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• While I'm critical to the Bush presidency, it's been enormously beneficial for Salon because we're seen as kind of an aggressive watchdog on the Bush White House. Particularly since Florida, our readership hit a whole new level, and we held onto those readers.

  David Talbot

  White, Florida, House

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• Cynicism, like gullibility, is a symptom of underdeveloped critical faculties.

  Jamie Whyte

  Cynicism, Symptoms, Faculty

  Jamie Whyte (2004). “Crimes Against Logic: Exposing the Bogus Arguments of Politicians, Priests, Journalists, and Other Serial Offenders”, p.11, McGraw Hill Professional

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• The Heartbleed problem can be blamed on complexity; all Internet standards become festooned with complicating option sets that no one person can know in their entirety. The Heartbleed problem can be blamed on insufficient investment; safety review for open source code is rarely funded, nor sustainable when it is. The Heartbleed problem can be blamed on poor planning; wide deployment within critical functions but without any repair regime.

  Dan Geer

  Heart, Safety, Deployment

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• The most remarkable discovery made by scientists is science itself. The discovery must be compared in importance with the invention of cave-painting and of writing. Like these earlier human creations, science is an attempt to control our surroundings by entering into them and understanding them from inside. And like them, science has surely made a critical step in human development which cannot be reversed. We cannot conceive a future society without science.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Writing, Science, Discovery

  "The Creative Process". Scientific American 199:59, September 1958.

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• The end of the world: the wholesale internal introversion upon itself of the noosphere, which has simultaneously reached the uttermost limit of its complexity and its centrality . . . the overthrow of equilibrium, detaching the mind, furfilled at last, from its material matrix, so that it will henceforth rest with all its weight on God-Omega . . . critical point simultaneously of emergence and emersion, of maturation and evasion.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Mind, End Of The World, Lasts

  "The Phenomenon of Man". Book by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (pp. 273, 287 - 289), 1955.

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• The Law of the Few... says that one critical factor in epidemics is the nature of the messenger.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Epidemics, Law, Messengers

  "The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2000.

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• What is commonly overlooked in using the computer is the fact that the central goal of design is still to obviate failure, and thus it is critical to identify exactly how a structure may fail. The computer cannot do this by itself . . .

  Henry Petroski

  Engineering, Goal, Design

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• I wouldn't describe that "position" as "parasitic." I'd describe that experience as "edifying." I don't merely write from a critical intellectual distance. I actually live around here.

  Bruce Sterling

  Distance, Writing, Intellectual

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• Working with people, the musical part is one thing but the personal part is totally different and just as critical. If the friendship is there and it's a lasting friendship, then it will take care of itself.

  John Mayall

  Friendship, People, Musical

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• If we take as given that critical infrastructures are vulnerable to a cyber terrorist attack, then the question becomes whether there are actors with the capability and motivation to carry out such an operation.

  Dorothy E. Denning

  Motivation, Actors, Vulnerable

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• Despite current ads and slogans, the world doesn't change one person at a time. It changes when networks of relationships form among people who share a common cause and vision of what's possible. This is good news for those of us intent on creating a positive future. Rather than worry about critical mass, our work is to foster critical connections. We don't need to convince large numbers of people to change; instead, we need to connect with kindred spirits. Through these relationships, we will develop the new knowledge, practices, courage and commitment that lead to broad-based change.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Change, Commitment, Creating

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• Using the risk-based approach presented by the ISPE Guide (i.e., system and component level classification) limited qualification activities to verifying and testing critical aspects of direct impact systems and their critical components.

  Robert A. Young

  Impact, Risk, Levels

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• Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action.

  Karl Jaspers

  Objectivity, Practice, Action

  "On My Philosophy" by Karl Jaspers, www.marxists.org. 1941.

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• Developing a diet that is healthful, balanced, and appropriate for your particular caloric needs is easy enough and is absolutely critical to establishing a healthful lifestyle that incorporates proper nutrition, adequate fitness, and mental resilience.

  Daphne Oz

  Resilience, Needs, Adequate

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• Do not turn the superior eye of critical passivity upon these efforts .... We must not be ambitious. We cannot aspire to masterpieces. We may content ourselves with a joy ride in a paint-box.

  Winston Churchill

  Eye, Effort, Joy

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• He was telling the students about the hypnotic technique of using quotes in a conversation. An idea is more palatable ... if it comes from someone else. The unconscious thinks in terms of content and structure. If you introduce a pattern with the words, 'My friend was telling me,' the critical part of her mind shuts off.

  Neil Strauss

  Thinking, Ideas, Mind

  Neil Strauss (2011). “The Game”, p.117, Canongate Books

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• Ignorance is always ready to admire itself. Procure yourself critical friends.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Ignorance, Science, Admire

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• Mentorship is critical for young people. Mentorship by others for my children is very high on my agenda.

  Peter Woo

  Children, People, Mentor

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• To the leaders of the cinema still to come, I can offer only a few words drawn from my modest experience. You must ceaselessly formulate and sharpen your critical views, both of others and of yourselves.

  Nagisa Oshima

  Views, Leader, Cinema

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• Breath is critical to everything, to our relaxation, to our flexibility, to our mobility, to our strength and to our power. Knowing how to use our breath and tapping into this breath strength is critical for success as strength athletes.

  Brett Jones

  Athlete, Knowing, Relaxation

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• When a critical mass of people have the Bible and apply what it teaches in their lives, a nation is transformed.

  Loren Cunningham

  People, Mass, Teach

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• Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge made that critical leap from 'be afraid' to 'be very afraid,' raising the terrorist threat level to orange for financial sectors in New York, Washington, D.C., and northern New Jersey. ... Ridge's announcement comes amidst reports he will step down as head of homeland security after the election. Ridge himself has refused to comment on the story, though colleagues say he has often expressed a desire to spend more time at home, scaring his family.

  Jon Stewart

  New York, Home, Orange

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• All Australians understand that high-quality, reliable and affordable broadband is a critical part of the infrastructure our nation needs to prosper in coming years.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Years, Quality, Needs

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

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• I am very self-critical, but that's a good thing because it keeps me growing as a human being and as a musician.

  Ray LaMontagne

  Self, Musician, Growing

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• The nature of how we are as human beings is that we're much more interested in being critical rather than praising something.

  Ellie Goulding

  Praise, Humans, Human Beings

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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