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• I want to be very clear: I will not sign on to any health plan that adds to our deficits over the next decade.

  Barack Obama

  Want, Next, Add

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• Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn't have much to say about how they'd make it right. They want your vote, but they don't want you to know their plan.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, America, Want

  Second Democratic Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 6 September 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina

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• Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country's energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Writing, Oil

  Convention Speech, www.npr.org. September 6, 2012.

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• And that means that no matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. If you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what.

  Barack Obama

  Mean, Doctors, Keeping Promises

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• Those who oppose reform will also tell you that under our plan, you won't get to choose your doctor - that some bureaucrat will choose for you. That's also not true.

  Barack Obama

  Doctors, Reform, Bureaucrats

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• I know that there are millions of Americans who are content with their health care coverage - they like their plan and, most importantly, they value their relationship with their doctor.

  Barack Obama

  Doctors, Care, Coverage

  Remarks by the President to the Annual Conference of the American Medical Association, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 15, 2009.

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• Unless the perfidious wolves have the temerity to disobey the High King's plans, we should meet Shalhassan's forces by the Latham in mid-wood with the wolves between us. If they aren't,' Diarmuid concluded, 'we blame anyone and everything except the plan.

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  Kings, Woods, Blame

  Guy Gavriel Kay (2016). “The Wandering Fire: Book Two of the The Fionavar Tapestry”, p.194, Hachette UK

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• I never had one day that I didn't want to be on the ice, because I always had an objective for that day. I had a rigorous plan and schedule in place that I had to adhere to. It was a step-by-step process of slowly but surely inching toward the Olympic Games and using every day as a series of goals to be accomplished.

  Apolo Ohno

  Games, Ice, Goal

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• The Universe has a plan to make sure we don't ever stop learning, not only in our minds, but also in our hearts.

  Pam Houston

  Heart, Mind, Universe

  Megan McMorris, Pam Houston (2006). “Woman's Best Friend: Women Writers on the Dogs in Their Lives”, p.1, Seal Press

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• While I believe our Constitution allows for State and local governments to execute the power of eminent domain for those purposes that specifically serve the public good, condemning property solely to implement economic development plans is not serving the public good.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Believe, Government, Eminent Domain

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• I always try to put a seed of hope into people's hearts. I'm not there to teach them doctrine necessarily, but to let them know that God is a good God, and has a plan for their lives. Hopefully, that will restore their faith, or draw them into faith.

  Joel Osteen

  Heart, People, Trying

  "Online Extra: Meet the Prosperity Preacher". Interview with William C. Symonds, www.bloomberg.com. May 23, 2005.

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• I feel like my message is to let people know that God is a good God, that He's on their side, and no matter what happens, He has a great plan for them.

  Joel Osteen

  People, Matter, Messages

  "Joel Osteen: The Man Behind America's Largest Church". Interview with Kristi Watts, www.cbn.com.

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• Seven Steps to Success 1) Make a commitment to grow daily. 2) Value the process more than events. 3) Don't wait for inspiration. 4) Be willing to sacrifice pleasure for opportunity. 5) Dream big. 6) Plan your priorities. 7) Give up to go up.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Dream, Giving Up

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• What I really hoped for, no doubt, was to come upon one of those lives which begin nowhere, which lead us through marshes and salt flats, trickling away, seemingly without plan, purpose or goal, and suddenly emerge, gushing like geysers, and never cease gushing, even in death.

  Henry Miller

  Goal, Doubt, Purpose

  Henry Miller (2007). “Nexus: The Rosy Crucifixion III”, p.129, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I have not made any plans for the future, and my wife would kill me if I announced anything before that.

  Scott Walker

  Wife, Made, Kill Me

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• Then there came a faraway, booming voice like a low, clear bell. It came from the center of the bowl and down the great sides to the ground and then bounced toward her eagerly. 'You see I am fate,' it shouted, 'and stronger than your puny plans; and I am how-things-turn-out and I am different from your little dreams, and I am the flight of time and the end of beauty and unfulfilled desire; all the accidents and imperceptions and the little minutes that shape the crucial hours are mine. I am the exception that proves no rules, the limits of your control, the condiment in the dish of life.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Dream, Fate, Voice

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• Love is a battle, and I plan to go on fighting. To the end.

  Milan Kundera

  Fighting, Love Is, Battle

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• There can be no progress nor achievement without sacrifice, and a man's worldly success will be by the measure that he sacrifices his confused animal thoughts, and fixes his mind on the development of his plans, and the strengthening of his resolution and self-reliance.

  James Allen

  Confused, Sacrifice, Men

  James Allen (2016). “As a Man Thinketh”, p.18, Xist Publishing

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• I try to avoid long-range plans and visions - that way I can more easily deal with anything new that comes up without having pre-conceptions of how I should deal with it. My only long-range plan has been and still is just the very general plan of making Linux better.

  Linus Torvalds

  Long, Vision, Trying

  "The Pragmatist of Free Software". Interview with Hiroo Yamagata, www.tlug.jp. September 30, 1997.

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• I bought a Dutch barge and turned it into a recording studio. My plan was to go to Paris and record rolling down the Seine.

  Pete Townshend

  Paris, Rolling, Records

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• big plans require big action

  Greg Behrendt

  Action, Bigs

  Greg Behrendt, Liz Tuccillo (2009). “He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• There are friends with whom we share neither interests nor any particular experiences, friends with whom we never correspond, whom we seldom meet and then only by chance, but whose existence nonetheless has for us a special if uncanny meaning. For me the Eiffel Tower is just such a friend, and not merely because it happens to be the symbol of a city, for Paris leaves me neither hot nor cold. I first became aware of this attachment of mine when reading in the paper about plans for its demolition, the mere thought of which filled me with alarm.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Reading, Attachment, Cities

  Stanislaw Lem (1984). “The Chain of Chance”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When everyone agrees to a single solution and a single plan, there's nothing more efficient in the world than an efficient democracy.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Democracy, World, Agree

  "How Space Exploration Can Make America Great Again". Interview with Chris Heller, www.theatlantic.com. March 5, 2012.

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• I am unaware of his plans but I shall never stop believing in them because I cannot fathom them and I prefer to mistrust my own intellectual capacities than his justice.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Believe, Justice, Intellectual

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• Whut's the plan, Rob?" said one of them. "Okay, lads, this is what we'll do. As soon as we see somethin', we'll attack it. Right?" This caused a cheer. "Ach, 'tis a good plan," said Daft Wullie.

  Terry Pratchett

  Cheer, Said, Okay

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