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• The Constitution and the Bill of Rights we designed to get the government off the backs of the people -- all the people. Those great documents guarantee to us all the rights to personal and spiritual self-fulfillment. But that guarantee is not self-executing. As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such a twilight that we all must be most aware of the change in the air -- however slight -- lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.

  William O. Douglas

  Spiritual, Twilight, Rights

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• Focus on executing to give maximum value to your customers. That means learning everything from financing to producing to marketing.

  Tony Robbins

  Mean, Giving, Focus

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Swing is extreme coordination. It's a maintaining balance, equilibrium. It's about executing very difficult rhythms with a panache and a feeling in the context of very strict time. So, everything about the swing is about some guideline and some grid and the elegant way that you negotiate your way through that grid.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Swings, Feelings, Balance

  "Wynton Marsalis Pays Homage to Jazz’s Past by Investing in Its Future". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. June 1, 2011.

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• The President, who really had been mostly managing his one-man Barack Obama narrative and journey his whole life, without executive experience, certainly - he's not a governor. Some governors, of course, they have experience in executing power, which is something fairly unique, actually, in government. And he has, neither, a set of nourishing experiences.

  Ron Suskind

  Unique, Journey, Men

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The best way to get trained is to get mentored - live or by reading or watching videos by masters. That way, you start executing based on lessons from the best.

  Tony Robbins

  Reading, Video, Lessons

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I think the people who go to work every day don't feel like Washington cares a whit about them,and, actually, they're executing policies that are bad for them.

  Jeff Sessions

  Thinking, People, Care

  "Full transcript: POLITICO's Glenn Thrush interviews Sen. Jeff Sessions". www.politico.com. May 31, 2016.

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• In executing an Artful Strategy: When ten times greater, surround them; When five times greater, attack them; When two times greater, scatter them. If the opponent is ready to challenge: When fewer in number, be ready to evade them; When unequal to the match, be ready to avoid them. Even when the smaller opponents have a strong position, the larger opponent will capture them.

  Sun Tzu

  Strong, Two, Numbers

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• This is the company we keep when it comes to the death penalty: China, the number one executing country; Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, those are the top 4, and number 5 is the US. And those are not countries that are known as champions for human rights, you know.

  Shane Claiborne

  Country, Rights, Iran

  Source: medium.com

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• Since I have always preferred making plans to executing them, I have gravitated towards situations and systems that, once set into operation, could create music with little or no intervention on my part. That is to say, I tend towards the roles of planner and programmer, and then become an audience to the results

  Brian Eno

  Roles, Littles, Results

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• Given my experience, I believe there are three compelling reasons why the death penalty should be replaced. (1) The criminal justice system makes mistakes and the possibility of executing innocent people is both inherently wrong and morally reprehensible; (2) My personal experience and crime data show the death penalty does not reduce crime; and (3) The death penalty wastes precious resources that could be best used to fight crime and solve thousands of unsolved homicides languishing in filing cabinets in understaffed police departments across the state.

  George Gascon

  Mistake, Believe, Fighting

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• Sharing the same vision for what's on the page is always a good idea. The director's job is to establish what that is and make sure that everyone sticks to it when it comes down to actually executing it.

  Thomas Jane

  Jobs, Ideas, Vision

  Source: collider.com

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• Even after many years, kata practice is never finished, for there is always something new to be learned about executing a movement.

  Shoshin Nagamine

  Years, Practice, Movement

  Shoshin Nagamine (2011). “Essence of Okinawan Karate-Do”, p.26, Tuttle Publishing

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• Our goal in making these changes is to enable Microsoft to achieve greater agility in managing the incredible growth ahead and executing our software-based services strategy.

  Steve Ballmer

  Goal, Growth, Agility

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• For history tells us that while these truths may be self-evident, they've never been self-executing. That while freedom is a gift from God, it must be secured by his people here on earth.

  Barack Obama

  Self, People, Pro Life

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• I'm always on to something else. It's like, I'm sitting here now jotting down notes for something that's in my head. There's always something going on in my head, and I have to just keep executing.

  Tyler Perry

  Sitting, Notes

  "Tyler Perry, Taking Madea from Stage to Page". "Talk of the Nation" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. April 12, 2006.

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• I come to the categorical conclusion that precisely at this moment we must give battle to the Black Hundred clergy in the most decisive and merciless manner and crush its resistance with
  such brutality that it will not forget it for decades to come. The greater the number of representatives of the reactionary clergy and reactionary bourgeoisie we succeed in executing for
  this reason, the better.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Crush, Numbers, Giving

  Letter to Comrade Molotov for the Politburo on March 19, 1922. "The Unknown Lenin: From the Secret Archive". Book by Richard Pipes, p. 152-154, 1996.

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• The idealism of Berkeley is only a crude statement of the idealism of Jesus, and that again is a crude statement of the fact thatall nature is the rapid efflux of goodness executing and organizing itself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jesus, Facts, Christ

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.127, Courier Corporation

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• The studio is my main compositional tool. And I used to be horrible in the studio. I didn't know any kind of technical stuff. But when you have something in your head, you've gotta figure out a way of executing it.

  Mike Patton

  Tools, Stuff, Way

  The Believer interview, www.believermag.com. January 2013.

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• Ideas by themselves are not worth anything, only executing well is what creates value.

  Sam Altman

  Ideas, Wells, Values

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• Momentum and growth are the lifeblood of startups. This is probably in the top three secrets of executing well.

  Sam Altman

  Secret, Growth, Three

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• Taste consists in the power of judging; genius in the power of executing.

  Hugh Blair

  Judging, Genius, Taste

  Hugh Blair, Alfred Howard (Esq.) (1810). “The Beauties of Blair: Consisting of Selections from His Works”, p.118

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• If the means to which the government of the union may resort for executing the power confided to it, are unlimited, it may easily select such as will impair or destroy the powers confided to the state governments.

  John Taylor

  Mean, Government, Unions

  John Taylor (1820). “Construction Construed, and Constitutions Vindicated”, p.83

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• I think everybody came into it with the understanding that they would go through an experience that is literally not by the book, that is not executing the script and then going home, but living and breathing these characters and being in the moment with each other, and improvising and creating a lot of present-tense intensity between characters.

  Oren Moverman

  Book, Home, Character

  "Rampart Director, Oren Moverman Interview". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Lions don't have to roar. There is power in silence, confidence, and persistence. Those who work don't talk, and those who talk don't work. Handle your business. Measure your efforts by results. Focus your time, energy, and activity on mastering and executing a plan.

  Les Brown

  Persistence, Silence, Focus

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• Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.

  Ivan Chermayeff

  Idaho, Design, Problem

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