Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
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What, on the eternal list of priorities, precedes health? What more obvious role could government have than the defense of the life, of each citizen? We cannot stop every germ that seeks to harm us any more than we can stop every person who seeks to harm us. But we can try dammit and government's essential role in that effort facilitate it, reduce its cost, broaden its availability, improve my health and yours, seems, ultimately, self-explanatory.
Keith Olbermann
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A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set.
Tom Stoppard
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The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.
Aristotle
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I have always tried to sense the mood of the people, their needs, their attitude toward ways to solve problems, their priorities. That's mainly what I go by. And I think that's the most important thing in any person's work, in the work that the people of Russia entrusted in me.
Vladimir Putin
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The basic principles of democracy should be observed whatever the country - principles such as civil liberties, a free market, a free press, the priority of the individual over mythical state interests, a state which serves the interests of ordinary people and defends their rights and interests. This is all easy to say but hard to make reality.
Vladimir Putin
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We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
William James
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Sex isn't the priority anymore, now I'm 65. But it still goes on. I want it and she doesn't, same as ever.
Ozzy Osbourne
Black Sabbath
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I like when people have Western style, but it's throwback Seventies-ish. I like pearlsnap shirts and a bow-tie like the KFC man.
Kacey Musgraves
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Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.
Martin Luther
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The building itself is hostile: cracked plaster, broken windows, splintered doors and carved up desks, gloomy corridors, metal stairways, dingy cafeteria (they can eat sitting down only in 20 minute shifts) and an auditorium which has no windows. It does have murals, however, depicting mute, muscular harvesters, faded and immobilized under a mustard sun.
That's where we had assembly this morning.
Bel Kaufman
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Priority is a function of context.
Stephen Covey