All of these are tools that, at their best, broaden knowledge, expand understanding and help us determine how we can leave the world in better shape than we found it.
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That carries with it certain obligations, obligations to do everything that we can that it remains the greatest nation on earth and that we leave this place little better than we came into it.
CNN: Thompson's September 7, 2007, speech in Des Moines, Iowa
We owe it to the next generation to leave the country better than we found it.
Better yet, we can leave the details of deployment, maintenance and ongoing IT support to Microsoft.
With hindsight we know it was better to leave, but no one could have known that at the time.
We cannot leave this for better days, when tensions have cooled.
We are going to take these big things on, and I'm going to do it, and you're going to do it, because you know that we want to leave a better America for our children and our grandchildren.
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But in the weeks and months ahead, we will continue a sustained and intensive effort of analysis and assessment so we leave no stone unturned in seeking better ways to protect the American people.
The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it.
Even if the jobs didn't go overseas, changes here at home would continue to decimate existing industries while creating new ones that leave us better off than we were.
Before we leave the airport question, what about better profiling because one of the criticisms often made of people standing in these queues is that everybody is treated exactly the same way and that perhaps some form of political correctness or other stops the authorities from focusing on those people that they are more suspicious of?
We have not always agreed on the -- precisely the right approach to absolutely everything, but our goal has always been the same, and that is to leave this country better off than when we came into it, just like our ancestors have done generation after generation for us.
CNN: Thompson's October 19, 2007, speech to Value Voters Summit
Executives might accept in desperation, but they'd leave once better offers came along, so we knew we had to be fair in compensation.
The moral obligation we have to leave the next generation a chance at a better life is twice as important as almost any need for immediate gratification.
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"We should have told customers they were free to leave and get a better deal elsewhere, " a spokesman for Santander told the BBC.
And in the end, I am confident that we're going to be able to leave the Gulf Coast in better shape than it was before.
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