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• Identify what all the issues are & when you find them don't hide from them.

  Bob Iger

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• I enjoy ritual and ceremony. What I don't like is when it's badly done or sloppily done. This is actually a theological issue - the forms we adopt, the actions we take, the way we do things, are, as it were, a sacrament.

  Peter Hollingworth

  Done, Way, Action

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• I have had moments where I've had mental-health issues and I've felt like yoga and meditating and reading these Buddhist self-help books actually really help.

  Mike White

  Buddhist, Yoga, Book

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• Businesses typically look at issues like price, quality, time of delivery. They don't often think about social and environmental impact because they're focused on their financial bottom line.

  Jerry Greenfield

  Thinking, Impact, Environmental

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• . . . I do think that deep down, a lot of my work is about people trying to make reasonable accommodations of situations that are insane or absurd. . . . At first I thought the events had power in themselves, that I would just present them. I really wasn't aware of the things that finally became central issues to me - the shifting alliances, the way people hardly even know they've shifted. That part of [A QUESTION OF MERCY] is very familiar to me in terms of my other plays.

  David Rabe

  Thinking, Play, People

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• I am the same artist with the same nagging questions I had in my early 20's. What's real and what isn't? How do we tell what's real in our lives? How do we see things as they are? What is my role in life? If the Signature hadn't forced the issue by devoting its season to my plays, I could at least believe I had changed. Really, they're all the same! What is SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION but THE HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES with money?

  John Guare

  Real, Believe, Artist

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• I definitely write from a need to try, in my own two hours, to right a wrong. My little play is inconsequential in terms of whether or not we have health care, but it may affect the way people who see the play think about the issue.

  Lisa Loomer

  Writing, Thinking, Play

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• I don't consciously start writing a play that involves issues. After it's done, I sit back like everyone else and think about what it means.

  Suzan-Lori Parks

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

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• That's the most difficult issue for me - to find a subject that holds my interest long enough that I'm prepared to go to work and spend the time and energy to shoot the subject.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Inspiration, Long, Energy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A great man is one who seizes the vital issue in a complex question, what we might call the jugular vein of the whole organism, and spends his energies upon that

  Joseph Rickaby

  Inspiration, Men, Energy

  Joseph Rickaby (1925). “An Old Man's Jottings”

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• I want people in Minnesota armed and dangerous on this issue of the energy tax because we need to fight back. Thomas Jefferson told us 'having a revolution every now and then is a good thing,' and the people — we the people — are going to have to fight back hard if we're not going to lose our country. And I think this has the potential of changing the dynamic of freedom forever in the United States.

  Michele Bachmann

  Country, Fighting, Thinking

  "Michele Bachmann Said What?!" by Tim Murphy, www.motherjones.com. June 6, 2011.

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• If we're going to talk about economic fairness, or about fairness, one of the most pressing economic issues facing families, seniors, and job creators in Missouri and across America is the strain of skyrocketing gas prices.

  Roy Blunt

  Senior, Jobs, America

  "Obama warns on student loan interest" by Josh Boak, www.politico.com. April 21, 2012.

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• I have found Jews to be more broad-minded than most whites on issues of race and politics, perhaps because they themselves have historically been victims of prejudice.

  Nelson Mandela

  Race, Prejudice, Victim

  Nelson Mandela (2013). “Long Walk To Freedom”, p.52, Hachette UK

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• Anyone who feels that homosexuality is not only a sin but also a disease or a mental issue should take a look in the mirror and realize who the real crazy person is.

  Corey Taylor

  Crazy, Real, Mirrors

  Corey Taylor (2012). “Seven Deadly Sins: Settling the Argument Between Born Bad and Damaged Good”, p.61, Da Capo Press

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• One’s concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one’s personal interest in the issue.

  Saul Alinsky

  Mean, Ethics, Ends

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• Hipsters seek refuge in church, Our Lady of Perpetual Subculture. There is some discussion as to whether or not they are still cool but then they are calmed by the obscure location and the arrival of their kind. Keep the address to yourself, let the rabble fund it themselves. Wow, this crappy performance art is really making me feel no so terrible about my various emotional issues.

  Colson Whitehead

  Art, Hipster, Emotional

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• The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.

  Jerry Garcia

  Corporations, Bigs, Bigger

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• A river continually fed by a living fountain may as soon end its streams before it come to the ocean, as a stop be put to the course and progress of grace before it issue in glory.

  John Owen

  Ocean, Rivers, Grace

  John Owen (1862). “The Works of John Owen”, p.397

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• And the issues I think are important in Louisiana right now happen to be health care and education. And those are two areas that the federal government can play a very important role. And I think I can be effective in trying to help our state from the Washington scene.

  John Breaux

  Thinking, Government, Play

  "CNN Live Today" with Judy Woodruff, www.cnn.com. January 3, 2002.

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• So successful has the ideological-political-cultural purge been executed that it is hard indeed to find vigorous liberals, and no energetic, coherent and cogent leftists at all can find expression in our controlled media and educational systems. Forget about wholesale culture- or civilization-critics like Marxists. Universities have to be purged of any "radicalism" that can see through to the roots of issues and pathologies, for the same reasons that workers have to have nascent unions aborted among them and contrarian newspapers and media have to be starved of advertising.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Educational, Successful

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• That this gentleman [President John Adams] ought not to be the object of the federal wish, is, with me, reduced to demonstration. His administration has already very materially disgraced and sunk the government. There are defects in his character which must inevitably continue to do this more and more. And if he is supported by the federal party, his party must in the issue fall with him.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Party, Fall, Character

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• In the future, as in the past, the great ideas [of mathematics] must be simplifying ideas, the creator must always be one who clarifies, for himself, and for others, the most complicated issues of formulas and concepts.

  Andre Weil

  Past, Discovery, Ideas

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• I think some of our members may have thought the default issue was a hostage you might take a chance at shooting. Most of us didn’t think that. What we did learn is this - it’s a hostage that’s worth ransoming. And it focuses the Congress on something that must be done.

  Mitch McConnell

  Thinking, Done, Shooting

  "In debt deal, the triumph of the old Washington" by David A. Fahrenthold, Lori Montgomery and Paul Kane, www.washingtonpost.com. August 3, 2011.

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• Health and education are always issues.

  Helen Clark

  Health And Education

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• I've always wanted to be part of something that would radically change the world. . . . People forget the power of inspiration. All of humanity went to the moon with the Apollo missions. The issue was cost. There was no chance to build a base and create frequent flights. That's the problem I would like to solve.

  Elon Musk

  Inspiration, Moon, People

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