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• Every child should be given the right to grow up and become a productive citizen. This will not happen unless, at the very least, basic food needs are met. Ending childhood hunger should be a national priority.

  Pamela Sue Martin

  Children, Growing Up, Priorities

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• I studied, I met with medical doctors, scientists, and I’m here to tell you that the way to a more productive, more inspired, more joyful life is: getting enough sleep.

  Arianna Huffington

  Motivation, Inspiration, Sleep

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• Sometimes I think that the only effective and productive method of destroying speciesism would be for each uncaring human to be forced to live the life of a cow on a feedlot, or a monkey in a laboratory, or an elephant in the circus, or a bull in a rodeo, or a mink on a fur farm. Then people would be awakened from their soporific states and finally understand the horrors that are inflicted on the animal kingdom by the vilest species to ever roam this planet: the human animal!

  Gary Yourofsky

  Live Life, Thinking, Animal

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• I think universal harmony is a pipedream and it may be more productive to focus on more modest goals, like a ban on yodeling.

  Woody Allen

  Thinking, Goal, Focus

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• It was from my own early experience that I decided there was no use to which money could be applied so productive of good to girls and boys who have good within them and ability and ambition to develop it as the founding of a public library.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Girl, Ambition, Boys

  Andrew Carnegie (2015). “Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie: Top Biography”, p.30, 谷月社

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• Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.

  Bernard Berenson

  Training, Genius, Reactions

  Bernard Berenson (1968). “Venetian and North Italian Schools”

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• Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

  David D. Burns

  Fear, Perfection, Humans

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• The list of photographs that I am missing while I sit on airport runways, teach classes or spend hours in the studio makes my head spin. It's almost as if I can actually sense all the great pictures that I'm missing at a given moment. It's times like those that remind me to be very productive when I do get behind-the-camera time.

  Brian Ulrich

  Photography, Airports, Class

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• The history of taxation shows that taxes which are inherently excessive are not paid. The high rates inevitably put pressure upon the taxpayer to withdraw his capital from productive business and invest it in tax-exempt securities or to find other lawful methods of avoiding the realization of taxable income. The result is that the sources of taxation are drying up; wealth is failing to carry its share of the tax burden; and capital is being diverted into channels which yield neither revenue to the Government nor profit to the people.

  Andrew Mellon

  Yield, Government, People

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• Given two people with exactly the same ability, the one person who manages day in and day out to get in one more hour of thinking will be tremendously more productive over a lifetime.

  Richard Hamming

  Thinking, Two, People

  "'You and Your Research' - 1986 Speech by Dr. Richard W. Hamming". www.valueinvestingworld.com. September 21, 2009.

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• There is nothing more productive of problems than a really good solution.

  Nathan S. Kline

  Problem, Solutions

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• The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make a difference that you lived at all-using the talents that God has given you for the betterment of others.

  Leo Rosten

  Differences, Making A Difference, Purpose

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• It’s up to you to carve out your place, to know when to change course, and to keep yourself engaged and productive during a work life that may span some 50 years.

  Peter Drucker

  Years, Up To You, May

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker (2006). “Classic Drucker: Essential Wisdom of Peter Drucker from the Pages of Harvard Business Review”, p.3, Harvard Business Press

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• A good marriage is like an incredible retirement fund. You put everything you have into it during your productive life, and over the years it turns from silver to gold to platinum.

  Willard Scott

  Inspirational, Retirement, Productive Life

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• Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want to be free from the meddling of technocrats and commissars, bankers and tycoons, mad bombers who engage in psychological tests of will with peasants defending their homes, behavioral scientists who can't tell a pigeon from a poet, or anyone else who tries to wish freedom and dignity out of existence or beat them into oblivion.

  Noam Chomsky

  Home, Opportunity, Productive Work

  Noam Chomsky (2010). “The Chomsky Reader”, p.179, Pantheon

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• Nothing makes a player more productive than the last minute.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Player, Lasts

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• The WPA was one of the most productive elements of FDR's alphabet soup of agencies because it put people to work building roads, bridges, and other projects... It gave men and women a chance to make some money along with the satisfaction of knowing they earned it.

  Ronald Reagan

  Men, Bridges, Knowing

  Ronald Reagan (1990). “An American Life”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• The absurd, with its rupture of rationality-of conventional ways of seeing the world-is in fact an accurate and a productive way of understanding the world.

  William Kentridge

  Understanding, World, Rupture

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• My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is left to me, more productive to live out the question than to try to answer it in abstract terms.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Trying, Dubious, Answers

  Interview with David Attwell, www.dn.se. December 8, 2003.

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• Ideas are really what interest me in producing a band, if I can bring something productive to the project.

  Mark Hoppus

  Ideas, Band, Projects

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• The talented employee may join a company because of its charismatic leaders, its generous benefits, and its world-class training programs, but how long that employee stays and how productive he is while he is there is determined by his relationship with his immediate supervisor.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Class, Long, Leader

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• The present moment is never intolerable. It is always what is coming in five minutes or five days that makes people despair. The Law of Life is to live in the present, and this applies to both time and place. Keep your attention to the present moment, and in the place where your body is now. Do a fair day's work, and then stop. Overwork is not productive in the long run.

  Emmet Fox

  Running, Law, Long

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• One of the most productive things that we ever do in our lives is to think. To be able to think is to be able to decide, to judge, to have opinions and convictions, and to entertain a point of view. To be able to think is to be able to love, to believe, to work, to originate, and to organize.

  Sterling W Sill

  Believe, Thinking, Views

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• The details of our struggle to survive and prosper, in what has been a difficult and sometimes bitter relationship with a system of laws and practices that deny us access to the tools necessary for productive and industrious life, are available to any serious student of history or sociology.

  August Wilson

  Struggle, Practice, Law

  August Wilson, Larry Fishburne, Samuel G Freedman, Marion Isaac McClinton, Tony Kushner (2007). “August Wilson Century Cycle”

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• All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Business, Would Be, Wages

  Elbert Hubbard (1922). “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...”

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