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• The existence of poverty in the US should not be accepted as a necessary evil or insoluble problem, but should be considered a crisis requiring emergency measures. It is a matter of will and priorities, not a matter of resources.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Evil, Matter, Emergencies

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• I intend to lead my party, which is the only party that has a serious policy on the No. 1 priority of the people and that is the economy.

  Stephen Harper

  Party, People, Serious

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• Port Security is one of our weakest security links, and it must be one of our highest priorities.

  Kendrick Meek

  Links, Port, Highest

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• The United States is in the midst of many spirited political debates about national priorities and public spending... However, we have found that science is an area where both political parties can find common ground, and in which political change does not necessarily create discontinuities.

  John Gibbons

  Party, Political, Doe

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• We have our core values as a family, and we've kept them, that's our number one priority is making sure our kids know that so they also will have the same values, no matter what circumstances come your way.

  Missy Robertson

  Kids, Numbers, Matter

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• The vital difference between dreamers and achievers boils down to some very basic, simple habits. People with clear, 'written-out' goals who consistently honor their defined priorities tend to get results faster than others, and enjoy a greater level of happiness and long-term success in all areas of life.

  Chalene Johnson

  Simple, Differences, Long

  Chalene Johnson (2012). “Push (Enhanced Edition): 30 Days to Turbocharged Habits, a Bangin' Body, and the Life You Deserve!”, p.12, Rodale

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• In this great country of ours, it is inexcusable that so many children grow up in poverty and despair. The well-being of our children must be the national priority and the responsibility of every individual.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Children, Growing Up

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• Organize and execute around priorities.

  Stephen Covey

  Put First Things First, Organize

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.367, Simon and Schuster

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• ...the priority of the Democrats and Republicans...is to preserve...power when [they have] it, and to gain power when [they do not]. [Their] collective priority...is to make sure that, together, they control the electoral process and under no circumstances allow an independent or third party to infringe on their exclusive franchise.

  Jesse Ventura

  Party, Independent, Together

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• I think what's been lacking from our discussion for a long time is really that other part of what a Budget chair does, which is set the priorities for this country in terms of making sure we invest in the right places, in education, in job training, and to make sure we do a balanced approach moving forward.

  Patty Murray

  Country, Jobs, Moving

  "Murray: I will chair Senate Budget" by Scott Wong, www.politico.com. November 15, 2012.

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• Putting first things first means organizing and executing around your most important priorities. It is living and being driven by the principles you value most, not by the agendas and forces surrounding you.

  Stephen Covey

  Mean, Important, Principles

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

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• In a world of turmoil and uncertainty, it is more important than ever to make our families the center of our lives and the top of our priorities.

  L. Tom Perry

  Important, World, Turmoil

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• The test of policy is how it ends, not how it begins. Foreign policy is the art of establishing priorities. Demonization is not a policy; it is an alibi for the absence of one. The test is not absolute satisfaction but balanced dissatisfaction.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Art, Tests, Satisfaction

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• It's a good idea to prioritize your life and not making drinking the top priority. I think there are aspects of it that definitely illuminate bad decisions and how they'll negatively affect you.

  Madeline Zima

  Drinking, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• The president [Barack Obama] understands that the country's very concerned about [terrorism] issue. And I think what you're going to hear from him is a discussion about what government's doing to ensure all of our highest priority, the protection of the American people.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Thinking, Issues

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• We think of prices as simply the notation of how much we must pay for things. But the price system accomplishes far more than that. Hundreds of millions of people buying and selling, and abstaining from buying and selling, generate a system of signals - prices to producers and consumers about relative scarcities and demand. Through this system, consumers can convey to producers their subjective priorities and entrepreneurs can invest accordingly.

  Sheldon Richman

  Thinking, People, Entrepreneur

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• Question your priorities often, make sure God always comes first.

  Louis Pasteur

  Firsts

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• It's hard being a rock; they have such a strange sense of time - and priorities.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Rocks, Strange, Hard

  Mercedes Lackey (2016). “The Last Herald-Mage Trilogy”, p.394, Penguin

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• When our priorities are out of order, we lose power. It takes personal revelation every day to help us prioritize and keep at bay the influences of the world that would draw us from what we are to do.

  Julie B. Beck

  Order, World, Helping

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• Something is mighty wrong with our priorities when professing Christian men joke about their wives, joke about their children, and joke about God, but fight to the death over their favorite sports team.

  Doug Phillips

  Sports, Christian, Children

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• One man's priority is another man's extravagence.

  Edwina Currie

  Character, Men, Another Man

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• I am not running as Son of Margaret Thatcher. I have my own priorities and my own programmes.

  John Major

  Running, Son, My Own

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• Control your time. If you're working off your in-box, you're working off the priorities of others. Be sure the staff is working on what you move to them from the President, or the President will be reacting, not leading.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Moving, President, Staff

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• Selling more of what you sell has nothing to do with what you sell. It has everything to do with your prospect's wants, needs, fears, goals, values and priorities.

  Don Cooper

  Selling More, Goal, Needs

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• I love working and I feel satisfied when I know I have literally given all the energy that I have. That being said, work is not my No. 1 priority. I don't think it can come at the expense of your family, your friends and your 'significant other' if you have one.

  Anne Hathaway

  Thinking, Energy, Significant

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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