Tokens Quotes - Page 6

• Buffett's uncommon urge to chronicle made him a unique character in American life, not only a great capitalist but the Great Explainer of American capitalism. He taught a generation how to think about business, and he showed that securities were not just tokens like the Monopoly flatiron, and that investing need not be a game of chance. It was also a logical, commonsensical enterprise, like the tangible businesses beneath. He stripped Wall Street of its mystery and rejoined it to Main Street -- a mythical or disappearing place, perhaps, but one that is comprehensible to the ordinary American.

  Roger Lowenstein

  Wall, Character, Thinking

  Roger Lowenstein (2013). “Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist”, p.425, Random House

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• I even believe if you're killing a team, you shouldn't stop. You should respect your opponents enough to play 100 percent the whole time. And by the same token, if you're getting killed by the other team, you should never quit.

  Sue Wicks

  Respect, Team, Believe

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• The idolatry of food cuts across class lines. This can be seen in the public's toleration of a level of cruelty in meat production that it would tolerate nowhere else. If someone inflicts pain on an animal for visual, aural, or sexual gratification, we consider him a monster, and the law makes at least a token effort at punishment. If someone's goal is to put the "product" in his mouth?

  Brian Reynolds Myers

  Pain, Cutting, Animal

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• It is haram [religiously forbidden] to use narcotics in any way because it results in considerable adverse effects in terms of personal health and social cost. By the same token, it is haram to deal in narcotics in any way, i.e., carrying, transporting, storing, selling, buying, etc.

  Ali Khamenei

  Marijuana, Adverse Effects, Cost

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• Until we start thinking in terms of revolution instead of compromise the Church will continue to pat itself on the back with token steps of renewal.

  Mike Yaconelli

  Christian, Thinking, Church

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• Most of us are searching-consciously or unconsciously- for a degree of internal balance and harmony between ourselves and the outside world, and if we happen to become aware-like Stravinsky- of a volcano within us, we will compensate by urging restraint. By that same token, someone who bore a glacier within them might urge passionate abandon. The danger is, as Bergman points out, that a glacial personality in need of passionate abandon may read Stravinsky and apply restraint instead.

  Walter Murch

  Balance And Harmony, Volcanoes, Personality

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• I have had a fairly long life, above all a very happy one, and I think that I shall be remembered with some regrets and perhaps leave some reputation behind me. What more could I ask? The events in which I am involved will probably save me from the troubles of old age. I shall die in full possession of my faculties, and that is another advantage that I should count among those that I have enjoyed. If I have any distressing thoughts, it is of not having done more for my family; to be unable to give either to them or to you any token of my affection and my gratitude is to be poor indeed.

  Antoine Lavoisier

  Life, Gratitude, Regret

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• For still the new transcends the old In signs and tokens manifold; Slaves rise up men; the olive waves, With roots deep set in battle graves!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Men, Roots, Battle

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.153

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• It's a given that we exist in a world where we have to live in continuity every day; no one is immune to that, in life or romance novels. By the same token, it's not something I find terribly important.

  Neil Gaiman

  Romance, Important, World

  "Neil Gaiman Writes a Final 'Love Letter to Batman'". Interview with Scott Thill, www.wired.com. April 21, 2009.

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• But when we get enough people who don't care, and who don't accept personal responsibility for high ethical standards, our organization gets the "M" disease. Mediocrity. Anybody in the place can be a carrier. By the same token, every individual can carry the cure: the ethics of excellence.

  Price Pritchett

  Responsibility, Ethical Standards, Organization

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• The whole notion of sanity may be an attempt to medicalize morality - to speak of the good in the language of health: to make us more accurate, more scientific in our wanting - but by the same token it becomes a form of moral blackmail. It is as if to say: if these are not valued - if these forms of wanting and feeling and speaking and doing - are not cultivated and encouraged and rewarded in the child, then the child will be mad.

