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• Parenting classes should be mandatory, whether you are adopting or not, and would include an evaluation of your current physical, mental and financial state as well as how ready you are to take on the rigors of parenthood. Our children are our most precious natural resource, and there is absolutely no other way to parent but to put them first.

  Dale Archer

  Children, Parenting, Class

  "Not Everyone Deserves to Have Children" by Dale Archer, www.foxnews.com. April 15, 2010.

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• Once we get three more directors elected, the Sierra Club will no longer be pro-hunting and pro-trapping and we can use the resources of the $95-million-a-year budget to address some of these issues.

  Paul Watson

  Animal, Hunting, Years

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• The best way to support dreams and stretch is to set apart small ideas with big potential, then give people positive role models and the resources to turn small projects into big businesses.

  Jack Welch

  Leadership, Dream, Ideas

  "Jack: Straight from the Gut". Book by Jack Welch, 2001.

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• It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upon which the race depends for food, clothing and shelter, should be owned collectively by the race instead of being the private property of a few social parasites.

  Ralph Chaplin

  Believe, Race, World

  Ralph Chaplin, Ben Hur Lampman, Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. Dept. of Research and Education (1971). “The Centralia case: three views of the Armistice Day tragedy at Centralia, Washington, Novemeber 11, 1919: The Centralia conspiracy”, Da Capo Pr

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• India is going to be the 21st century's Saudi Arabia in terms of human resources

  Rahul Gandhi

  India, Arabia, Century

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• Twitter is the people’s tool, the tool of the ordinary people, people who have no other resources.

  Ai Weiwei

  People, Ordinary, Tools

  "Is Twitter a Human Right? One Chinese Activist Thinks So" by Catherine Ventura, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 17, 2012.

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• In handling resources, strive to avoid disaster rather than to attain an optimum.

  Butler Lampson

  Strive, Disaster, Optimum

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• Costa Rica remains peacefully and firmly committed to the well- being and safety of our population. We promote a model of development based upon harmony with nature; solidarity and social inclusion; economic and trade opening; development of our human resources, and innovation.

  Laura Chinchilla

  Safety, Innovation, Population

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• I had about the biggest, longest wish list anyone could have, and 99 percent of what I wanted to get on the screen we got on the screen within our schedule and within our budget and within our resources.

  Brad Bird

  Wish, Lists, Schedules

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• Canada is either an idea or it does not exist. It is either an intellectual undertaking or it is little more than a resource-rich vacuum lying in the buffer zone just north of a great empire.

  John Ralston Saul

  Lying, Ideas, Intellectual

  "Reflections of a Siamese Twin". Book by John Ralston Saul, 1997.

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• But despite the universality of URLs, we often forget that they're not just a handy way to address network resources. They're also valuable communication tools.

  Jesse James Garrett

  Communication, Tools, Addresses

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• The splendors of earth do not simply lie in their roles as human resources, supports of culture, or stimulators of experience.

  Holmes Rolston III

  Lying, Support, Culture

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• The biggest problems are the damn national sectors of these developing countries. These countries think that they have the right to develop their resources as they see fit. They want to become powers.

  Thomas Lovejoy

  Country, Thinking, Want

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• It is my expectation that Teacher Education for Democracy and Social Justice will become a rich resource for continuing this multi-layered conversation-from democratic belief to democratic action-that is the hallmark of educational renewal.

  John Goodlad

  Teacher, Educational, Justice

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• A service is said to be scalable if when we increase the resources in a system, it results in increased performance in a manner proportional to resources added.

  Werner Vogels

  Increase, Results, Said

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• Well, maybe not death panels, exactly, but unless we start allocating health-care resources more prudently – rationing, by its proper name – the exploding cost of Medicare will swamp the federal budget.

  Steven Rattner

  Names, Swamps, Care

  "Beyond Obamacare". www.nytimes.com. September 16, 2012.

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• Corporate governance is concerned with holding the balance between economic and social goals and between individual and communal goals. The governance framework is there to encourage the efficient use of resources and equally to require accountability for the stewardship of those resources. The aim is to align as nearly as possible the interests of individuals, corporations and society.

  Adrian Cadbury

  Goal, Accountability, Balance

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• Women are the primary resource of the planet. They give birth, we come from them. They are mothers, they are visionaries, they are the future. If we can figure out how to make women feel safe and honor women, it would be parallel or equal to honoring life itself.

  Eve Ensler

  Mother, Giving, Honor

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• We need to revise our economic thinking to give full value to our natural resources. This revised economics will stabilize both the theory and the practice of free-market capitalism. It will provide business and public policy with a powerful new tool for economic development, profitability, and the promotion of the public good.

  Paul Hawken

  Powerful, Thinking, Practice

  "Capital Gains" by Paul Hawken, www.motherjones.com. March/April 1997.

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• I would not have the Justice Department prosecuting and raiding medical marijuana users. It's not a good use of our resources.

  Barack Obama

  Marijuana, Justice, Use

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• Strategic management is not a box of tricks or a bundle of techniques. It is analytical thinking and commitment of resources to action. But quantification alone is not planning. Some of the most important issues in strategic management cannot be quantified at all.

  Peter Drucker

  Commitment, Thinking, Issues

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• The opportunities and threats existing in any situation always exceed the resources needed to exploit the opportunities or avoid the threats. Thus, strategy is essentially a problem of allocating resources. If strategy is to be successful, it must allocate superior resources against a decisive opportunity.

  William Cohen

  Successful, Opportunity, Problem

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• The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail.

  John Wesley Powell

  Art, Illustration, Speech

  John Wesley Powell (2008). “Canyons of the Colorado”, p.394, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It's not about the resources you have available. It's about the resourcefulness you have within you.

  Tony Robbins

  Within You, Available, Resourcefulness

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• Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow... the creation of new wilderness in the full sense of the word is impossible.

  Aldo Leopold

  Impossible, Wilderness, Creation

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.234, Library of America

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