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Most of the birds of the Old World can be found here, as Oman is on a strategic route for migrating birds

Saadi

Bird, World, Found

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Mathematics may be likened to a large rock whose interior composition we wish to examine. The older mathematicians appear as persevering stone cutters slowly attempting to demolish the rock from the outside with hammer and chisel. The later mathematicians resemble expert miners who seek vulnerable veins, drill into these strategic places, and then blast the rock apart with well placed internal charges.

Howard Whitley Eves

Math, Rocks, Wish

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And in the last sentence I would like also to mention that Poland is one of the countries with which the United States has run strategic dialogues since last year.

Marek Belka

Running, Country, Years

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There were no strategic mistakes that could affect Russia's history and it further development. No, there were no such mistakes. Tactical errors were made in some less significant options, problems and so on. But, on the whole, Russia embarked on a correct path and it changed.

Boris Yeltsin

Mistake, Errors, Russia

"Zerkalo", www.russialist.org. December 29, 2001.

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I do not play chess – I fight at chess. Therefore, I willingly combine the tactical with the strategic, the fantastic with the scientific, the combinative with the positional, and I aim to respond to the demands of each given position.

Alexander Alekhine

Fighting, Play, Style

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The incredible brand awareness and bottom-line profits achievable through social media marketing require hustle, heart, sincerity, constant engagement, long-term commitment, and most of all, artful and strategic storytelling.

Gary Vaynerchuk

Heart, Commitment, Media

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The strategic initiatives we propose to undertake as part of our plan over the next few years position us well to lead this evolution.

Azim Premji

Years, Next, Evolution

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America won the Cold War by protecting our strategic resources from the threat of foreign control. We must bring the same attitude to our trade relationship with China.

Jo Ann Emerson

Attitude, War, America

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In every company which I have done strategic planning, the number-one value people choose is always integrity. The second values may be quality of products and services, caring about people, excellent customer service, profitability , innovation, entrepreneurship, and others. But integrity always comes first.

Brian Tracy

Integrity, Caring, Numbers

Brian TRACY (2009). “Reinvention: How to Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life”, p.75, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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Simplicity and common sense should characterize planning and strategic direction.

Ingvar Kamprad

Ikea, Common Sense, Simplicity

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The U.S. is looking to India as more then just a marketplace for our defense products, but as a technology, aerospace and strategic partner for our future endeavors.

Christopher Bond

Technology, Aerospace, India

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The most important thing you can have is a good strategic asset allocation mix. So, what the investor needs to do is have a balanced, structured portfolio – a portfolio that does well in different environments…. we don't know that we're going to win. We have to have diversified bets.

Ray Dalio

Winning, Important, Doe

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Bill Clinton pandered by telling you what you wanted to hear. John Kerry panders by never telling you what you don't want to hear. This is negative pandering; he talks a lot without really ruling anything out so you can draw your own conclusions.....Kerry has been talking for years, and yet such is the thicket of his verbiage that he has achieved almost complete strategic ambiguity.

David Brooks

Talking, Years, Interesting

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America has a strategic interest in continuing to welcome international students at our colleges, universities, and high schools. Attracting the world's top scientific scholars helps to keep our economy competitive.

Norm Coleman

School, College, America

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The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the edification and pleasure of future generations. This imperative rightfully takes precedence over acquisition, interpretation, outreach, or any number of other activities now believed to be crucial to the survival of our great art repositories. Sometimes a museum gains its holdings with much strategic forethought, and at other times serendipitously, as when a long-coveted neighbor’s plot suddenly becomes available. Yet the moral responsibility remains the same.

Martin Filler

Art, Responsibility, Numbers

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It is true that at the time [1962] we had a strategic nuclear force of approximately five thousand warheads compared to the Soviet's three hundred.

Robert McNamara

Time, Three, Nuclear

Robert S. McNamara (1988). “The first century of the nuclear age: can we survive it”

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It may seem odd to talk about something as soft and fuzzy as "passion" as an integral part of a strategic framework. But throughout the good-to-great companies, passion became a key part of the Hedgehog Concept.

James C. Collins

Business, Passion, Keys

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It is in line with the fundamental interests of the two peoples for China and Afghanistan to strengthen a strategic and cooperative partnership, which is also conducive to regional peace, stability and development.

Zhou Yongkang

Two, Fundamentals, Development

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Christians are God's delivery people, through whom he does his giving to a needy world. We are conduits of God's grace to others. Our eternal investment portfolio should be full of the most strategic kingdom-building projects to which we can disburse God's funds.

Randy Alcorn

Christian, People, Giving

Randy Alcorn (2011). “Money, Possessions, and Eternity”, p.463, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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...but highly placed sources within the Kennedy Administration disagreed: "[T]he assumption that the strategic nuclear balance mattered in any way was wrong... As far as I am concerned, it made no difference... If my memory serves me correctly, we had some five thousand strategic nuclear warheads as against t heir three hundred. Can anyone seriously tell me that their having three hundred and forty would have made any difference? The military balance wasn't changed. I didn't believe it then, and I don't believe it now..."

Robert McNamara

Memories, Military, Believe

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The end is what you want, the means is how you get it. Whenever we think about social change, the question of means and ends arises. The man of action views the issue of means and ends in pragmatic and strategic terms. He has no other problem; he thinks only of his actual resources and the possibilities of various choices of action. He asks of ends only whether they are achievable and worth the cost; of means, only whether they will work. ... The real arena is corrupt and bloody.

Saul Alinsky

Real, Mean, Men

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Peace with Israel is a strategic imperative for Jordan.

Abdallah II

Israel, Jordan, Imperatives

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The costs savings was a big win, but now we also have a schedule of events and are clearly aware of when our contracts begin and end...we are much more strategic about how we source now.

Jason Kennedy

Winning, Insightful, Events

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I support such a review, ... But the reality is that we don't need the results of a strategic study to know that there are some pressing problems in our military that demand our attention and our assistance now.

Joe Lieberman

Military, Reality, Support

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I am very pleased with the progress of the new CBS Corporation. The Company's rapid pace of change and innovative approach to emerging business opportunities can be seen in the many strategic announcements we have made over these past few months. The more focused and more nimble organization we sought to create has become a reality and that aggressive spirit of excellence and innovation will continue to benefit shareholders for many years to come.

Sumner Redstone

Past, Opportunity, Reality

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