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• Nature set a limit on sleep - as it did on eating and drinking. And youre over the limit. But not of working. There youre still below your quota. You dont love yourself enough. Or youd love your nature too and what it demands of you. People who love what they do wear themselves down doing it. They even forget to wash and eat.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Drinking, Love You, Sleep

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• Happily, there's a reversal of the brain drain occurring in Ghana now. We're seeing a lot of - actually in Africa - we're seeing a lot of African professionals, you know, returning to the continent to contribute their quota.

  John Dramani Mahama

  Ghana, Brain, Drains

  "Ghana's New President Shaped By A Violent Past". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. July 25, 2012.

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• Between the Community Redevelopment Act, requiring banks to make what I would call very weak loans, and specific quotas that the Congress imposed on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, that created the market demand that really led to the subprime phenomenon.

  Wilbur Ross

  Community, Demand, Weak

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• In Puritan thinking, the Christian life was a heroic venture, requiring a full quota of energy.

  Leland Ryken

  Christian, Thinking, Energy

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• Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.

  Gunter Grass

  Class, Feelings, Mind

  "From the Diary of a Snail". Book by Gunter Grass, www.theguardian.com. 1972.

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• Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.

  Jack Kemp

  Ideas, Liberty, Genius

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• One must put things in perspective - I've been given a circumstance with very little time to catch form and try and get an Olympic quota for the country.

  Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

  Country, Perspective, Trying

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• It pisses me off to think we're conditioned to push away bad feelings and think anything that's uncomfortable is to be avoided. When things are really bad nowadays, I recognize the value in it because it's me filling my quota- it's going to make my joy more intense later.

  Fiona Apple

  Thinking, Joy, Feelings

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. June 4, 2012.

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• Since governmental quotas expand bureaucratic power, provoke a backlash and are unfair to individuals, we need to find a better way to increase minority opportunities.

  Marvin Olasky

  Opportunity, Needs, Minorities

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• Though editorialists at The New York Times and The Washington Post still don't get it, most Democrats in Congress finally do: Today's trade disputes are no longer mostly about tariffs, quotas, or free entry of goods. They are about the ground rules for capitalism. Are there to be only property rights? What about the other rights that liberal democracies have fought for since the 1880s?

  Robert Kuttner

  New York, Democracies Have, Rights

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• We believe that visa quotas should be lifted and people should visit anywhere they wish freely.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Believe, People, Wish

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• I set myself 600 words a day as a minimum output, regardless of the weather, my state of mind or if I'm sick or well. There must be 600 finished words — not almost right words. Before you ask, I'll tell you that yes, I do write 600 at the top of my pad every day, and I keep track of the word count to insure I reach my quota daily — without fail.

  Arthur Hailey

  Writing, Weather, Track

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• What workers must learn is that the only reason why wage rates are higher in the United States is that the per head quota of capital invested is higher.

  Ludwig von Mises

  United States, Reason Why, Rate

  Ludwig Von Mises (2008). “Planning for Freedom: Let the Market System Work : a Collection of Essays and Addresses”

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• We have entered an Orwellian era in which entitlement replaces responsibility, coercion is described as compassion, compulsory redistribution is called sharing, race quotas substitute for diversity, and suicide is prescribed as 'death with dignity.' Political discourse has become completely corrupted. The reason is that if you tell people directly that you want to raise their taxes, transfer their wealth, count them by skin color, or let doctors kill them, most will object. Statists know this and therefore are obliged to obfuscate.

  Theodore J. Forstmann

  Suicide, Responsibility, Compassion

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• The parliamentary principle of vesting legislative power in the decision of the majority rejects the authority of the individual and puts a numerical quota of anonymous heads in its place. In doing so it contradicts the aristocratic principle, which is a fundamental law of nature.

  Adolf Hitler

  Law, Decision, Majority

  Adolf Hitler (2016). “Mein Kampf”, p.161, Adolf Hitler

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• Nobody thinks quotas are a great win for women - the win would be removing the discrimination and inequality that creates under-representation in the first place. But in the short term, alongside other measures, they can be an effective way to make progress happen faster.

  Laura Bates

  Winning, Thinking, Progress

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• The quota idea is a good one, but there are two problems with it. The first is clear: A quota system would also require all European countries to be prepared to take refugees. And secondly: What happens when the quota has been filled? Would we then simply tell those who are threatened, sorry but we have to send you back?

  Martin Schulz

  Country, Sorry, Ideas

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It will afford me unfeigned satisfaction if my kingdom can add its quota toward the successful accomplishment of the most important astronomical observation of the present century and assist, however humbly, the enlightened nations of the earth in these costly enterprises .

  Kalakaua

  Successful, Accomplishment, Important

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• If one defines the term 'dropout' to mean a person who has given up serious effort to meet his responsibilities, then every business office, government agency, golf club and university faculty would yield its quota.

  John W. Gardner

  Work, Mean, Responsibility

  John W. Gardner (1971). “The Recovery of Confidence”

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• Women do not enter a profession in significant numbers until it is physically safe. So until we care enough about men's safety to turn the death professions into safe professions, we in effect discriminate against women. But when we overprotect women and only women it also leads to discrimination against women. ...If [an employer works] for a large company for which quotas prevent discrimination, they find themselves increasingly hiring free-lancers rather than taking on a woman and therefore a possible sexual harassment lawsuit.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Numbers, Safety

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Learning, Knowledge, Management

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• That diabolical Hell conceived principle of persecution rages amoung some and to their eternal Infamy the Clergy can furnish their Quota of Imps for such business.

  James Madison

  Religious, Religion, Liberty

  James Madison (1867). “1769-1793. v.2. 1794-1815. v.3. 1816-1828. v.4. 1829-1836”, p.12

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• Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage pricing mechanism. In the process we have created [a] privileged elite whose incomes are being supported at non-competitively high levels by immigration quotas on skilled professionals. Eliminating such restrictions would reduce at least some of the income inequality.

  Alan Greenspan

  America, Labor Force, Competition

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• I cannot kill him, she muttered to herself. I cannot kill him. I promised Bianka I'd stop at ten bodies a day, and I've already surpassed my quota for the fifth day in a row. I cannot kill him.

  Gena Showalter

  Body, Fifth, Ten

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Secret”, p.150, HQN Books

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• It was right then and there that she'd realized there was no quota on misery for people, no quantifiable threshold that once reached, got you miraculously taken out of the distress pool.

  J.R. Ward

  Taken, People, Misery

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4”, p.735, Penguin

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