"If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough - you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal."

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"If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough - you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal."

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"And what we were trying to offer every day was one-on-one attention. The goal was to have a one-to-one ratio with every one of these students."

Dave Eggers, American Writer

Goal, Attention, Day, Students

"Well, I mean, to me, I think my ultimate - my ultimate goal is winning championships and - and I understand that me going down as one of the greats will not happen until I, you know, win a championship."

LeBron James, American Athlete

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"What is a goal without a purpose?"

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"It is a rare piece of legislation indeed where there is so much agreement about the goals."

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"The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self."

Marianne Williamson, American Author

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"In football, side netting can sometimes look like a real goal and it can make spectators jubilate for a moment, and then ponder! So is life!"

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

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"My current goal is to place a moratorium on goals."

Jessica Savitch, American Journalist

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"My goal is just to become a better comedian."

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"The goal wasn't to be a millionaire or to be a Hollywood star. That was not the goal. The goal was something about - the goal was to find the goal, but I knew where it was."

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"There is nothing wrong with wanting pay for work, or seeking to maximize one's income, as long as one does not use means that are destructive."

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"I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place."

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"The reason that a good citizen does not use such destructive means to become wealthier is that, if everyone did so, we would all become poorer from the mutual destructiveness."

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"All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights."

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"Control over the use of one's ideas really constitutes control over other people's lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more difficult."

People

"The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice was useful, and is the only way many authors' works have survived even in part."

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"The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way."

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"Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria."

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"The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity."

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"People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of vi is not a sin; it is a penance. So happy hacking."

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