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Independence is a very subjective assessment. -- P. Chidambaram
I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom. -- Fernando Flores
Think of what happened after 9/11, the minute before there was any assessment, there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq, and so the war drums beat. -- Ron Paul
Our assessment of socio-economic worth is largely a sham. We scientists should not lend ourselves to it - though we routinely do. We should, instead, insist on applying the criterion of quality. -- John Charles Polanyi
If you have a group of people come together around a vision for real discipleship, people who are committed to grow, committed to change, committed to learn, then a spiritual assessment tool can work. -- Dallas Willard
I think kids should have a mentor and a role model, but that they shouldn't take one person's opinion to be what we call final assessment or judgment about how life is supposed to be. -- Sean Paul
In modern Russia, you have no official, formal assessment of this past. Nobody in any Russian document has said that the policy of the Soviet government was criminal, that it was terrible. No one has ever said this. -- Ryszard Kapuscinski
I was an embarrassment to the department when they did research assessment exercises. A message would go round the department: 'Please give a list of your recent publications.' And I would send back a statement: 'None.' -- Peter Higgs
When I got to GM they were using a matrix method of management which means everybody has more than one boss. I first heard about that system many years ago. It's supposed to help with collaboration, but my assessment is that it's pretty hard to get geared for action that way. -- Edward Whitacre, Jr.
I would say my fraternity was nothing but a bunch of farm boys; we weren't really in the whole fraternity scene, but yeah, that's a safe assessment of who I am. I've lived that life, growing up in agriculture and then going off to college and joining a fraternity, livin' that life. -- Luke Bryan
I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites. -- Nelson Mandela
When I decide who to vote for as president, I ask myself who will be best for America and for the world. An important component of my answer involves my assessment of the candidate's willingness and ability to protect Israel's security, since I strongly believe that a strong Israel serves the interests of the United States and of world peace. -- Alan Dershowitz
Assessment is today's means of modifying tomorrow's instruction. -- Carol Ann Tomlinson
Our initial assessment is that they will all die. -- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
I am never guided by a possible assessment of my work -- Vladimir Putin
A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is myself. -- Marcus Aurelius
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
According to the Office of Technology Assessment, 3 Minuteman missiles and 7 Poseidon missiles could destroy 73 percent of oil-refining capacity in the Soviet Union. -- James Fallows
Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle. -- Eric Zorn
In Connecticut, my understanding, although I haven't seen the actual litigation, is that they want to measure every other year and not provide annual assessment as is required in the statute. -- Margaret Spellings
There is a lack of critical assessment of the past. But you have to understand that the current ruling elite is actually the old ruling elite. So they are incapable of a self-critical approach to the past. -- Ryszard Kapuscinski
We've had risk assessments performed by Harvard University, which said that even if we did have a small number of cases in this country that the likelihood of it spreading or getting into any kind of human health problem is very, very small. -- Ann Veneman
The government, for example, has determined that black people (somehow) have fewer abilities than white people, and, so, must be given certain preferences. Anyone acquainted with both black and white people knows this assessment is not only absurd but monstrous. And yet it is the law. -- David Mamet
I will not comment on or confirm what are alleged to be stolen State Department cables. But I can say that the United States deeply regrets the disclosure of any information that was intended to be confidential, including private discussions between counterparts or our diplomats' personal assessments and observations. -- Hillary Clinton
Within three hours of a disaster event there should be a recon damage assessment of the infrastructure and an educated guess as to the casualties and degree of imminent human peril. Then make the airdrops of supplies and personnel. Simultaneously, Seabees would be dropped in, with lights and generators, to begin rescue efforts. -- Steven Van Zandt
The latest scientific assessment has almost doubled the predicted rate of warming if no changes are made. -- Donella Meadows
Jersey gets a bad rap. Most people make an assessment of this state on the ride from Newark Airport into Manhattan. -- Eddie Trunk
