Improving Quotes - Page 15

• By giving every child a fair start, we are improving our collective future, including the private sector's ability to find talent in a very competitive global marketplace.

  Shakira

  Children, Giving, Talent

  Source: www.americasquarterly.org

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• I just want to try to ignore the scrutiny and all the distractions and just play hard basketball and let the best come... Improving game by game and trying to improve my game is what I want to do.

  Andrew Bogut

  Basketball, Sports, Play Hard

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Messi is the best player on the planet and he keeps on improving at Barça, now the best team in the world. What Messi does on and off the pitch is an inspiration for children who dream of becoming a footballer.

  Novak Djokovic

  Dream, Children, Team

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• In China, we are considering ways of resolving our problems by improving our institutions.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Way, Problem, Institutions

  Source: blog.hiddenharmonies.org

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• God cannot send to eternal pain a man who has done something toward improving the condition of his fellow-man. If he can, I had rather go to hell than to heaven and keep company with such a god.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Pain, Men, Heaven

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “Lectures: Including His Letters on The Chinese God. Is Suicide a Sin? The Right to One's Life. Etc., Etc., Etc”

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• I hope we shall prove how much happier for man the Quaker policy is, and that the life of the feeder is better than that of the fighter; and it is some consolation that the desolation by these maniacs of one part of the earth is the means of improving it in other parts. Let the latter be our office, and let us milk the cow, while the Russian holds her by the horns, and the Turk by the tail.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Mean, Men, Office

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont”, p.245

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• The world we live in takes a multifaceted approach. To the American taxpayer: We need to be investing in improving people's lives before the terrorists try to take over.

  Lindsey Graham

  People, Trying, Needs

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• Improving the quality of life for people of this country is perhaps the most important duty of Government

  John Prescott

  Love, Life, Family

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• You have not been mistaken in supposing my views and feeling to be in favor of the abolition of war. Of my dispos[i]tion to maintain peace until its condition shall be made less tolerable than that of war itself, the world has had proofs, and more, perhaps, than it has approved. I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the dispos[i]tion to war; but of its abolition I despair.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Peace, War, Views

  Letter to Noah Worcester, November 26, 1817.

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• I started getting more and more active around immigration reform because this was such a waste of lives, such a waste of potential, such a waste for our country not to have the human capital that we developed - geared toward improving our entire society.

  Laurene Powell Jobs

  Country, Waste, Immigration

  "Laurene Powell Jobs, Steve Jobs’ Wife, Gives First Interview Since Husband’s Death" by Dan Nakaso, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2013.

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• We live in the digital age and, unfortunately, it’s degrading our music, not improving it  It’s not that digital is bad or inferior, it’s that the way it’s being used isn’t doing justice to the art. The MP3 only has 5 percent of the data present in the original recording. … The convenience of the digital age has forced people to choose between quality and convenience, but they shouldn’t have to make that choice.

  Neil Young

  Art, Data, Mp3

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• We live in the digital age, and unfortunately it's degrading our music, not improving.

  Neil Young

  Age, Digital, Degrading

  "Neil Young: Steve Jobs and I were working on new iPod" by Sean Michaels, www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2012.

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• I never read reviews - I never have. I've never read message boards, either. I'm just not interested in it in any way - I'm not interested in it inflating my ego, and I'm not interested in it improving my self-worth. So, I don't read them.

  Kate Levering

  Self Worth, Ego, Boards

  "Bridging TV & theatre: Drop Dead Diva's Kate Levering". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. June 26, 2011.

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• A woman with a mother heart has a testimony of the restored gospel, and she teaches the principles of the gospel without equivocation. She is keeping sacred covenants made in holy temples. Her talents and skills are shared unselfishly. She gains as much education as her circumstances will allow, improving her mind and spirit with the desire to teach what she learns to the generations who follow her.

  Julie B. Beck

  Mother, Heart, Skills

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• Business is a noble vocation, directed to producing wealth and improving the world. It can be a fruitful source of prosperity for the area in which it operates, especially if it sees the creation of jobs as an essential part of its service to the common good. This common good also includes the earth... the environmental challenge we are undergoing, and its human roots, concern and affect us all.

  Pope Francis

  Jobs, Roots, Challenges

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• A great mix of tips, tricks, and anecdotes, All is Forgiven, Move On has excellent ideas for your weight loss journey and for improving your life along the way!

  Judith S. Beck

  Moving, Loss, Journey

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• When everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. That is why buildings in the Soviet Union - like public housing in the United States - look decrepit within a year or two of their construction.

  Milton Friedman

  Years, Two, Political

  Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman (1990). “Free to Choose: A Personal Statement”, p.42, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Right now, Iraq is expanding and improving facilities that were used for the production of biological weapons.

  George W. Bush

  Mass Destruction, Iraq, Wmd

  Speech to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 12 September 2002, New York, NY

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• I feel very strongly, we've got to give animals a good life. I've worked really hard improving slaughter plants and animal handling and transport. And people have said to me, why don't you work on improving conditions on pig farms? And basically, to be effective on making real change out there on the ground, you can only work on so many things. You know, you get too distributed, you're not effective.

  Temple Grandin

  Good Life, Real, Animal

  "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 20, 2006.

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• Think of US slavery in 1850, or the subjection of women. Both of these injustices could have been - and were! - defended by pointing out, quite correctly, that this situation of slaves and women had been improving throughout the preceding century. Slaves, in particular, were worked less hard, beaten and raped less frequently, better fed, and less often ripped apart from their families. So would a celebration of moral progress have been appropriate in 1850? Surely not. Slavery could have been and should have been abolished - then, if not before.

  Thomas Pogge

  Thinking, Should Have, Progress

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The smart way to improve broadband is not to junk the existing network but to make the most of it. It’s to let a competitive market deliver the speeds that people need at an affordable price with government improving infrastructure in the areas where market competition won’t deliver it.

  Tony Abbott

  Smart, Government, People

  Full text of Tony Abbott's budget reply speech, May 12, 2011.

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• Originally, I wanted a machine that would cost $100. My idea was to spend nothing on the console technology so all the money could be spent on improving the interface and software. If we hadn't used NAND flash memory and other pricey parts, we might have succeeded.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Memories, Technology, Ideas

  Business Week Interview (On Wii), November 16, 2006.

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• I have those (goals) written down, but don't want to discuss them. Right now, I just want to keep on improving.

  Justin Leonard

  Golf, Goal, Want

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• Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending; a negligent youth is usually attended by an ignorant middle age, and both by an empty old age.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Ignorant, Age, Youth

  Anne Bradstreet, Adelaide P. Amore (1982). “A woman's inner world: selected poetry and prose of Anne Bradstreet”

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• Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel.

  H. L. Mencken

  Saving, Annoying, Scoundrels

  Newspaper Days: 1899 - 1906 ch. 2 (1941)

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