Items Quotes - Page 9

• The manufacturing of most goods harms the environment in one way or another. The culprit is not the factory, but it is we who buy what it produces. Therefore we should think carefully about items we purchase.

  Amy Dacyczyn

  Thinking, Way, Environment

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• Thus, in a dialogue each person does not attempt to make common certain ideas or items of information that are already known to him. Rather, it can be said that collectively they are making something in common

  David Bohm

  Ideas, Doe, Information

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• A bird, music and food -desert island items

  Michael Johnson

  Islands, Bird, Desert

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• You want to live a life in which the things you have traded your hard-earned money for are quality items that really do uplift your life.

  Victoria Moran

  Uplifting, Quality, Want

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• Assuming that a tax increase is necessary, it is clearly preferable to impose the additional cost on land by increasing the land tax, rather than to increase the wage tax - the two alternatives open to the City (of Pittsburgh). It is the use and occupancy of property that creates the need for the municipal services that appear as the largest item in the budget - fire and police protection, waste removal, and public works. The average increase in tax bills of city residents will be about twice as great with wage tax increase than with a land tax increase.

  Herbert Simon

  Fire, Average, Land

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• Individuals interested in donating can call The Bridge. We do still need food, paper products, money, cleaning supplies - if people could call and coordinate donations. People loved donating clothing to The Bridge - it was an avenue; if they could put their focus on collecting cleaning supplies - toilet paper, food etc. - these items are a priority.

  Maggie Elizabeth Jones

  Bridges, People, Focus

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• Our focus is on the forward end of things: the customer and what does he want to do? If you're buying underwear and household items ladders and everything else - I buy all sorts of stuff on Amazon Prime - why shouldn't I buy this? Any legal document, contract or otherwise, that prevents me from doing that, I don't want to be a part of.

  Gerry Lopez

  Focus, Ladders, Want

  Source: deadline.com

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• Historians who stuff in every item of research they have found, every shoelace and telephone call of a biographical subject, are not doing the hard work of selecting and shaping a readable story.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Hard Work, Telephones, Stories

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• Guys kick friendship all over just like a soccer, nonetheless it does not appear to crack. Girls deal with it like glass and it goes to items.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Girl, Soccer, Glasses

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• The absolute necessity to create a proper Earth government' - we should inscribe this as the priority item on the agenda of world affairs.

  Robert Muller

  Government, Priorities, Agendas

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• The key to becoming a more efficient leader isn't checking off all the items on your to-do list each day. It's in forming the habit of prioritizing your time so that you are accomplishing your most important goals in an efficient manner.

  John C. Maxwell

  Keys, Goal, Leader

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• Wine represents to me sharing and good times and a celebration of life. It is always around happy occasions with family and friends and centered around joy. What better item to be involved in then something that represents all these wonderful things.

  Dan Aykroyd

  Wine, Joy, Family And Friends

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• Beautiful and familiar objects can help us to feel better. Photos of family and friends, which remind us of the people we love and who love us, are important mood-lifters. Items that inspire us or encourage periods of reflection do the same.

  Liz Miller

  Beautiful, Feel Better, Reflection

  Liz Miller (2010). “Mood Mapping: Plot your way to emotional health and happiness”, p.94, Pan Macmillan

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• And my first item on each day's list is this: Wake up. If I can check that off, I've already done something and can get on with the business of living and trying to honor the memory of those I love who are no longer here.

  Will Schwalbe

  Memories, Honor, Trying

  "7 Ways to Get Through a Painful Loss" by Will Schwalbe, www.oprah.com. January 4, 2013.

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• Gold is no longer an investment. Gold is no longer a portfolio item. Gold is certainly not a trading vehicle. Gold is your lifeline and I mean that literally.

  Jim Sinclair

  Mean, Gold, Portfolios

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• I have no intention of selling any more of the historical Apollo 11 items in my possession for the remainder of my life. I intend to pass a portion of these items on to my children and to loan the most important items for permanent display in suitable museums around the country.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Country, Children, Museums

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• You always want to be able to convey items of interest, items that make the fan see what's happening, help them in their conversations of comparing teams or players and then be able to back it up to open his eyes to the history of the league.

  Hubie Brown

  Team, Eye, Player

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• Our western mind lacking all culture in this respect, has never yet devised a concept, not even a name for "the union of opposites through the middle path", that most fundamental item of inward experience which could respectably be set against the Chinese concept of Tao.

  Carl Jung

  Opposites, Names, Chinese

  Carl Gustav Jung, Richard Francis Carrington Hull (1992). “Two Essays on Analytical Psychology”, p.205, Psychology Press

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• I am basically a blazer. If I were a clothing item, I would be a legging and a blazer.

  Serena Williams

  Would Be, Blazers, Clothings

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• Mindful consumption is the object of this precept. We are what we consume. If we look deeply into the items that we consume every day, we will come to know our own nature very well. We have to eat, drink, consume, but if we do it unmindfully, we may destroy our bodies and our consciousness, showing ingratitude toward our ancestors, our parents, and future generations.

  Nhat Hanh

  Parent, Generations, Looks

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• The 'Main Street' retailers ... see customers come to the store to locate items ... only to leave and order the items over the Internet just to escape the sales tax.

  John McCain

  Order, Internet, Main Street

  "States argue for taxing Internet transactions" by Ian Christopher McCaleb, www.cnn.com. March 14, 2001.

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• I fall in love with something and wear it every day until it's destroyed. My most treasured items have a very short shelf life because I love them too much.

  Mackenzie Davis

  Falling In Love, Too Much, Shelves

  "Mackenzie Davis: Girl on Fire" by Logan Sykes, www.harpersbazaar.com. June 27, 2014.

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• Throughout all of human history slaves have been expensive capital purchase items. And today they're disposal inputs like styrofoam cups to an economic process.

  Kevin Bales

  Styrofoam, Input, Today

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. September 24, 2010.

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• I'm not out there picking out every single item that we sell, and also we don't even make every single item that we sell.

  Sophia Amoruso

  Sells

  "#GirlBoss Sophia Amoruso on Her New Book, Nasty Galaxy". Interview with Maddy Budd, www.harpersbazaar.com. September 13, 2016.

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• We need to put our good research, our good work, our principles into actionable items whenever we can.

  Christine Lagarde

  Principles, Needs, Research

  "Christine Lagarde on slow growth, inequality and fighting cynicism". Interview with Kevin Carmichael, www.macleans.ca. September 12, 2016.

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