Majors Quotes - Page 23

• Despair ... is the only cure for illusion. Without despair we cannot transfer our allegiance to reality - it's a kind of mourning period for our fantasies. Some people do not survive this despair, but no major change within a person can occur without it.

  Philip Slater

  Reality, People, Mourning

  Philip Slater (1974). “Earth-walk”

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• More than one-half of the world's major rivers are being seriously depleted and polluted, degrading and poisoning the surrounding ecosystems, thus threatening the health and livelihood of people who depend upon them for irrigation, drinking and industrial water.

  Ismail Serageldin

  Drinking, Ecosystems, Rivers

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• Morley is one of the outstanding voices of her generation, as a singer, songwriter and bandleader she's in a class of her own, transcends all categories and is making a major contribution to contemporary music.

  David Amram

  Class, Voice, Generations

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• I did not see any major issues other than the jury substitutions. I can't know whether there's a problem there, until I read the transcript from the in-chambers conference, when those jurors were excused.

  Catherine Crier

  Issues, Problem, Conferences

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• So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs, politics, investment and technology.

  Daniel Yergin

  Technology, Development, Politics

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• Problems are a major part of life. Don’t whine about why you always have problems…get on with the solving. Take it from someone who has been there–the solving gets easier as you go along.

  Sara Henderson

  Problem, Easier, Parts Of Life

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• Violence in our society has reached epidemic proportions. ... Violence in the media for entertainment purposes has been established as a major contributing factor.

  Deborah Prothrow-Stith

  Epidemics, Media, Purpose

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• Everyone's life is a mess. Everyone's. We all make mistakes . . . and not just little slip-ups. Major mistakes that hurt us and other people.

  James Alan Gardner

  Hurt, Mistake, People

  James Alan Gardner (2014). “Trapped”, p.351, Open Road Media

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• I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry, which I eventually got published.

  Sally Kirkland

  Art, Writing, Modern

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• In f-major, c* is a sonority contained within the overtones of the tonic f*.

  Jean-Philippe Rameau

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• I have to say that I have no regrets about my decision to become a priest or about the major directions my ministry has taken me... I have been and am happy as a priest, and I have never been lonely... I could have used a bit more solitude.

  Andrew Greeley

  Lonely, Regret, Taken

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• The Mean Value Theorem is the midwife of calculus - not very important or glamorous by itself, but often helping to deliver other theorems that are of major significance.

  Edward Mills Purcell

  Education, Mean, Important

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• The idea of an entrepreneur is really thinking out of the box and taking risks and stepping up to major challenges.

  Steve Case

  Thinking, Ideas, Entrepreneur

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• My major influence was my ten years older sister.

  Willa Ford

  Sister, Years, Influence

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• From the time of independences until the end of the Cold War, in spite of the participation of a considerable number of African states in the non-aligned movement, everyone in fact chose to align with one or another of the two major blocks.

  Omar Bongo

  Block, War, Two

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• I like playing on this team. We actually been doin' real good. Got a different mix here. Most important thing is you gotta keep pickin' up in paces. That's why we're playing contentious play. We got top names, guys can still hit in the majors, guys been out of the game hittin' the ball, shockin' it. Don't have no old, old guys. Not sayin' they don't get a good job done. Fact is, they've been vice versa. So that's incentive right there. It's been a plus.

  Mickey Rivers

  Jobs, Real, Team

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• Despite being able to demonstrate a very large audience, major advertisers at first wouldn't touch Limbaugh.

  Paul Weyrich

  Able, Firsts, Audience

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• Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.

  Theodor Adorno

  Emotional, Democracy, Source

  Theodor W. Adorno, Samuel H. Flowerman (1964). “The Authoritarian Personality: Studies in Prejudice”

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• From it genesis twelve hundred years ago to today, Islamic philosophy (al-hikmah; al-falsafah) has been one of the major intellectual traditions within the Islamic world, and it has influenced and been influenced by many other intellectual perspectives, including Scholastic theology (kalam) and doctrinal Sufism (al-ma'rifah or al-tasawwuf al-'ilmi) and theoretical gnosis ('irfan-i nazari).

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Philosophy, Islamic, Years

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• People look at black pride in America and sport's impact on it. In the major cities it took off the first time Jackie Robinson stole home. In the deep South, it started with Eddie Robinson, who took a small college in northern Louisiana with little or no funds and sent the first black to the pros and made everyone look at him and Grambling.

  Jerry Izenberg

  Sports, Home, Pride

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• As for sticking strictly to presently known science, I will simply point out that we have already experienced at least two major revolutions in science in this century alone.

  Stanley Schmidt

  Science, Two, Revolution

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• Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.

  Alan Barth

  Criticism, Delusion, Indispensable

  "The Loyalty of Free Men". Book by Alan Barth, 1951.

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• The idea that so many kids eat rubbish and sit on computers all day long appals me and getting them into sport is a major way of getting them off computers and leading healthier lives.

  Kirsty Gallacher

  Sports, Kids, Ideas

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• I started in college as a business major and finally transferred to home economics and studied making clothes.

  Phillip Lim

  Home, College, Clothes

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• I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.

  William Weld

  Happiness, Thinking, Government

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