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• There is an inherently minimum set of essential concepts and current information, cognizance of which could lead to our operating our planet Earth to the lasting satisfaction and health of all humanity.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Humanity, Information, Satisfaction

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking”, p.25, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• Where execution is dominant, as it is in the individual events of a war whether great or small, then intellectual factors are reduced to a minimum.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Intellectual, Events

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.178, Princeton University Press

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• First, there is the law. It must be obeyed. But the law is the minimum. You must act ethically.

  Buck Rodgers

  Law, Firsts

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• Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Universe

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• In business, poor performance leads to bankruptcy or, at a minimum, a restructuring of the company. In American education, failure entitles the bankrupt system to even more taxpayer dollars.

  Cal Thomas

  Dollars, Poor, Taxpayers

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• To measure your needs by that which is projected via mass media is a mistake that has no mercy. The average person views a minimum of one thousand advertisements a day. To say "no" to the most outrageous commercials is an act of responsibility that needs to be taught early and often.

  Haki R. Madhubuti

  Mistake, Responsibility, Views

  Haki R. Madhubuti (2002). “Tough Notes: A Healing Call for Creating Exceptional Black Men : Affirmations, Meditations, Readings, and Strategies”

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• There is no question we need higher academic standards and at the local level the rigor of the Common Core state standards must be the new minimum in classrooms.

  Jeb Bush

  Needs, Levels, Common

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• Due process requires some definite link, some minimum connection, between a state and the person, property or transaction it seeks to tax.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Connections, Links, States

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• I think the right-wingers have to buddy up to the fact that either the minimum wage has to go up, and people get enough money to live, or you're always going to have people needing government assistance. You can't have it both ways.

  Bill Maher

  Thinking, Government, People

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• With average or even minimum ability, success is still very possible.

  Jacob Gelt Dekker

  Average, Ability, Stills

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• Law enforcement officers should use only the minimum force necessary in dealing with disorders when they arise. A human life-the life of a student, soldier, or police officer-is a precious thing, and the taking of a life can be justified only as a necessary and last resort.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Law, Police, Soldier

  Nixon, Richard M. (1971). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1970”, p.1117, Best Books on

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• Try to make the time frame the minimum the story will permit.

  Ring Lardner, Jr.

  Trying, Stories, Permit

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• A moral society will not set standards for becoming a parent, but it will establish irreducible minimums for maintaining that sacred status.

  Andrew Vachss

  Parent, Sacred, Maintaining

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• [The] government has room to scale back individual rights during wartime without violating the Constitution. The Constitution just sets minimums. Most of the rights that you enjoy go way beyond what the Constitution requires.

  Antonin Scalia

  Rights, Government, Rooms

  "Supreme Court Justice Bans Media From Free Speech Event". www.govtech.com. March 19, 2003.

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• The rules in this new 'post-partisan' era are pretty simple: If the Democratic Party wants it, it's 'stimulus.' If the Republican Party opposes it, it's 'politics' - as in headlines like this: 'Obama Urges GOP To Keep Politics To A Minimum On Stimulus.' These are serious times: As the president says, it's the worst economic crisis since the Thirties. So politicians need to put politics behind them and immediately lavish $4.19 billion on his community-organizing pals at the highly inventive 'voter registration' group ACORN for 'neighborhood stabilization activities.

  Mark Steyn

  Party, Simple, Community

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• Freedom works, and government, when it grows beyond the barest minimum, keeps people poor.

  John Stossel

  Government, People, Poor

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• There won't be some overnight miracle cure. But the measures I take will be sustainable. Our goal is to cease food imports within four years. This will create a minimum of 2 million jobs in agriculture.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Jobs, Years, Agriculture

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If rather than setting the minimum balance as the lowest possible amount, so we keep people in debt for as long as possible, we raise the minimum payment and encourage people to pay off their credit cards, we're going to make less money, but we're going to have costumers that are more solvent.

  Richard Thaler

  Long, People, Balance

  "Big Think Interview With Richard Thaler". bigthink.com. June 19, 2009.

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• Pay minimum wage, you get minimum work. Nobody seems to get that.

  Sue Grafton

  Minimum Wage, Pay, Seems

  Sue Grafton (2010). “U is for Undertow”, p.65, Pan Macmillan

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• We have but to remember man's natural tendency to satisfy his desires with the minimum of effort to realize how political power will be utilized.

  Frank Chodorov

  Men, Effort, Political

  Frank Chodorov, Charles H. Hamilton (1980). “Fugitive essays: selected writings of Frank Chodorov”, Liberty Fund Inc.

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• I think the minimum wage outght to keep pace with inflation. I think the minimum wage is a good thing to have in our country and I think it ought to be updated.

  Mitt Romney

  Country, Thinking, Pace

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• Imagine a senator running for president whose positions included halving the military budget, socializing the medical system, re-regulating the communications and electrical industries, establishing a guaranteed minimum income for all Americans, and equalizing funding for all schools regardless of property valuations - and who promised to fire Alan Greenspan, counseled withdrawal from the World Trade Organization, and, for good measure, spoke warmly of adolescent sexual experimentation. That was Barry Goldwater, conservative.

  Rick Perlstein

  Running, Military, Communication

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• People who are really efficient seem to do things easily, with a minimum of effort. In doing so they release maximum power.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  People, Effort, Release

  Norman Vincent Peale “The Power of Positive Thinking”, Om Books International

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• If you raise the minimum wage, you're going to make people more expensive than a machine.

  Marco Rubio

  People, Machines, Minimum Wage

  Marco Rubio's speech at the Republican Presidential debate in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, www.nytimes.com. November 11, 2015.

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• Only this much I knew - that under ideal conditions, true education could be imparted only by the parents, and that then there should be the minimum of outside help.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Parent, Helping, Should

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.298, Courier Corporation

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