The U.S. State Department has a consistent record of error in the assessment of Asian situations and judging Red Chinese intentions. -- Ferdinand Marcos
Balancing hopes, desires and an appreciating of the possibilities with a clear-eyed assessment of the limitations: that is the art of choosing. -- Sheena Iyengar
Based on assessment of all available information and following several expert consultations, I have decided to raise the current level of influenza pandemic alert from phase 4 to phase 5. -- Margaret Chan
By 2025, we can expect the world to be completely digital. Paper books will be a thing of the past. Education will be delivered through analytics-based assessment tools and adaptive learning platforms. -- Osman Rashid
So a truthful assessment of how America is doing in the war on terror as a result of President Bush's war on Iraq is that we have been set back by decades. -- John Olver
Extremists often derive their inspiration from literal interpretations of texts that should rightly be read not as Associated Press reports from the ancient world, but as theological and literary enterprises requiring independent intellectual assessment. -- Jon Meacham
A mentor long departed told me that the greatest gift in political life, in any life, is to view yourself objectively, at arm's length, to make an assessment of yourself. So whom do I rely on? I rely on myself. -- Hugh Carey
After the Volcker Fund collapsed, I got another grant from the Lilly Endowment to do a history of the U.S., which I worked on from 1962-66. The original idea was to take the regular facts and put a libertarian assessment on everything. -- Murray Rothbard
Like other antitrust agencies we make our assessment of a merger or antitrust case based on its impact on our jurisdiction, and not on the nationality of the companies. This is exactly what the U.S. antitrust agencies, the Justice Department and the FTC, do. -- Mario Monti
Genetically modified organism (GMO) foods are feared and hated by environmentalists and the public alike. Yet the scientific assessment of GMOs is remarkably different. Every major scientific evaluation of GMO technology has concluded that GMOs are safe for human consumption and are a benefit to the environment. -- Ramez Naam
Scientists are supposed to study animals in a totally objective fashion, similar to the way we inspect a rock or measure the circumference of a tree trunk. Emotions are not to interfere with the assessment. The animal-rights movement capitalizes on this perception, depicting scientists as devoid of compassion. -- Frans de Waal
I am never guided by a possible assessment of my work. -- Vladimir Putin
On assessment: measure what you value instead of valuing only what you can measure. -- Andy Hargreaves
It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity. -- Edward de Bono
Commercialism that has absolutely no relationship to quality whatsoever, only quantitative assessment of a thing. -- Wynton Marsalis
Philosophy is explicitness, generality, orientation and assessment. That which one would insinuate, thereof one must speak. -- Ernest Gellner
Woodrow Kroll is dead-on in his assessment of the church's lack of engagement with the Word. -- Howard G. Hendricks
Only in Washington would death be considered a taxable event. [a cynical but perhaps fair assessment] -- Mike Ferguson
Well, one of them is annual assessment in grades 3-8. It's integral to the implementation of everything. -- Margaret Spellings
External things are not the problem. It's your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now. -- Marcus Aurelius
I'm accused of having no morality, which is a fair assessment, because my morality is whatever the system allows -- Peter Woodcock
Let he who would move the world, first complete an environmental impact assessment and a 90-day public comment period. -- Socrates
If [Donald] Trump drags down a bunch of Senate Republicans, the post-election GOP assessment will be much more pessimistic. -- Mara Liasson
According to my assessment, even if you have many more troops than others, how can that help you to victory? -- Sun Tzu
Social conditioning, accompanied by moral and mental constraints, now serve to render the mediocre mind nearly incapable of unbiased assessment. -- Justin K. McFarlane Beau
The thesis that risk assessment itself is inherently risky is nowhere better borne out than in the area of high-consequence risks. -- Anthony Giddens
Any assessment of where we stand in relationship to Him tells us that we do not stand at all. We kneel. -- Neal A. Maxwell
I believe photography is a tool to express our positive assessment of the world. A tool to acquire ultimate happiness and belief. -- Ansel Adams
My life is now a constant assessment of whether what's happening in real life is more entertaining than what's happening on my phone. -- Damien Fahey
Honestly admitting what you lost and not trying to rationalize it or push it off is an important step in self-assessment and mindfulness. -- Frederick Lenz
NOMINATE, v. To designate for the heaviest political assessment. To put forward a suitable person to incur the mudgobbling and deadcatting of the opposition. -- Ambrose Bierce
