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• I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.

  Henry Moore

  Inspirational, New Year, Educational

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• It is our experience that the nation doesn't move around questions of genuine equality for the poor and for black people until it is confronted massively, dramatically in terms of direct action.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Moving, Direct Action, People

  "Blacklivesmatter protests shut down major highway in Boston, 29 arrested" by Adam Fleischer, www.mtv.com. January 15, 2015.

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• In dealing with those who are undergoing great suffering, if you feel "burnout" setting in, if you feel demoralized and exhausted, it is best, for the sake of everyone, to withdraw and restore yourself. The point is to have a long-term perspective.

  Dalai Lama

  Caring, Long, Perspective

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• I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.

  Dan Millman

  Motivational, Basketball, Spiritual

  Dan Millman (2010). “Living on Purpose: Straight Answers to Universal Questions”, p.75, New World Library

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• I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?

  Nicholas Sparks

  Relationship, Mean, Long

  "The Last Song". Book by Nicholas Sparks, September 1, 2009.

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• Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you're proud to live.

  Anne Sweeney

  Positive, Inspiring, Success

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• Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.

  Joshua L. Liebman

  Life, Motivational, Positive

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• The reason why new concepts in any branch of science are hard to grasp is always the same; contemporary scientists try to picture the new concept in terms of ideas which existed before.

  Freeman Dyson

  Science, Ideas, Trying

  Freeman Dyson (2013). “FROM EROS TO GAIA”, p.133, Pantheon

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• Affirmative action is not going to be the long-term solution to the problems of race in America, because, frankly, if you've got 50 percent of African-American or Latino kids dropping out of high school, it doesn't really matter what you do in terms of affirmative action. Those kids aren't going to college.

  Barack Obama

  School, Kids, College

  "Late Edition" with Wolf Blitzer, edition.cnn.com. July 27, 2008.

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• I am appalled that the term we use to talk about aging is 'anti'. Aging is human evolution in its pure form. Death, taxes and aging .... We are ALL going to age and soften and mellow and transition.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Age, Transition, Use

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• In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me happier to do well at school and become successful. But in the VERY long term, I know which will make better memories.

  Bill Watterson

  Memories, School, Successful

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• Entrepreneurship rests on a theory of economy and society. The theory sees change as normal and indeed as healthy. And it sees the major task in society – and especially in the economy – as doing something different rather than doing better what is already being done. This is basically what Say, two hundred years ago, meant when he coined the term entrepreneur.

  Peter Drucker

  Years, Two, Entrepreneur

  "Innovation and Entrepreneurship".

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• By saying you don’t care if the world falls apart, in some small way you’re saying you want it to stay together, on your own terms.

  John Green

  Fall, Together, World

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• Our emotional mind will harness the rational mind to its purposes, for our feelings and reactions-- rationalizations-- justifying them in terms of the present moment, without realizing the influence of our emotional memory.

  Daniel Goleman

  Memories, Emotional, Feelings

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.435, Bantam

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• We have always tried to concentrate on the long term, and to place bets on technology we believe will have a significant impact over time. It's hard to imagine now, but when we started Google most people thought search was a solved problem and that there was no money to be made apart from some banner advertising. We felt the exact opposite: that search quality was very poor, and that awesome user experiences would clearly make money.

  Larry Page

  Money, Believe, Technology

  "Larry Page Just Put Out A Big Manifesto" by Matt Lynley, www.businessinsider.com. April 5, 2012.

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• Offer your customers a long-term relationship, then do everything possible to build and maintain it.

  Brian Tracy

  Educational, Long, Offers

  Brian Tracy (1998). “Successful Selling”, p.23, Jaico Publishing House

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• It's a lot easier to see, at least in some cases, what the long-term limits of the possible will be, because they depend on natural law. But it's much harder to see just what path we will follow in heading toward those limits.

  K. Eric Drexler

  Law, Long, Term Limits

  Foresight Institute Interview, www.foresight.org. June 15, 1987.

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• An international race in the relevant technologies is getting under way at this point, not necessarily with an understanding of where that race leads in the long run, but strongly motivated by the short-term payoffs.

  K. Eric Drexler

  Running, Technology, Race

  Foresight Institute Interview, www.foresight.org. June 15, 1987.

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• Meditation is nothing but coming to terms with your inner emptiness: recognizing it, not escaping; living through it, not escaping; being through it, not escaping. Then suddenly the emptiness becomes the fullness of life.

  Rajneesh

  Fullness Of Life, Escaping, Meditation

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• The Battle for the Philippines was the greatest naval battle in history, judged in terms of the number of ships taking part, the number of ships sunk, and the importance of its outcome. It included every form of naval warfare of the 20th century: gunnery duels between battleships; destroyer battles at night and by day, as ferocious and sustained as any at the Battle of Jutland; submarines that stalked the depths; sinking many ships; and finally, carrier warfare on a scale never dreamed of even by the most ardent enthusiasts of air warfare at sea.

  Richard Hough

  Night, Naval Warfare, Numbers

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• The error which underlies the very existence of this debate is that there is some kind of perfect Platonic form of the computer language, which some real languages reflect more perfectly than others. Plato was brilliant for his time but reality is not expressable in terms of arbitrary visions of perfection, and furthermore, one programmer's ideal is often another's hell.

  Paul Vixie

  Plato, Real, Errors

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• Long term, the PC and workstation will wither because computing access will be everywhere: in the walls, on wrists, and in 'scrap computers' lying about waiting to be grabbed as needed.

  Mark Weiser

  Wall, Lying, Long

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• I have redefined the so-called East-West relationship as essentially one of conflict, while it had previously been treated in romantic terms.

  Tayeb Salih

  East, West, Conflict

  "Sudanese novelist Tayeb Salih dies aged 80" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2009.

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• Discipleship' as a term has lost its content, and this is one reason why it has been moved aside. I've tried to redeem the idea of discipleship, and I think it can be done; you have to get it out of the contemporary mode.

  Dallas Willard

  Thinking, Ideas, Done

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