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• We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Ideas, Numbers, People

  "Work or lose your benefits: Iain Duncan Smith heralds biggest shake-up of welfare state since the war". www.dailymail.co.uk. May 28, 2010.

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• Through scientific discovery and technological innovation, we enlist the forces of the natural world to solve many of the uniquely human problems we face - feeding and providing energy to agrowing population, improving human health, taking responsibility for protecting the environment and the global ecosystem, and ensuring our own Nation's security. Scientific discoveries inspire and enrich us, teaching us about the mysteries of life and the nature of the world.

  William J. Clinton

  Teaching, Responsibility, Ecosystems

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• Glossed over the disastrous war and its multibillion-dollar price tag and implied again that our presence in Iraq is somehow improving the situation in that chaotic and turbulent country. The Congress must stand up against Bush's plan to escalate the war.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, War, Price Tag

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• You will be civilized on the day you can spend a long period doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling the slightest amount of guilt.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Long, Feelings, Guilt

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1728, Random House

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• There's no sense in improving your marriage until you are secure with God.

  Francis Chan

  Secure

  Francis Chan, Lisa Chan (2014). “You and Me Forever: Marriage in Light of Eternity”, p.36, Claire Love Publishing

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• The natural environment is not particularly hospitable to human life ... the key to having a good environment is improving it through work... . Energy is fundamentally an environmental improver and if we classify it that way it makes sense out of a lot of these controversies... . It's our obligation and our right to make [our environment] as good for human beings as possible. With that view, it's very easy for people to understand precisely the reason it's good to alter it - because it doesn't naturally come the way we need it to be.

  Alex Epstein

  Keys, Views, People

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• Critics hang around and wait for others to make mistakes. But the real doers of the world have not time for criticizing others. They are too busy doing, making mistakes, improving, making progress.

  Wayne Dyer

  Real, Mistake, Waiting

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• He seemed very calm. He was controlling of the offense, making call and checks and things like that. But things happen and we have to readjust and come back stronger every series and at times we failed to do that as an offense. But we need to improve on that. It's something we need to learn from and the type of guys we have on this team, the character, I see us really improving from this.

  Vadal Alexander

  Team, Character, Lsu

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• I am thankful for our democracy, liberty, and prosperity, and that so many Americans have dedicated their lives to improving our country and our world.

  Alcee Hastings

  Country, Our World, Democracy

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• Better use of space, improving the insulation, getting more daylight into the buildings, reducing the energy consumption of the air conditioning and heating systems, making sure that the internal air quality is good, that we have increased natural ventilation opportunities in the mid seasons. You know these are some of the things we can do.

  Ken Yeang

  Opportunity, Air, Space

  "Q&A: Ken Yeang interview". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. July 20, 2007.

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• We can look at the way of improving the key biochemical processes like photosynthesis itself. A lot of energy is lost to keep the plant cool. So maybe we can think of building plants which are more resistant to heat. Genetically modified plants can be one answer and we can imagine more efficient plants, call them 'energy plants'. And I believe, contrary to what ecologists think, they can still be beautiful plants.

  Jean-Marie Lehn

  Beautiful, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.lindau-nobel.org

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• Yoga aims to bring about a situation where the mind is quieter and more effective. It's not only about relaxation, it's also about improving our energy. It's about making us more decisive and at the same time better able to judge a situation clearly.

  Paul Harvey

  Yoga, Judging, Relaxation

  Source: www.yogastudies.org

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• There are companies that are good at improving what they're already doing. There are companies that are good at extending what they're doing. And finally there are companies that are good at innovation. Every large company has to be able to do all three - improve, extend, and innovate - simultaneously.

  Peter Drucker

  Innovation, Three, Able

  Source: www.inc.com

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• Instead of putting others down, try improving yourself instead. The only person you have a right to compete with is you. In the meantime, treat others how you'd like to be treated. One trait that some of the best (communicators) share is empathy. A couple of kind words can not only make a person's day, but earn you a friend and supporter for life. For the rest of the week, whenever you see someone you want to judge negatively, pay them a compliment instead. See what happens.

  Neil Strauss

  Couple, Judging, Empathy

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• Trust is rebuilt by focusing not on what the other person did or did not do but on critiquing one's own behavior, improving one's trustworthiness, and focusing attention not on words and promises but on actions, attitudes, and ways of being.

  Kenneth Cloke

  Attitude, Integrity, Promise

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• If the ecological crisis, for example, is to be solved and if we are to promote genuine justice and thus bring real peace to the planet-and with it the possibility of improving lives on every level, not just economically, socially, and politically, but spiritually, psychologically, and intellectually-then, just on a practical level, we need to have all of the religions working together.

  Wayne Teasdale

  Real, Justice, Working Together

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• Make up your mind that nothing is more important than how I feel now, because now is everything. Now is the whole enchilada. Now is the power of me. Now, now, now, now, now... You might as well start somewhere, and it might as well be now. Why not start improving your life now, now, now?

  Esther Hicks

  Mind, Important, Why Not

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• You do not have to have money to attract money, but you cannot feel poor and attract money. The key is, you have to find ways of improving the way you feel from right where you stand before things can begin to change: By softening your attention to the things that are going wrong, and by beginning to tell stories that lean more in the direction of what you want instead of in the direction of what you have got, your vibration will shift; your point of attraction will shift - and you will get different results.

  Esther Hicks

  Keys, Different, Attention

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• Managing the other fellow's business is a fascinating game. Trade unionists all over the country have pronounced ideas for the reform of Wall Street banks; and Wall Street bankers are not far behind in giving plans for the tremendous improvement of trade union policies. Wholesalers have schemes for improving the retailer; the retailer knows just what is wrong in the conduct of wholesale business-and we might go through a long list.... Yet for some reason the classes that ought to be helped keep on stubbornly clinging to their own method of running their affairs.

  B. C. Forbes

  Running, Country, Wall

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• Strive, while improving your one talent, to enrich your whole capital as a man. It is in this way that you escape from the wretched narrow-mindedness which is the characteristic of every one who cultivates his specialty alone.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, Way, Study

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• There is a popular fallacy that falling down is the mark of a poor skater. But the truth is that when one stops falling, he has probably stopped improving.

  Dick Button

  Fall, Truth Is, Poor

  Dick Button (1955). “Dick Button on Skates”

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• I want to keep improving, continue to help my teammates improve, make my teammates look good. Continue bringing something new to the game, never getting completely content and always trying to get better.

  Alex Morgan

  Games, Always Trying, Get Better

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• The NSA was actually concerned back in the time of the crypto-wars with improving American security. Nowadays, we see that their priority is weakening our security, just so they have a better chance of keeping an eye on us.

  Edward Snowden

  War, Eye, Nsa

  "Exclusive: Edward Snowden on Cyber Warfare". Interview with James Bamford and Tim De Chant, www.pbs.org. January 8, 2015.

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• Although the quality of the vehicles is tremendously improving year after year but the underlying reasons that people are buying cars have really gotten focused. It's for high quality vehicles, reliable, fuel-efficient, and safe of course.

  Alan Mulally

  Years, People, Car

  Source: 247wallst.com

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• The job of a legislator is much more fixing existing law, revising it, improving it, than it is passing something that doesn't exist.

  Tim Kaine

  Jobs, Law, Fixing

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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