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“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.”

Ideas Facts Originals Libertarian Fund Grants Assessment Endowment Original Ideas

Author:Murray Rothbard

“The pack includes analysis and summary forms as well as very explicit links between assessment and individualised intervention...these materials are often lacking in published therapy programmes and are especially helpful...the pack provides very clear guidelines...overall it will be a very significant addition to speech and language therapy practice.”

Wells Form Language Practice Clear Materials Speech Significant Analysis Therapy Helpful Links Packs Lacking Intervention Assessment Programmes Explicit Guidelines Summary

Author:Linda Armstrong

“One can give or withhold in a manner far more effective, sophisticated, useful, which is quite invisible to people who think that giving or withholding is done by external assessment. If you seek some mark of favour or 'promotion', know that you are not ready for it. Progress comes through capacity to learn, and is irresistible. Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it.”

Source: Learning how to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

“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.”

Thinking Safe Impression Analysis Accurate Initials Assessment Kim Premature

Author:Lee Myung-bak

“NOMINATE, v. To designate for the heaviest political assessment. To put forward a suitable person to incur the mudgobbling and deadcatting of the opposition.”

Persons Political Politics Opposition Suitable Assessment

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

“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.'”

Giving Exercise Please Messages Research Rounds Lists Statements Department Embarrassment Publication Assessment

Author:Peter Higgs

“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.”

Technology Office Percent Capacity Destruction Unions Oil Soviet Soviet Union Missiles Assessment Refining Poseidon Minutemen

Author:James Fallows

“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.”

Self Past Approach Currents Critical Elites Incapable Ruling Assessment

Author:Ryszard Kapuscinski

“Independence is a very subjective assessment.”

Independence Subjective Assessment

Author:P. Chidambaram

“The thesis that risk assessment itself is inherently risky is nowhere better borne out than in the area of high-consequence risks.”

Risk Consequence Areas Assessment Thesis

Book:Modernity and Self-identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age

Source: Modernity and Self-identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age

“I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.”

Made My Own Assessment

Author:Fernando Flores

“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.”

Way Years Firsts Mean Hard Helping Action Heard Years Ago Management Method Boss Collaboration Assessment

Author:Edward Whitacre, Jr.