Crucial Quotes - Page 9

• I love the routine. I love getting up in the morning and getting breakfast and packing lunches and doing the school run. Those things are really important to me. Because I think that those small but key moments are crucial for a kid.

  Kate Winslet

  Running, Morning, School

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• The teenage years are ridiculously crucial and hard and, um, awkward.

  Aimee Teegarden

  Teenage, Years, Awkward

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

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• The crucial distinction between systems...was no longer ideological.  The main political difference was between those who did, and those who did not, believe that the citizen could -- or should -- be the property of the state.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Believe, Political Differences, Citizens

  Simon Cottee, Thomas Cushman, Christopher Hitchens (2008). “Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left”, p.5168, NYU Press

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• In every race there is a crucial moment when the body wants to quit. Then it needs imagination and mental tenacuty to survive the crisis. Otherwise the penalty is defeat.

  Derek Ibbotson

  Race, Imagination, Needs

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• With respect to the environment in our state and our state's future - in addition to water which is very important here - I think it is crucial for him to make a sincere commitment to energy efficiency, fuel efficiency, by helping us to produce those cars of the future

  Jennifer Granholm

  Commitment, Thinking, Water

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• In my opinion, terrorism is a question which is not a short- term problem for all of us. It is a long-term fight. And NATO can play, and will play, a very crucial role in this struggle.

  Aleksander Kwasniewski

  Struggle, Fighting, Play

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• Fear, in evolution, has a special prominence: perhaps more than any other emotion it is crucial for survival.

  Daniel Goleman

  Survival, Special, Emotion

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.436, Bantam

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• Not many of us will be leaders; and even those who are leaders must also be followers much of the time. This is the crucial role. Followers judge leaders. Only if the leaders pass that test do they have any impact. The potential followers, if their judgment is poor, have judged themselves. If the leader takes his or her followers to the goal, to great achievements, it is because the followers were capable of that kind of response.

  Garry Wills

  Impact, Goal, Judging

  Garry Wills (2013). “Certain Trumpets: The Nature of Leadership”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• The crucial role communists played in organizing industrial unions in the 1930s and struggling for social reforms, peace, and civil rights strengthened rather then undermined democratic forces.

  Michael Parenti

  Struggle, Rights, Political

  "Democracy for the Few". Book by Michael Parenti, 1974.

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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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• 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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• 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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