Issues Quotes - Page 30

• The tiniest bits of opinion sown in the minds of children in private life afterwards issue forth to the world, and become its public opinion; for nations are gathered out of nurseries.

  Samuel Smiles

  Children, Mind, Public Opinion

  Samuel Smiles (1910). “Character. Repr”

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• The issue here really is not whether international trade shall be free but whether or not it makes any sense for a country - or, for that matter, a region - to destroy its own capacity to produce its own food. How can a government, entrusted with the safety and health of its people, conscientiously barter away in the name of an economic idea that people's ability to feed itself? And if people lose their ability to feed themselves, how can they be said to be free?

  Wendell Berry

  Country, Names, Ideas

  "Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community". Book by Wendell Berry, 1993.

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• Net neutrality would require that every search engine produce an equal number of results that satisfy every disagreement about the issue... Just think of it as Fairness Doctrine for the Internet. I'm not making this up.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Numbers, Doctrine

  "A Fairness Doctrine for Internet?". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. March 16, 2010.

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• The real issue, as far as Democrats are concerned, is the number of people receiving something from the government. This is exactly what Franklin Delano Roosevelt had in mind when he created this monster. And Clinton is planning to expand it beyond Roosevelt's wildest dreams.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Dream, Real, Numbers

  Rush H. Limbaugh (1994). “See, I Told You So”, Pocket Books

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• The real issue is not whether baking biscuits is meaningful, but the extent to which the activity can seem to be so after it has been continuously stretched and subdivided across five thousand lives.

  Alain de Botton

  Meaningful, Real, Baking

  "The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work". Book by Alain de Botton, 2008.

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• Above all, do not give up your moral and political autonomy by accepting in somebody else's terms the illiberal practicality of the bureaucratic ethos or the liberal practicality of the moral scatter. Know that many personal troubles cannot be solved merely as troubles, but must be understood in terms of public issues and in terms of the problems of history making.

  C. Wright Mills

  Giving Up, Ethos, Political

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “C. Wright Mills: Letters and Autobiographical Writings”, p.2, Univ of California Press

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• To mystify, in the active sense, is to befuddle, cloud, obscure, mask whatever is going on, whether this be experience, action, or process, or whatever is "the issue." It induces confusion in the sense that there is failure to see what is "really" being experienced, or being done, or going on, and failure to distinguish or discriminate the actual issues. This entails the substitution of false for true constructions of what is being experienced, being done (praxis), or going on (process), and the substitution of false issues for the actual issues.

  R. D. Laing

  Clouds, Confusion, Done

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• If happiness is a state of the inward life, we have to look for its chief obstructions not in outward conditions but in deeper places. Happiness depends in the last issue, as we saw, on the essential view of life. It is not a matter of distractions, nor even of mere pleasurable sensations. There may be an appearance of great prosperity with incurable sadness hidden at the heart, as there is an outward peace which is only a well-masked despair. The way to happiness is indeed harder than the way to success; for its chief enemies entrench themselves within the soul.

  Hugh Black

  Happiness, Heart, Sadness

  Hugh Black (1911). “Happiness”

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• A sense of proportion and humanitarian action are not issues for terrorists. Their aim is that of killing and destroying.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Action, Killing, Humanitarian

  President Yeltsin's speech to the summit of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Istanbul, news.bbc.co.uk. November 18, 1999.

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• If your audience doesn't like something, you should think to yourself, "Well, why don't they like something? Is there something wrong here?" And, if they like something, you should think to yourself, "Why do they like it? What am I doing right here?," and deal with those issues.

  David Shore

  Thinking, Should, Deals

  Source: collider.com

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• The issue for the major companies is how, is how when and where to make their content online. So you look at these major cable companies, whether it's Disney or Time Warner, News Corp., ESPN, USA, they're being very very careful, about making their content available over the internet, and they're trying to figure it out.

  Harry E. Sloan

  Usa, Trying, Looks

  "Harry Sloan & Jeff Sagansky: The Future Is Content — and It’s Outside the U.S". Interview with Sharon Waxman, www.thewrap.com. September 21, 2011.

