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• The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies.

  Ibrahim Babangida

  Book, Technology, Humanity

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• During my time, there might have been one pitcher or two that were top pitchers on a team. Teams that won maybe had three, but today they have a lot of depth. They have a lot of long relievers, short relievers, and the strategy is different.

  Ernie Banks

  Sports, Team, Two

  Interview with Darrell Horwitz, bleacherreport.com. 2004.

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• I've helped some of my classmates on how to strategize to get to the next level of their businesses. And it's interesting, because here I am sitting there from the entertainment industry and the fashion industry, and I'm giving a billionaire that has a business that's been in his family for 300 years - I'm giving him advice about strategy!

  Tyra Banks

  Fashion, Years, Here I Am

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• It is a fact that governments tend to put in place policies and strategies in response to current scenarios.

  Julie Bishop

  Government, Facts, Currents

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• President Obama is determined that our foreign and national security policies not play into al-Qa'ida's strategy or its warped ideology. Al-Qa'ida seeks to terrorize us into retreating from the world stage. But President Obama has made it a priority to renew American leadership in the world, strengthening our alliances and deepening partnerships.

  John O. Brennan

  Play, Priorities, President

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• Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

  Anita Brookner

  Love, Friendship, Accountability

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• In recognising the global problem posed by osteoporosis, WHO sees the need for a global strategy for prevention and control of osteoporosis, focusing on three major functions: prevention, management and surveillance.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Osteoporosis, Needs, Prevention

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• At the heart of banking is a suicidal strategy. Banks take money from the public or each other on call, skim it for their own reward and then lock the rest up in volatile, insecure and illiquid loans that at times they cannot redeem without public aid.

  James Buchan

  Heart, Suicidal, Insecure

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• Insisting that we must tax and take and demonize those who have already achieved the American Dream. That may turn out to be a good re-election strategy for President Obama, but is a demoralizing message for America.

  Chris Christie

  Dream, America, President

  "Herman Cain Talks Surge in GOP Polls; Business Leaders on State of U.S. Economy". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. October 2, 2011.

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• You can't lay back and wait for somebody else to do it. And I think if the president's made a mistake here, it's this laid-back kind of approach where he's waiting for someone else to solve the problem.

  Chris Christie

  Mistake, Thinking, People

  "Huntsman yet to live up to hype - Michele Bachmann ties Romney in first big Iowa poll - Officially announces her candidacy tomorrow - Maureen Dowd labels Obama 'Bi,' for being on all sides" by Mike Allen, www.politico.com. June 26, 2011.

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• I've had lengthy discussions with European farm leaders. It is clear they have an agricultural strategy to support their producers and gain dominance in world agricultural trade. They're gaining markets the old-fashioned way - they're buying them.

  Kent Conrad

  Support, Leader, World

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• With acting, you wanna see if you can get into trouble without knowing how you're gonna get out of it. It's like the exact opposite of war, where you need an exit strategy. When you're acting, you should get all the way into trouble with no exit strategy, and have the cameras rolling.

  John Cusack

  War, Knowing, Opposites

  "John Cusack: 'I like to take risks'". Interview with Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2009.

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• Oliver Stone's strategy is to unnerve the actors so as to make them alert and alive.

  Claire Danes

  Actors, Alive, Stones

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• If our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.'

  Mitch Daniels

  Military, Years, Defense

  Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

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• And I guess what I would say is that we can't think narrowly about movements for black liberation and we can't necessarily see this class division as simply a product or a certain strategy that black movements have developed for liberation.

  Angela Davis

  Thinking, Class, Black

  "Frontline", www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• There are a couple of strategies for writing about an absence or writing about a loss. One can create the person that was lost, develop the character of the fiancee. There's another strategy that one can employ, maybe riskier... Make the reader suffer the loss of the character in a more literal way.

  Junot Diaz

  Couple, Writing, Character

  "A long-term relationship". Interview with Elizabeth Taylor, www.chicagotribune.com. September 21, 2012.

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• I am a sprinter, and I love to go fast. It's very difficult for me to be patient and follow a race strategy or conserve energy.

  Allyson Felix

  Race, Energy, Patient

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• If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must contain two key elements: civic engagement and education.

  Jane Fonda

  Pregnancy, Keys, Two

  "Time For New Ideas In Prevention of Teen Pregnancy" by Jane Fonda, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 6, 2009.

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• The pursuit of the vibrant seems to be the universal job description of the nation's city planners nowadays. It is also part of the Obama administration's economic recovery strategy for the nation.

  Thomas Frank

  Jobs, Recovery, Cities

  John Summers, Chris Lehmann, Thomas Frank (2014). “No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler”, p.110, MIT Press

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• When done right - or wrong, depending on how you look at it - deficits remove liberal options from the table. Suddenly there's no money for building bridges or inspecting meat. Not surprisingly, running up a deficit is a strategy favored by the wrecking crew for its liberal-killing properties.

  Thomas Frank

  Running, Bridges, Meat

  "No Future for You" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2008.

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• It's not white versus black any more, it's haves versus have-nots. Unless the black middle-classes unite to promote the interests of the black underclass, tension between them is inevitable. What we, the black middle class have to do, is think of a strategy to avert that.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Thinking, Class, White

  "The biggest brother". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2003.

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• Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Tactics, Incentives, Tactics And Strategy

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• As somebody who, in my second marriage, insisted on a prenuptial agreement, I can also testify that sometimes it is an act of love to chart the exit strategy before you enter the union, in order to make sure that not only you, but your partner as well, knows that there will be no World War III should hearts and minds, for any sad reason, change.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  War, Heart, Agreement

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• Fortunately, it's still not too late to develop a comprehensive global strategy to eliminate our real enemy.

  David Hackworth

  Real, Enemy, Too Late

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• Time is not on Gaddafi's side. People ask about the exit strategy. It's Colonel Gaddafi who needs an exit strategy because this pressure will only mount and it will be intensified over the coming days and weeks.

  William Hague

  People, Needs, Pressure

  "The Andrew Marr Show", news.bbc.co.uk. April 24, 2011.

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