I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race.
~By Ezra Cornell ~
The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life.
~By Erno Rubik ~
There's always room for improvement. We have a nucleus that's pretty good. You want players that will help.
~By Jason Kidd ~
Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
Homeowners who refinanced their mortgages took out cash and reduced their monthly payments at the same time. Much of the cash obtained by refinancing was spent on consumer durables, home improvements and the like.
~By Martin Feldstein ~
If you start using a medication in a person with autism, you should see an obvious improvement in behavior in a short period of time. If you do not see an obvious improvement, they probably should not be taking the stuff. It is that simple.
~By Temple Grandin ~
It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
~By Anthony Trollope ~
A wise and frugal Government, which shall retrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
In celebration of this Earth Day, I encourage all Members of the House to support legislation aimed at investing in the improvement of water quality in our Nation's lakes, rivers, streams and estuaries.
~By Jerry Costello ~
The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.
~By Rutherford B. Hayes ~
Human improvement is from within outward.
~By James Anthony Froude ~
Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.
~By Hugh Blair ~
Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.
~By Guy Debord ~
The thing is, continuity of strategic direction and continuous improvement in how you do things are absolutely consistent with each other. In fact, they're mutually reinforcing.
~By Michael Porter ~
The news of any politician's death should be listed under "Public Improvements."
~By Frank Dane ~
Basically, radio hasn't changed over the years. Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues - communicating with an audience.
~By Casey Kasum ~
I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.
~By Al Gore ~
Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent.
~By Maxwell Maltz ~
Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.
~By Tom Peters ~
Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth.
~By Mikhail Gorbachev ~
Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.
~By Alexander Graham Bell ~
Because of recent improvements in the accuracy of theoretical predictions based on large scale ab initio quantum mechanical calculations, meaningful comparisons between theoretical and experimental findings have become possible.
~By Yuan T. Lee ~
From reading over the notes for each session it was apparent that there had been improvement by more or less regular steps from almost complete terror at sight of the rabbit to a completely positive response with no signs of disturbance.
~By Mary C. Jones ~
It is difficult for me to believe that quantum mechanics, working very well for currently practical set-ups, will nevertheless fail badly with improvements in counter efficiency.
~By John S. Bell ~
Again, Be careful to make a good improvement of precious time.
~By David Brainerd ~
Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement.
~By Otto Weininger ~
Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe.
~By Lester B. Pearson ~
However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly.
~By Frances Wright ~
We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.
~By Ali ibn Abi Talib ~
Improvement begins with I.
~By Arnold H. Glasow ~
Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.
~By Christopher Lasch ~
We're the largest home improvement company today, and we did $30 billion last year, or less than 10 percent of the total amount of building materials sold in the U.S. So when people ask, how much runway left does Home Depot have, it's an awful lot.
~By Arthur Blank ~
In the unrest of the masses I augur great good. It is by their realizing that their condition of life is not what it ought to be that vast improvements may be accomplished.
~By Leland Stanford ~
Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family.
~By Bo Bennett ~
The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement.
~By Victor Francis Hess ~
Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.
~By Albert Pike ~
Umpires, like players, are expected to show constant improvement each season and at each level. Inconsistent plate work and the inability to handle situations are probably the two biggest problems that minor league umpires face.
~By Jim Evans ~
Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research.
~By Ike Skelton ~
For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind.
~By James Rouse ~
No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
~By Florida Scott-Maxwell ~
Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
~By Frank Moore Colby ~
I have a tremendous desire to learn, and to grow, and to develop whatever I have that will make for any kind of improvement in me.
~By Lawrence Welk ~
In 2002 the Yamaha was at more or less the same level as the Honda, better in some ways, worse in others. But in the winter of last year between 2002 and 2003, Honda made a big step forward and it seemed as if Yamaha couldn't quite match that improvement.
~By Valentino Rossi ~
In should be the duty of every soldier to reflect on the experiences of the past, in the endeavor to discover improvements, in his particular sphere of action, which are practicable in the immediate future.
~By B. H. Liddell Hart ~
He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
I have something to prove, as long as I know there's something that needs improvement, and you know that everytime I move, I make a woman's movement.
~By Ani DiFranco ~
The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit.
~By David Lee Roth ~
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
For me, there is a lot of room for improvement and there are a lot of things I would like to be better at.
~By Geddy Lee ~
If you look internationally over the last 50 years there have been improvements in the third world, but in the last 20 years the reverse has happened, with debt crises and increased poverty.
~By David Korten ~
And I think that's righteous, I think that's what parents want to know. They want to know what's going right in the school, and what needs improvement, and that's what this law does.
~By Margaret Spellings ~
I have noticed a marked improvement in FEMA and with the coordination of FEMA and the State agencies.
~By Ginny B. Waite ~
I see little alteration at Lyons since I formerly passed through it. Its manufactories are, nevertheless, flourishing, though less improvement than could be expected is visible in the external aspect of the place.
