Crucial Quotes - Page 7

In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.

Katherine Dunn

Struggle, Survival, Tools

FaceBook post by Katherine Dunn from Sep 02, 2012

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As I look back over the truly crucial events in my life I realize that they were not planned long in advance. Albert Einstein said, 'There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is.'

Albert Einstein

Two, Long, Miracle

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It is crucial that we develop real awareness of ourselves as citizens of Earth, linked by mutual and indissoluble bonds. When we clearly recognize this reality and ground ourselves in it, we are compelled to take a strict accounting of our way of life.

Daisaku Ikeda

Real, Way, Citizens

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Iran is a country of 80 million people, educated and dynamic. It sits astride a crucial part of the world. It cannot be sanctioned and pressed down forever. It is the last great civilization to sit outside the global order.

Fareed Zakaria

Country, Iran, Order

"To deal with Iran’s nuclear future, go back to 2008". Article by Fareed Zakaria, www.washingtonpost.com. October 26, 2011.

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The Holy Ghost is a comforter and a guide. But it is also a cleansing agent. That is why service in the kingdom is so crucial to enduring. When we are called to serve, we can pray for the Holy Ghost to be our companion with assurance it will come.

Henry B. Eyring

Agents, Kingdoms, Cleansing

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Young voters are crucial. The trend over recent years has been for them to drift away. So anything that gets young voters interested in the electoral process not only has an immediate effect, but has an effect for years and years.

Howard Rheingold

Years, Trends, Voters

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I wake up like this, this sense that I've somehow been transported to an alternate universe where my life took a left instead of a right beacuse of some seeemingly insignificant yet cosmically crucial choice I've made, about a girl or a kiss or a date or a job or which Starbucks I went into...something.

Jonathan Tropper

Girl, Jobs, Kissing

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Knowing the precies answers is not as crucial as the certainty that the answers do, in fact, exist.

Chris Heimerdinger

Knowing, Answers, Facts

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Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little of our imagination, for our crucial problem has been a lack of conventional means to render our lives believable. This, my friends, is the crux of our solitude.

Eduardo Galeano

Mean, Warrior, Reality

Eduardo Galeano, Cedric Belfrage (1988). “Century of the Wind”, Pantheon Books

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Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Peace, Revenge, Men

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.115, Beacon Press

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Then there came a faraway, booming voice like a low, clear bell. It came from the center of the bowl and down the great sides to the ground and then bounced toward her eagerly. 'You see I am fate,' it shouted, 'and stronger than your puny plans; and I am how-things-turn-out and I am different from your little dreams, and I am the flight of time and the end of beauty and unfulfilled desire; all the accidents and imperceptions and the little minutes that shape the crucial hours are mine. I am the exception that proves no rules, the limits of your control, the condiment in the dish of life.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Dream, Fate, Voice

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As a Christian and a feminist, the most important message I can carry and fight for is the sacredness of each human life, and reproductive rights for all women are a crucial part of that. It is a moral necessity that we not be forced to bring children into the world for whom we cannot be responsible and adoring and present. We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society.

Anne Lamott

Christian, Children, Fighting

Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.81, Penguin

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The scientific analysis that is supposed to provide our Governor the facts and information he needs to make a crucial decision was crafted with the guidance of the gas industry, not of the state's scientists.

Sandra Steingraber

Decision, Needs, Analysis

"Fracking Truth to Fracking Power" by Sandra Steingraber, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 1, 2012.

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When we're young, everyone over the age of thirty looks middle-aged, everyone over fifty antique. And time, as it goes by, confirms that we weren't that wrong. Those little age differentials, so crucial and so gross when we are young erode. We end up all belonging to the same category, that of the non-young. I've never much minded this myself.

Julian Barnes

Age, Looks, Fifty

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The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

Gay, Bravery, Balance

Florida Scott-Maxwell (2013). “Measure of My Days”, p.23, Knopf

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Peace, ... is crucial, because my government aims to hasten Mindanao's development by transforming it into the country's food basket.

Joseph Estrada

Country, Government, Development

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Pace is crucial. Fine writing isn't enough. Writing students can be great at producing a single page of well-crafted prose; what they sometimes lack is the ability to take the reader on a journey, with all the changes of terrain, speed and mood that a long journey involves. Again, I find that looking at films can help. Most novels will want to move close, linger, move back, move on, in pretty cinematic ways.

Rose Tremain

Moving, Writing, Journey

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Every marvel of our age arose out of the critical give and take of an open society. No other civilization ever managed to incorporate this crucial innovation, weaving it into daily life. And if you disagree with this... say so!

David Brin

Civilization, Giving, Innovation

Orbit Interview, www.sffworld.com. July 19, 2002.

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Understanding people's difficulties and-just as crucial-helping people understand their own difficulties and teaching them concrete ways to help themselves will help them better deal with their own lives and, in turn, ours.

Kathryn Erskine

Teaching, People, Empathy

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Closeness can lead to emotions other than love. It's the ones who have been too intimate with you, lived in too close quarters, seen too much of your pain or envy or, perhaps more than anything, your shame, who, at the crucial moment, can be too easy to cut out, to exile, to expel, to kill off.

Daniel Mendelsohn

Pain, Cutting, Envy

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In terms of my profession, I'm passionate about financial literacy. I want to live in a financially literate society. I want kids to understand the importance of savings and investing. I want to try to replicate the great savers who came out of the Depression, the best savers the country has ever seen. It's crucial that people understand the importance of financial literacy, because it's actually life saving.

Mellody Hobson

Country, Kids, People

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As much as we all talk about the future and how so many things are merging, there is a simplicity that is crucial.

Ryan Seacrest

Simplicity, Merging

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It's crucial to understand that as a society, we can reorganize. We can reorganize socially, politically, and economically, and we can reorganize according to our values.

Rebecca Adamson

Political, Understanding, Society

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Teamwork is neither "good" nor "desirable." It is a fact. Wherever people work together or play together they do so as a team. Which team to use for what purpose is a crucial, difficult and risky decision that is even harder to unmake. Managements have yet to learn how to make it.

Peter Drucker

Teamwork, Play, People

Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing in a Time of Great Change”, p.90, Routledge

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The fundamental problem most patients have is an inability to love themselves, having been unloved by others during some crucial part of their lives.

Bernie Siegel

Love, Acceptance, Inability

Bernie S. Siegel (2011). “Love, Medicine and Miracles: Lessons Learned about Self-Healing from a Surgeon's Experience with Exceptional Patients”, p.4, Harper Collins

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