The intuitive, the expressive, the un-measurable, the intensely personal have never found a satisfactory place in the curriculum, in assessment, in the publics esteem. -- Hedley Beare
One-time rival and subsequent usurper Secretary of State Seward finally settled into an assessment of Lincoln that, His confidence and compassion increase every day. -- Doris Kearns Goodwin
[Antonio] Gramsci's words and actions explain their assessment, though I think we should refrain from using the term "model intellectual" for him or others. -- Noam Chomsky
One of the benefits of being divorced is that you no longer need to listen to your ex's assessment of the appropriateness of your actions. -- Amy Dickinson
'Tis better to be known as a good man than a great one, for greatness is an assessment of mortals; goodness a gift of God. -- Spark Matsunaga
Thinking rationally is often different from "positive thinking," in that it is a realistic assessment of the situation, with a view towards rectifying the problem if possible. -- Albert Ellis
Some of the most interesting research that I did was about risk assessment and how ordinary citizens like me handle risk assessment and how irregular our risk assessments are. -- Eula Biss
At the individual level Swaraj is vitally connected with the capacity for dispassionate self-assessment , ceaseless self purification and growing self-reliance.... It is Swaraj when we learn to rule ourselves -- Mahatma Gandhi
It's hard for actors to have to deal with the fact that they pour so much into their character, but the audience might have a negative assessment of them. -- Romola Garai
By positional play a master tries to prove and exploit true values, whereas by combinations he seeks to refute false values ... A combination produces an unexpected re-assessment of values. -- Emanuel Lasker
Those with health insurance are overinsured and their behavior is distorted by moral hazard. Those without health insurance use their own money to make decisions based on an assessment of -- Malcolm Gladwell
If I had a choice, I'd rather be admired less and have my husband tormented less. I'd prefer that people concentrate on a fair assessment of him and his Presidency. -- Pat Nixon
I think it's safe to say that it's rather premature for anyone to make any initial assessment or analysis of Kim Jong-un, or have an accurate impression on Kim Jong-un. -- Lee Myung-bak
Some of us have become so addicted to pointing fingers at others for all the wrong that happens in our lives that self-assessment has become synonymous with blaming the victim. -- LZ Granderson
The environmental assessment should give us the answers to all the issues that have been raised: potential lead migration, endangered species, noise abatement and proper disposal of shot, shells and things. -- Steven Hall
I think there's a misconception, often times, I think society portrays truckers as people who can't get a better job or maybe uneducated, and I think that's a really unfair assessment. -- Michelle Monaghan
We're journalists, and so it's our job to be impartial and provide a fair and thorough assessment of what's happening on the ground from the perspective of what we're able to see. -- Clarissa Ward
Well, what does "good" mean anyway...? As Wittgenstein suggested, "good," like "game," has a family of meanings. Prominent among them is this one: "meets the criteria or standards of assessment or evaluation. -- John Searle
As things go digital, the notion of new editions will go away. A publisher can add video and assessment content at scale, make the change in 30 seconds and it's just a software update. -- Osman Rashid
Patriotism means unqualified and unwavering love for the nation, which implies not uncritical eagerness to serve, not support for unjust claims, but frank assessment of its vices and sins, and penitence for them. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Basically, a case conceptualization is a method for understanding and explaining a client's concerns and for guiding the treatment process. It functions like a "bridge" to connect assessment and treatment with clinical outcomes. -- Jonathan Sperry
There are and will be those who think I have gone overboard. Let them rest assured that this assessment is correct, probably beyond their wildest imagination, and that I will continue to do so. -- Mary Daly
People don't actually, a lot of times, know the game behind the game. If people think that they do, it's a little bit of a naÃ¯ve assessment of how the [writing] industry works. -- Mandy Stadtmiller
Reference to the territory and total disregard for the nationality of the companies is of course the best guarantee that competition assessment remain just that and doesn't get affected by trade or other considerations. -- Mario Monti
You shouldn't have standards that inhibit you from writing It really doesn't make any difference if you are good or bad today. The assessment of the product is something that happens after you've done it. -- William Stafford

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