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• My message is, is that although some of you didn't agree with the actions we took, now let's work together to rebuild Iraq, rebuild Afghanistan, fight AIDS and hunger, deal with slavery, like sex slavery, and deal with proliferation. Let's work together on big issues.

  George W. Bush

  Sex, Fighting, Iraq

  "An Exclusive Interview With President Bush". Interview with Brit Hume, www.foxnews.com. September 23, 2003.

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• I guess what I would tell women is to get their education first, before having kids. That way they can keep their options open down the road. I also think that it shouldn't necessarily be an issue just for women, that men should be part of the stay-home discussion too.

  Tina Fey

  Kids, Home, Men

  "Live From Studio 1A: Tina Fey Q & A". allDAY Interview, www.today.com. April 5, 2007.

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• Childhood obesity issue is critically important to me because it's critically important to the health and success of our kids, and of this nation, ultimately.

  Michelle Obama

  Kids, Childhood, Important

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• I want evangelicals to be known not for what they're against, but what they're for. Yes, there are some things that I believe are flat out wrong. There is no doubt about it, and I'm not wishy-washy about it. But my agenda is bigger than simply those issues. My agenda is to be as big as the agenda of Jesus.

  Rick Warren

  Jesus, Believe, Doubt

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think part of running for president, people want to know who you are, what influenced you, what motivates you, not just where you stand on issues but what is in your heart and what were things in your life that led you to believe the things you believe in, and fight for.

  Karen Finney

  Running, Believe, Heart

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• We think what Americans at the end of the day want to know is, if this person [a candidate] going to go out and be a fighter for me? Does this person understand my concerns, my issues, and will this person fight for me?

  Karen Finney

  Fighting, Thinking, The End Of The Day

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The heart and mind of every Muslim is affected by whether or not the Israel-Palestine issue is dealt with fairly.

  Jimmy Carter

  Heart, Israel, Mind

  "Jimmy Carter takes on Israel’s Apartheid Policies and the Pro-Israeli Lobby in the US". Interview with Nathan Gardels, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2006.

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• Because the financial power of the fossil-fuel industry is so great it can, and has, delayed any real action of the climate issues almost everywhere.

  Bill McKibben

  Real, Climate, Fuel

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• We can ask for a dream of guidance on any issue that is facing us, and when we're lucky the dream can take us out of the boxes of the everyday mind's approach to that theme.

  Robert Moss

  Dream, Everyday, Mind

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• Nobody thinks about technical issues anymore because cameras or camera phones take care of that automatically. On the other hand, you still have the option of controlling every technical aspect. It's the most accessible, democratic medium available in the world.

  Martin Parr

  Technology, Thinking, Phones

  "An Interview with Martin Parr – “Boundaries Merely Exist in People's Minds” (2007)". Interview with Maarten Dings, Joachim Naudts, www.americansuburbx.com. May 17, 2010.

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• For me, painting is that magical material, that beautiful stuff that was invented, the ground-up pigments in oil which makes it very malleable. It can be manipulated and changed, darkened, lightened, given different hues and colors, so that by manipulating this material somehow I can find that figure I'm looking for, that figure that represents all the issues I'm bringing up and addressing.

  Nathan Oliveira

  Beautiful, Oil, Color

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• The big issue was cutting. I finally cut as much as I could, about a fourth of the story, and actually liked it.

  ZZ Packer

  Cutting, Editing, Stories

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• I've always been very interested in fashion, but it is extremely important to me that the social and environment issues associated with the production of fashionable clothing are addressed. Made-By carries out really important work in transforming the fashion industry, and I am thrilled to support the organisation and help raise awareness of these ongoing issues.

  Bonnie Wright

  Fashion, Support, Important

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• Nobody is born a drug addict or a homosexual. Christians may be performing in these unacceptable ways, but that's not who they are. It's an identity issue.

  Tony Evans

  Christian, Drug, Identity

  Tony Evans (2009). “Free at Last: Experiencing True Freedom Through Your Identity in Christ”, p.28, Moody Publishers

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