Makers Quotes - Page 19

• You and I are forever at the mercy of the census-taker and the census-maker. That impertinent fellow who goes from house to house is one of the real masters of the statistical situation. The other is the man who organizes the results.

  Walter Lippmann

  Real, Men, House

  Lippmann, Walter

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• To make of human affairs a coherent, precise, predictable whole one must ignore or suppress man as he really is. It is by eliminating man from their equation that the makers of history can predict the future, and the writers of history can give a pattern to the past.

  Eric Hoffer

  Past, Men, Giving

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems, or of parents for their children, besides that natural love of it for the sake of use and profit.

  Plato

  Children, Parent, Use

  Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.235, Aegitas

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• The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how to bring into existence something which is capable of having such an existence and has its efficient cause in the maker and not in itself.

  Aristotle

  Art, Practice, Causes

  Aristotle (1955). “The Ethics of Aristotle: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the endless quest for new taste sensations. Now they are a little like those desperate junkies who have tried every known drug and are finally reduced to mainlining toilet bowl cleanser in an effort to get still higher.

  Bill Bryson

  Food, Effort, Drug

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.25, VNR AG

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• Women are never again going to be mindless coffee-makers or mindless policy-makers in politics.

  Gloria Steinem

  Coffee, Politician, Policy

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• This is the eternal law of Nature for a man, my beneficent Exeter-Hall friends; this, that he shall be permitted, encouraged, and if need be, compelled to do what work the Maker of him has intended by the making of him for this world! Not that he should eat pumpkin with never such felicity in the West India Islands is, or can be, the blessedness of our Black friend; but that he should do useful work there, according as the gifts have been bestowed on him for that.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Purpose, Should

  "Occasional Discourse on the Nigger Question". Reprinted, with additions, from Fraser's Magazine,

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• If, in our haste to 'progress,' the economics of ecology are disregarded by citizens and policy makers alike, the result will be an ugly America. We cannot afford an America where expedience tramples upon esthetics and development decisions are made with an eye only on the present.

  Stewart Udall

  Eye, America, Decision

  Stewart L. Udall (1988). “The quiet crisis and the next generation”, Gibbs Smith

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• We must not pluck death from the Maker's hand.

  Philip James Bailey

  Suicide, Hands, Pluck

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• 150 people die every year from being hit by falling coconuts. Not to worry, drug makers are developing a vaccine.

  Jim Carrey

  Fall, Vaccines, Years

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• The greatest factors making for communism, socialism or anarchy among a free people are the excesses of capital. The talk of the agitator does not advance socialism one step. The great captains of industry and finance... are the chief makers of socialism.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Wisdom, People, Doe

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• Ladies like improv stilts, and I think men like improv giant cocks. But one of the great things about improv is that you get to play some roles you'd never get to play otherwise, you know, like the old Italian pizza-maker who's passing on the business down to his son. You get to play it all when you improvise.

  Amy Poehler

  Son, Italian, Men

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• But the individual was not a tool for something. He was the maker of tools. He was the one who must build. Even for the best purpose it is criminal to turn an individual into simply a means for some ultimate end. A society in which the dignity of the individual is destroyed cannot hope to be a decent society.

  Golda Meir

  Mean, Society, Criminals

  Golda Meir, Marie Syrkin (1973). “A land of our own: an oral autobiography”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• There are no makers of peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent.

  Daniel Berrigan

  Peace, War, Disruptive

  Daniel Berrigan (2009). “They Call Us Dead Men: Reflections on Life and Conscience”, p.7, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• A Soul is partly given, partly wrought; remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.

  Erica Jong

  Soul, Remember, Given

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Aug 06, 2012

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• The heavens are nobly eloquent of the Deity, and the most magnificent heralds of their Maker's praise.

  James Hervey

  Sky, Heaven, Deities

  James Hervey, William ROMAINE (1812). “Meditations and Contemplations ... To which is prefixed the life of the author: and a sermon on his death by the Rev. W. Romaine ... With ... engravings, etc. [With a portrait.]”, p.284

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• The unlettered man who prayed to his maker would be heard; the pedant reciting a faultless invocation would be ignored.

  Israel Shenker

  Prayer, Men, Would Be

  Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books

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• My father was a film-maker. He always said he wanted to go like Humphrey Jennings, the legendary director who stepped backwards over a cliff while framing a better shot.

  A. A. Gill

  Death, Father, Directors

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• I'm highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don't feel in tune with British politics.

  Jane Goodall

  Decision, Political, Trying

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• I had been told from school onwards that the best definition of a human being was man the tool-maker - yet I had just watched a chimp tool-maker in action. I remember that day as vividly as if it was yesterday.

  Jane Goodall

  School, Men, Yesterday

  "Chimps with everything: Jane Goodall's 50 years in the jungle" by Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2010.

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• There are some decision-makers in the world whose version of sanity is a little different from what I consider the right one.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Decision, Different, World

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• O man, do you believe that Christ is God? If you believe, fear, and keep His commandments? there is no other God but He (cf. Dt. 4:35). To Him no one is equal, nor can become equal (cf. Is. 40:18). He is Ruler of all things, the Judge of all, the King of all, the Maker of light and the Lord of life. He is the Light that is ineffable, inaccessible (cf. I Tim. 6:16), and He is the Only One. By His appearing He causes all His enemies to vanish before His face (cf. Ps. 68:2 f.), as well as those who do not perform His commandments, just as the sun when it rises drives away the darkness of night.

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Christian, Kings, Believe

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• Walk through life as a Blessed Person and a Miracle Maker.

  Robert Muller

  Attitude, Blessed, Miracle

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• The job of a judge is to figure out what the law says, not what he wants it to say. There is a difference between the role of a judge and that of a policy maker... Judging requires a certain impartiality.

  Clarence Thomas

  Jobs, Law, Differences

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• I think the purveyors of e-books are only too happy for this atmosphere of 'everything belongs to everybody' to increase because it means they don't have to think so much about the original maker of the thing, or they can get away with paying them less.

  Graham Swift

  Book, Mean, Thinking

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