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"From this vision of the role of the United Nations in the next century flow three key priorities for the future: eradicating poverty, preventing conflict and promoting democracy."
"You do the things that need to be done according to priority."
"Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority."
"You perform at your best when you are working continually on high-priority goals and objectives."
"As we progress into the twenty-first century, anyone who considers themselves a realist will have to make the environment a top priority."
"It's better to be trusted than to be liked."
"The only thing a cat worries about is what's happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can only wash one paw at a time."
"There is no perfect strategic decision. One always has to pay a price. One always has to balance conflicting objectives, conflicting opinions, and conflicting priorities. The best strategic decision is only an approximation - and a risk."
"If you will make time with God your first priority, everything else in your life will fall into place."
"Peace is your priority, not saving the world. That follows that."
"Is bankrupting this great country the top priority of this administration?"
"When you have too many top priorities, you effectively have no top priorities."
"I agree with Peter Drucker that the culture and legal systems of the United Statesare especially favorable to shareholder interests, compared to other interests and compared to most other countries. Indeed, there are many other countries where any good going to public shareholders has a very low priority and almost every other constituency stands higher in line."
"My priority is to hang out with the ones I love - my family, my loved ones."
"Because it is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible."
"In short, I conceive that great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of the value of things, and by their giving too much for their whistles."
"The classics of Marxism talked of communism as a society to which a modern society should aspire, a society truly fair, where the relations of monetary exchange were not the priority but one wher the people's needs could be satisfied, and where people would not be worth more according to how much monetary wealth they acquired. Instead their value would be based on their contribution to society as a whole. It would be a society without class that would accept people based on their capabilities and their potential to contribute to that society."
"If you don't have time, you don't have priorities."
"I pick what are my priorities and I limit those priorities to less than five in my life and really in those particular areas put in the energy to try to make good choices."
"I believe with all my heart that our first priority must be world peace, and that use of force is always and only a last resort, when everything else has failed, and then only with regard to our national security."
