Important Issues Quotes - Page 2

• The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.

  Jackie Robinson

  Class, Issues, Democracy

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• Scientists, therefore, are responsible for their research, not only intellectually but also morally. This responsibility has become an important issue in many of today's sciences, but especially so in physics, in which the results of quantum mechanics and relativity theory have opened up two very different paths for physicists to pursue. They may lead us - to put it in extreme terms - to the Buddha or to the Bomb, and it is up to each of us to decide which path to take.

  Fritjof Capra

  Responsibility, Science, Issues

  "The Turning Point: Science, Society, and the Rising Culture". Book by Fritjof Capra, 1983.

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• Members of trusting teams admit weaknesses and mistakes, take risks in offering feedback and assistance, and focus time and energy on important issues, not politics.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Team, Mistake, Issues

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• The risks of transporting deadly nuclear waste, the environmental justice impacts and the long-term health effects of both these projects are untenable...We cannot afford to be silent on these important issues.

  James Cromwell

  Impact, Environmental Health, Issues

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• I find freedom to be the most important issue facing any human being today, because without freedom, then life is pointless. The more dependent you become on centralized power, the more easily you are lead around.

  Russell Means

  Freedom, Issues, Important

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• The key element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is to divert public attention from important issues and changes decided by political and economic elites, through the technique of flood or flooding continuous distractions and insignificant information.

  Noam Chomsky

  Keys, Issues, Political

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• That [American exceptionalism] is a reaction to the inability of people to understand global complexity or important issues like American energy dependency. Therefore, they search for simplistic sources of comfort and clarity. And the people that they are now selecting to be, so to speak, the spokespersons of their anxieties are, in most cases, stunningly ignorant.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Issues, People, Anxiety

  "Spokespersons of US Right 'In Most Cases Stunningly Ignorant'". Interview with Gregor Peter Schmitz, www.spiegel.de. December 6, 2010.

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• Within any important issue, there are always aspects no one wishes to discuss.

  George Orwell

  Issues, Wish, Important

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• The most important issue of the 21st century will be the condition of the global environment.

  Ian McHarg

  Issues, Important, Environment

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• Since Ronald Reagan's election in 1980, conservatives of various sorts, and conservatisms of various stripes, have generally been in the ascendancy. And a good thing, too! Conservatives have been right more often than not - and more often than liberals - about most of the important issues of the day.

  William Kristol

  Issues, Stripes, Important

  "Will Obama Save Liberalism?" by William Kristol, www.nytimes.com. January 25, 2009.

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• I have always believed that on important issues, the leaders must lead. Where the leaders fail to lead, and people are really concerned about it, the people will take the lead and make the leaders follow.

  Kofi Annan

  Issues, People, Leader

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

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• ... on every important issue life transcends logic and it is folly to depend on reason alone.

  Robert Gordis

  Life, Issues, Important

  Robert Gordis (1960). “A Faith for Moderns”

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• I don't have a problem talking about Medicare or Medicaid or some other very important issue.

  Jason Chaffetz

  Talking, Issues, Important

  "Rep. Chaffetz on voting for Ryan's budget cuts for Medicare: 'It's a totally different approach' to Obama's cuts, says Republican plan doesn't call for vouchers". "Starting Point" with Soledad O'Brien, startingpoint.blogs.cnn.com. August 17, 2012.

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• People who disagree on important issues don't agree on the facts.

  Rachel Maddow

  Issues, People, Important

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• There are moderates in Israel. There are moderates in Iran, there are moderates in the Republican Party, moderates in the Democratic Party. What we need to do is we need link all of these moderates together and to figure out a way by which this particular coalition can speak to important issues to marginalize the voice of the extremists.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Party, Voice, Issues

  "Creating A New Vision Of Islam In America". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 09, 2012.

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• I think the Tea Party has brought important issues to the table.

  Roy Blunt

  Party, Thinking, Issues

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• Today too, the most important issue in the world is Palestine. If a war breaks out in Iraq, we believe it is due to the provocation of the Zionists. If it happens in Afghanistan, it is because of their provocation. If Sudan is oppressed, it is due to Zionist seduction. We consider all the arrogant, colonialist schemes to be inspired by the Zionists.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  War, Believe, Iraq

  "Iranian President Ahmadinejad Denies the Holocaust and Warns Europeans of the Zionists: They Cling Like Ticks". www.memri.org. September 18, 2009.

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• Now, I feel that if somebody looks through all the numbers through all those years, they will find one for Julius Rosenberg, and it is worth finding if it is such an important issue.

  Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

  Finding The One, Years, Numbers

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• Paul commands the Church to let the word of Christ dwell in us richly when we meet together, singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. It seems clear here that style is not the important issue as much as the depth of content.

  Keith Getty

  Spiritual, Song, Hymns

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• Cycling to work is an important issue for business - the more who do it, the more our communities will support it. Healthy and green, cycling is worthy of the support of every business in the land.

  Digby Jones, Baron Jones of Birmingham

  Cycling, Land, Issues

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• I had hoped to hear the President tonight tell the Congress and the American people exactly how he plans to tackle some of the important issues facing this country, unfortunately I did not.

  Frank Lautenberg

  Country, Afterlife, Issues

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• From the standpoint of education, genius means essentially 'giving birth to the joy in learning.' I'd like to suggest that this is the central task of all educators. It is the genius of the student that is the driving force behind all learning. Before educators take on any of the other important issues in learning, they must first have a thorough understanding of what lies at the core of each student's intrinsic motivation to learn, and that motivation originates in each student's genius.

  Thomas Armstrong

  Motivation, Lying, Mean

  Thomas Armstrong (1998). “Awakening Genius in the Classroom”, p.2, ASCD

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• I've been around racing a fairly long time, but when it comes to the important issues, I'm happy to let others make the big decisions.

  Mats Sundin

  Sports, Issues, Long

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• A Harris poll I've seen says only 12 percent of the electorate names taxes as one of the most important issues facing the nation. Voters put tax cuts dead last, behind education, Social Security, health care, Medicare and poverty.

  Lane Evans

  Cutting, Issues, Names

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• People want to know how do they pay for education and they want to figure out how to find and maintain meaningful employment. Education and the economy are polled by Latinos as the top two most important issues. But those are also the issues that everyone cares about, regardless of race; so we don't need to be divided over it.

  Soledad O'Brien

  Meaningful, Race, Two

  Source: lasentinel.net

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