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• AIDS is no longer a death sentence for those who can get the medicines. Now it's up to the politicians to create the "comprehensive strategies" to better treat the disease.

  William J. Clinton

  Fighting, Medicine, Hiv

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• While some might mistakenly consider value investing a mechanical tool for identifying bargains, it is actually a comprehensive investment philosophy that emphasizes the need to perform in-depth fundamental analysis, pursue long-term investment results, limit risk, and resist crowd psychology.

  Seth Klarman

  Philosophy, Intelligent, Long

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• So far no one had had enough courage and intelligence to reveal me to my dear Germans. My problems are new, my psychological horizon frighteningly comprehensive, my language bold and clear; there may well be no books written in German which are richer in ideas and more independent than mine.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Independent, Intelligent

  Letter to Carl Fuchs, December 14, 1887.

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• Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.

  Bernard Berenson

  Writing, Humanity, Literature

  Bernard Berenson (1962). “The Bernard Berenson Treasury: A Selection from the Works, Unpublished Writings, Letters, Diaries, and Journals of the Most Celebrated Humanist and Art Historian of Our Times, 1887-1958”

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• Writing is not a profession, occupation or job; it is not a way of life: it is a comprehensive response to life.

  Gregory Mcdonald

  Jobs, Writing, Occupation

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• The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really deserves the name of knowledge.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Ideas, Drawing, Names

  Mary Wollstonecraft (1796). “A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects”, p.114

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• To become informed and hold government accountable, the general public needs to obtain news that is comprehensive yet interesting and understandable, that conveys facts and outcomes, not cosmetic images and airy promises. But that is not what the public demands.

  Eric Alterman

  Government, Media Control, Interesting

  Eric Alterman (1998). “Who Speaks for America?: Why Democracy Matters in Foreign Policy”, p.155, Cornell University Press

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• In all spheres of modern life the influence of Stalin reaches wide and deep. From his last simply written but vastly discerning and comprehensive document, back through the years, his contributions to the science of our world society remain invaluable. One reverently speaks of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin—the shapers of humanity’s richest present and future.

  Paul Robeson

  Our World, Years, Humanity

  Paul Robeson, Philip Sheldon Foner (1978). “Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974”, Brunner-Routledge

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• The moment philosophy supposes it can find a final and comprehensive solution, it ceases to be inquiry and becomes either apologetics or propaganda.

  John Dewey

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Science

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Ernest Nagel (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938”, p.42, SIU Press

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• We've taken bold action at home by making historic investments in renewable energy, by putting our people to work increasing efficiency in our homes and buildings, and by pursuing comprehensive legislation to transform to a clean energy economy.

  Barack Obama

  Taken, Home, People

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• A family-friendly "eco-populism" can mobilize and unite millions who, at this point, would be turned off by a more extreme set of demands. The momentum will build, through these early efforts, for more comprehensive solutions.

  Van Jones

  Effort, Friendly, Would Be

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• Hard-working immigrant workers in this country deserve a real path to citizenship as a part of comprehensive immigration reform...We will continue to work with the immigrant rights community and our allies in Congress to devise a truly comprehensive model that places immigrant and workers' rights at the head of the line.

  John Sweeney

  Country, Real, Hard Work

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• We can and we must do better as prolonged recovery is now an achievable result of comprehensive addiction treatment.

  Stephen J. Pasierb

  Recovery, Addiction, Results

  "For Young People Addicted to Painkillers, the Path Less Taken — Why?" by Stephen J. Pasierb, A. Thomas McLellan, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 21, 2013.

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• The environmental issues we face today are complex and span many knowledge domains. This undergraduate degree programme in Environmental Studies will nurture a pool of graduates who are able to think deeply and broadly about these issues, and help develop novel solutions for Singapore, Asia and beyond. I am delighted at this programme for another reason - it is the first undergraduate course that draws on expertise from eight Faculties in NUS, making full use of the comprehensive strengths of our University.

  Tan Chorh Chuan

  Thinking, Issues, Eight

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• John Kerry's campaign attacks on gas prices ignore the reality of Kerry's long record of supporting higher gas prices and blocking the president's comprehensive energy plan.

  Steve Schmidt

  Block, Reality, Long

  "Kerry faults Bush on homeland security", www.cnn.com. May 27, 2004.

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• Poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult...The poet must become more and more comprehensive, more allusive, more indirect, in order to force, to dislocate if necessary, language into its meaning.

  T. S. Eliot

  Order, Civilization, Language

  "The Metaphysical Poets" (1921)

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• Poetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming illusion: how to be reborn out of ourselves over and over again, and use words to construct a better world, a fictitious world that enables us to sign a pact for a permanent and comprehensive peace ... with life.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  World, Use, Illusion

  "Mahmoud Darwish" by Peter Clark, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2008.

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• Rapture teaching is one of the most faith deadening teachings ever preached. It has the most neutralizing affect on a Christian's aggressive growth process. We have a lot to do in this Earth and there is going to be a lot of stuff that we need to do in eternity. If you don't have a big comprehensive vision, both restorationally and eternally, then what motivation is there to do much except try to win a few souls to get a big reward in heaven?

  Bill Hamon

  Christian, Motivation, Teaching

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• Well, there are many things, whenever you look back, that you would've done differently. We're all human. We do our best at the time. I really wish that we had passed a comprehensive immigration bill because that would've really helped our country. We came close, but we couldn't.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Country, Wish, Immigration

  Source: aalbc.com

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