Currents Quotes - Page 26

• France, after the month of May, will share trust with the current leadership of the United States which, on many subjects, has tended to take useful positions in our view.

  Francois Hollande

  Views, United States, May

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• I'm not sure that the current value of the NASDAQ is justified, but I'm not sure that it isn't.

  Paul Krugman

  Justified, Not Sure, Values

  Paul Krugman (2004). “The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century”, p.39, W. W. Norton & Company

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• How utterly terrible is the current idea that Christians can serve God at their own convenience.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Christian, Religious

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• Racism is to the current era what unAmericanism was to the Fifties: a curse word that provides a handy substitute for logical thought.

  Steve Sailer

  Racism, Eras, Logical

  "Banned by Free Republic?". www.vdare.com. January 03, 2001.

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• American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like a business may be the worst of them, for it threatens to destroy public education. Who will Stand up to the tycoons and politicians and tell them so?

  Diane Ravitch

  Education, Business, School

  Diane Ravitch (2016). “The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education”, p.236, Basic Books

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• The current memoir craze has fostered the belief that confession is therapeutic, that therapy is redemptive and that redemption equals art, and it has encouraged the delusion that candor, daring and shamelessness are substitutes for craft, that the exposed life is the same thing as an examined one.

  Michiko Kakutani

  Art, Redemption, Crafts

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• Developed and benefited from the unsustainable patterns of production and consumption which have produced our present dilemma. It is clear that current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class-involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen and convenience foods, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work-place air-conditioning, and suburban housing-are not sustainable. A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmentally damaging consumption patterns.

  Maurice Strong

  Food, Home, Air

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• After forty years of intensive research on school learning in the United States as well as abroad, my major conclusion is: What any person in the world can learn, almost all persons can learn if provided with appropriate prior and current conditions of learning.

  Benjamin Bloom

  School, Years, World

  Benjamin Samuel Bloom, Lauren A. Sosniak (1985). “Developing talent in young people”

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• Dogs need to sniff the ground; it's how they keep abreast of current events. The ground is a giant dog newspaper, containing all kinds of late-breaking dog news items, which, if they are especially urgent, are often continued in the next yard.

  Dave Barry

  Dog, Yards, Events

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.120, Crown Archetype

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• The current system punishes communities which make the investment in creating landfills, only to have them filled by states which refuse to adequately address their waste issues.

  Paul Gillmor

  Creating, Issues, Community

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• Your current thoughts are creating your future life. What you think about the most or focus on the most will appear as your life

  Rhonda Byrne

  Thinking, Creating, Focus

  Rhonda Byrne (2008). “The Secret”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• If we generally like the way things are now, we must also ask whether our current situation is really so different from the open ages of radio, film, or the telephone. Might it not also have seemed in those times that the orgy of limitless entrepreneurism would never end? The point is that we are near the high end of a pendulum arc that, so far, has aways begun to swing in the opposite direction -toward greater integration and centralization- with a force that can seem inexorable.

  Tim Wu

  Swings, Opposites, Age

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• Any bull market covers a multitude of sins, so there may be all sorts of problems with the current system that we won't see until the bear market comes.

  Ron Chernow

  Bears, Bulls, May

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• We often move away from pain, which is helpful only before being hurt. Once in pain, it seems the only way out is through. Like someone falling off a boat, struggling to stay above the water only makes things worse. We must accept we are there and settle enough so we can be carried by the deep. The willingness to do this is the genesis of faith, the giving over to currents larger than us. Even fallen leaves float in lakes, demonstrating how surrender can hold us up.

  Mark Nepo

  Hurt, Pain, Struggle

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.87, Conari Press

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• I am tired of clinging. Though I cannot see it with my eyes, I trust that the current knows where it is going. I shall let go, and let it take me where it will. Clinging, I shall die of boredom.

  Richard Bach

  Letting Go, Boredom, Clinging

  "Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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• It seems to me that, as it is usually presented, the current orthodoxy about the cosmic order is the product of governing assumptions that are unsupported, and that it flies in the face of common sense.

  Thomas Nagel

  Order, Common Sense, Orthodoxy

  Thomas Nagel (2012). “Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False”, p.5, Oxford University Press

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• An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write.

  William Labov

  Strong, Children, Home

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• If everybody would agree that their current reality is A reality, and that what we essentially share is our capacity for constructing a reality, then perhaps we could all agree on a meta-agreement for computing a reality that would mean survival and dignity for everyone on the planet, rather than each group being sold on a particular way of doing things.

  Francisco Varela

  Mean, Reality, Agreement

  "The Coevolution quarterly". "The Coevolution quarterly", Nr. 8-12, p. 31, ed. Anne Waldman, 1975.

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• As a physician I have sympathy for patients suffering from pain and other medical conditions. Although I understand many believe marijuana is the most effective drug in combating their medical ailments, I would caution against this assumption due to the lack of consistent, repeatable scientific data available to prove marijuana's benefits. Based on current evidence, I believe that marijuana is a dangerous drug and that there are less dangerous medicines offering the same relief from pain and other medical symptoms.

  Bill Frist

  Pain, Believe, Marijuana

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• Cities have a psychogeographical relief, with constant currents, fixed points and vortexes which strongly discourage entry into or exit from certain zones

  Ivan Chtcheglov

  Cities, Exit, Relief

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• We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new.

  Michael Eisner

  Technology, Technological Change, Hollywood

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• Perhaps areas of Israel where current large Palestinian populations and demographic realities exist could be exchanged for Israeli expansion into the West Bank to include most of East Jerusalem

  Geraldo Rivera

  Reality, Israel, Expansion

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• I just clipped 2 articles from a current magazine. One is a diet guaranteed to drop 5 pounds off my body in a weekend. The other is a recipe for a 6 minute pecan pie.

  Erma Bombeck

  Weekend, Pie, Pecans

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• My point is, however, that churches do promote beliefs that would more appropriately find a place in a context of intellectual debate. They wind up cheerleading for highly dubious opinions on historical, scientific, and metaphysical matters, simply on the bases of emotional preference and the inertia of tradition. They demand conformity to these beliefs, and if you cannot swim with the current, then, well partner, maybe you'd be happier in another pool, another lake in fact, the one ablaze with burning sulfur.

  Robert M. Price

  Cheerleading, Emotional, Wind

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• Interference with communications of science to the public has been greater during the current administration than at any time in my career.

  James Hansen

  Communication, Careers, Administration

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