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• All I can do is assess the value from Manchester United perspective. Whatever Chelsea do, they may have a different criteria, and different financial assets.

  David Gill

  Perspective, Different, May

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• I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns.

  Jeff Bingaman

  Support, Immigration, Reform

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• The best source for finding an agent is called Literary Agents of North America. It's a complete list of agents, not only by name and address, but by type of book they represent and by what their submission criteria are.

  Sara Paretsky

  Book, Names, America

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• Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing.

  Albert Bandura

  Accomplishment, Ill, Self Efficacy

  Albert Bandura (1986). “Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory”, Prentice Hall

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• If I had to choose criteria, for me, it's about first the director. I want to be a part of something that's good and intellectually challenging. After the director it's the character and the story. That's the deal for me.

  Giovanni Ribisi

  Character, Challenges, Directors

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• Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One of the criteria for national leadership should therefore be a talent for understanding, encouraging, and making constructive use of vigorous criticism.

  Carl Sagan

  Suicidal, Science, Long

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium”, p.176, Ballantine Books

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• I wonder how long this word will last, governed exclusively by the merciless, inhuman and immoral criteria of global economy. Seeing the shadow of distant islands, I imagined one still inhabited by a tribe of poets set aside for when, after the middle age of materialism, humanity will have to start to put other values into his existence.

  Tiziano Terzani

  Islands, Long, Humanity

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• I know the celestial criteria measure service, not status; the use of our talents, not the relative size of our talent inventories. I know that Church membership is not passive security but continuing opportunity.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Opportunity, Church, Use

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• According to a recent study, ten percent of 'Star Trek' fans meet the psychological criteria for addiction. Deprived of their favourite show, some Trekkies disply withdrawal symptoms similar to drug addicts. Of course, the real difference is that drug addicts aren't nearly as annoying.

  Jay Leno

  Stars, Real, Differences

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• The criteria for success: you are free, you live in the present moment, you are useful to the people around you, and you feel love for all humanity.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  People, Humanity, Moments

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• The infallible criterion by which to distinguish the true from the would-be strategist is the degree of originality of his conceptions. It makes little difference whether this originality is carried to excess, as was the case with Steinitz and Nimzowitsch.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Differences, Would Be, Excess

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• We, however, have a different goal: the Son of God, the true man. He is the measure of true humanism. An "adult" faith is not a faith that follows the trends of fashion and the latest novelty; a mature, adult faith is deeply rooted in friendship with Christ. It is this friendship that opens us up to all that is good and gives us a criterion by which to distinguish the true from the false, and deceit from truth.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Fashion, Son, Men

  Mass "Pro Eligendo Romano Pontifice", www.vatican.va. April 18, 2005.

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• The only way to raise the quality of writing in school is to create, share, and celebrate the specific criteria for that quality with everybody on a regular basis.

  Barry Lane

  Writing, School, Quality

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• There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace?

  Peace Pilgrim

  Thinking, Umpires, Judging

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• The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Beauty, Examination, Increase

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• Europe is not becoming more unified - well, yes, on paper - but not as long as the criteria for so many things (import regulations, border control, visa politics...etc.) are still made in an unjust, unreasonable way.

  Sasa Stanisic

  Europe, Long, Borders

  "The Rumpus International Rivers Interview #3: Sasa Stanisic On The Danube". Interview with Michael Zelenko, therumpus.net. January 25, 2010.

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• Over the longer term, we need to work toward a pro-growth tax code that is fairer and simpler than what we have now. Anything that meets those criteria is going to be better than the failing and dysfunctional tax code we have today.

  Joni Ernst

  Growth, Needs, Today

  Source: hotair.com

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• We used to have just one criterion and that was profit, and then another criterion was added - social welfare. Now we have to add the third important criterion, and that is nature and the environment.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Important, Add, Environment

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. November 12, 2003.

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• Now if you expand their choice set. Say you give them 20 different speed dates, everything goes out the window. Everybody starts choosing in accordance with looks because that becomes the easiest criteria by which to weed out all the options and decide "So who am I going to say yes to?"

  Sheena Iyengar

  Weed, Giving, Choices

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I've definitely been spoilt. Every movie I've done, it's always the same criteria: finding a great story, and finding a great part to play.

  Alden Ehrenreich

  Play, Stories, Done

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• So let it be a criterion if you follow the path of awareness, let love be the criterion. When your awareness suddenly blooms into love, know perfectly well that awareness has happened, SAMADHI has been achieved. If you follow the path of love, then let awareness function as a criterion, as a touchstone. When suddenly, from nowhere, at the very center of your love. a flame of awareness starts arising, know perfectly well... rejoice! You have come home.

  Rajneesh

  Home, Love Is, Flames

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• Just remember one criterion: whatever you do should not be in the service of destruction, it should be in the service of creativity.

  Rajneesh

  Creativity, Remember, Destruction

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• All buoyant leaders are driven by a real ambition- that is, what is being created that didn't exist before- and one criteria for that real ambition, is that on initial inspection, it seems fundamentally impossible.

  Kevin Allen

  Real, Ambition, Leader

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• A perspective that allows you to consistently make decisions based on the right set of criteria. Positivity and forward thinking. I work on that one every day, and every day I get a little better. Better at knowing that there is no obstacle that I cannot overcome. Nothing I can be faced with that I won't grow mentally stronger and wiser from having endured.

  Adam Rodriguez

  Positivity, Thinking, Knowing

  "Origin Series: Empire Actor Adam Rodriguez". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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