Crucial Quotes - Page 8

• That was when Leonard realized something crucial about depression. The smarter you were, the worse it was. The sharper your brain, the more it cut you up.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Depression, Cutting, Brain

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.254, Macmillan

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• Everything that happens to us, good and bad, leaves a lasting impression in our souls. You take one part of that out, and you can completely rewrite something crucial about us. By and large, we're not shaped by the big things. It's the little, day-to-day moments that make us who we are. Who we're going to be. (Nekoda to Nick)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Soul, Lasting Impressions, Littles

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• Hey," Dopey said when I was finished reading. "How come they never mentioned me? I'm the one who found the skeleton." "Oh, yeah," Sleepy said in disgust. "Your role was really crucial. After all, if it wasn't for you, the guy's skull might still have been intact.

  Meg Cabot

  Reading, Skeletons, Skulls

  Meg Cabot (2009). “The Mediator #4: Darkest Hour”, p.311, Zondervan

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• The years nineteen and twenty are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you're that age, it will cause you pain when you're older.

  Haruki Murakami

  Pain, Character, Years

  "Norwegian Wood". Book by Haruki Murakami, Random House, pp. 152-153, 2011.

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• It's funny, but thinking back on it now, I realize that this particular point in time, as I stood there blinking in the deserted hall, was the one point at which I might have chosen to do something very much different from what I actually did. But of course I didn't see this crucial moment for what it actually was; I suppose we never do. Instead, I only yawned, and shook myself from the momentary daze that had come upon me, and went on my way down the stairs.

  Donna Tartt

  Thinking, Might, Way

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• All parenting turns on a crucial question: to what extent parents should accept their children for who they are, and to what extent they should help them become their best selves.

  Andrew Solomon

  Children, Self, Parent

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• The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror

  Carl Levin

  Iraq, Campaigns, Liberation

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• People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.

  Irving Kristol

  Inspirational, Life, People

  Reason Magazine Interview, 1983.

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• And it is crucial of course that chief constables are able to make decisions within their budgets about how they deploy their police officers to the greatest effect to ensure that they're able to do the job that the public want them to do.

  Theresa May

  Jobs, Decision, Police

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's important for people to believe in themselves. It's important for young girls to have the opportunity to excel and promote themselves, and learn how to communicate and that they can be individuals, yet accomplish so much. The Girl Scouts and other organizations like them make that so important, so vital. Girls are given the opportunity very early in life to give them that confidence in themselves. It's crucial for organizations to support young women.

  Linda Chavez-Thompson

  Girl, Believe, Opportunity

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• The real crucial link in the international exchange is the last three feet, which is bridged by personal contact, one person talking to another.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Real, Talking, Feet

  "Prime time; the life of Edward R. Murrow". Book by Alexander Kendrick, 1969.

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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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• You'll realize the transformation is not for you alone. You'll learn that you're here to use this gift to shine light on the dark world around you. You become a miracle worker in the world. As you begin to understand how love is crucial to the healing of the world, your miracle work will take on a whole new meaning.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Healing, Dark, Love Is

  Gabrielle Bernstein (2013). “May Cause Miracles: A 6-week Kick-start to Unlimited Happiness”, p.205, Hay House, Inc

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• A crucial contribution to the ideological argument ...it provides a vital part of the intellectual manifesto on which the battle for a better society can be fought

  Roy Hattersley

  Intellectual, Battle, Argument

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• In honesty you have to admit to a wise man that prayer is not for the wise, not for the prudent, not for the sophisticated. Instead it is for those who recognize that in face of their deepest needs, all their wisdom is quite helpless. It is for those who are willing to persist in doing something that is both childish and crucial.

  Frederick Buechner

  Wise, Prayer, Honesty

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• Balanced emotions are crucial to intuitive decision making.

  Michael Eisner

  Decision, Emotion, Balanced

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• The art of never making a mistake is crucial to motherhood. To be effective and to gain the respect she needs to function, a mother must have her children believe she has never engaged in sex, never made a bad decision, never caused her own mother a moment's anxiety, and was never a child.

  Erma Bombeck

  Mother, Art, Sex

  Erma Bombeck (1996). “Four of a Kind: A Suburban Field Guide”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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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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• Imperial politics represents the conquest of domestic politics and the latter's conversion into a crucial element of inverted totalitarianism. It makes no sense to ask how the democratic citizen could 'participate' substantively in imperial politics; hence it is not surprising that the subject of empire is taboo in electoral debates. No major politician or party has so much as publicly remarked on the existence of an American empire.

  Chalmers Johnson

  Party, Elements, Empires

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• A crucial Elite group behind the Civil War was the Knights of the Golden Circle, again based in Cincinnati, Ohio.

  David Icke

  War, Cincinnati Ohio, Knights

  David Icke (1998). “The Biggest Secret”, David Icke Books

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• I believe a balanced life is essential, and I try to make sure that all of our employees know that and live that way. It's crucial to me as a manager that I help ensure that our employees are as successful as our customers and partners.

  Marc Benioff

  Business, Believe, Successful

  The 'Sonshi.com' Interview, www.sonshi.com.

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• The Principle of Tolerance, fixed once for all the realization that all knowledge is limited. It is an irony of history that at the very time when this was being worked out, there should rise, under Hitler in Germany and other tyrants elsewhere, a counter-conception: a principle of monstrous certainty. When the future looks back on the 1930's, it will think of them as a crucial confrontation of culture as I have been expounding it - the ascent of man against the throwback to the despots' belief that they have absolute certainty.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Faith, Men, Thinking

  "The Ascent of Man" (Episode 11: "Knowledge or Certainty"), 1973.

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• All the world is not, of course, a stage, but the crucial ways in which it isn’t are not easy to specify

  Erving Goffman

  World, Way, Easy

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