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• Let us be clear about our choice. When we raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans, no one dies. When we cut Social Security and Medicare, people die.

  Annabel Park

  Cutting, People, Choices

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• It's not the world that needs to change - it's our consciousness we must raise

  Rasheed Ogunlaru

  Needs, World, Consciousness

  Rasheed Ogunlaru (2012). “Soul Trader: Putting the Heart Back into Your Business”, p.249, Kogan Page Publishers

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• To quote a recent customer email, “I really appreciate your thoughtful and professional response. I don’t get that a lot from customer service. Usually, it’s scripted nonsense that makes it seem like I’ve done something wrong. You’ve single-handedly improved my perception tenfold. Someone there ought to give you a pay raise."

  Matt Mickiewicz

  Thoughtful, Appreciate, Giving

  "12 Surefire Strategies to Increase Customer Loyalty". www.businessinsider.com. June 26, 2012.

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• Well, jobs are a great thing. You have to be a bit careful: If you raise the minimum wage, you’re encouraging labor substitution and you’re going to go buy machines and automate things - or cause jobs to appear outside of that jurisdiction. And so within certain limits, you know, it does cause job destruction. If you really start pushing it, then you’re just making a huge trade-off.

  Bill Gates

  Jobs, Doe, Machines

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• Malala Day is not my day. It is the day of every girl and every boy. It is a day when we come together to raise our voices, so that those without a voice can be heard.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Girl, Boys, Voice

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• We should not wait for someone else to come and raise our voice. We should do it by ourselves. We should believe in ourselves. One day you will see that all the girls will be powerful; All the girls will be going to school. And it is possible only by our struggle; only when we raise our voice.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Girl, Powerful, Believe

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• You become what you do. How and what you become depends on environmental influence so you become who you hang around. Raise the standard your peers must meet and you'll raise your expectations of yourself. If your environment is not making you better, change it.

  Mark Twight

  Expectations, Environmental, Peers

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• I encourage you from the depths of my heart and being to know that you have the full capacity and the right to make changes that will enliven your awareness, raise the succulent joy in your heart, and experience the vitality that comes from living in balance.

  David Simon

  Heart, Joy, Balance

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• It must be awfully frustrating to get a small raise at work and then have it all eaten by a higher cost of commuting.

  Ben Bernanke

  Cost, Frustrating, Higher

  "Diane Sawyer Says 'That Republicans See Ben Bernanke As A Villain'". "ABC World News" with Diane Sawyer, www.newsbusters.org. March 28, 2012.

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• We need fathers to step up, to realize that their job does not end at conception; that what makes you a man is not the ability to have a child but the courage to raise one.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Children, Father

  "Barack Obama: 'We Need Fathers To Step Up'" by Barack Obama, parade.com. June 16, 2011.

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• The artist must try to raise the level of taste of the masses, not debase himself to the level of unformed and impoverished taste.

  Diego Rivera

  Artist, Trying, Levels

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• Do not lower your goals to the level of your abilities. Instead, raise your abilities to the height of your goals.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Goal, Levels

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• In Greece, the unemployment rate has risen to 22%. The solution to the problem was to raise taxes on the rich, according to the Greek president Barack Obama-opolis.

  Jay Leno

  Greek, President, Unemployment

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• The water vessel, taken as a vessel only, raises the question, "Why does it exist at all?" Through its fitness of construction, it offers the apology for its existence. But where it is a work of beauty it has no question to answer; it has nothing to do, but to be.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Taken, Apology, Water

  Rabindranath Tagore (2015). “Creative Unity”, p.6, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.

  Ramakrishna

  Wind, Grace, Sail

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• Your greatest accomplishment may not be something you do but someone you raise.

  Andy Stanley

  Accomplishment, May, Greatest Accomplishment

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• Perfect prayer does not consist in many words, but in the fervor of the desire which raises the heart to Jesus.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Prayer, Heart

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.4, New World Library

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• Take a stand for what's right. Raise a ruckus and make a change. You may not always be popular, but you'll be part of something larger and bigger and greater than yourself. Besides, making history is extremely cool.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  May, Making Changes, Bigger

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• Everything that you do or say that raises the self-esteem of another raises yours as well.

  Brian Tracy

  Self Esteem, Wells, Self

  Brian Tracy (1998). “The Gift of Self-Confidence”, p.40, Jaico Publishing House

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• Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.
  If we were born to paint, it’s our job to become a painter.
  If we were born to raise and nurture children, it’s our job to become a mother.
  If we were born to overthrow the order of ignorance and injustice of the world, it’s our job to realize it and get down to business.

  Steven Pressfield

  Mother, Jobs, Children

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• It may take a village to raise a baby, but hell! it takes an army to produce a book.

  Sara Sheridan

  Baby, Book, Army

  Sara Sheridan (2016). “Brighton Belle”, p.247, Kensington

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• Remember that you are not called to produce successful, upwardly mobile, highly educated, athletically talented machines...Givi ng your children great opportunities is good; it is not, however, the goal of parenting. Christlikeness is. Above all, seek to raise children who look and act a lot like Jesus.

  Chip Ingram

  Jesus, Children, Successful

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• Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Rise to their needs.

  Barack Obama

  Success, Thinking, Needs

  Barack Obama’s Commencement Address at Arizona State University, www.nytimes.com. May 14, 2009.

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• I want that love that moved the mountains.
  I want that love that split the ocean.
  I want that love that made the winds tremble.
  I want that love that roared like thunder.
  I want that love that will raise the dead.
  I want that love that lifts us to ecstasy.
  I want that love that is the silence of eternity.

  Rumi

  Ocean, Wind, Silence

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• Food served is always more than just food served. That is to say, it is more than just fuel for the body. Depending upon who has prepared the food and who has served it and with what spirit, it can uplift the - and around the world, in every culture, food is used to flirt, to be coy, a raise in the employment or to search for employment. It can bring warring factions together.

  Maya Angelou

  Uplifting, Flirting, Together

  "'The Welcome Table': Recipes from Maya Angelou". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. October 26, 2005.

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