Top Short-Term Quotes
There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.
Buzz Aldrin
We can do things the cheap way, the simple way, for the short-term and without regard for the future. Or, we can make the extra effort, do the hard work, absorb the criticism and make decisions that will cause a better future.
Mike Rounds
Rekindled love is generally short-term.
Nicholas Sparks
We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.
Kofi Annan
The simple truth is, the short-term solution is for the FDA to allow more importation of safe vaccines from other nations. But the long-term solution is to get more vaccine production within the U.S.
Larry Craig
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I think we will see better vaccines within the next 15 years, but I'm not a scientist and am focused on the short-term - what will happen in the interim.
Paul Farmer 
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Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.
George Will
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One of my problems, so to speak, is that, in America, we tend to thing in relatively short-term. In the Middle East and Asia and other parts of the world, they think in terms of centuries or 500 years or 1,000 years.
Jay Rockefeller
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Chances are that neither the client nor the agency will ever know very much about what role the ad has played in sales or profits of the client, either short-term or long-term.
Michael Schudson
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What we're going to do is redouble our efforts on financial regulatory reform, because that has in it sensible things like say on pay, so at least the shareholders are minding the store, sensible things like saying, for heaven's sakes, compensation should be focused on - on long term, so that you don't have rewards for short-term risk-taking.
Christina Romer
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The real sin with Social Security is that it's a long-term rip-off and a short-term scam.
Tony Snow
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But obviously, we can't afford to make some bad long-term decisions with regard to basic commitments our country has - trade those away for some short-term assistance that may or may not be there a month from now.
Fred Thompson
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It is proper that the federal government help alleviate short-term disruptions and price spikes such as those brought about by Hurricane Katrina.
Mel Martinez
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People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations.
Keith Henson
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The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.
Harry Browne
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Barack ObamaBarbara JordanBarney FrankTom StoppardNicholas SparksFred ThompsonKofi AnnanJ. William FulbrightKeith HensonNelson MandelaJeffrey SachsTony SnowGeorge WillAlexandra PaulBruce Babbitt
Paul FarmerK. Eric DrexlerJohn HullTimothy LearyRaul GrijalvaLarry CraigMichael SchudsonHarry BrowneMel MartinezMike RoundsHannah MoreChristina RomerJay RockefellerBuzz Aldrin
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