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• The bonds that women share around the world, wherever we come from, they're very powerful and they have an ease of communication because we share those very important things of our families, our mothering, of improving opportunities for the next generation.

  Quentin Bryce

  Powerful, Communication, Opportunity

  "Stateline" with Eliza Blue, www.abc.net.au. March 19, 2010.

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• Everything I do is geared towards improving my next performance.

  Carolina Kluft

  Next, Performances

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Politics is not left, right or center ... It's about improving people's lives.

  Paul Wellstone

  People, Left

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• You can eliminate depression without making someone happy. You can cure anxiety without teaching someone optimism. You can return someone to work without improving their job performance. If all you strive for is diminishing the bad, you'll only attain the average and you'll miss out entirely on the opportunity to exceed the average.

  Shawn Achor

  Jobs, Teaching, Opportunity

  Shawn Achor (2011). “The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology that Fuel Success and Performance at Work”, p.11, Random House

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• I don't think our fiduciary duty is to put shareholders first. I say the opposite. What we firmly believe is that if we focus our company on improving the lives of the world's citizens and come up with genuine sustainable solutions, we are more in synch with consumers and society and ultimately this will result in good shareholder returns.

  Paul Polman

  Believe, Thinking, Opposites

  "Unilever's Paul Polman: challenging the corporate status quo" by Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2012.

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• One thing people underestimate is how markets don't allow anyone to do anything except make better and better products. There's not much leeway. The world is a lot more competitive than most people think, particularly in a high-technology area. If a company takes its eye off improving its products, if it tries to do anything that would be viewed as an exercise of power, it'll be displaced very rapidly.

  Bill Gates

  Eye, Exercise, Technology

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• I have no delusions that I'm the only source of improving people's lives or that I'm even the right source. My style is intense, and it's not going to be right for everybody.

  Tony Robbins

  People, Style, Intense

  Playboy Interview, www.awaken.com. August 17, 2013.

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• And as we [ the Church] move towards setting new (United Nations') sustainable development goals, we also understand that one of our key priorities is improving social inclusion.

  Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo

  Moving, Keys, Goal

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• Property is desirable as the ground work of moral independence, as a means of improving the faculties, and of doing good to others, and as the agent in all that distinguishes the civilized man from the savage.

  James F. Cooper

  Mean, Men, Independence

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• We're proud of the work we're doing to make Chicago a great city for people of all ages. Nothing's more important than keeping in mind the needs of older adults - and how valuable a role they play in improving the city, based on their amazing collective talent and wisdom.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Play, Cities, People

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• Why is it that, despite having achieved previously undreamed-of miracles of progress, we seem more helpless in facing life than our less privileged ancestors were? The answer seems clear: while humankind collectively has increased its material powers a thousandfold, it has not advanced very far in terms of improving the content of experience.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Miracle, Progress, Answers

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• The world is hungry for the discoveries that young, leading-edge brain researchers are making in Ontario today. This collaboration will help them bring their best ideas to market, improving the quality of life for Ontarians while creating good jobs and promoting economic growth.

  Brad Duguid

  Jobs, Ideas, Creating

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• Pro-life includes improving life after birth.

  Mike Huckabee

  Pro Life, Birth

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• There is nothing more harmful to you than improving only your material, animal side of life. There is nothing more beneficial, both for you and for others, than activity directed to the improvement of your soul.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Animal, Soul, Sides

  Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• To be creative, an idea must also be appropriate - useful and actionable. It must somehow influence the way business gets done by improving a product, for instance, or by opening up a new way to approach a process.

  Teresa Amabile

  Ideas, Opening Up, Creative

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• I defend myself by improving myself.

  Sidney Poitier

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• Two things hold promise of improving those lights. One is to apply science to land-use. The other is to cultivate a love of country a little less spangled with stars, and a little more imbued with that respect for mother-earth - the lack of which is, to me, the outstanding attribute of the machine-age.

  Aldo Leopold

  Country, Mother, Stars

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.438, Library of America

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• Competitiveness is defined as the ability of companies to compete while maintaining or improving the average standard of living. If you are cutting wages to become more competitive, that's not really more competitive. It's raising the skill and the efficiency of those workers so that they can support and sustain that higher wage.

  Michael Porter

  Cutting, Average, Skills

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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