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• I did a week-long assessment in 2005 at (then Defense Secretary Donald) Rumsfeld's request. Following our return, I told him that Afghanistan was going to be the longest campaign of what we then termed "the long war."

  David Petraeus

  War, Long, Defense

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• [The rhetoric] is trying to avoid [the truth that ] the U.N. formally found that the whole thing is illegal, never even mentioning that Ecuador made a formal assessment through its formal processes and found that yes, I am subject to persecution by the United States.

  Julian Assange

  Trying, United States, Ecuador

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

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• We have President-elect [Donald] Trump out there calling the CIA assessment that Russia was trying to help elect him ridiculous. He also questions - says he doesn't believe the earlier findings of all 17 intelligence agencies that Russia was trying to get involved in our elections.

  George Stephanopoulos

  Believe, Russia, Agency

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• [Antonio] Gramsci's words and actions explain their assessment, though I think we should refrain from using the term "model intellectual" for him or others.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Intellectual, Action

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• Important element is deeply understanding our curriculum. Most teachers know what they're going to cover this week or this term. Few of us can specify precisely what students should know, understand, and be able to do as a result of any particular learning experience or set of learning experiences. Without that specificity, alignment between content, assessment, and instruction is weak.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teacher, Understanding, Important

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

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• You can deceive yourself into thinking that America is a technological leader, but if you don't see what anyone else is doing you have no accurate assessment - you can't make an accurate assessment of where you fit and why. I consider our moving frontier in space as the anecdote to that downward trend.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Moving, Thinking, America

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

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• The government of Qatar, as I mentioned, has proposed to come and lease Kenya's Tana River delta in order to farm there. What I am not sure of is, has an environmental impact assessment been made to ensure that exploiting this delta for agricultural activities is the best way we can use the delta?We must be concerned about the long-term impact of agricultural activities in the delta.

  Wangari Maathai

  Order, Qatar, Rivers

  Source: kenvironews.wordpress.com

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• If policy makers and program managers participate in an interdisciplinary assessment team, make informal visits to local families and have in-depth conversations with local providers and health authorities, the real needs and complex challenges of organizing good reproductive health services become apparent.

  Ruth Simmons

  Real, Team, Challenges

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• When I talked to [Donald Trump] about - our intelligence agencies, what I've said to him is - is that there are gonna be times where you've got raw intelligence that comes in and in my experience, over eight years, the intelligence community is pretty good about saying, "Look, we can't say for certain what this means." But there are gonna be times where the only way you can make a good decision is if you have confidence that the process is working, and the people that you put in charge are giving you their very best assessments.

  Barack Obama

  Mean, Agency, Eight

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I decided that if nobody else was going to do anything to rectify this colossal inequity in taxation, I'd have to do it myself. So I instituted a suit against the city of Baltimore demanding that the city assessor be specifically ordered to assess the Church for its vast property holdings in the city, and that the city tax collector then be instructed to collect the taxes once the assessment has been made.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Cities, Church, Baltimore

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• When I moved into one of the worst inner-cities in America to do missionary work I had to do risk assessment, and It was a risk. My family could have been in danger, house could get robbed at any minute but I count it all as nothing compared to knowing Jesus it was all worth it at the end of the day.

  LeCrae

  Jesus, Cities, Knowing

  Source: thegospelguru.com

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• As Luxenberg's work has only recently been published we must await its scholarly assessment before we can pass any judgements. But if his analysis is correct then suicide bombers, or rather prospective martyrs, would do well to abandon their culture of death, and instead concentrate on getting laid 72 times in this world, unless of course they would really prefer chilled or white raisins, according to their taste, in the next.

  Ibn Warraq

  Suicide, White, Judgement

  "Virgins? What virgins?" by Ibn Warraq, www.theguardian.com. January 11, 2002.

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• Balancing hopes, desires and an appreciating of the possibilities with a clear-eyed assessment of the limitations: that is the art of choosing.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Art, Appreciate, Desire

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• Reference to the territory and total disregard for the nationality of the companies is of course the best guarantee that competition assessment remain just that and doesn't get affected by trade or other considerations.

  Mario Monti

  Guarantees That, Competition, Territory

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• No officer should be required or permitted to take part in the management of political organizations, caucuses, conventions, or election campaigns. Their right to vote and to express their views on public questions, either orally or through the press, is not denied, provided it does not interfere with the discharge of their official duties. No assessment for political purposes on officers or subordinates should be allowed.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Organization, Views, Political

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• It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, 
  not repeated assessment of their validity.

  Edward de Bono

  Historical, Assumption, Continuity

  Edward De Bono (1970). “Lateral Thinking: creativity step by step COTF MGT”

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• Through sources, we have obtained the following alien assessment of the human species: The male wants to be valued for what he pretends to be. The female wants to be overvalued for what she truly is.

  Robert Breault

  Males, Female, Want

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• Humanity today is rightly concerned about the ecological balance of tomorrow. It is important for assessments in this regard to be carried out prudently, in dialogue with experts and people of wisdom, uninhibited by ideological pressure to draw hasty conclusions, and above all with the aim of reaching agreement on a model of sustainable development capable of ensuring the well-being of all while respecting environmental balances.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Agreement, People, Humanity

  Message Of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI For The Celebration Of The World Day Of Peace, w2.vatican.va. January 1, 2008.

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• My label in Toronto was Stand Pat and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along - big or small - that I thought should be made, I would make it.

  Pat Gillick

  Thinking, Labels, Toronto

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• Here's a simple way you can engage your intuition. When you are about to say something and you're not sure if you want to say it, ask yourself, "What is my motivation?" When you check your motivation you engage non-physical guidance and you will not be alone in you assessment.

  Gary Zukav

  Motivation, Simple, Intuition

  Source: www.douglasgillies.com

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• Task triage is the habit of making a realistic assessment of what degree of perfection is required for a task at the point of accepting it, so one doesn't need to rely on one's habit of procrastinating to lower the bar.

  John Perry

  Perfection, Degrees, Tasks

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. October 4, 2012.

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