Crucial Quotes - Page 13

• For democrats, it's as crucial to defend secular culture as to preserve secular law. And in fact the two projects are inseparable: When religion defines morality, the wall between church and state comes to be seen as immoral.

  Ellen Willis

  Wall, Law, Two

  "Freedom from Religion". "The Nation", February 19, 2001.

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• I'd rather him (Grover Alexander) pitch a crucial game for me drunk, then anyone I've ever known sober. He was that good.

  Rogers Hornsby

  Games, Drunk, Sober

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• Even the greatest idea can become meaningless in the rush to judgement. To gauge an idea as feasible we must cut our ties to the status quo and find the balance between constructive criticism and judgment. Within that balance we will uncover crucial input for making our ideas a reality.

  Shigeo Shingo

  Cutting, Reality, Ideas

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• Epidemiology is like a bikini: what is revealed is interesting; what is concealed is crucial.

  Peter Duesberg

  Epidemiology, Interesting, Bikinis

  Peter Duesberg (1995). “Infectious AIDS: Have We Been Misled?”, p.122, North Atlantic Books

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• Silences enter the process of historical production at four crucial moments: the moment of fact creation (the making of sources); the moment of fact assembly (the making of archives); the moment of fact retrieval (the making of narratives); and the moment of retrospective significance (the making of history in the final instance).

  Michel-Rolph Trouillot

  Silence, Historical, Archives

  Michel-Rolph Trouillot (2015). “Silencing the Past (20th anniversary edition): Power and the Production of History”, p.26, Beacon Press

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• By living up to their calling, women will succeed in guaranteeing a proper recognition of the unique value of femininity and its crucial mission in the world.

  Alice von Hildebrand

  Unique, Calling, World

  Alice Von Hildebrand (2002). “The Privilege of Being a Woman”, Ignatius Press

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• You see, no matter how important everything else is to magical success,
  belief is the most crucial.

  Dorothy Morrison

  Important, Matter, Paganism

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• The Great Story of our immense journey contains crucial lessons for guiding humanity safely through the dangers and confusions evident today. This grand epic will propel us forward in a spirit of expectant curiosity. We will place our trust not only in the Whole but also in our own species' capacity to serve as the vessel through which the evolutionary impulse is most active at this time.

  Michael Dowd

  Epic, Journey, Confusion

  Michael Dowd (2008). “Thank God for Evolution: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World”, p.260, Penguin

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• On Nov. 6, the day before my 94th birthday, our nation will hold one of the most critical elections in my lifetime. We are at a crossroads and there are profound moral issues at stake. I strongly urge you to vote for candidates who support the biblical definition of marriage between a man and a woman, protect the sanctity of life and defend our religious freedoms. The Bible speaks clearly on these crucial issues. Please join me in praying for America, that we will turn our hearts back toward God.

  Billy Graham

  Religious, Heart, Biblical

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• The election is another element of ambiguity, .. and oil remains the crucial variable.

  Hugh S. Johnson

  Oil, Elements, Variables

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• As parents, we can do a great deal to further this goal by helping our children develop alternative ways of knowing the world verbally/analytically and visually/spatially. During the crucial early years, parents can help to shape a child's life in such a way that words do not completely mask other kinds of reality. My most urgent suggestions to parents are concerned with the use of words, or rather, not using words.

  Betty Edwards

  Children, Reality, Years

  "The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain". Book by Betty Edwards, 1979.

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• Always care for the writing part first. Every good film project starts with good writing. If you have a good script, everything else follows. Writing is crucial.

  Giovanna Cau

  Writing, Scripts, Firsts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Steve Jobs gave a small private presentation about the iTunes Music Store to some independent record label people. My favorite line of the day was when people kept raising their hand saying, "Does it do [x]?", "Do you plan to add [y]?". Finally Jobs said, "Wait wait - put your hands down. Listen: I know you have a thousand ideas for all the cool features iTunes could have. So do we. But we don't want a thousand features. That would be ugly. Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It's about saying NO to all but the most crucial features.

  Derek Sivers

  Jobs, Independent, Hands

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• For women, all women, whatever our sexuality, it's crucial to our health that we are able to separate sexuality from reproduction. I mean whether or not we can control when we give birth is the biggest element in our health, our education, our economic welfare, our life expectancy, everything.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mean, Giving, Able

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 28, 2010.

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• Taking part in these types of programs is crucial to our youth and crucial to the future of this game.

  Troy Vincent

  Sports, Games, Youth

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• Experiencing differences is crucial to the human condition. Especially when that difference is over the head, blower powder.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Differences, Powder, Human Condition

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• Frank Capra made a series of films during World War II called 'Why We Fight' that explored America's reasons for entering the war. Today, with our troops engaged in Iraq and elsewhere for reasons far less clear, I think it's crucial to ask the questions: 'Why are we doing what we are doing? What is it doing to others? And what is it doing to us?'

  Eugene Jarecki

  War, Fighting, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You had to form for yourself a lucid language for the world, to overcome the battering of experience, to replace everyday life's pain and harshness and wretched dreariness with - no not with certainty but with an ignorance you could live with. Deep ignorance, but still a kind that knew its limits. The limits were crucial.

  Gregory Benford

  Pain, Ignorance, Everyday

  "Timescape". Book by Gregory Benford, 1980.

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• a large percentage of bright young men and women locate the impetus behind their career choice in the belief that they are fundamentally different from the common run of man, unique and in certain crucial ways superior, more as it were central, meaningful - what else could explain the fact that they themselves have been at the exact center of all they've experienced for the whole 20 years of their conscious lives? - and that they can and will make a difference in their chosen field simply by the fact of their unique and central presence to it...

  David Foster Wallace

  Meaningful, Running, Unique

  "Oblivion: Stories (Mister Squishy)". Book by David Foster Wallace, June 8, 2004.

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• So while in men's magazines success is a power tool to get sex and love, and therefore the look of success is crucial, in women's magazines love and sex are power tools to get success and therefore both the look of love and the sexual tease/promise are crucial.

  Warren Farrell

  Sex, Men, Promise

  "Why Men Are the Way They Are". Book by Warren Farrell, 1986.

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• It is misleading in a crucial way to view information as something that can be poured into an empty vessel, like a fluid or even energy.

  Anatol Rapoport

  Views, Empty Vessels, Information

  "Holistic Darwinism" by Peter Corning, (p. 364), 2010.

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• The crucial fact to realize about all the powerful machinery of the Corporate State - its laws, structure, political system - is that it possesses no mind.

  Charles A. Reich

  Powerful, Law, Political

  Charles A. Reich (1970). “The Greening of America”

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• Love and work are crucial for human happiness because, when done well, they draw us out of ourselves and into connection with people and projects beyond ourselves. Happiness comes from getting these connections right.

  Jonathan Haidt

  People, Connections, Done

  Jonathan Haidt (2006). “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, p.223, Basic Books

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• we should reject the attempt to divert the national conversation away from soaring inequality toward the alleged moral failings of those Americans being left behind. Traditional values aren't as crucial as social conservatives would have you believe — and, in any case, the social changes taking place in America's working class are overwhelmingly the consequence of sharply rising inequality, not its cause.

  Paul Krugman

  Believe, Class, America

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• We also need to encourage Americans to become more fiscally responsible themselves. We can do this by redesigning our tax system into an expenditure tax with a single flat rate. ... We have to substantially reduce the size and scope of the federal government, fundamentally increase the role of the states in choosing their own practices, and bring decision-making closer to the people, not to unelected administrators. These steps are crucial to getting our nation on a path of fiscal, political and constitutional responsibility.

  Edwin Feulner

  Responsibility, Government, Practice

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