Crucial Quotes - Page 29

• Boldness is a crucial element of genius.

  Horace Freeland Judson

  Genius, Elements, Boldness

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• If the president is the head of the American body politic, Congress is its gastrointestinal tract. Its vast and convoluted inner workings may be mysterious and unpleasant, but in the end they excrete a great deal of material whose successful passage is crucial to our nation's survival. This is Congress's duty.

  Jon Stewart

  Successful, Survival, President

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• It is crucial that civil liberties in this country be preserved, otherwise the terrorists will win the battle against American values without firing another shot.

  Russ Feingold

  Country, Winning, Liberty

  "Bush Discussing War With Congress". www.foxnews.com. October 10, 2001.

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• Once we admit that the public sector takes an immense amount of risk along the entire innovation chain, it becomes crucial to find ways to share both risks and rewards.

  Mariana Mazzucato

  Innovation, Risk, Way

  "What the Steve Jobs Movie Won't Tell You About Apple's Success". Interview with Lynn Parramore, www.ineteconomics.org. October 23, 2015.

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• Home is a blueprint of memory...Finding home is crucial to the act of writing. Begin here. With what you know. With the tales you've told dozens of times...with the map you've already made in your heart. That's where the real home is: inside. If we carry that home with us all the time, we'll be able to take more risks. We can leave on wild excursions, knowing we'll return home.

  Georgia Heard

  Memories, Real, Home

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• It is only within a free society that the crucial moral features of human life can be protected and preserved

  Tibor R. Machan

  Moral, Human Life, Humans

  Tibor R. Machan (2003). “The Passion for Liberty”, p.76, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Of all the things we are wrong about, error might well top the list ... We are wrong about what it means to be wrong. Far from being a sign of intellectual inferiority, the capacity to err is crucial to human cognition. Far from being a moral flaw, it is inextricable from some of our most humane and honourable qualities: empathy, optimism, imagination, conviction, and courage. And far from being a mark of indifference or intolerance, wrongness is a vital part of how we learn and change. Thanks to error, we can revise our understanding of ourselves and amend our ideas about the world.

  Kathryn Schulz

  Mean, Errors, Ideas

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• Geography is crucial for my work. I went to Antarctica and took a studio to several of the main ice fields to make field recordings of ice to create a symphony - acoustic portraits of ice.

  DJ Spooky

  Ice, Symphony, Acoustics

  "DJ Spooky’s Icy Philharmonic". Interview with Hannah Levintova, www.motherjones.com. October 17, 2011.

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• One of the things that's crucial to me about love is that it has to be in the moment.

  Todd May

  Love Is, Moments

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• The amygdala, along with related areas..., plays a crucial role in coordinating perceptions with memory and behavior. These regions are especially sensitive to social interactions.

  Daniel J. Siegel

  Memories, Play, Perception

  Daniel J. Siegel (2015). “The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are”, p.158, Guilford Publications

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• I think the location is almost as important as casting the leads of the movie. The location on The Purge was crucial to that movie working.

  Jason Blum

  Thinking, Important, Casting

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• Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.

  Gloria Steinem

  Our World, Males, Half

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• Quintilian [educational writer in Rome around A.D. 100] thought that the earliest years of the child's life were crucial. Education should start earlier than age seven, within the family. It should not be so hard as to give the child an aversion to learning. Rather, these early lessons would take the form of play--that embryonic notion of kindergarten.

  C. Sommerville

  Children, Educational, Rome

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• Self-reinvention is an essential trope of the American project, closely linked to another such trope: going on the lam. Both are regularly featured in movies and novels and suchlike. Criminals and persons loitering with and without intent hold a crucial place in the culture. For obvious reasons, the culture cannot endorse this behavior, even as it is in thrall to it.

  Luc Sante

  Self, Criminals, Essentials

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I had been at the newspaper for a few months. It wasn’t regarded as the paper, it was their paper. There was a sense of community because they reported, we reported, I reported the little things, the whist drives, the weddings, the funerals, the little speeches. In one sense it was the most boring copy in the world to anyone picking it up, but, on the other hand, it was crucial to the people who lived in those communities.

  Harold Evans

  Hands, People, Funeral

  "Harold Evans Sees Bright Future for Print-on-Demand Newspapers". Interview with Mark Glaser, mediashift.org. October 29, 2009.

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• For me science is not different from art, except in the one small, crucial detail that experiments speak their own truths, not ours.

  Nina Fedoroff

  Art, Details, Different

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• The assassination at Sarajevo was certainly the crucial precedent of the European war that its conspirators had sought, but was not the historical cause ... The assassination acted as a lever, prying the various powers into predictable paths.

  J. Bowyer Bell

  War, Historical, Path

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• Our civilization is experiencing unprecedented changes across many realms, largely due to the rapid advancement of information technology. The ability to code and understand the power of computing is crucial to success in today's hyper-connected world.

  Al Gore

  Technology, Civilization, World

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• When this crisis began, crucial decisions about what would happen to some of the world's biggest companies - companies employing tens of thousands of people and holding trillions of dollars in assets - took place in hurried discussions in the middle of the night. We should not be forced to choose between allowing a company to fall into a rapid and chaotic dissolution or forcing taxpayers to foot the bill.

  Barack Obama

  Fall, Night, People

  Obama Wall Street Speech, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 14, 2009.

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• People are selfish. But they can also be compassionate and generous, and they care about the country. But not when they feel threatened. That’s why this is such a crucial time. We can go in either direction. But if we don’t make a choice soon, it will be too late to turn things around. I think people are willing to make the right choice. But they need leadership. They’re hungry for leadership.

  Robert Kennedy

  Country, Selfish, Thinking

  "Seven Things Barack Obama Should Do to Keep from Blowing It" by Arianna Huffington, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 10, 2008.

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• For a long time now, every meeting with another human being has been the reverberations after even the simplest conversation.  But the deep collision is and has been with my unregenerate, tormenting and tormented self...I am unable to become what I see.  I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful halt, "won't go".

  May Sarton

  Self, Long, Machines

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• Directing is such a crucial part of the writing process; you start directing and you see what does not work. "Oh, God, what was I thinking?" and then you can rearrange it.

  Conor McPherson

  Writing, Thinking, Doe

  "Conor McPherson and Ciarán Hinds of 'The Eclipse'". Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.com. March 25, 2010.

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• If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion. It has long been known that one horse can run faster than another - but which one? Differences are crucial.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Running, Horse, Differences

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.222, Penguin

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• Who could doubt that sport is a crucial window for the propagation of fair play and justice? After all, fair play is a value that is essential to sport.

  Nelson Mandela

  Sports, Play, Justice

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.378, Pan Macmillan

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• Mandela has played a crucial part in history. He's done some extraordinary things, not only for his country but also for the whole world.

  Zinedine Zidane

  Country, Done, World

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