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• The health of the second amendment is the primary indicator of the overall health of the nation.

  John Longenecker

  Second Amendment, Amendments, Overall Health

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• The Age of Reason has turned out to be the Age of Structure; a time when, in the absence of purpose, the drive for power as a value in itself has become the principal indicator of social approval. And the winning of power has become the measure of social merit.

  John Ralston Saul

  Winning, Power, Age

  John Ralston Saul (2013). “Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• As long as quick numerical growth remains the primary indicator of church health, the truth will be compromised. Instead, churches must once again begin measuring success not in terms of numbers but in terms of fidelity to the Scriptures.

  Mark Dever

  Numbers, Long, Growth

  Mark Dever (2012). “The Church: The Gospel Made Visible”, p.12, B&H Publishing Group

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• One of the greatest indicators of our own spiritual maturity is revealed in how we respond to the weaknesses, the inexperience, and the potentially offensive actions of others.

  David A. Bednar

  Spiritual, Maturity, Inexperience

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• Meditation is one of the most therapeutic things that one can do for the body and mind. Specifically, studies demonstrate a reduction in blood pressure, heart rate, and other stress marker indicators.

  Tim McCarthy

  Stress, Heart, Blood

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• I like to smoke a pipe, because it's the punch line indicator. Whenever I take a hit of the pipe, you should be laughing.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Laughing

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• Endurance is often the best indicator of validity & value

  Jim Rohn

  Endurance, Validity, Values

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Aug 22, 2012

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• Negative emotion is your indicator of resistance, while positive emotion is your indicator of allowance. And they are on the same meter: allowance; resistance. Allowance; resistance.

  Esther Hicks

  Negative, Resistance, Emotion

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• One of the best indicators of student achievement is the academic success of the mother in the home.

  Tony Danza

  Mother, Home, Achievement

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. September 19, 2012.

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• Standardized tests are an indicator of the kind of service taxpayers are receiving - and whether schools, educators and policymakers are doing their jobs. In the United States, taxpayers spend almost $600 billion annually on public education, so it's not unreasonable to ask what all that money is producing. In fact, it's irresponsible not to know.

  Michelle Rhee

  Leadership, Education, Money

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• Having observed his market calls real time over the years, I can say that Jason Perl's application of the DeMark Indicators distinguishes his work from industry peers when it comes to market timing. This book demonstrates how traders can benefit from his insight, using the studies to identify the exhaustion of established trends or the onset of new ones. Whether you're fundamentally or technically inclined, Perl's DeMark Indicators is an invaluable trading resource.

  Leon G. Cooperman

  Real, Book, Years

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• A group of psychologists say they have discovered twenty-three different body language indicators that show whether or not a person is lying. If you would like to see all twenty-three at the same time, they recommend taking a guided tour of the White House

  Conan O'Brien

  Lying, White, House

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• Some of the best indicators of a country developing along the right lines are healthy mothers giving birth to healthy children who are assured of good care and a sound education that will enable them to face the challenges of a changing world.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Country, Mother, Children

  Aung San Suu Kyi (1997). “Letters From Burma:”

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• It would have been possible to structure my photographs in such a way that no indicators of the present were discernible. However, I wanted to incorporate into the project as a whole the jostling of time-frames I would feel as I set up my tripod on various rocky promontories.

  John Pfahl

  Way, Photographer, Structure

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• Governments and politicians use the family as an indicator of the health and strength of social life. Politicians fear that any weakening of family life will in some way sap the vitality of national life.... The family is also important to businessmen. It is one of the major purchasing groups of our consumer society.

  Adrian Wilson

  Government, Important, Vitality

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• Testing by itself does not improve software quality. Test results are an indicator of quality, but in and of themselves, they don't improve it. Trying to improve software quality by increasing the amount of testing is like trying to lose weight by weighing yourself more often. What you eat before you step onto the scale determines how much you will weigh, and the software development techniques you use determine how many errors testing will find. If you want to lose weight, don't buy a new scale; change your diet. If you want to improve your software, don't test more; develop better.

  Steve McConnell

  Errors, Code Quality, Simplicity

  Steve McConnell (2004). “Code Complete”, p.501, Pearson Education

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• Prayer as a relationship is probably your best indicator about the health of your love relationship with God. If your prayer life has been slack, your love relationship has grown cold.

  John Piper

  Christian, Prayer, Love Relationship

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• Are you paralyzed with fear? That’s a good sign. Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember one rule of thumb: the more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.

  Steven Pressfield

  Motivational, Self, Doubt

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• The widespread abuse of prisoners is a virtually foolproof indication that politicians are trying to impose a system--whether political, religious or economic--that is rejected by large numbers of the people they are ruling. Just as ecologists define ecosystems by the presence of certain "indicator species" of plants and birds, torture is an indicator species of a regime that is engaged in a deeply anti-democratic project, even if that regime happens to have come to power through elections.

  Naomi Klein

  Religious, Numbers, Ecosystems

  Naomi Klein (2010). “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism”, p.156, Macmillan

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• The way a culture treats women in birth is a good indicator of how well women and their contributions to society are valued and honored.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Culture, Way, Birth

  Ina May Gaskin (2011). “Birth Matters: How What We Don't Know About Nature, Bodies, and Surgery Can Hurt Us”, p.6, Seven Stories Press

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• The data is going to indicate sadly that when the Obama administration is over, black people will have lost ground in every single leading economic indicator category.

  Tavis Smiley

  Data, People, Black

  "Tavis Smiley: 'Black People Will Have Lost Ground in Every Single Economic Indicator' Under Obama" by Noel Sheppard, www.newsbusters.org. October 11, 2013.

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• It is not the delicate neurotic person who is prone to angina, but the robust, the vigorous in mind and body, the keen and ambitious man, the indicator of whose engines is always at full speed ahead.

  William Osler

  Men, Mind, Ambitious

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