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• Some say Christianity is just a crutch. But let's turn the question on its edge for a moment. Is atheism an emotional crutch, wishful thinking? The ax cuts both ways. Perhaps atheists are rejecting God because they've had a bad relationship with their father. Instead of inventing God, have atheists invented non-God? Have they invented atheism to escape some of the frightening implications of God's existence? Think about it.

  Greg Koukl

  Atheist, Father, Cutting

  "Is Atheism a Crutch?". str.typepad.com. March 24, 2010.

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• The witches, the wise women, and the healers were also always the counselors. It's a whole other tradition of knowledge and learning that has been suppressed because it had political implications.

  Starhawk

  Wise, Political, Witch

  "The Burning Times". 1990.

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• Globally, emissions may have to be reduced, the scientists are telling us, by as much as 60% or 70%, with developed countries likely to have to make even bigger cuts if we're going to allow the developing world to have their share of growing industrial prosperity...The Kyoto Protocol is only the first rather modest step. Much, much deeper emission reductions will be needed in future. The political implications are mind-blowing.

  Michael Meacher

  Country, Cutting, Kyoto Protocol

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• There is in fact a controversy over Darwin's theory. Clearly both theories have religious implications. But this is not about God.

  Richard Thompson

  God, Religious, Facts

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• Over and above the political, economic, sociological, and international implications of racial prejudices, their major significance is that they place unnecessary burdens upon human beings.

  Kenneth Clark

  Justice, Diversity, Political

  Kenneth B. Clark (1988). “Prejudice and Your Child”, p.37, Wesleyan University Press

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• A Machine to Make a Future is an insightful and creative contribution to the literature--both scholarly and journalistic--on contemporary genomics. By 'experimenting' with narrative genre, the authors hope to generate different insights into the world of genomics and biotechnology than ones generally presented in existing accounts. They succeed at that goal, providing an account that is ethnographically rich and analytically open to a world whose structure, implications, and outcomes are very much in the making.

  Nadia Abu El Haj

  Goal, Creative, Insightful

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• Whether or not LSD research and therapy will return to society, the discoveries that psychedelics made possible have revolutionary implications for our understanding of the psyche, human nature, and the nature of reality.

  Stanislav Grof

  Reality, Discovery, Understanding

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• Too few people in computer science are aware of some of the informational challenges in biology and their implications for the world. We can store an incredible amount of data very cheaply.

  Sergey Brin

  Technology, Data, People

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• Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.

  Stanislav Grof

  Karma, Believe, Survival

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• I think 'Gasland' is the doorway for a lot of people to see something happening in their backyard and realize the national and global implications.

  Josh Fox

  Thinking, People, Backyards

  "Josh Fox: Activist and filmmaker" by Gerri Miller, www.mnn.com. May 2, 2012.

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• I suppose that the scope and implications of such forces have rendered my personal accounting ritual pretty much obsolete. That's how things sometimes go.

  Brian Ferneyhough

  Sometimes, Obsolete, Scope

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• There is an increasing awareness of the interrelatedness of things. We are becoming less prone to accept an immediate solution without questioning its larger implications.

  Arthur Erickson

  Idaho, Becoming, Awareness

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• Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the urban environment, on human culture.

  Arthur Erickson

  Bankers, Culture, May

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• I resent the implication that I'm less of a musician and a worse person for not appreciating certain works.

  David Byrne

  Appreciate, Musician, Certain

  David Byrne (2017). “How Music Works”, p.331, Three Rivers Press

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• Oh, Kendra, before I forget, Gavin asked me to give you this letter." He held out a gray, speckled envelope. "Happy birthday to you!" Seth exclaimed, his voice full of implications. Kendra tried not to blush as she tucked the envelope away. "Dear Kendra," Seth improvised, "you're the only girl who really gets me, you know, and I think you're very mature for your age--" "What about some cake?" Grandma interrupted, holding the first piece out to Kendra and glaring at Seth.

  Brandon Mull

  Girl, Grandma, Thinking

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• Many companies operate from more of a command-and-control environment - they decide what's going to happen at headquarters and have the organization execute. That doesn't work here because it's the community of users who really have control.
  
  So we enable, not direct. We think of our customers as people, not wallets. And that has implications for how we run the company. We partner with our customers and let them take the company where they think it's best utilized.

  Meg Whitman

  Running, Thinking, Command And Control

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• I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had barely been touched on... It's perfectly obvious that two completely revolutionary things are going on, with cybernetics, and biological science.

  Poul Anderson

  Stars, Book, Writing

  "Poul Anderson: Fifty Years of Science Fiction", www.locusmag.com. April 1997.

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• If there is delay in getting culling teams out, delay in any part of the chain, even weeks, that could have great implications for the virus to spread.

  David Nabarro

  Team, Viruses, Delay

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• Obama has seen to the passage of the most radical legislation in recent American history and so-called 'progressives' should be thanking him for it - even as many of the rest of us rear in horror from its implications.

  John Podhoretz

  Thanking Him, Horror, American History

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• Why do people believe that there are dangerous implications of the idea that the mind is a product of the brain, that the brain is organized in part by the genome, and that the genome was shaped by natural selection?

  Steven Pinker

  Believe, Ideas, People

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• The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life - involves implicitly, if not explicitly, systematic theory in this sense.

  Talcott Parsons

  Everyday, Systematic, Consideration

  Talcott Parsons (1937). “The Structure of Social Action: A Study in Social Theory with Special Reference to a Group of Recent European Writers”

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• Science is and should be seen as "completely neutral" on the issue of the theistic or atheistic implications of scientific results.

  George Coyne

  Issues, Religion, Atheism

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• Redefining marriage will have huge implications for what is taught in our schools, and for wider society. It will redefine society since the institution of marriage is one of the fundamental building blocks of society. The repercussions of enacting same-sex marriage into law will be immense.

  Keith O'Brien

  Sex, Block, School

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• Platitude: a statement that denies by implication what it explicitly affirms.

  Edward Abbey

  Deny, Platitudes, Statements

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.31, RosettaBooks

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• Congress must not do something just for the sake of doing something. We must carefully and thoughtfully consider the implications of any action and whether that action will help or hinder our ultimate mission of protecting U.S. citizens from terror.

  Richard Burr

  Citizens, Sake, Helping

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