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• When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good. There have been times when I have been flat-out to finish sixth, but you can't see that from the outside. In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place. I pushed like mad, yet everyone was gathered around the winner and they were thinking that I was just trundling around. But that's motor racing. So in fact the only thing you can judge in this sport is the long term. You can judge a career or a season, but not one race.

  Alain Prost

  Sports, Winning, Thinking

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

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• Funding privatized accounts with Social Security dollars would not only make the program's long term problems worse, but many believe it represents a first step toward undermining the program's fundamental goals.

  Patty Murray

  Believe, Long, Goal

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• I would like to call on young people to commit themselves to activities that contribute toward achieving their long-term dreams. They have the energy and creativity to shape a sustainable future. To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.

  Wangari Maathai

  Dream, Creativity, Long

  Wangari Maathai's Nobel lecture at the City Hall in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2004.

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• In the early 1990s, when a lot of the developing world opened up to international capital flows... they ended up in very good long-term projects, but projects that weren't going to pay off for five or 10 or 20 years.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Years, Long, World

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• I love eating it - grilled chicken, pasta, rice, and other foods that give me long term energy. Every once in a while, my sweet tooth gets the best of me and I have to snack on some candy. Beverage wise, I stick to sports drinks, water, milk, and juice.

  Derrick Rose

  Sports, Wise, Sweet

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• We need to get beyond the politics of the moment, the deficit of the hour, the military count of the day, the numbers that rarely shape events. Our long-term interests must be in people and in the values of democracy and individual liberty.

  Bill Bradley

  Military, Numbers, Long

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• You have to believe in the long term plan you have but you need the short term goals to motivate and inspire you.

  Roger Federer

  Believe, Goal, Long

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• Any successful long-term strategy will require that the green wave fully and passionately embrace the principles of eco-equity.

  Van Jones

  Successful, Long, Principles

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• I know that the precise magnitude and patterns of climate change cannot be fully predicted. But global warming clearly is a growing, long-term threat with profound consequences. And make no mistake about it, it will take decades to reverse.

  William J. Clinton

  Mistake, Long, Profound

  William J. Clinton “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton, 1993, Bk. 2, August 1 to December 31, 1993”, Government Printing Office

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• There is very strong historical data that suggest the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Strong, Data, Long

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• If insemination were the sole biological function of sex, it could be achieved far more economically in a few seconds of mounting and insertion. Indeed, the least social of mammals mate with scarcely more ceremony. The species that have evolved long-term bonds are also, by and large, the ones that rely on elaborate courtship rituals. . . . Love and sex do indeed go together.

  E. O. Wilson

  Love, Sex, Long

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• There is extraordinary chemistry that exists in long-term relationships

  Jay Conrad Levinson

  Inspirational, Educational, Long

  Jay Conrad Levinson, Jeannie Levinson (2007). “Startup Guide to Guerrilla Marketing: A Simple Battle Plan for First-Time Marketers”, p.53, Entrepreneur Press

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• The Houston Contractors Association is proud to endorse Council Member Oliver Pennington for re-election to Houston City Council. Council Member Pennington understands that infrastructure investment is crucial to protect the long-term economic vitality of our community. We strongly support his efforts on behalf of small businesses and the construction industry while demonstrating his commitment to sound management of the city's budget.

  Jeffrey Nielsen

  Commitment, Cities, Construction Industry

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• Unless you reduce the long-term spending burden, you cannot cut taxes in any lasting way, but can only shift the burden of taxes from the present to the future.

  Peter George Peterson

  Cutting, Long, Political

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• The reality is that we've seen the last of any serious price wars for a long time. I don't think any of the others could afford it, certainly not on a long-term basis.

  Rupert Murdoch

  War, Reality, Thinking

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• This is critical to the region. Every other major city has public transportation going downtown. We have a world-class airport now, and this could be an important additional piece to the airport development. This is a significant investment and one that should be seen as a significant long-term commitment to making this a reality.

  Debbie Stabenow

  Commitment, Reality, Airports

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• I want to make it very clear that this middle-class tax cut, in my view, is central to any attempt we're going to make to have a short-term economic strategy and a long-term fairness strategy, which is part of getting this country going again.

  William J. Clinton

  Country, Cutting, Class

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• There's magic to love... Millions of years ago we evolved three basic drives: the sex love, romantic love, and attachment to a long-term partner. These circuits are deeply embedded in the human brian. They're going to survive as long as our species survive on what Shakespeare called, this "mortal coil."

  Helen Fisher

  Sex, Romantic Love, Attachment

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• Specifically, I am concerned about the long-term condition of Social Security. I am committed to ensuring that current beneficiaries and those nearing retirement face no reduction in benefits, while preserving this vital program for future generations.

  Cliff Stearns

  Retirement, Long, Generations

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• Our country also hungers for leadership to ensure the long-term survival of our Social Security system. With 70 million baby boomers in this country on the verge of retirement, we need to take action to shore up the system.

  Kay Bailey Hutchison

  Country, Baby, Retirement

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• No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt that I thought my love would never recover. And then, in the midst of near despair, something has happened beneath the surface. A bright little flashing fish of hope has flicked silver fins and the water is bright and suddenly I am returned to a state of love again - till next time.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Wedding, Hurt, Long

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.51, Open Road Media

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• An argument is made that there are just too many question marks about the near future; wouldn't it be better to wait until things clear up a bit? You know the prose: "Maintain buying reserves until current uncertainties are resolved," etc. Before reaching for that crutch, face up to two unpleasant facts: The future is never clear and you pay a very high price for a cheery consensus. Uncertainty actually is the friend of the buyer of long-term values.

  Warren Buffett

  Two, Long, Waiting

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• People ought to invest in us because they like our company and the way they run it. We still do quarterly earnings guidance, but we tell people openly that they ought to look at the company for the long term and that's how they ought to invest.

  Jeffrey R. Immelt

  Running, Long, People

  Chronicle interview, www.sfgate.com. June 6, 2004.

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• Being captive to quarterly earnings isn't consistent with long-term value creation. This pressure and the short term focus of equity markets make it difficult for a public company to invest for long-term success, and tend to force company leaders to sacrifice long-term results to protect current earnings.

  Charles Koch

  Success, Leadership, Sacrifice

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• In economic life and history more generally, just about everything of consequence comes from black swans; ordinary events have paltry effects in the long term.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Swans, Long, Black

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