Majors Quotes - Page 33

• For the first time a British force had met, held and decisively defeated a major Japanese attack, and followed this up by driving the enemy out of the strongest possible natural positions.

  William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim

  War, Enemy, World

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• We seem to have lost the wisdom of the indigenous people, which dictated that in any major decision, the first consideration was 'How will this decision we're making today affect our people in the future? These days, decisions are made based on the bottom line.

  Jane Goodall

  People, Decision, Environmental

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• I am indebted to the British welfare state; the very one that Mr Cameron would like to replace with charity handouts. When my life hit rock bottom, that safety net, threadbare though it had become under John Major's Government, was there to break the fall. I cannot help feeling, therefore, that it would have been contemptible to scarper for the West Indies at the first sniff of a seven-figure royalty cheque. This, if you like, is my notion of patriotism.

  J. K. Rowling

  Fall, West Indies, Rocks

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• Correcting it, I don't know; just shedding the light of day on it is a first major step, being one of the earliest generations not to just accept the words.

  Paul Kantner

  Light, Firsts, Steps

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• A major part of the meaning of life is contained in the very process of discovering it.

  Ira Progoff

  Inspirational, Meaning Of Life, Life Is

  Ira Progoff (1992). “At a Journal Workshop: Writing to Access the Power of the Unconscious and Evoke Creative Ability”, Tarcher

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• Well, the task I've set forth will long outlive our own generation. But together, we too have come through the worst. Let us now begin a major effort to secure the best- a crusade for freedom that will engage the faith and fortitude of the next generation. For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Moving, Destiny

  Address to British Parliament, delivered 8 June 1982, Royal Gallery at the Palace of Westminster, London

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• I had higher math SATs than in English - yet I became an English major in college.

  Christie Hefner

  Math, College, Sat

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Let us not demand of ourselves that we alone must be the agent of change. In a fire brigade everyone passes along a bucket, but only the last person puts out the fire. None of us know where we stand in line. We may be here simply to pass a bucket; we may be called on to play a major role. In either case, all we can do is think, act, and say. Let us direct our thoughts, words, and actions to peace. That is all we can do. Let the results be what they will be.

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspiring, Thinking, Fire

  "Where Is Peace In a Time of War?" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 31, 2006.

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• Why is it that men who can go through severe accidents, air raids, and any other major crisis always seems to think that they are at death's door when they have a simple head cold?

  Shirley Booth

  Simple, Men, Thinking

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• When my father finally got around to teaching me to drive, he was impressed at my "natural" talent for driving, not knowing that I had already been secretly driving my mother's car around the neighborhood. When I took the test and got my license and my father gave me my own set of keys to the car one night at dinner, it was a major rite of passage for him and my mother. Their perception of me had changed and was formally acknowledged. For me the occasion meant a private sanction to do in public what I had already been doing in secret.

  Robert Fulghum

  Mother, Father, Teaching

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• I teach you celebration. And laughter has certainly to be one of the major ingredients in this celebration.

  Rajneesh

  Laughter, Ingredients, Celebration

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• In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties.

  Thomas E. Mann

  Party, Two, Political

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• A good place to start a more civil dialog would be for my Republican colleagues in the House to change the name of the bill they have introduced to repeal health care reform. The bill, titled the "Repeal the Job Killing Health Care Law Act," was set to come up for a vote this week, but in the wake of Gabby's shooting, it has been postponed at least until next week. Don't get me wrong - I'm not suggesting that the name of that one piece of legislation somehow led to the horror of this weekend - but is it really necessary to put the word "killing" in the title of a major piece of legislation?

  Chellie Pingree

  Jobs, Stupid, Weekend

  "For Gabby’s Sake, Republicans Should Change the Name of Their Health Care Repeal Bill" by Chellie Pingree, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 09, 2011.

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• The foundation for our self-image is grounded in the first three years of life. It comes from our major caretaker's mirroring.

  John Bradshaw

  Self Esteem, Years, Foundation

  John Bradshaw (2010). “Bradshaw On: The Family: A New Way of Creating Solid Self-Esteem”, p.49, Health Communications, Inc.

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• I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets.

  Anita Diament

  Book, Editors, Stories

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• Reasons to be positive. The economic downturn could be the catalyst for positive change. It should be translated into the wake-up call we need for a major change in aspirations and lifestyles to save humanity from the ecological and economic disaster that would otherwise result from continuing on the high carbon and resource depleting path we have been pursuing

  Phil Harding

  Continuing On, Humanity, Being Positive

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• If we are concerned about our great appetite for materials, it is plausible to decrease waste, to make better use of stocks available, and to develop substitutes. But what about the appetite itself? The major cause of the continued deterioration of the global environment is the unsustainable pattern of consumption and production, particularly in industrialised countries

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Country, Deterioration, Use

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• Over the next ten years, I predict, the mainstream of the environmental movement will reverse its opinion and activism in four major areas: population growth, urbaninzation, genetically engineered organisms, and nuclear power.

  Stewart Brand

  Years, Growth, Environmental

  "Environmental Heresies". www.technologyreview.com. May 1, 2005.

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• Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are, in principle, under autocratic control. Thus, a corporation or an industry is, if we were to think of it in political terms, fascist, that is, it has tight control at the top and strict obedience has to be established at every level. [...] Just as I'm opposed to political fascism, I am opposed to economic fascism. I think that until the major institutions of society are under the popular control of participants and communities, it's pointless to talk about democracy.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Community, Political

  "One Man’s View". Interview, chomsky.info. May, 1973.

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• The same tantalizing guile and sublime skill....[The series is] reinforced in its claim to be one of the major literary works of this century....Only two other writers that this reviewer can think of have each created an entire, discrete and compelling world, a totally believable entity which one might wish to inhabit, and they are Joyce and Proust. It is not pretentious to place Patrick O'Brian in the first canon of literature.

  Kevin Myers

  Thinking, Skills, Two

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• The major way to conquer fear is to make a decision.

  Reshad Feild

  Decision, Way, Conquer

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• One of the major sources of stress, anxiety, and unhappiness comes from feeling as if your life is out of control.

  David Cottrell

  Leadership, Monday, Morning

  David Cottrell (2016). “The First Two Rules of Leadership: Don't be Stupid, Don't be a Jerk”, p.41, John Wiley & Sons

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• One day every major city in America will have a telephone.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Cities, America, One Day

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• Increasingly in recent times we have come first to identify the remedy that is most agreeable, most convenient, most in accord with major pecuniary or political interest, the one that reflects our available faculty for action; then we move from the remedy so available or desired back to a cause to which that remedy is relevant.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Time, Moving, Political

  "The Convenient Reverse of Logic in Our Time". Commencement address at the American University. Printed in "A View from the Stands", book by John Kenneth Galbraith, 1986.

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• What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.

  Barry Commoner

  War, Technology, Profound

  Interview with Alan Hall, June 23, 1997.

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