Core Quotes - Page 19

• Words came out of the womb of matter;
  And whether a man dispassionately
  Sees to the core of life
  Or passionately
  Sees the surface,
  The core and the surface
  Are essentially the same,
  Words making them seem different . . .

  Witter Bynner

  Men, Different, Matter

  Witter Bynner, James Kraft (1995). “The Selected Witter Bynner: Poems, Plays, Translations, Prose, and Letters”

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• When it comes to the budget, we know that we shouldn't be cutting more on core investments, like education, that are going to help us grow in the future. And we've already seen the deficit cut in half. It's going down faster than any time in the last 60 years. So why would we make more cuts in education, more cuts in basic research? Nobody thinks that's a good idea.

  Barack Obama

  Education, Money, Party

  "New Day" with Chris Cuomo, www.cnn.com. August 23, 2013.

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  There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery

  Karl Marx

  Rotten, Misery, Wealth

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1980). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Marx and Engels Collected Works 1858-60”, Intl Pub

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• Confidentiality refers to the boundaries surrounding shared secrets and to the process of guarding these boundaries. While confidentiality protects much that is not in fact secret, personal secrets lie at its core. The innermost, the vulnerable, often the shameful: these aspects of self-disclosure help explain why one name for professional confidentiality has been "the professional secret." Such secrecy is sometimes mistakenly confused with privacy; yet it can concern many matters in no way private, but that someone wishes to keep from the knowledge of third parties.

  Sissela Bok

  Confused, Lying, Party

  Sissela Bok (2011). “Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation”, p.119, Vintage

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• Commercial to the core, Elvis was the kind of singer dear to the heart of the music business. For him to sing a song was to sell asong. His G clef was a dollar sign.

  Albert Goldman

  Song, Heart, Dollars

  Albert Goldman (1981). “Elvis”, McGraw-Hill

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• A child is nothing like a racing car. . . . Souping up babies doesn't work that way. The child is what she is. There is a certainirreducible if elusive core. Pushing, pulling, stretching, and shrinking will not really change it. There may be spectacular interim results. The baby may say the alphabet before she walks, master two-times or even ten-times table at three. In the long run, however, this forced precocity tends to be irrelevant. . . . Whatever gains there are become unimportant. The losses can be irrevocable.

  Stella Chess

  Running, Baby, Children

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• Sports have always been a huge part of my life and my conversations. It is a thrill and an honor to be a part of this ground-breaking show. I am a competitor at heart, but a true sports fan to my core.

  Summer Sanders

  Sports, Heart, Honor

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• Control your cash. Stick to your core business. Know your numbers.

  Marcus Lemonis

  Numbers, Cash, Sticks

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• Pay attention to the timeless core of your being.

  Deepak Chopra

  Attention, Pay, Spirituality

  Twitter post from Jan 11, 2011

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• The ability to choose is at the essential core of our grandeur. Even evil exists because God respects our ability to choose.

  William P. Young

  Evil, Essentials, Ability

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• Every culture, or subculture, is defined by a set of common values, that is, generally agreed upon preferences. Without a core of common values a culture cannot exist, and we classify society into cultures and subcultures precisely because it is possible to identify groups who have common values.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Groups, Culture, Common

  "Economics As A Moral Science" by Kenneth E. Boulding, in "American Economic Review", 59 (1), (p. 12), March 1969.

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• Just as your hand, held before the eye, can hide the tallest mountain, so this small earthly life keeps us from seeing the vast radiance that fills the core of the universe.

  Nachman of Breslov

  Eye, Hands, Mountain

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• There are a few investment managers, of course, who are very good - though in the short run, it's difficult to determine whether a great record is due to luck or talent. Most advisors, however, are far better at generating high fees than they are at generating high returns. In truth, their core competence is salesmanship. Rather than listen to their siren songs, investors - large and small - should instead read Jack Bogle's The Little Book of Common Sense Investing.

  Warren Buffett

  Running, Song, Book

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• The core of the concept of a bribe is an inducement improperly influencing the performance of a public function meant to be gratuitously exercised.

  Peggy Noonan

  Influence, Function, Performances

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• Throughout the history of Christianity, there had been a core of belief that man was not doomed to be everlastingly corrupt.

  Robert Payne

  Men, Belief, Christianity

  Robert Payne (1975). “The Corrupt Society: From Ancient Greece to Present-Day America”, Praeger Publishers

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• At their core, misogyny and racism are very similar modes of thinking. Both diminish and disrespect a class of people based on a trait that is wholly distinct from their ideas, their carriage and their conduct.

  Dessa Darling

  Thinking, Class, Ideas

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• Suffering is not an elective; it is a core course in the University of Life.

  Steven J Lawson

  Spiritual, Remembrance, Suffering

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• I work out at home. I don't have a gym, but I use light weights. I do calisthenics, which is basically using your own body weight, like you do in yoga, to strengthen your core. I also do a bit of cardio.

  Vidya Balan

  Yoga, Home, Light

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• Inner resilience and the ability to bounce back are personal qualities. ... Align yourself with someone who has this kind of resilience so that your own can be strengthened. Find another oak to weather the storm with you. Anyone who is in touch with his or her core self will always respond.

  Deepak Chopra

  Self, Weather, Personal Qualities

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• Fiction is lies; we're writing about people who never existed and events that never happened when we write fiction, whether its science fiction or fantasy or western mystery stories or so-called literary stories. All those things are essentially untrue. But it has to have a truth at the core of it.

  George R. R. Martin

  Lying, Writing, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Business schools are failing to teach the students about the risks of market failures. We need to include some material on market failures in the core of curriculum.

  Pankaj Ghemawat

  School, Risk, Needs

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• Louis 'Thunder Thumbs' Johnson was one of the greatest bass players to ever pick up the instrument, as a member of the Brothers Johnson, we shared decades of magical times working together in the studio and touring the world. From my albums 'Body Heat' and 'Mellow Madness,' to their platinum albums 'Look Out for #1,' 'Right On Time,' 'Blam' and 'Light Up the Night,' which I produced, to Michael's solo debut 'Off the Wall,' I considered Louis a core member of my production team. He was a dear and beloved friend and brother, and I will miss his presence and joy of life every day.

  Quincy Jones

  Life, Brother, Wall

  FaceBook post by Quincy Jones from May 22, 2015

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• God then makes people whom he puts right in the middle of all this loaded creation. Commanding them to care for creation, to manage it, to lovingly use it, to creatively order it... They are environmentalists. Being deeply connected with their environment is who they are. For them to be anything else or to deny their divine responsibility to care for all that God has made would be to deny something that is at the core of their existence. This is why litter and pollution are spiritual issues.

  Rob Bell

  Spiritual, Responsibility, Order

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• I can do crunches all day long, but in yoga my core was challenged in a way that I never felt before.

  Eddie George

  Yoga, Long, Way

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• But for me, dinner at a fine restaurant was the ultimate luxury. It was the very height of civilization. For what was civilization but the intellect's ascendancy out of the doldrums of necessity (shelter, sustenance and survival) into the ether of the finely superfluous (poetry, handbags and haute cuisine)? So removed from daily life was the whole experience that when all was rotten to the core, a fine dinner could revive the spirits. If and when I had twenty dollars left to my name, I was going to invest it right here in an elegant hour that couldn't be hocked.

  Amor Towles

  Civilization, Names, Ifs And

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