~By Marguerite Gardiner ~
Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives.
~By Paul Wellstone ~
God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.
~By William Law ~
And, of course, method is very important as is a high-quality specialist (trainer) working with you to keep you going in the right direction for your improvement and to help create results.
~By Sergei Bubka ~
Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.
~By Christopher Lasch ~
In my district, the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles handle approximately 44 percent of all of the goods delivered to American shores, yet they are in constant need of revenue for facilities, improvements and upgrades to roads and bridges and rails.
~By Dana Rohrabacher ~
Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.
~By Edsger Dijkstra ~
We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm.
~By Franz Liszt ~
Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
~By George Orwell ~
The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
Finance is critical. If sufficient investment is made in infrastructure and venture capital is made available, there will be a big improvement in the situation.
~By Sanjay Kumar ~
Whenever I am among my fellow Governors, I am struck by how many face the same education improvement issues.
~By Ernie Fletcher ~
By adopting the other trade, we place ourselves by the side of those whose measures tend not only to the improvement of their own subjects, but to the emancipation of the slave everywhere.
~By Henry Charles Carey ~
At the present moment the people of England are only three-quarters fed, and the result of this improvement in the export of our manufactures would be, that they would be entirely fed.
~By Joseph Hume ~
Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues - communicating with an audience.
~By Casey Kasem ~
For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement.
~By Pierre de Coubertin ~
I have to be careful not to be too proud in life, because there is always room for improvement.
~By Sylvia Kristel ~
New situations requiring closer contact with the rabbit had been gradually introduced and the degree to which these situations were avoided, tolerated, or welcomed, at each experimental session, gave the measure of improvement.
~By Mary C. Jones ~
After I've sent my revised draft to my agent and editor, they suggest more improvement sand again, this revision phase can take anywhere from a few hours to a few months.
~By Margaret Haddix ~
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
~By John Locke ~
I was myself brought up with my brother, whose name was Matthias, for he was my own brother, by both father and mother; and I made mighty proficiency in the improvements of my learning, and appeared to have both a great memory and understanding.
~By Flavius Josephus ~
A collection of good books, with a soul to it in the shape of a librarian, becomes a vitalized power among the impulses by which the world goes on to improvement.
~By Justin Winsor ~
A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
There is a lot of room for improvement in Social Security. We owe our children the most financially sound system possible. They will have paid into it their entire working lives. They deserve to be protected by it. for our children and grandchildren.
~By Mitch McConnell ~
Resolutions are popular because everyone feels they could use a little improvement.
~By Marilu Henner ~
We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources.
~By Paul Hawken ~
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today.
~By Isambard K. Brunel ~
In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants.
~By John Boyd Orr ~
There are significant human rights abuses in China. In some areas, the situation is worse today than in the past. In other areas, there have been improvements. We will recognize the latter, and be critical of the former.
~By Max Baucus ~
Humanity may endure the loss of everything; all its possessions may be turned away without infringing its true dignity - all but the possibility of improvement.
~By Johann Gottlieb Fichte ~
Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side.
~By Adolf Loos ~
The investigations which have seemingly been the most purely abstract have often formed the foundation of the most important changes or improvements in the conditions of human life.
~By Theodor Svedberg ~
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.
~By Paul Wellstone ~
There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity.
~By Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. ~
As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my own curriculum and teach whatever I wanted.
~By Dan Simmons ~
They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular.
~By John Morley ~
We pass bills authorizing improvements and grants. But when it comes time to pay for these programs, we'd rather put the country's money toward tax breaks for the wealthy than for police officers who are protecting our communities.
~By David E. Price ~
The people of South and Central Texas and the Coastal Bend need jobs, they need health care, they need water infrastructure improvements, they need a quality education, and they need the resources to keep our borders safe and secure.
~By Ruben Hinojosa ~
The accumulation of personal wealth and the extension of commercial transactions have developed a great and lamentable increase in certain classes of crimes, while the improvements in transport have largely facilitated the escape of fugitive criminals.
~By Edward Blake ~
There has been no appreciable improvement in our country's ability to produce the kind of talent we need in this space. There have been some small initiatives around the country that have been noteworthy.
~By John W. Thompson ~
Become addicted to constant and never-ending self-improvement.
~By Anthony J. D'Angelo ~
Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
~By Calvin Coolidge ~
Profits might also increase, because improvements might take place in agriculture, or in the implements of husbandry, which would augment the produce with the same cost of production.
~By David Ricardo ~
I feel not unlike a small boy, waking from a bad dream to find reality not much of an improvement.
~By John Byrne ~
The Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act expires at the end of this year. Thus, we must act quickly to ensure our constituents continue to receive the services they enjoy.
~By Eliot Engel ~
All this improvement is great, but all that does is get us in the game to play for improvements that we need in the future, so that we can be aggressive in the marketplace.
~By Rick Wagoner ~
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