Crude Quotes - Page 10

• The future looks like gasoline. . . . crude oil . . . is the future before it has been refined. It is like a dream of the future, really, and like any dream it ends with a rude awakening.

  Chris Cleave

  Dream, Oil, Rude

  Chris Cleave (2012). “Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

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• Low oil prices played a part in a major move by Congress voting to end the 40-year-old ban on exporting American crude oil.

  Ari Shapiro

  Moving, Years, Oil

  Source: www.npr.org

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• So this is my attempt to give a preliminary - probably far too crude - account of how philosophy by showing can really teach us. The attempts we make to work through problems by reasoning always presuppose starting points, and even the most self-critical philosophers adopt some of those starting points simply by picking them up from the social environments in which they grow up.

  Philip Kitcher

  Growing Up, Philosophy, Self

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Who knows what Yale thought it was getting when it hired Richard Rodriguez? The people who offered me the job thought there was nothing wrong with that. I thought there was something very wrong. I still do. I think race-based affirmative action is crude and absolutely mistaken.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Jobs, Thinking, Race

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• A piano is a machine, but you've got ivory and there's weight behind the keys and you have this really - you feel the resonance in the instrument, you feel the vibration in the pedal. I mean, these a still very crude.

  Tod Machover

  Mean, Keys, Ivory

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The result is ... that there's no room left in the world for the weird – though plenty for crude, contemptuous, wisecracking, fun-poking imitations of it.

  Fritz Leiber

  Fun, World, Rooms

  Fritz Leiber, H. P. Lovecraft (2004). “Fritz Leiber and H.P. Lovecraft: Writers of the Dark”, p.202, Wildside Press LLC

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• The law is a crude machine at best, and only spits out something approaching justice of its attendants are committed to justice. As lawyering has become less about doing right and more about doing what you can get away with, our standards of acceptable shenanigans-as-usual seem to be in a free fall.

  Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.

  Fall, Law, Justice

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• Manlius ... took care in his invitations, actively sought to exclude from his circle crude and vulgar men like Caius Valerius. But they were all around; it was Manlius who lived in a dream world, and his bubble of civility was becoming smaller and smaller. Caius Valerius, powerful member of a powerful family, had never even heard of Plato. A hundred, even fifty years before, such an absurdity would have been inconceivable. Now it was surprising if such a man did know anything of philosophy, and even if it was explained, he would not wish to understand.

  Iain Pears

  Dream, Powerful, Plato

  Iain Pears (2003). “Dream of Scipio”, p.18, Penguin

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• The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind -- the mind of a fighter -- in which the virtues of tribal cohesion and fierceness and infantile credulity and malleability are paramount. Thus every new beginning recapitulates in some degree man's first beginning.

  Eric Hoffer

  Fashion, New Beginnings, Simple

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• In reviewing the most mysterious doctrines of revelation, the ultimate appeal is to reason, not to determine whether she could have discovered these truths; not to declare whether, considered in themselves, they appear probable; but to decide whether it is not more reasonable to believe what God speaks than to confide in our own crude and feeble conceptions. No doctrine can be a proper object of our faith, which is not more reasonable to believe than to reject.

  Archibald Alexander

  Believe, Doctrine, Faith In God

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• We are on the brink of a new energy order. Over the next few decades, our reserves of oil will start to run out and it is imperative that governments in both producing and consuming nations prepare now for that time. We should not cling to crude down to the last drop – we should leave oil before it leaves us. That means new approaches must be found soon..... The really important thing is that even though we are not yet running out of oil, we are running out of time.

  Fatih Birol

  Running, Mean, Order

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• It was a defeat, resorting to crude threats in a game of subtlety, but sometimes one must sacrifice a battle to win the war.

  Mark Lawrence

  War, Sacrifice, Winning

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.82, Penguin

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• Both in the lower and the middle classes the wiseacres urge young men 'to think it over' before taking the decisive step. Thus they foster the delusion that the choice of a wife or husband may be governed by a certain number of accurately weighable pros and cons. This is a crude delusion on the part of common sense.

  Denis de Rougemont

  Marriage, Husband, Men

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• Jazz was formerly a crude term for indulging in an action which in polite society is referred to, if at all, only with such vague Latin terms as intercourse and cohabitation.

  Charlton Laird

  Latin, Cohabitation, Jazz

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• About 75% of the price of gas is really dictated by crude oil. At the heart of the issue is increasing demand over a period of many years around the world. World crude oil consumption now is close to 90 million barrels a day. Most of the growth in demand is coming from China and the developing world.

  John S. Watson

  Heart, Years, Oil

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• But love, whether in Multan or on Siberia's icy tundra, whether in the winter or the summer, whether among the rich or the poor, whether among the beautiful or the ugly, whether among the crude or refined, love is always just love. There's no difference.

  Saadat Hasan Manto

  Beautiful, Summer, Winter

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• Life might just be an absurd, even crude, chain of events and nothing more.

  Haruki Murakami

  Events, Might, Existentialism

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “1Q84:”, p.272, Random House

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• Ascribing racial animus to people who are trying to safeguard democratic integrity is a crude yet effective political tactic that obscures the truth. But there's something even worse than name-calling: legal interference from Washington with valid laws.

  Edwin Meese

  Integrity, Law, Names

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• If you follow the course of one man through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nourishment from it.

  Cennino Cennini

  Flower, Men, Hands

  "Il libro dell' arte".

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• The fight between life and death is to the finish, and death ultimately is the victor . . . I do not deplore the passing of these crude old days.

  Jack Johnson

  Fighting, Life And Death, Passing

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• Close observation of children at play suggests that they find out about the world in the same way as scientists find out about new phenonoma and test new ideas...during this exploration, all the senses are used to observe and draw conclusions about objects and events through simple, if crude, scientific investigations.

  Judith Rodin

  Children, Simple, Play

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• It is better to read a little and thoroughly than cram a crude undigested mass into my head, though it be great in quantity.

  Thomas Huxley

  Inspiring, Education, Littles

  Leonard Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.17, Cambridge University Press

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• The aster has not wasted spring and summer because it has not blossomed. It has been all the time preparing for what is to follow, and in autumn it is the glory of the field, and only the frost lays it low. So there are many people who must live forty or fifty years, and have the crude sap of their natural dispositions changed and sweetened before the blossoming time can come; but their lives have not been wasted.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Summer, Spring, Autumn

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.73

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• Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's St Matthew Passion on a ukulele: The instrument is too crude for the work, for the audience and for the performer.

  Ben Bagdikian

  Passion, Average, Ukulele

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• There has been something crude and heartless and unfeeling in our haste to suceed and be great. Our thought has been 'Let every man look out for himself, let every generation look out for itself,' while we reared giant machinery which made it impossible that any but those who stood at the levers of control should have a chance to look out for themselves.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Success, Men, Should Have

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 4 April 1913

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