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• Recycling is more expensive for communities than it needs to be, partly because traditional recycling tries to force materials into more lifetimes than they are designed for - a complicated and messy conversion, and one that itself expends energy and resources. Very few objects of modern consumption were designed with recycling in mind. If the process is truly to save money and materials, products must be designed from the very beginning to be recycled or even "upcycled" - a term we use to describe the return to industrial systems of materials with improved, rather than degraded, quality.

  William McDonough

  Community, Mind, Trying

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• Loss generally occurs when a player overrates his advantage or for other reasons seeks to derive from a minute advantage a great return such as a forced win.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Loss, Winning, Player

  Emanuel Lasker (2013). “Lasker's Manual of Chess”, p.560, SCB Distributors

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• Once the return tide starts, it will be impossible to stem it, and it will prove our undoing.

  Moshe Sharett

  Tides, Impossible, Undoing

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• UN peacekeeping operations are now increasingly complex and multi-dimensional, going beyond monitoring a ceasefire to actually bringing failed States back to life, often after decades of conflict. The blue helmets and their civilian colleagues work together to organize elections, enact police and judicial reform, promote and protect human rights, conduct mine-clearance, advance gender equality, achieve the voluntary disarmament of former combatants, and support the return of refugees and displaced people to their homes.

  Kofi Annan

  Home, Rights, Blue

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• The challenge of ending displacement is inseparable from the challenge of establishing and maintaining peace. When wars end, farmers return to their fields; children return to school; violence against women declines; trade and economic activity resume; medical and other services become more accessible, and the international focus changes from relief to development and self-sufficiency. All this makes new wars less likely. It is a virtuous cycle that deserves nurture and support.

  Kenneth Bacon

  Children, War, School

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• Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are.

  Harold S. Kushner

  People, Growth, Who You Are

  Harold S. Kushner (2006). “Overcoming Life's Disappointments”, p.48, Anchor

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• The goal [is] not only to earn high returns at the top of the cycle but also to avoid giving them back at the bottom.

  Duff McDonald

  Giving, Goal, Banking

  Duff McDonald (2009). “Last Man Standing: The Ascent of Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan Chase”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

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• First of all, the Social Security money belongs to Main Street, not to Wall Street. It needs to be said very clearly here that privatization is off the table... Social Security, as a matter of fact, is a better investment now than the stock market. There's a higher return. There's guaranteed cost-of-living increases. Privatization you have to worry about the value of your account.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Money, Wall, Cost Of Living

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• Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns.

  Walter Bagehot

  Government, Presidential, Waiting

  Walter Bagehot (1930). “The English Constitution: And Other Political Essays”, p.44, Lulu.com

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• I always work out of uncertainty but when a painting's finished it becomes a fixed idea, apparently a final statement. In time though, uncertainty returns.. your thought process goes on.

  Georg Baselitz

  Artist, Ideas, Work Out

  Georg Baselitz (2010). “Georg Baselitz: Collected Writings and Interviews”

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• It has been our experience that if a young man decides to go on a mission, he can not only play well when he returns, he will often play better. If an athlete could play well before he went on a mission, he will definitely play well when he returns; and, if an athlete could not play well before his mission, he probably won't play well when he returns. However, his chances of playing well are perhaps better if he goes because he will return with . . . better work habits, and a better knowledge of what it takes to be successful.

  LaVell Edwards

  Athlete, Knowledge, Successful

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• St Paul, in his second letter to Corinth, spells this out further in the important eighth and ninth chapters, where he urges some of the Christian communities to be generous to others so that they may also have the chance to be generous in return.

  Rowan Williams

  Christian, Second Chance, Community

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• Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other; and he that knows how to accommodate himself to their periodical returns, and can wisely extract the good from the evil, knows only how to live: this is true contentment, at least all that is to be had of it in this world; and for this every man must be indebted not to his fortune, but to himself.

  Laurence Sterne

  Gratitude, Pain, Light

  "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy: Gentleman & A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy".

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• Counting our blessings can transform melancholy into cheerful mass; laughter and joy are expressions of praise and thanksgiving for life's glories. When looking at the glass that symbolizes our life, we can view it as half full or half empty. The choice is ours... The more joyful we are, the more attractive we become. When we feel gratitude for our experiences, it becomes easier to see the good that always exists. When we give a smile to someone else, we are likely to receive one in return, and that smile reflects a happy heart that is open and receptive to what the good life has in store.

  John Templeton

  Gratitude, Good Life, Laughter

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• When we are fully mindful of the transience of things - an impending return home from an overseas adventure, a graduation, our child boarding the school bus for the first day of kindergarten, a close colleague changing jobs, a move to a new city - we are more likely to appreciate [be grateful for] and savor the remaining time that we do have. Although bittersweet experiences also make us sad, it is this sadness that prompts us, instead of taking it for granted, to come to appreciate the positive aspects of our vacation, colleague, or hometown; it's 'now or never.'

  Sonja Lyubomirsky

  Gratitude, Jobs, Children

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• Verily we are from God, and to Him shall we return!

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Valleys, Spirit, Beloved

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• Any act in the name of God returns 10 fold.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Inspirational, Bhajans, Names

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• Improve with each breath. Every negative vibration returns 10 fold.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Inspirational, Bhajans, Negative

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• The trouble with giving advice is that others want to return the favor.

  Sam Ewing

  Giving, Advice, Favors

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• When you're a 20-something grassroots activist, and you're deciding how to spend your time and money to make a difference, it makes a lot of sense to cause a million in damage with just $100 of investment. That's a better return than any other form of activism I've been involved in.

  Rod Coronado

  Animal, Differences, Making A Difference

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• Each individual Christian and each new age of the Church has to make this rediscovery, this return to the source of Christian life.

  Thomas Merton

  Christian, Age, Church

  Thomas Merton (2003). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.148, Shambhala Publications

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• The time to buy stocks is consistently over time. You should never buy your investments with the idea, 'I have to get a certain return.' You should look at the best return possible and learn to live with that. But you should not try to make your investments earn what you feel you need. It doesn't work that way. The stock doesn't know you own it.

  Warren Buffett

  Wisdom, Ideas, Trying

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• By offering individuals ownership and control of their health care coverage, we return control to the patients; and that is exactly where it should be.

  Chris Chocola

  Offering, Care, Patient

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• A homing pigeon must love her home; otherwise she will not wish to return to it.

  Meir Shalev

  Home, Wish, Pigeons

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• Financial service providers act as the lubricating oil in the economy. They link consumers who want to invest their savings for a good return with companies who want to borrow on best terms for expansion.

  John Bruton

  Oil, Expansion, Saving

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