Crucial Quotes - Page 7

• abundance is in crucial ways a state of mind.

  Suze Orman

  Mind, Way, Abundance

  Suze Orman (2002). “Suze Orman's Financial Guidebook: Put the 9 Steps to Work”, Three Rivers Press (CA)

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• Fitness and proper nutrition truly go hand-in-hand. Focus on eating clean and filling your plate with veggies, fruits, whole grains and lean proteins. And, everyone hates to do it, but calorie counting is crucial to weight loss as well as maintaining a healthy physique.

  Jillian Michaels

  Hate, Loss, Hands

  Source: www.laurenliveshealthy.com

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• Why don't we teach sex the way we teach math or history? It is such a deeply crucial and healing part of life and we offer no road map. I think it is core to ending violence.

  Eve Ensler

  Sex, Healing, Math

  Interview with Kevin Powell, bknation.org. May 1, 2014.

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• This naming of things is so crucial to possession - a spiritual padlock with the key thrown irretrievably away - that it is a murder, an erasing, and it is not surprising that when people have felt themselves prey to it (conquest), among their first acts of liberation is to change their names.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Spiritual, Keys, Names

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• the crucial disadvantage of aggression, competitiveness and skepticism as national characteristics is that these qualities cannot be turned off at five o'clock.

  Margaret Halsey

  Competition, Quality, Clock

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

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• Freethought is respectable. Freethought is crucial. Freethought needs to be publicized.

  Dan Barker

  Religion, Needs, Respectable

  Dan Barker (1992). “Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist”, Freedom from Religion Fndtn

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• It would be the most crucial day of the entire war.

  David McCullough

  War, History, Would Be

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• Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial to make our imaginations ignite and turn fantasies into realities.

  Erica Jong

  Reality, Air, Venice

  Erica Jong (2013). “Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• The entire banking movement, at all crucial stages, was centralized in the hands of a few men who for years were linked, ideologically and personally, with one another.

  Gabriel Kolko

  Men, Hands, Years

  Gabriel Kolko (2008). “Triumph of Conservatism”, p.222, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't become a slave to non-crucial matters.

  Robert Ringer

  Business, Matter, Slave

  Robert J. Ringer (2000). “Getting what You Want: The Seven Principles of Rational Living”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• I am interested in costume. Clothes in your daily life are important: your choices say something about you, even if what they're saying is about non-choice. And what you wear in a film is crucial.

  Clemence Poesy

  Clothes, Choices, Important

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• If we look around, then, at the crucial problem areas of our society - the areas of crisis and failure - we find in each and every case a “red thread” marking and uniting them all: the thread of government. In every one of these cases, government either has totally run or heavily influenced the activity.

  Murray Rothbard

  Running, Government, Uniting

  Murray Newton Rothbard (1978). “For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto”, p.95, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Become better at firing than hiring - it's crucial for building a business.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Building, Hiring, Firing

  Twitter post from Nov 17, 2015

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• Midwives and doctors play a crucial role preventing unnecessary maternal deaths. They educate women about nutrition, health and family planning. And they step in when complications arise.

  Liya Kebede

  Doctors, Play, Roles

  "Why Protests Aren’t What we Should Remember About The G8" by Liya Kebede, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 13, 2010.

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• [T]he crucial question is not, as so many believe, whether property rights should be private or governmental, but rather whether the necessarily 'private' owners are legitimate owners or criminals. For ultimately, there is no entity called 'government'; there are only people forming themselves into groups called 'governments' and acting in a 'governmental' manner. All property is therefore always 'private'; the only and critical question is whether it should reside in the hands of criminals or of the proper and legitimate owners.

  Murray Rothbard

  Believe, Rights, Government

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• It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.

  Agnes Repplier

  Education, Brother, Children

  Agnes Repplier (1908). “A Happy Half-century: And Other Essays”

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• By some fluke, my folks forgot to ask me the question most crucial to ensuring a lifetime of self-doubt: 'What if you fail?

  Lizz Winstead

  Confidence, Self, What If

  Lizz Winstead (2012). “Lizz Free or Die: Essays”, p.46, Penguin

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• I have discovered that there is a crucial difference between society's image of old people and 'us' as we know and feel ourselves to be.

  Betty Friedan

  Differences, People, Age

  Betty Friedan (2006). “Fountain of Age”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• Corn is the hero of its own story, and though we humans played a crucial supporting role in its rise to world domination, it would be wrong to suggest we have been calling the shots, or acting always in our own best interests. Indeed, there is every reason to believe that corn has succeeded in domesticating us.

  Michael Pollan

  Hero, Believe, Acting

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.17, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Spin' is a polite word for deception. Spinners mislead by means that range from subtle omissions to outright lies. Spin paints a false picture of reality by bending facts, mischaracterizing the words of others, ignoring or denying crucial evidence, or just 'spinning a yarn' - by making things up.

  Kathleen Hall Jamieson

  Lying, Mean, Reality

  Brooks Jackson, Kathleen Hall Jamieson (2007). “unSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation”, p.7, Random House

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• With the growth of the world population, the global climate change and the need for a greater healthy environment, access to water resources has become a crucial condition for the realization of an equitable international order, where the needs of the peoples are effectively addressed. In this regard, the need for international cooperation, including in joint effort with relevant non-state actors, is paramount to ensure water is made available to all without discrimination. Water is a human right, an enabling right, not a mere commodity.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Order, Water, Effort

  Statement by Alfred de Zayas on World Water Day, March 22, 2013.

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• In a world where the great technologies enable us to record, replay, cut and paste, zoom in, and delete, listening is the crucial commitment to keep the heart touchable.

  Mark Nepo

  Heart, Commitment, Cutting

  Mark Nepo (2012). “Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

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• My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that imagined reader, which is a crucial part of learning to tell stories.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Stories, Imagine, Reader

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• I think it's crucial to live, play and work passionately. I'm inspired by my husband, my son and the sense of possibility in the world.

  Caroline Leavitt

  Husband, Son, Thinking

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• I love the internet and it has been incredibly useful and I have made discoveries that have been immeasurably crucial to my work- things I don’t know how I ever would have found out otherwise, that are perfect, just what I need for whatever I’m doing.

  Michael Chabon

  Writing, Discovery, Perfect

  "Michael Chabon’s Vinyl Draft". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. September, 2012.

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