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• In Maybe I Will, Laurie Gray writes about important topics that teens need to talk about, including sexual assault, friendship, and alcoholism or self-destructive behaviors that result from trauma. Maybe I Will may help some teens know they're not alone.

  Cheryl Rainfield

  Writing, Self, Important

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• But when adults speak up for the vulnerable and the weak, working and demanding that safety and respect prevail, God's little lambs are protected and nourished. They know they are not abandoned; they are loved. And the world becomes a little more like heaven as a result.

  Wess Stafford

  Safety, Heaven, Adults

  Wess Stafford (2010). “Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most”, p.159, WaterBrook

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• I feel that the All-Star game is more like a party because its made up of a lot of elements. However the core of All-Star is still the 48 minute-game and all the fans will pay all attention to the showcase of the players excellent skills. The result of the game is not much of a concern.

  Yao Ming

  Stars, Party, Player

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• Permanent results only come from permanent changes in lifestyle and diet style. You don't get permanently well unless you permanently change the way you live.

  Joel Fuhrman

  Inspiring, Life Changing, Style

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• The minimum could be defined as the perfection that an artefact achieves when it is no longer possible to improve it by subtraction. This is the quality that an object has when every component, every detail, and every junction has been reduced or condensed to the essentials. it is the result of the omission of the inessentials.

  John Pawson

  Omission, Perfection, Simplicity

  "Less really is more" by Luke Jennings, www.theguardian.com. November 25, 2006.

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• Only the skilled can judge the skillfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result.

  C. S. Lewis

  Skills, Judging, Values

  "A Preface to Paradise Lost". Book by C. S. Lewis. Chapter 2: "Is Criticism Possible?", 1942.

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• My own duty as a teacher...is not so much to interpret Beethoven, Wagner, or other masters of the past, but to give what encouragement I can to the young musicians of America. I...hope that just as this nation has already surpassed so many others in marvelous inventions and feats of engineering and commerce, and has made an honorable place for itself in literature in one short century, so it must assert itself on the...art of music...To bring about this result, we must trust the very youthful enthusiasm and patriotism of this country.

  Antonin Dvorak

  Country, Teacher, Encouragement

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• We stand in the shadow of the Bible today as opposed to in the pages of the Bible. I think that the biblical illiteracy comes as a direct result of a failure to recognize that the DNA of western civilization comes from a biblical worldview.

  Hank Hanegraaff

  Biblical, Thinking, Dna

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• One Blue Dog Democratic House Member reminded me earlier this month of the saying that 'insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.' He wondered if his fellow Members weren't more in need of advice from psychiatrists than from economists at this point.

  John Fund

  Dog, Blue, House

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• It is fascinating to watch politicians come up with 'solutions' to problems that are a direct result of their previous solutions. In many cases, the most efficient thing to do would be to repeal their previous solution and stop being so gung-ho for creating new solutions in the future. But, politically, that is the last thing they will do.

  Thomas Sowell

  Creating, Political, Watches

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• "Choices with Clout" "If what we are thinking about doing is likely to produce good results, we can be reasonably sure we will be choosing the right thing to do. You can make a living from 9 to 5, but you make a success during the rest. . . ."

  Wilbur Lucius Cross

  Life, Thinking, Choices

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• It's the process, not the result.

  Charles Schlueter

  Musical, Process

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• It is possible that the distinction between moral relativism and moral absolutism has sometimes been blurred because an excessively consistent practice of either leads to the same practical result — ruthlessness in political life.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Moral Absolutism, Practice, Political

  Richard Hofstadter (2011). “The Age of Reform”, p.16, Vintage

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• More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.

  Damon Albarn

  Art, Interesting, Groups

  "Keeping it (un)real". Interview with Neil Gaiman, www.wired.com. July 1, 2005.

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• The term suicide is applied to all cases of death resulting directly or indirectly from a positive or negative act of the victim himself, which he knows will produce this result

  Emile Durkheim

  Suicide, Negative, Victim

  John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim (2010). “Suicide”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• What counts is results, and there can be no doubt that the Soviet planning system has been a powerful engine for economic growth...The Soviet model has surely demonstrated that a command economy is capable of mobilizing resources for rapid growth.

  Paul Samuelson

  Powerful, Doubt, Growth

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• I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man's urge to open his heart

  Edvard Munch

  Art, Believe, Men

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• We don't have faith in reason; we use reason because, unlike revelation, it produces results and understanding. Even discussing why we should use reason employs reason!

  Jerry A. Coyne

  Understanding, Use, Have Faith

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• Nature may reach the same result in many ways.

  Nikola Tesla

  May, Way

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Illustrated Tesla”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

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• Work mixed with management becomes not only easier but more profitable. The time is past when anyone can boast about 'hard work' without having a corresponding result to show for it.

  Henry Ford

  Hard Work, Past, Management

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• Language is an anonymous, collective and unconscious art; the result of the creativity of thousands of generations.

  Edward Sapir

  Inspirational, Life, Art

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• Fairness is not the end result, it's the opportunity. And everybody in America today has the opportunity to get ahead.

  Tim Huelskamp

  Opportunity, America, Today

  "Al Sharpton’s Heated Clash With Tim Huelskamp", www.huffingtonpost.com. January 26, 2012.

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• Shareholder value is a result, not a strategy . . . Your main constituencies are your employees, your customers and your products.

  Jack Welch

  Strategy, Employee, Shareholder Value

  "Simple sermon on ethics won't do". www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2011.

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• Positive thinkers get positive results because they are not afraid of problems.

  Ken Blanchard

  Problem, Not Afraid, Thinker

  Twitter post from Oct 08, 2013

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• A quality such as self-esteem is a result of practicing good human relations.

  Robert Ringer

  Inspirational, Self Esteem, Quality

  Robert J. Ringer (1990). “Million dollar habits”, Wynwood

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