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• Priority determines capacity.

  Andy Stanley

  Capacity, Determine

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• It is also painful to see that the struggle against hunger and malnutrition is hindered by market priorities, the primacy of profit, which have reduced foodstuffs to a commodity like any other, subject to speculation, also of a financial nature, The hungry remain, at the street corner, and ask to be recognized as citizens, to receive a healthy diet. We ask for dignity, not for charity.

  Pope Francis

  Nature, Struggle, Healthy

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• By 1990, the EPA had tallied up 32,645 sites of past chemical waste dumping in need of cleanup. Some of these are actual waste landfills, but many are former manufacturing sites where drums full of chemicals have been simply abandoned. The names of the most notorious appear on the EPS's National Priorities List. These are the so-called Superfund sites, names for the super fund of money put together by Congress in 1980 to clean them up. In 2009, the Superfund list contained 1,331 sites.

  Sandra Steingraber

  Past, Names, Environmental

  Sandra Steingraber (2010). “Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment”, p.69, Da Capo Press

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• Our ideas of what our priorities are shift as we come face-to-face with some of the struggles.

  Atul Gawande

  Struggle, Ideas, Faces

  "Atul Gawande: “We Have Medicalized Aging, and That Experiment Is Failing Us”". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. October 7, 2014.

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• My priority as a father should always remain first. My kids look to me as their example. Every decision I make and everything that I do always has to come back to the question, "Does this make me a better father?" "Will my kids benefit from this?" It's no longer just about me…but about my kids. My perspective in life has changed.

  Dwyane Wade

  Father, Kids, Perspective

  "Interview: Dwyane Wade, Nba All-Star". Mocha Dad Interview, mochadad.com.

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• In Brazil there are more Avon ladies than members of the army. In the United States more money is spent on beauty than on education or social services.

  Nancy Etcoff

  Beauty, Army, United States

  Nancy L. Etcoff (2000). “Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty”, Anchor

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• According to the 'food waste pyramid', ensuring that food is eaten by people is the top priority. Failing that, the next best thing is to feed it to farm animals.

  Tristram Stuart

  Animal, Pyramids, People

  "Food redistribution is a win-win solution for food waste" by Tristram Stuart, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2012.

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• I think life awards you if have your priorities in the right place.

  Max Bemis

  Thinking, Awards, Right Place

  Source: substreammagazine.com

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• I know my priorities... I love music and I will continue to make songs, I know it's not just a period in my life. But I am focused on my studies.

  Marilou

  Song, Study, Music Love

  Source: sleepingbagstudios.ca

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• My priority is always the family and Victoria [Beckham] and I always ensure we are there for our children. We work hard but family comes first.

  David Beckham

  Children, Hard Work, Firsts

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• I believe the United States should make the protection of Syrian civilians from war crimes and crimes against humanity a higher priority.

  Bob Casey, Jr.

  War, Believe, Humanity

  "Democratic Senator Urges White House to do More on Syria" by Ali Weinberg, abcnews.go.com. September 22, 2015.

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• It's really hard to change the world when your first priority is making sure that the little world around yourself doesn't change.

  Tim DeChristopher

  World, Littles, Firsts

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• If you believe that every life has equal value, it’s revolting to learn that some lives are seen as worth saving and others are not. We said to ourselves: “This can’t be true. But if it is true, it deserves to be the priority of our giving.”

  Bill Gates

  Business, Believe, Giving

  Bill Gates' Commencement Address at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, news.harvard.edu. June 7, 2007.

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• Jobs are a key essential in the Budget.They are government's number one priority and the Budget is going to reflect that.

  Peter Gutwein

  Jobs, Keys, Government

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• Common foreign policy is completely unnecessary. The various European countries have widely differing priorities, goals and prejudices. It would be wrong to force them all to follow the same course.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Country, Goal, Prejudice

  "'The Past Is the Past'". Interview with Christian Neef and Jan Puhl, Renata Hanusova, www.spiegel.de. March 13, 2006.

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• There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Motivational, Wisdom

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• Good for you and be proud of yourself because you have your priorities in order. Be proud of yourself if you are responsible, reliable, persistent, and take your job and education seriously.

  Ana Monnar

  Jobs, Self Esteem, Order

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• I wanted to be a car mechanic and I wanted to race cars and the idea of trying to make something out of my life wasn't really a priority. But the accident allowed me to apply myself at school. I got great grades. Eventually I got very excited about anthropology and about social sciences and psychology, and I was able to push my photography even further and eventually discovered film and film schools.

  George Lucas

  Photography, School, Ideas

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• Dealing with my own life takes priority over other people dealing with my life.

  Bob Dylan

  People, My Own, My Own Life

  "Bob Dylan Not Like a Rolling Stone Interview". "Spin" Magazine Interview with Scott Cohen, www.interferenza.com. December 1985.

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• My husband and I make physical activity a priority in our lives, and our daughters love being active as well. And while we each have sports and activities we enjoy, we try to go for hikes or bike rides together whenever we get the chance. We've found that the best way to help our girls be active is to find activities they truly enjoy.

  Michelle Obama

  Girl, Sports, Daughter

  Source: www.today.com

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• One of the things I really learned from my first term is the importance of focusing. In that sense, it is a deliberate effort. What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether its good for the middle class or not.

  Dan Maffei

  Class, Effort, Looks

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• Pretty much everybody knows there are not enough organs for all of those patients who need to get transplants, and what happens is, is that organs are actually directed in liver transplantation to those patients who are the sickest. So the patients who have the greatest chance of dying in the next three months or so are the ones who get the priority for the liver transplant.

  John Roberts

  Dying, Three, Needs

  Source: www.ucsfbenioffchildrens.org

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• Your first daily priority should be stillness, attention to what you really know and what you really feel.

  Martha Beck

  Attention, Firsts, Should

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• When you have children your life - this is my job and that's my life. So it's a totally different thing. They're my priority, they have to be, and they always will be. I have to do them first. So this always gets pushed in the back.

  Pat Benatar

  Jobs, Children, Different

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Education is a priority over any sport because without a mind you can't contribute to society.

  Tiger Woods

  Sports, Mind

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