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• You have to drop your sales mentality and start working with your prospects as if they've already hired you.

  Jill Konrath

  Motivational Sales, Ifs, Mentality

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• I'm nervous about the prospects of an America that refuses to abide by its best conscience and its best lights and its best angels.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Angel, Light, America

  Source: www.npr.org

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• We should create an America in which it's - we can - Americans have a better chance to progress wages and job prospects, and we can do that.

  Jeff Sessions

  Jobs, America, Progress

  Source: www.politico.com

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• America is among the countries the advance countries with the least equality of opportunity, which means that the - while I prospects of young American, a more dependent on the income and education's parents (ph) than another - other countries. So this notion of equal opportunity is sort of American dream is, is now a myth.

  Jedediah Bila

  Dream, Country, Mean

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• It is hard to be enthusiastic about the economy's prospects when house prices are falling: Households spend less, small business owners can't use homes as collateral for loans and local governments are forced to cut jobs and programs as property-tax revenue disappears.

  Mark Zandi

  Jobs, Fall, Home

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• We are apt to rely upon future prospects, and become really expensive while we are only rich in possibility. We live up to our expectations, not to our possessions, and make a figure proportionable to what we may be, not what we are.

  Joseph Addison

  Rely Upon, Expectations, May

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator”, p.123

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• you've always been living on prospects; for my part, I'd rather have a mole-hill in possession than a mountain in prospect.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Thinking, Expectations, Mountain

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1825). “Works of Maria Edgeworth: Harrington. Ormond. 1825”, p.236

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• You never know how you'll turn out till you've been down to half a dollar and no prospects.

  Mary Stewart

  Dollars, Half, Poverty

  Mary Stewart (2011). “The Ivy Tree”, p.202, Hachette UK

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• Disarmament by war and democracy by occupation are difficult prospects.

  Hans Blix

  War, Democracy, Occupation

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• Ask your loyal customers for positive comments about your products and your service. Then post these testimonials where other customers and prospects can enjoy them.

  Ron Kaufman

  Service Culture, Loyal Customers, Enjoy

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• Perhaps never before or since have so many people taken the measure of economic prospects and found them so favorable as in the two days following the Thursday [24th October 1929] disaster.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Taken, Two, People

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• People exaggerate their own skills. they are optimistic about their prospects and overconfident about their guesses, including which managers to pick.

  Richard Thaler

  Optimistic, Skills, People

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• I have learned never to underestimate the capacity of the human mind and body to regenerate - even when prospects seem most wretched. The life force may be the least understood force on earth.

  Norman Cousins

  Mind, Body, Earth

  Norman Cousins (2016). “Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration”, p.16, Open Road Media

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• But in terms of how people live together, how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace, the place of religion in our society today is essential.

  Tony Blair

  People, Together, Essentials

  "Interview: Tony Blair, on his faith and religious ideology". Interview with John Geiger, www.theglobeandmail.com. November 29, 2010.

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• There is no question that al-Qaida operatives are currently active in Iraq. A premature exit before the threat they represent has been dealt with would endanger America and the prospects of eventual peace in the Middle East.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Iraq, America, Middle East

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• I'm very, very bullish about our prospects, and as I tell our board, as I tell our employees, this is the time to invest. There's so much opportunity. Let's just invest in that opportunity, and really get after it.

  Steve Ballmer

  Opportunity, Boards, Economy

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• I hate to spoil my own prospects, but I really don't respect the kiss-and-tell approach to public life at all, not at all.

  Alexander Downer

  Hate, Kissing, Approach

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As we conquer peak after peak we see in front of us regions full of interest and beauty, but we do not see our goal, we do not see the horizon; in the distance tower still higher peaks, which will yield to those who ascend them still wider prospects, and deepen the feeling, the truth of which is emphasized by every advance in science, that 'Great are the Works of the Lord'.

  Joseph John Thomson

  Distance, Yield, Goal

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• When our individual interests and prospects do not seem worth living for, we are in desperate need for something apart from us to live for. All forms of dedication, devotion, loyalty and self-surrender are in essence a desperate clinging to something which might give worth and meaning to our futile, spoiled lives.

  Eric Hoffer

  Loyalty, Dedication, Self

  Eric Hoffer (1951). “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements”, New York : Harper

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• Upon graduation, believe it or not, I had no job. I had no interviews. I had no prospects. I had no worries. What I did have, I had passion. I had enormous passion. I had passion for financial markets. I had fallen in love with financial markets.

  Gary Cohn

  Jobs, Believe, Passion

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• To history therefore I must refer for answer, in which it would be an unhappy passage indeed, which should shew by what fatal indulgence of subordinate views and passions, a contest for an atom had defeated well founded prospects of giving liberty to half the globe.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Passion, Views, Giving

  Thomas Jefferson (1951). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 18 June, 1779 to 30 September, 1780”

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• Norway, too, has noble prospects; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England!

  Samuel Johnson

  Noble, Lapland, Norway

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 1, p. 425 (6 July 1763)

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• Intelligence and the spirit of adventure can be combined to create new energies, and out of these energies may come exciting and rewarding new prospects.

  Norman Cousins

  Adventure, May, Energy

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• If the children and youth of a nation are afforded opportunity to develop their capacities to the fullest, if they are given the knowledge to understand the world and the wisdom to change it, then the prospects for the future are bright. In contrast, a society which neglects its children, however well it may function in other respects, risks eventual disorganization and demise.

  Urie Bronfenbrenner

  Education, Children, Opportunity

  Urie bronfenbrenner (1978). “2 Wrlds Childhood”, Pocket Books

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• It's true I've got no shirts to wear;
  It's true my butcher's bill is due;
  It's true my prospects all look blue -
  But don't let that unsettle you.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Blue, Looks, Bills

  William Schwenck Gilbert, “To The Terrestrial Globe”

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