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“Ethical
religion can be real only to those who are engaged
in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving
upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without
limit.”
-- Felix
Adler
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Globalization
has improved the lives of people throughout the world,
but it has also widened the gap between rich and poor...Working
to end poverty will make the world safer.
-- Robert
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This
is the spirit that is back of all the great struggles
of the workers to improve their working conditions.
Liberty and freedom for collective bargaining is
what they want and what they must have.
-- Mary
Anderson
Equal
pay for women is a matter of simple justice.
-- Mary
Anderson
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Our
lives improve only when we take chances -
and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to
be honest with ourselves.
-- Walter Anderson
"Let
us work in partnerships between rich and poor to improve
the opportunities of all human beings to build better
lives."
-- Kofi
Annan
let
us all reaffirm our commitment to improving the well-
being of families throughout the world.
-– Kofi
Annan
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A
community is a group of people who have come together,
and they work and they live to try and improve the standard
of living and quality of life - and I don't mean money.
-- William
Baldwin |
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"We can use our scientific knowledge to improve and
beautify the earth, or we can use it to ...poison
the air, corrupt the waters, blacken the face of the
country, and harass our souls with loud and discordant
noises, [or]...we can use it to mitigate or abolish
all these things."
~
John
Burroughs
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Advertising
promotes that divine discontent which makes people strive
to improve their economic status."
-- Ralph S. Butler
'New
information and communications technologies can improve
the quality of life for people with disabilities,
but only if such technologies are designed from the
beginning so that everyone can use them. Given the
explosive growth in the use of the World Wide Web
for publishing, electronic commerce, lifelong learning
and the delivery of government services, it is vital
that the Web be accessible to everyone.”
~ Bill
Clinton
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We're
all here in this world for some reason or another.
If you're aware of injustice, you can either ignore
it, say there is nothing you can do about it, complain
about it and not do anything, or put your energies
into doing something about it. And for me, the only
thing that is a meaningful use of my life is to work
to improve the quality of life for people who are
disadvantaged. I don't believe that just because one
person is born on one side of some imaginary line
and another person is born on the other side means
that a lot of people should be getting screwed through
no fault of their own.
--
Ben
Cohen
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"It is clear that military force and our policy
of preemption are alone insufficient to make us safe.
But help is on the way. Legislation has been proposed
to create a US Department of Peace. In the propsed
Department of Peace it would organize our present
system into one conscious effort to improve humanity
in achieving peace, where true safety lies."
-- Walter
Cronkite
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"You
cannot hope to build a better world without improving
the individuals. To that end each of us must work for
his or her own improvement, and at the same time share
a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular
duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most
useful."
-- Marie Curie |
"Volunteers
are not servants. Volunteers are partners working together
for improving America's future."
-- Mayor Richard Daly
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Checking
the results of a decision against its expectations
shows executives what their strengths are, where they
need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or
information.
--
Peter
F. Drucker
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“Softly
and kindly remind yourself, ''I cannot own anything.''
It is a valuable thought to keep in mind as you struggle
to improve your financial picture, worry about investments,
and plan how to acquire more and more. It is a universal
principle which you are part of. You must release everything
when you truly awaken. Are you letting your life go
by in frustration and worry over not having enough?
If so, relax and remember that you only get what you
have for a short period of time. When you awaken you
will see the folly of being attached to anything.”
- Wayne Dyer |
"How
wonderful that no one need wait a single moment to improve
the world."
-- Anne Frank
The
most constructive solutions are those which take into
consideration the views of all persons involved and
are acceptable to all. Such outcomes are the result
of negotiation strategies where the needs of both
sides are considered important and an attempt is made
to meet all needs. These solutions are appropriately
called Win-Win because there are no losers. While
often difficult to arrive at, the process leading
to such solutions builds interpersonal relationships,
increases motivation and improves commitment. Win-Win
solutions are the most desirable outcomes of conflict
resolution.
-- Peter Gabor and Carol Ing
"People
are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement
is possible with unimproved people, and advance is
certain when people are liberated and educated. It
would be wrong to dismiss the importance of roads,
railroads, power plants, mills,and the other familiar
furniture of economic development.... But we are coming
to realize... that there is a certain sterility in
economic monuments that stand alone in a sea of illiteracy.
Conquest of illiteracy comes first."
-- John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society (1958)
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"Satyagraha
is the pursuit of truth. My grandfather believed that
truth should be the cornerstone of everybody’s life
and that we must dedicate our lives to pursuing truth,
to finding out the truth in our lives. And so his
entire philosophy was the philosophy of life. It was
not just a philosophy for conflict resolution, but
something that we have to imbibe in our life and live
it all the time so that we can improve and become
better human beings."
-- Arun
Gandhi
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If you
want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice
things you say about them to others.
--Haim Ginott
Our
mission has been the protection of the wage-worker,
now; to increase his wages; to cut hours off the long
workday, which was killing him; to improve the safety
and the sanitary conditions of the workshop; to free
him from the tyrannies, petty or otherwise, which
served to make his existence a slavery.
