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• Let’s start with the most prominent ecological crisis of our time: global warming. When you look seriously at the numbers, you find that switching from a meat-based to a plant-based diet would do more to curb and reverse global warming than any other initiative.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Numbers, Meat, Looks

  T. Colin Campbell, Howard Jacobson (2013). “Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition”, p.167, BenBella Books

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• A prominent judge was asked what we, as citizens of the countries of the world, could do to reduce crime and disobedience to law and to bring peace and contentment into our lives and into our nations. He thoughtfully replied, ‘I would suggest a return to the old-fashioned practice of family prayer.’

  Thomas S. Monson

  Country, Prayer, Countries Of The World

  Thomas S. Monson (1988). “Live the Good Life”, Shadow Mountain

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• The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Trust No One, Order

  "Tao Te Ching". Ch. 57, 4th century BC.

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• It's disconcerting to realize how little you have to say to someone who once occupied such a prominent place in your bed.

  Sue Grafton

  Inspiring Love, Bed, Littles

  Sue Grafton (1993). “"J" is for Judgment”, p.60, Macmillan

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• Suppose the looking glass smashes, the image disappears, and the romantic figure with the green of forest depths all about it is there no longer, but only that shell of a person which is seen by other people - what an airless, shallow, bald, prominent world it becomes! A world not to be lived in. As we face each other in omnibuses and underground railways we are looking into the mirror that accounts for the vagueness, the gleam of glassiness, in our eyes.

  Virginia Woolf

  Eye, Glasses, Mirrors

  Virginia Woolf (2017). “A arte da brevidade: Contos”, p.7, Autêntica

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• There's a flip side to having prominent public intellectuals, which is that they start meddling in politics and often with quite disastrous results.

  Will Self

  Flip, Sides, Results

  "There's something to be said for our more low-key intellectuals" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. May 07, 2011.

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• There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Birthday, Men, Self

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• The successes of the LGBT civil rights movement and the more prominent role openly gay people are playing in the public eye has actually turned up the temperature in middle schools and high schools for queer kids.

  Dan Savage

  School, Kids, Eye

  "Stranger To Stranger: Dan Savage". Interview with Christopher Frizzelle, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 3, 2012.

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• I went to England in the '70s, and I was in my early 20s. There was still a residue of that era of being an underclass or colonial. I assume it must have been a more aggressive and prominent attitude 40 years before that, because Australia internationally wasn't regarded as having much cultural value. We were a country full of sheep and convicts.

  Geoffrey Rush

  Country, Attitude, Australia

  "Geoffrey Rush To The Rescue". Interview with Gillian Mohney, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 22, 2010.

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• Collectively the media; the meat, oil, and dairy industries; most prominent chefs and cookbook authors; and our own government are not presenting accurate advice about the healthiest way to eat.

  Caldwell Esselstyn

  Government, Media, Oil

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• On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance.

  Jean-Francois Lyotard

  Communication, Reality, Issues

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• Misconceptions play a prominent role in my view of the world.

  George Soros

  Views, Play, Roles

  George Soros (2007). “Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror”, p.22, PublicAffairs

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• I pointed to an article with bold headlines reporting that the police had refused to allow the PAP to hold a rally at Empress Place, and then to the last paragraph where in small type it added the meeting would take place where we were now. I compared this with a prominent report about an SPA rally. This was flagrant bias.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Police, Lasts, Empresses

  Lee Kuan Yew (2015). “The Singapore Story (Student Edition): Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew”, p.154, Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd

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• Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams - day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing - are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization. A prominent educator tells me that fairy tales are of untold value in developing imagination in the young. I believe it.

  L. Frank Baum

  Dream, Children, Believe

  "The Lost Princess of Oz". Book by L. Frank Baum, 1917.

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• Add it all up, and some prominent Obama supporters are now saying that it paints a picture of an opposition driven, in part, by a refusal to accept a black President.

  Dan Harris

  Obama Supporters, Black, President

  "ABC: Obama Critics 'Driven By Refusal to Accept Black President'; NBC Trumpets Carter's Racism Charges". www.newsbusters.org. September 15, 2009.

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• Israel has many hopes, and faces extreme dangers. The most prominent danger is Iran, which is making every effort to acquire nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, and establishing an enormous terror network together with Syria in Lebanon.

  Ariel Sharon

  Israel, Iran, Effort

  "Ariel Sharon's address to the Knesset", www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2004.

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• But the young educated adults of the 90s -- who were, of course, the children of the same impassioned infidelities and divorces Mr. Updike wrote about so beautifully -- got to watch all this brave new individualism and self-expression and sexual freedom deteriorate into the joyless and anomic self-indulgence of the Me Generation. Today's sub-40s have different horrors, prominent among which are anomie and solipsism and a peculiarly American loneliness: the prospect of dying without once having loved something more than yourself.

  David Foster Wallace

  Children, Loneliness, Divorce

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• Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind; therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Astrology

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.152, Vivekananda Kendra

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• If you hear a "prominent" economist using the word 'equilibrium,' or 'normal distribution,' do not argue with him; just ignore him, or try to put a rat down his shirt.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Trying, Rats, Normal

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"”, p.210, Random House

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• Researchers have known for some time now that the cornerstone of all degenerative conditions, including brain disorders, is inflammation. But what they didn’t have documented until now are the instigators of that inflammation—the first missteps that prompt this deadly reaction. And what they are finding is that gluten, and a high-carbohydrate diet for that matter, are among the most prominent stimulators of inflammatory pathways that reach the brain.

  David Perlmutter

  Brain, Gluten, Matter

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• For a long time the fear of seeming singular scared me away; but by degrees, as people became accustomed to me and my habits, and to such shadows of peculiarity as were engrained in my nature - shades, certainly not striking enough to interest, and perhaps not prominent enough to offend, but born in and with me, and no more to be parted with than my identity - but slow degrees I became a frequenter of this straight narrow path.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Long, People, Shadow

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• I smell blood and an era of prominent madmen.

  W. H. Auden

  Blood, Smell, Eras

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• Just as TurboTax simplified much of the tax process, so has the colossally scary legal process been reduced to a kinder, gentler series of mouse clicks and 'Continue' buttons by LegalZoom, the online leader that has become so prominent in its market that it's practically a generic.

  Lynda Resnick

  Leader, Scary, Buttons

  "Satisfy Your Legal Needs Fast in This Zoom-Zoom World" by Lynda Resnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 3, 2009.

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• Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists.

  Hu Shih

  Atheist, Leader, Atheism

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• The founding fathers, in their wisdom, devised a method by which our republic can take one hundred of its most prominent numbskulls and keep them out of the private sector where they might do actual harm.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Father, Republic, Might

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