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"Health care is not just another commodity. It is not a gift to be rationed based on the ability to pay. It is time to make universal health insurance a national priority, so that the basic right to health care can finally become a reality for every American."
"Dealing with my own life takes priority over other people dealing with my life."
"The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion."
"The effort to strive for truth has to precede all other efforts."
"Be grateful more than anything in your life. If you have to put a priority on something, put a priority on what your thankful for and the people in your life that you're grateful for."
"Lack of time is actually lack of priorities."
"In digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?"
"Organize and execute around priorities."
"The only way to seek God is to seek God first. Deny the nayward, affirm the yeaward, be true to those stirrings and motions which He starts in us, refuse priority to all else, and be faithful to the sacred."
"On this International Day, let us promise to make peace not just a priority, but a passion. Let us pledge to do more, wherever we are in whatever way we can, to make every day a day of peace."
"When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives"
"I soon learned to scent out that which was able to lead to fundamentals and to turn aside from everything else, from the multitude of things which clutter up the mind and divert it from the essential."
"Every day, do something that is truly important in moving you toward your goals. You must choose to invest your time in the important steps. When you take charge of your time, you take charge of your life. How you spend your time reflects your priorities."
"Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things."
"Happiness is not on my list of priorities. I just deal with day-to-day things. If I'm happy, I'm happy – and if I'm not, I don't know the difference... Knowing that you are the person you were put on this earth to be – that's much more important than just being happy."
"Your ability to select your most important task at each moment, and then to get started on that task and to get it done both quickly and well, will probably have more of an impact on your success than any other quality or skill you can develop."
"Count the cost first. Don’t pay too big a price for pursuing minor values."
"If marriage isn't a first priority in your life, you're not married."
"The percept takes priority of the concept."
"The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news."
