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Father, Mean, Heart

  Ludwig van Beethoven, Friedrich Kerst, Henry Edward Krehbiel (1964). “Beethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words”, p.106, Courier Corporation

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• Unfortunately, all gatherings convened for the betterment of the human lot show a tendency to gas themselves, and not with laughing-gas either.

  Rebecca West

  Laughing, Gathering, Tendencies

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• Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams - day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing - are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization. A prominent educator tells me that fairy tales are of untold value in developing imagination in the young. I believe it.

  L. Frank Baum

  Dream, Children, Believe

  "The Lost Princess of Oz". Book by L. Frank Baum, 1917.

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• It's more than just selling pizzas. It's being a good fit for the community. We hire based on the betterment of the community as much as anything.

  Mark Starr

  Community, Insightful, Fit

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• If you ain't using all the talents God provided you with
  For the betterment of Man, understand,
  You ain't nothing but a waste.

  Talib Kweli

  Rap, Men, Hip Hop

  FaceBook post by Talib Kweli from Mar 03, 2014

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• It means that the men who hold the means of life control our lives, and, because we workingmen have tried to get some measure of justice, some measure of betterment, they deny the right of the human being to associate with his fellow.

  James Larkin

  Mean, Men, Justice

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• The bigger point here is that golf is a good metaphor for one's life. The challenge of golf for me is trying to learn new rules. It's something you always have to work at; you don't get perfect at golf. It's the never-ending quest for betterment.

  Morgan Freeman

  Golf, Perfect, Challenges

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• America's leadership and prestige depend, not merely upon our unmatched material progress, riches and military strength, but on how we use our power in the interests of world peace and human betterment.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Strength, Military, America

  Farewell Address, delivered 17 January 1961

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• The time must come when, great and pressing as change and betterment may be, they do not involve killing and hurting people.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Hurt, People, May

  "The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois". Book edited by Aberjhani, 2003.

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• Our institutions and conditions rest upon deep-seated ideas. To change those conditions and at the same time leave the underlying ideas and values intact means only a superficial transformation, one that cannot be permanent or bring real betterment. It is a change of form only, not of substance, as so tragically proven by Russia.

  Emma Goldman

  Real, Mean, Russia

  Emma Goldman (2003). “My Disillusionment in Russia”, p.259, Courier Corporation

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• True biblical love is a selfless commitment of one’s body, soul, and spirit to the betterment of the other person.

  Jim George

  Commitment, Biblical, Love Is

  Jim George (2016). “A Husband After God's Own Heart: 12 Things That Really Matter in Your Marriage”, p.38, Harvest House Publishers

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• Betterment of conditions the world over is not essentially dependent on scientific knowledge but on the fulfillment of human traditions and ideals.

  Albert Einstein

  World, Tradition, Fulfillment

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• When we live our lives not for vanity, but for the sake of God and the betterment of humanity, that's what gives us immortality.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Vanity, Giving, Humanity

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• We cannot afford to not stick and work together for the betterment of our community.

  T.I.

  Community, Working Together, Sticks

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Since the industrial revolution, cities, and especially the inner cities, were the places for the newly arrived. Voluntary immigrants seeking economic betterment, refugees, the bohemians, the artists - all of those people were crammed into densely populated neighborhoods and tenements. And as people climbed up the economic ladder they moved out, which really accelerated with the "white flight" phenomenon in the '60s and '70s.

  Cleve Jones

  Artist, Cities, White

  "Legendary LGBT Activist Wants You to Get Up and Fight". Interview with Alexander Sammon, www.motherjones.com. December 6, 2016.

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• The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty and dysfunction. We also need intervention to promulgate a middle-class ethic of success among the poor, while expanding opportunities for economic betterment.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Opportunity, Class, Dysfunction

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• I am also full of admiration for Chelsea Manning [formerly PFC Bradley Manning]. Regardless of which side of the argument you're on, he stood up for something he felt wasn't right. That was an extraordinarily brave thing to do, and I think he was unfairly punished for it. It's a really big deal what he did, and he did it for the betterment of all us, including the soldiers on the ground, as well as the civilians caught up in those conflicts.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Thinking, Brave, Soldier

  "“The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” Interview with Kam Williams". Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. December 10, 2013.

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• For me, Charles Xavier is a monk. He's like a selfless, egoless almost sexless force for the betterment of humanity and mortality.

  James McAvoy

  Humanity, Selfless, Monk

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• We are not meant to find peace in this world. The spirit of life cannot exist without effort. Destroy the rivalries of man and nations and you will have destroyed all that makes for betterment and progress on Earth.

  Winston Churchill

  Men, Effort, Progress

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• Do not stand in the way of the next step in human progress. No one living who reads the signs of the times but realizes that woman suffrage must come. We are working for the ballot as a matter of justice and as a step for human betterment.

  Carrie Chapman Catt

  Justice, Progress, Next Steps

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