  Adam Phillips

  Children, Mad, Feelings

  Adam Phillips (2005). “Going sane”, Egully.com

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• I got a book token for Christmas and exchanged it for a book called A History of Art, and that book (which I still have-battered and falling to pieces) became more precious to me than any Bible.

  Philip Pullman

  Art, Book, Fall

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• Nature: The unseen intelligence which loved us into being, and is disposing of us by the same token

  Elbert Hubbard

  Religion, Desire, Unseen

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1913). “The Philistine”

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• A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.'”

  Adrienne Rich

  Artist, People, Honor

  Adrienne Rich (2002). “Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations”, p.52, W. W. Norton & Company

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• You know, for a long time being a heavily tattooed woman was viewed as something gross, or you're either a criminal or a drug addict. It feels good to be a good representation of the art form versus being the token tattoo girl. I'm just glad that people even consider it to be sexy, because I think I'm just a big nerd so it works out.

  Kat Von D

  Tattoo, Girl, Sexy

  Interview with Shawn Loeffler, www.askmen.com.

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• To embrace what are called the Calvinistic doctrines was an infallible token of a humble mind.

  John Newton

  Humble, Mind, Doctrine

  John Newton (1808). “The works of the rev. John Newton”, p.245

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• There is no better example of the weakness of our dominant medicine than its clearly ineffective War On Cancer. By the same token, there is no better example of the superiority of complementary, alternative medicine than its management of this dread disease. We are equally concerned about whether mainstream medicine's demand for proof works to maintain it at its current level of ineptitude.

  Robert Atkins

  War, Cancer, Medicine

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• By the same token, the new and stringent Ultramontanism on the Catholic Left - in which even the mildest questions about how things are working in this pontificate are denounced as treasonous disloyalty - is an affront to the open conversation for which the pope [FRANCIS] has called.

  George Weigel

  Catholic, Pope, Affront

  Source: eppc.org

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• I don't know that I make a big distinction between the big pieces and the little pieces, because I don't experience them in that way. I mean, by the same token, you're out touring with a band and then you're writing string quartets, and in a funny way, isn't it all the same, in a way? It's all just music.

  Philip Glass

  Writing, Mean, Band

  Interview with Bryce Dessner, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 3, 2014.

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• I want stuff to play as wide as possible. I want to be able to see... if I could play the whole thing in a master and it could be compelling enough, that'd be great. Then it simplifies my day, it simplifies life for the actors when you could just focus on that. But by the same token I don't want to be forced into coverage. So I want it to be as good from every angle and I need to get as many of the kind of shadings that I want from every angle.

  David Fincher

  Play, Focus, Want

  "Exclusive: David Fincher Talks ‘Social Network’, ‘Zodiac’, His Filmmaking Process, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 30, 2010.

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• Even in the wildest storms the sky is not all dark; and so in the darkest dealings of God with His children, there are always some bright tokens for good.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Children, Dark, Sky

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Andrew Alexander Bonar (1852). “Memoir and remains of the rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, minister of St. Peter's church, Dundee”, p.183

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• My father was like the token bad white guy in all the old Jackie Chan/Bruce Lee films.

  Celina Jade

  Father, White, Guy

  "'Arrow' Interview: Celina Jade Opens Up About Shado". Interview with Ryan Rigley, www.mtv.com. April 3, 2013.

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• I can't even listen to Swans anymore. It doesn't do it for me at all, but I absolutely adore the early records and, on that same token, I wouldn't in any way wish for them to come back and repeat themselves.

  Justin Broadrick

  Swans, Wish, Records

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It's very hard, when you're a famous person, to "de-famous" your home, but tokens of my fame just felt like a burden for my children. And for me.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Children, Home, Fame

  ""It's Time for a Change"". Interview with Cortney Pellettieri, www.goodhousekeeping.com. September 4, 2012.

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• The Lord's supper is memorative, and so it has the nature and use of a pledge or token of love, left by a dying to a dear surviving friend.

  John Flavel

  Dying, Use, Lord's Supper

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