Issues Quotes - Page 24

• I grew up as a discriminated minority in a dictatorship, so obviously the issue of human rights is a matter of concern for me.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Rights, Minorities, Matter

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I believe that there is a whole set of issues in the world - environment, proliferation, energy, cyberspace - that can only be dealt with on a global basis. The traditional patterns of national rivalry and national competition are not suitable for those cases.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Believe, Competition, Energy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm the son of a newsman, I grew up around news, so I can understand the issue, which is that papers are losing subscribers and they're getting less and less outlets... it's a tricky thing. You're going to have to sell papers. The problem is, there's so little reporting anymore.

  George Clooney

  Son, News, Paper

  "The Men Who Stare At Goats - George Clooney interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Many things have changed in our culture here in England as a direct result of the Pistols: the whole street-fashion thing in London, for example, or the coverage of popular culture in the national press, or the fact that the film industry is now about young people making films about young British issues.

  Julien Temple

  Fashion, People, Example

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 'Extinction' issue. Save the species for whom??? Humans' convenience, of course! Individuals of the species are snatched from their homes/family/habitat/held in captivity/forced to mate at great physical/ spiritual pain. When the right numbers are reached, their holocaust starts all over again! Another merry-go-round/ bu$ine$$ a$ u$ual!!! Protectionists/welfarists find it a profitable issue: no controversy/ easy donations! I'd rather see an entire species extinct than in the hands of the humans!

  Adela Popescu

  Spiritual, Pain, Home

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• Attain and maintain a reputation, for it is the usufruct of fame. A stiff climb, for it is the issue of excellence, as rare as mediocrity is common.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Excellence, Mediocrity, Reputation

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• hybrid, n. A pooled issue.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Collaboration, Hybrid

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.125, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues.

  Aristotle

  Spring, Civilization, Confusion

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• When the only bond between close friends is attachment, then even a minor issue may cause one's projections to change. As soon as our projections change, the attachment disappears, because that attachment was based solely on projection and expectation. It is possible to have compassion without attachment, and similarly, to have anger without hatred.

  Dalai Lama

  Friendship, Compassion, Attachment

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• Dying is an integral part of life, as natural and predictable as being born. But whereas birth is cause for celebration, death has become a dreaded and unspeakable issue to be avoided by every means possible in our modern society. Perhaps it is that.

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  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Mean, Dying, Causes

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• My works are the issue of simple and plain experience which is the true mistress.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Simple, Experience, Mistress

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.3, OUP Oxford

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• We're comfortable financially, so it wasn't a financial issue that I voted Conservative. Basically, it was for the same reason we voted for Diefenbaker. First it was Mackenzie King, then St. Laurent -- Christ, the Liberals were in something like 20 years in a row (22 actually) --and we simply needed a change. It was getting like a dictatorship. Whether elected or not, that's not good for the country. I didn't go to war for a dictatorship.

  Don Drysdale

  Country, Kings, War

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• Terrorism is always one bad day away from being issue No. 1.

  John Avlon

  Bad Day, Terrorism

  "Savor this moment, in the name of the 3,000". edition.cnn.com. May 2, 2011.

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• Ben Hogan was not really a big hitter. He was long enough. But Ben Hogan today? Ben Hogan today could not compete at Augusta because he did not have the massive length to compete against the long hitters. Power was always an issue at Augusta, but never so dominant that you couldn't play it.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Play, Long, Today

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• My administration will tackle these issues in consultation with the black communities of London.

  Ken Livingstone

  Community, Black, London

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• I have a theory that women are generally given space and appointed to jobs when the situation is tough. I've observed that in many instances. In times of crisis, women eventually are called upon to sort out the mess, face the difficult issues and be completely focused on restoring the situation.

  Christine Lagarde

  Jobs, Space, Times Of Crisis

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• Later in life, one of the compensations is gliding effortlessly into focus in a thing. Since it is who we are, anything that is not the focus or supportive thereof is just not us. Even outside issues, when they arise, are interesting in that they only help define the focus more clearly.

  Twyla Tharp

  Later In Life, Interesting, Focus

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• My whole academic career was totally out of Jewish anxiety, and issues surrounding achievement and adequacy.

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  Ram Dass

  Careers, Achievement, Anxiety

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• It is observed at sea that men are never so much disposed to grumble and mutiny as when least employed. Hence an old captain, when there was nothing else to do, would issue the order to "scour the anchor.

  Samuel Smiles

  Men, Order, Anchors

  Samuel Smiles (2014). “Self-Help”, p.199, Cambridge University Press

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• Abortion, however, is a big threshold issue for me because the dominant majority of people in my state are pro-choice. I ran as a pro-choice Democrat, and she fills Sandra Day O'Connor's shoes, and they are critical shoes.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Shoes, People, Choices

  "New Questions on Miers' Roe Views / She Reportedly Says She Doesn't Recall Ever Discussing Case" by Carolyn Lochhead, www.sfgate.com. October 18, 2005.

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• The discussions of every age are filled with the issues on which its leading schools of thought differ. But the general intellectual atmosphere of the time is always determined by the views on which the opposing schools agree. They become the unspoken presuppositions of all thought, and common and unquestioningly accepted foundations on which all discussion proceeds.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  School, Views, Atmosphere

  "The Counter-Revolution of Science". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Comte and Hegel (pt. 3), 1952.

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• Never be seduced into believing it isn't the role of business to tackle the big issues, because it absolutely is.

  Anita Roddick

  Believe, Roles, Bigs

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• At its heartmeat core, writing is about exploring the questions of your heart on the assumption that what intrigues you, what inflames or amuses or ennobles you, will have the same effect on someone else. It's about taking chances, and taking risks, and pushing yourself to be honest in the issues that present themselves.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Heart, Writing, Risk

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• It seems to me to be a way to give the Clinton Administration an opportunity to sidestep the issue of whether to announce they're going to withdraw from the ABM treaty, or whether they're going to go ahead and proceed with construction and be hopeful the Russians are not going to accuse them of violating the treaty.

  Thad Cochran

  Opportunity, Giving, Hopeful

  " Administration lawyers argue ABM treaty allows start on missile defense system", www.cnn.com. June 15, 2000.

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• The fact that John Prescott is being paid large sums of money to do little or nothing adds to the general malaise surrounding this government and the feeling that ministers are incapable of tackling serious issues.

  Vince Cable

  Government, Feelings, Add

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