-- Samuel
Gompers
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"The
answer is to end our reliance on carbon-based fuels...
If
we succeed, we create booming new industries, wealth,
clean secure energy and maybe we prevent the greatest
disaster so far in human history, saving millions
of lives while improving billions more. If we fail,
basically it's business as usual while things slowly
get worse all around us."
~ Al
Gore
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If
they [companies] believe they are in business to serve
people, to help solve problems, to use and employ
the ingenuity of their workers to improve the lives
of people around them by learning from the nature
that gives us life, we have a chance.
~ Paul
Hawken
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If
we assume that the purpose of the economy is to serve
and improve the welfare of the entire body of citizens,
the U.S. model has clearly been a major failure. It
has served a minority, and the majority have not only
failed to share in the income gains yielded by the model,
they have suffered from reduced benefits, greater job
instability and stress, and a diminution of expectations
and sense of hope for the future.
-- Edward S. Herman |
What
we need are critical lovers of America - patriots
who express their faith in their country by working
to improve it.
-- Hubert
Humphrey
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There
is only one corner of the universe you can be certain
of improving, and that’s your own self.
~ Aldous
Huxley |
“The
press is the best instrument for enlightening the
mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral
and social being”
~ Thomas
Jefferson
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It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage
and belief that human history is shaped. Each time
a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the
lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he
sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each
other from a million different centers of energy and
daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep
down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
-- Robert
F. Kennedy
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It
is his capacity for self-improvement and self-redemption
which most distinguishes man from the mere brute.
-- Aung
San Suu Kyi |
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"Anti-utopianism
continues to suffuse our culture...Today few imagine
that society can be fundamentally improved, and those
who do are seen as at best deluded, at worst threatening."
-- Lewis
Lapham |
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"There is no greater cause than making the world fit
for children. I feel very strongly about carrying
on the family tradition by working with UNICEF to
help improve the lives and well-being of children
everywhere."
-- Téa
Leoni
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The
improvement of understanding is for two ends: first,
our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable
us to deliver that knowledge to others.
-- John
Locke
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It
is hardly possible to overrate the value, for the
improvement of human beings, of things which bring
them into contact with persons dissimilar to themselves
and with modes of thought and action unlike those
with which they are familiar... It is indispensable
to be perpetually comparing [one's] own notions and
customs with the experience and example of persons
in different circumstances... There is no nation which
does not need to borrow from others.
-- John
Stuart Mill
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"Our
motto is to work for peace based on social justice.
Our mandate is to improve the condition, health and
safety of workers, and our mission is universal."
-- David
A. Morse
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"Society
may be formed so as to exist without crime, without
poverty, with health greatly improved, with little,
if any misery, and with intelligence and happiness
increased a hundredfold; and no obstacle whatsoever
intervenes at this moment except ignorance to prevent
such a state of society from becoming universal."
-- Robert
Owen
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Only
in a free society do individuals have the best chance
to seek virtue, strive for excellence, improve their
economic well-being, and achieve personal happiness...
The worthy goals of civilization can only be achieved
by freedom loving individuals. When government uses
force, liberty is sacrificed and the goals are lost.
It is freedom that is the source of all creative energy.
-- Ron Paul |
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"If
advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving
their products as they do on advertising then they
wouldn't have to advertise them."
-- Will
Rogers
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It
is to the real advantage of every producer, every
manufacturer and every merchant to cooperate in the
improvement of working conditions, because the best
customer of American industry is the well-paid worker.
-- Franklin
D. Roosevelt
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Just as with other great words, the word environment
means different things. You might say that a cave
woman twenty thousand years ago sweeping out the cave
was improving the environment. Many people improving
the environment think only in terms of the air they
breathe in their hometown and the water in the aquifer
under their hometown. My guess is very few are thinking
centuries ahead or thousand of years ahead, but that’s
what we have to do.
~ Pete
Seeger
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Employ
your time in improving yourself by other men's writings
so that you shall come easily by what others have labored
hard for.
-- Socrates
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If the ecological crisis, for example, is to be solved
and if we are to promote genuine justice and thus
bring real peace to the planet—and with it the possibility
of improving lives on every level, not just economically,
socially, and politically, but spiritually, psychologically,
and intellectually—then, just on a practical level,
we need to have all of the religions working together."
~ Brother
Wayne Teasdale
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I
read somewhere that when a person takes part in community
action, his health improves. Something happens to
him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic.
-- Studs
Terkel
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I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of
the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave
off eating animals.
-- Henry
David Thoreau
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The
improvement of life was only accomplished to the extent
to which it was based on a change of consciousness,
that is, to the extent to which the law of violence
was replaced in men's consciousness by the law of love.
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Politics is about the improvement of people's lives.
It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice
in our country and the world. Politics is about doing
well for the people.
-- Paul
Wellstone
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