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• We asked for God's help; and now, in this shining outcome, in this magnificent triumph of good over evil, we should thank God.

  George H. W. Bush

  Evil, Shining, Presidential

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• The world in which we live can be understood as a result of muddle and accident; but if it is the outcome of deliberate purpose, the purpose must have been that of a fiend. For my part, I find accident a less painful and more plausible hypothesis.

  Bertrand Russell

  Religion, Purpose, World

  Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• James got some good looks that he just didn't knock down, as did Buckley. James has been pretty consistent, but the reality is when he and Melvin go 2 for 21 and Solomon (Jones) only gets four offensive rebounds, this is going to be the outcome.

  Robert McCullum

  Reality, Looks, Four

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• It's great news. The reality of negotiations today is that they take time. But these have always been conducted in a good spirit and we are very pleased with the outcome. We can now look forward to the future.

  Alex Ferguson

  Reality, Looks, News

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• You're never happy with a tie you're trying to win. The reality is we have to come back and play tomorrow, and whatever the outcome tomorrow is, we have to come back and play again.

  Walt Kyle

  Winning, Reality, Play

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• The selection process has been powerful enough to produce one indisputable outcome: the family is a universal human institution. . . . In virtually every society into which historians or anthropologists have inquired, one finds people living together on the basis of kinship ties and having responsibility for raising children. . . . Even in societies where men and women have relatively unrestricted sexual access to one another beginning at an early age, marriage is still the basis for family formation. It is desired by the partners and expected by society.

  James Q. Wilson

  Family, Powerful, Children

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• Teamwork remains a sustainable competitive advantage that has been largely untapped because it is hard to measure (teamwork impacts the outcome of an organization in such comprehensive and invasive ways that it's virtually impossible to isolate it as a single variable) and because it is extremely hard to achieve (it requires levels of courage and discipline that few executives possess) - ironically, building a strong team is very simple (it doesn't require masterful insights or tactics).

  Patrick Lencioni

  Teamwork, Strong, Simple

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• The outcome of fear is disappointment and shyness is frustration.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Disappointment, Frustration, Insightful

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• We know over very national survival is at stake; and we believe that we should support our troops, yes, and work for an outcome that results in victory.

  J. D. Hayworth

  Believe, Support, Survival

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• It is suggested that in domestic violence at least the presence or absence of a firearm, or of any other type of weapon, is of far less importance to the outcome than the passion generated in the attacker. The man who has lost control will cause serious injuries in many cases, quite irrespective of the weapon he uses and regardless of the certainty of detections and punishment.

  Colin Greenwood

  Passion, Men, Domestic Violence

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• The great fear that I have regarding the outcome for America of these disclosures is that nothing will change. [People] won't be willing to take the risks necessary to stand up and fight to change things And in the months ahead, the years ahead, it's only going to get worse. [The NSA will] say that because of the crisis, the dangers that we face in the world, some new and unpredicted threat, we need more authority, we need more power, and there will be nothing the people can do at that point to oppose it. And it will be turnkey tyranny.

  Edward Snowden

  Fighting, Years, Nsa

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• The greatest fear that I have regarding the outcome for America of these disclosures is that nothing will change.

  Edward Snowden

  Greatest Fear, Nsa, America

  "Edward Snowden hailed as hero, accused of treason - as it happened". www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2013.

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• And yet as a coach, I know that being fixated on winning (or more likely, not losing) is counterproductive, especially when it causes you to lose control of your emotions. What’s more, obsessing about winning is a loser’s game: The most we can hope for is to create the best possible conditions for success, then let go of the outcome. The ride is a lot more fun that way.

  Phil Jackson

  Letting Go, Fun, Winning

  Phil Jackson, Hugh Delehanty (2013). “Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success”, p.23, Penguin

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• A lawyers performance in the courtroom is responsible for about 25 percent of the outcome; the remaining 75 percent depends on the facts.

  Melvin Belli

  Facts, Lawyer, Responsible

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• I resisted using EHRs while an internist in Boston, as I wrote in my blog, ‘Why Be a Meaningful User.’ Over time, however, I found that working with health IT made me a better and safer physician. Most importantly, my patients received better, safer care and improved outcomes.

  David Blumenthal

  Meaningful, Boston, Care

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• The outcome of the world, the gates of the future, the entry into the super-human - these are not thrown open to a few of the privileged nor to one chosen people to the exclusion of all others. They will open only to an advance of all together, in a direction in which all together can join and find completion in a spiritual renovation of the earth.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Spiritual, People, Together

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• Once the 'portals of the future close - in Amazonia, Siberia or the Arctic - we will find ourselves powerless to affect the outcome of this dreadful tale.

  Mark Lynas

  Climate, Portal, Arctic

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• Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Civilization, Quality

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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• Hitler is an outcome of Rousseau.

  Bertrand Russell

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “History of Western Philosophy: Collectors Edition”, p.551, Routledge

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• Coaching is effective self-expression in the coach/client relationship so that you catalyze your clients' manifestation of their own desired outcomes.

  Patrick Williams

  Self, Expression, Coaching

  Lloyd J. Thomas, Patrick Williams (2011). “Total Life Coaching: 50+ Life Lessons, Skills, and Techniques to Enhance Your Practice . . . and Your Life”, p.2, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It would be a mistake to ascribe this creative power to an inborn talent. In art, the genius creator is not just a gifted being, but a person who has succeeded in arranging for their appointed end, a complex of activities, of which the work is the outcome. The artist begins with a vision — a creative operation requiring an effort. Creativity takes courage.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Mistake, Creativity

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• I took the game seriously. It was my profession. My teammates also took losing hard. We would all sit in the locker room after losing a big game and talk about how we could have done something differently to change the outcome

  Walt Frazier

  Games, Done, Teammate

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• Given our inevitably incomplete knowledge about key structural aspects of our ever-changing economy and the sometimes asymmetric costs or benefits of particular outcomes, a central bank... need to consider not only the most likely future path for the economy but also the distribution of possible outcomes about that path. They then need to reach a judgment about the probabilities, costs, and benefits of the various possible outcomes under alternative choices for policy.

  Alan Greenspan

  Keys, Incomplete Knowledge, Choices

  "Monetary Policy under Uncertainty". Alan Greenspan's Remarks At a symposium sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, www.federalreserve.gov. August 29, 2003.

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• Simplicity is the outcome of technical subtlety; it is the goal, not the starting point.

  Maurice Saatchi

  Goal, Simplicity, Starting

  "Maurice Saatchi on his 'brutal simplicity of thought'" by Steve Armstrong, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2010.

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• Evaluate wins and losses objectively, focusing more on effort and execution than on the outcome of the game

  Morgan Wootten

  Basketball, Loss, Winning

  Morgan Wootten, Joe Wootten (2012). “Coaching Basketball Successfully-3rd Edition”, p.15, Human Kinetics

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