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Quotes About Improving

If you had a population that were miserable and restless because they had nowhere bearable to live, then the preferred solution seemed not to be spending money on improving their condition but on hiring more police in case things should turn ugly, housing these new myrmidons in properties from which the itchy and disgruntled man-herds were already serendipitously purged.
~ Alan Moore
Abortion was seen by her as a way of "improving" the population. She did not intend its widespread use among whites, and is famous for her slogan "More [children] from the fit, and less from the unfit." Who are the unfit? The black poor.
~ Jesse Lee Peterson
You want proof evolution is for real, don't waste your time with fossils; just check out the New York City rat. They started out as immigrants, stowaways in some ship's cargo hold. Only the survivors got to breed, and they've been improving with every new litter. Smarter, faster, stronger. Getting ready to rule. Manhattan wouldn't be the first island they took over.
~ Andrew Vachss
As technology keeps improving, the price of oil keeps rising, and the ice keeps melting, Arctic energy is bound to be an increasingly bigger part of the global mix.
~ Alex Shoumatoff
The spirit in which the offer was made must of necessity contribute to improving and alleviating the situation of the Jewish people without our renouncing one iota of the great principles upon which our movement is based.
~ Theodor Herzl
At this period the enthusiasm of the amateur was fast giving way to a more steady commercial instinct, and I let no opportunity slip of improving my position, but I felt that I was still labouring under the disadvantage of not having acquired some technical profession.
~ Henry Bessemer
I like to take a little bit from every midfielder I have played against, whether it's physically, technically, tactically, just to try to improve my game.
~ Harry Winks
All hope is lost? Good. That means the conditions for a black swan revival are improving by the day. The stone-cold deader we get, the more God is hastening the day. Nothing is dying but what has needed to die for a long time.
~ Douglas Wilson
A great mix of tips, tricks, and anecdotes, All is Forgiven, Move On has excellent ideas for your weight loss journey and for improving your life along the way!
~ Judith S. Beck
I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer.
~ Neil Gaiman
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
~ Anne Bradstreet
I feel like my place in this industry is still progressing.
~ Ed Harris
Then you don't think the artist works from his intelligence? No. He goes on improving, if he can, what he imitates in the way of style, and choosing from his own interpretation of the things around him what constitutes material. But after all every writer writes because it's his mode of living.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Terrorism tramples upon any rights and freedoms and generates fear and hatred; it is an obstacle to efforts at improving our world.
~ Dmitry Medvedev
Most of us simply do not possess the innate abilities necessary to ascend to the upper echelons of athletic, artistic, or musical excellence. But *all* of us, as human beings, do possess the innate abilities necessary to achieve excellence of ethical character --- excellence in the sense of improving our personal character to the point where we can do right and good things naturally and consistently.
~ Russell Gough
Second, there is a working class who are becoming more like medieval serfs, with diminishing chances of owning significant assets or improving their lot except with government transfers.
~ Joel Kotkin
Arsenal's never-improving injury list increasingly attracts curiosity rather than sympathy.
~ Pete Gill
The national debate on health care once centered on improving access to quality care, yet the effect of Obamacare will be the exact opposite, resulting in the shameful degradation of care for the neediest individuals.
~ Fred Upton
I believed we could expand support for Planned Parenthood - and ultimately for abortion access - by finding common ground with the large majority of Americans who can unite behind the goal of improving the health and well-being of women and children.
~ Leana S. Wen
Reaffirming the justice of the American system bolsters our legitimacy with allies, thereby encouraging further cooperation and improving our national security.
~ John Garamendi
the improvement efforts of other companies are misguided since they are aimed at achieving cost savings rather than being totally focused on improving the flow.
~ Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Mindfulness involves two key strategies for improving health: attention to context and attention to variability.
~ Ellen J. Langer
For the conservatives, Lula is seen as someone who constantly seeks demarcation and even rupture. For the Left, however, Lula is always seen as someone who conciliates, as he acknowledges the role of owners in improving the conditions of workers.
~ Fernando Haddad
I have seen this happen in recent years with regard to pharmaceuticals and vaccines, where, working together, we are improving access to medicines and vaccines for infectious diseases in the poorest countries.
~ Gro Harlem Brundtland