"Raising the minimum wage allows business people to stop thinking about workers simply as costs to be cut and allows you to start thinking about workers as customers to be cultivated."

-- Nick Hanauer

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“The tougher the job, the greater the reward.”

Source : George Allen (1990). “Strategies for winning: a top coach's game plan for victory in football and in life”, McGraw-Hill Companies
“Always follow these two rules: first, act only on what your reasoning mind proposes for the good of humanity, and second, change your opinion if someone shows you it's wrong. This change of mind must proceed only from the conviction that it's both correct and for the common good, but not because it will give you pleasure and make you popular.”
“It is a bad sign when a new-born babe has not lungs enough to make itself heard over the whole house. It is equally a bad symptom when the new convert is born dumb, and cannot find his voice to praise God audibly.”
“I'm generally not a social dramatist or comedy writer. My interests have always been more in psychological stories or personal relations and comic ideas.”
“I've spent my whole life pushing sugar. People aren't going to stop eating sugar-we shouldn't throw the baby out with the bathwater. When you're with a group of people and you take a bite of a really great dessert, the conversation just stops. We don't want to get rid of those moments.”
“U.S. Speedskating has been riddled with problems since when I started my career, and we were always able to look past that. When it came down to performing on the ice, regardless of funding issues, we were always able to make it happen. And that's what it's all about.”
“I should say that being independent in the modern model means independent in a very interdependent world. An independent Scotland is not apart from the rest of the United Kingdom.”

Source : "Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon on striking balance with Cameron’s UK". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. June 11, 2015.
“Nothing is as strong as the heart of a volunteer.”

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