Usual Quotes - Page 18

• Business as usual doesn't work, that we're in a time where we have to rethink a lot of the basic ground rules and assumptions of our civilizations.

  Justin Trudeau

  Civilization, Assumption, Ground Rules

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• The serious reader in the age of technology is a rebel by definition: a protester without a placard, a Luddite without hammer or bludgeon. She reads on planes to picket the antiseptic nature of modern travel, on commuter trains to insist on individualism in the midst of the herd, in hotel rooms to boycott the circumstances that separate her from her usual sources of comfort and stimulation, during office breaks to escape from the banal conversation of office mates, and at home to revolt against the pervasive and mind-deadening irrelevance of television.

  Eric Burns

  Home, Technology, Irrelevance

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• In view of my services in Africa, I have the chance of dying by poison. Two generals have brought it with them. It is fatal in three seconds. If I take the poison, none of the usual steps will be taken against my family; that is, against you. They will also leave my staff alone.

  Erwin Rommel

  Taken, Two, Views

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• Today is a time of turbulence and stagnation, of threat and promise from a competitor: the magic, omnivorous videocassette recorder (VCR). In other words, it is business as usual.

  Richard Corliss

  Vcr, Magic, Promise

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• Listeners instinctively detect that when we lower the usual pitch of our voice, we are sad, and when we raise it, we are angry or fearful.

  Leonard Mlodinow

  Voice, Raises, Fearful

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• Many of us who walk to and fro upon our usual tasks are prisoners drawing mental maps of escape.

  Loren Eiseley

  Drawing, Tasks, Maps

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.165, Library of America

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• The man who now confronted Gashford, was a squat, thickset personage, with a low, retreating forehead, a coarse shock head of hair, and eyes so small and near together, that his broken nose alone seemed to prevent their meeting and fusing into one of the usual size.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Eye, Men

  Charles Dickens (1872). “A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens”, p.65

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• Mr. Lincoln had no hope, and no faith, in the usual acceptation of those words.

  Mary Todd Lincoln

  Atheism, No Hope, Positive Atheism

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• Everybody in America is a part of this big herd of cattle being led to the marketplace, not to be sold, which is usual with cattle, but to do the buying. And everyone is branded. You see the brands - Nike, Puma, Coke - all over their bodies. Pretty soon you'll go to a family and say, "$100,000 if we can tattoo Pepsi on your child's forehead, and we'll have it removed when he's twenty-one. A hundred grand."

  George Carlin

  Tattoo, Nike, Children

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• I grew up with a pencil. A pencil was my computer at the time and so drawing, drawing, drawing and the tools of drawing where the usual ones and eventually then you graduated from the tools when the work increases and you start to draw by freehand as precise as possible and as accurate as possible, and I was pretty good at that.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Drawing, Tools, Computer

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• the ocean, under the pulsation of lighthouses and noise of bell
  buoys,
  advances as usual, looking as if it were not that ocean in which
  dropped things are bound to sink--
  in which if they turn and twist, it is neither with volition nor
  consciousness.

  Marianne Moore

  Ocean, Sea, Noise

  Marianne Moore, Robin G. Schulze (2002). “Becoming Marianne Moore: The Early Poems, 1907-1924”, p.102, Univ of California Press

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• It is usual for a Man who loves Country Sports to preserve the Game in his own Grounds, and divert himself upon those that belongto his Neighbour.

  Joseph Addison

  Sports, Country, Men

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.415

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• The usual derivation of the word Metaphysics is not to be sustainedthe science is supposed to take its name from its superiority to physics. The truth is, that Aristotle's treatise on Morals is next in succession to his Book of Physics.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Book, Science, Names

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• As usual, nature's imagination far surpasses our own, as we have seen from the other theories which are subtle and deep.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Nature, Imagination, Theory

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.128, Princeton University Press

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• As part of my research for An Anthology of Authors' Atrocity Stories About Publishers, I conducted a study (employing my usual controls) that showed the average shelf life of a trade book to be somewhere between milk and yoghurt.

  Calvin Trillin

  Book, Average, Milk

  Calvin Trillin (1987). “Uncivil liberties”, Penguin Group USA

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• Battles, revolutions, pestilence, famine, and death, are never the effect of those natural causes, which we experience. Prodigies,omens, oracles, judgments, quite obscure the few natural events, that are intermingled with them. But as the former grow thinner every pagewe soon learn, that there is nothing mysterious or supernatural in the case, but that all proceeds from the usual propensity of mankind towards the marvellous, and that, though this inclination may at intervals receive a check from sense and learning, it can never be thoroughly extirpated.

  David Hume

  Battle, Oracles, May

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• The truth is paradoxical to the extent of being exactly contrary to the usual perception.

  Georges Bataille

  Perception, Truth Is, Paradoxical

  Georges Bataille (1988). “The accursed share: an essay on general economy”

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• It is usual to speak in a playfully apologetic tone about one's adult enjoyment of what are called 'children's books.' I think the convention a silly one. No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally (and often far more) worth reading at the age of fifty-except, of course, books of information. The only imaginative works we ought to grow out of are those which it would have been better not to have read at all. A mature palate will probably not much care for crème de menthe: but it ought still to enjoy bread and butter and honey.

  C. S. Lewis

  Children, Reading, Silly

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It was the usual sort of academic battle: footnotes at ten paces, bolstered by snide articles in academic journals and lots of sniping about methodology, a thrust and parry of source and countersource. My sources had to be better.

  Lauren Willig

  Battle, Sniping, Pace

  Lauren Willig (2011). “The Deception of the Emerald Ring”, p.13, Allison & Busby

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• Pose a political threat to Business As Usual, and sooner or later, mostly sooner, someone will try to kill you.

  Alexander Cockburn

  Political, Trying, Threat

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• Our usual attitude is of 'I am this'. Separate consistently and perseveringly the 'I am' from 'this' or 'that', and try to feel what is means to be, just to be, without being 'this' or 'that'.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Attitude, Mean, Trying

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• As usual she had a deceptive air of perspicacity.

  Ngaio Marsh

  Air, Deceptive

  Ngaio Marsh (2012). “Death in Ecstasy: Inspector Roderick Alleyn #4”, p.192, Felony & Mayhem Press

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• ... as usual I am suffering much from doubt as to the worth of what I am doing and fear lest I may not be able to complete it so as to make it a contribution to literature and not a mere addition to the heap of books.

  George Eliot

  Book, Suffering, Doubt

  George Eliot, Margaret Harris, Judith Johnston (2000). “The Journals of George Eliot”, p.145, Cambridge University Press

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• When the symbols are 'public' they usually act in an oblique manner, revealing themselves as archetypal symbols, which though familiar, have their central meanings obscured as is usual in esoteric imagery.

  Kenneth Coutts-Smith

  Esoteric, Revealing, Imagery

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• When I consider the state of things in our fief, I find that those who hold positions and receive official stipends are incapable of the utmost in loyalty and patriotic service. Loyalty of the usual sort-perhaps, but if it is true loyalty and service you seek, then you must abandon this fief and plan a grass-roots uprising.

  Yoshida Shoin

  Loyalty, Patriotic, Uprising

  "Yoshida Shoin Zenshu" by Yoshida Shoin, vol. IX, 1938.

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