Majors Quotes - Page 13

• If you find diseases before they've really emerged, you can control them early on, before you get a major epidemic.

  Nathan Wolfe

  Epidemics, Disease, Ifs

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• We lie. That's what we do. You're selling me a line of bullshit and you want me to sell you a line of bullshit back so you can write a major line of bullshit and be paid for it.

  Jennifer Egan

  Lying, Writing, Bullshit

  Jennifer Egan (2009). “Look at Me: A Novel”, p.98, Anchor

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• We love and lose in China, we weep on England's moors, and laugh and moan in Guinea, and thrive on Spanish shores. We seek success in Finland, are born and die in Maine. In minor ways we differ, in major we're the same.

  Maya Angelou

  Laughing, Maine, Way

  Maya Angelou (2015). “The Complete Poetry”, p.227, Random House

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• Reason can be fought with reason. How are you going to fight the unreasonable? The trouble with you, my dear, and with most people, is that you don’t have sufficient respect for the senseless. The senseless is the major factor in our lives. You have no chance if it is your enemy.

  Ayn Rand

  Fighting, People, Enemy

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.329, Penguin

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• What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Way, Minors

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• That's why I like listening to Schubert while I'm driving. Like I said, it's because all his performances are imperfect. A dense, artistic kind of imperfection stimulates your consciousness, keeps you alert. If I listen to some utterly perfect performance of an utterly perfect piece while I'm driving, I might want to close my eyes and die right then and there. But listening to the D major, I can feel the limits of what humans are capable of - that a certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect. And personally I find that encouraging.

  Haruki Murakami

  Eye, Perfect, Listening

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jan 07, 2015

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• Lady, I was gonna cut you some slack, 'cause you're a major mythological figure...but now you've just gone nuts!

  Mike Mignola

  Cutting, Nuts, Gone

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• As a bio major, I figured "free will" meant chemicals in your brain telling you what to do, the molecules bouncing around in a way that felt like choosing but was actually the dance of little gears--neurons and hormones bubbling up into decisions like clockwork. You don't use your body; it uses you.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Decision, Brain, Molecules

  Scott Westerfeld (2006). “Peeps”, p.6, Penguin

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• The purpose of all the major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of goodness and compassion inside, in our hearts.

  Dalai Lama

  Life, Spiritual, Religious

  Dalai Lama (2016). “The Good Heart: A Buddhist Perspective on the Teachings of Jesus”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• Curiously enough, one cannot read a book; one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, and active and creative reader is a rereader.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Book, Creative, Enough

  Vladimir Nabokov (2017). “Lectures on Literature”, p.3, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I always loved English because whatever human beings are, we are storytellers. It is our stories that give a light to the future. When I went to college I became a history major because history is such a wonderful story of who we think we are. English is much more a story of who we really are.

  Nikki Giovanni

  College, Thinking, Light

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• I can feel guilty about the past, Apprehensive about the future,but only in the present can I act.The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

  Abraham Maslow

  Life, Motivational, Leadership

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• How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?” Instead they say, “No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.” A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the Universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths.

  Carl Sagan

  God, Science, Religion

  "Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space". Book by Carl Sagan, 1994.

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• Most of you guys can't see the potential in a nervous breakdown. A real collapse. There's more chance of finding yourself in a major depression than there is in a bottle Prozac.

  Keith Ablow

  Real, Guy, Finding Yourself

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• But sometimes, too, you have this little feeling of knowing, this fuzzy, gnawing sense that someone will become a major something in your life. You just know that theirs will be a life you will enter and become a part of.

  Deb Caletti

  Knowing, Feelings, Littles

  Deb Caletti (2010). “Nature of Jade”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• China has really succeeded because of its stability.
  So my feeling is, how they are going to maintain this fantastic stability in a very fast changing economic situation.
  I think this is a challenge we face, how the global region will evolve in stability with such a fast growth.
  If they succeed to do that, no doubt, in the next generation it will be the major area of the world, economically.

  Bernard Arnault

  Inspirational, Change, Success

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• Major brands don't know what to do with happy customers. They make it hard for customers to say thanks and way too often companies don't celebrate and embrace customers' positive gestures.

  Paul Walker

  Business, Gestures, Way

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• It is the business of future to be dangerous.... The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Future, Civilization, Progress

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• Major part of the Southern California pop scene in the 60s
  "People think that love is an emotion. Love is good sense."

  Ken Kesey

  Life, Love Is, Thinking

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• The major difference between the big shot and the little shot is the big shot is just a little shot who kept on shooting.

  Zig Ziglar

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

  Zig Ziglar (2010). “See You at the Top”, p.89, Pelican Publishing

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• Anyone in a large organization who thinks major change is impossible should probably get out.

  John P. Kotter

  Change, Thinking, Organization

  John P. Kotter (2008). “The New Rules”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• Bowling is not a sport because you have to rent the shoes. When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? This title offends all three major religions, and even vegetarians!

  George Carlin

  Sports, Jesus, Stupid

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• Often Satan injects pride into the believer's spirit, evoking in him an attitude of self-importance and of self-conceit. He causes him to esteem himself a very outstanding person, one who is indispensable in God's work. Such a spirit constitutes one of the major reasons for the fall of believers.

  Watchman Nee

  Attitude, Fall, Pride

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.555, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• This is a serious problem of major concern, and we have got to approach it in a way that is consistent with this nation's tradition as a nation of immigrants, focusing on legal immigration, supporting that in the right way and doing everything possible consistent with the Constitution to control illegal immigration, and we will continue in those efforts.

  Janet Reno

  Effort, Immigration, Way

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• The shortage of fresh water is the major ecological problem of this moment.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Water, Problem, Moments

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