Convenience Quotes

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  The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Strength to Love (1963) ch. 3

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• The vision is that people should have the ultimate in convenience. Being able to get the things they care about on the appropriate device.

  Bill Gates

  Should Have, People, Vision

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• Convenience is not an acceptable foundational value for society. It’s a disease.

  Cameron Diaz

  Disease, Acceptable, Values

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• What users want is convenience and results.

  Jef Raskin

  Design, Want, Results

  Jef Raskin (2000). “The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems”, p.5, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• People today are too concerned about saving time and having convenience.

  Sheila Watt-Cloutier

  People, Saving, Today

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• This story about good food begins in a quick-stop convenience market.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Stories, Good Food

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.1, Faber & Faber

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  Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.

  Coretta Scott King

  Freedom, Believe, Justice

  Press Conference on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 1994, Washington D.C., June 23, 1994.

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• pain is inevitable,suffering is optional... we have bigger houses,but smaller families. More conveniences,but less time. We have knowledge,but less judgements; more experts,but more problems ; more medicines but less health.

  Dalai Lama

  Pain, Medicine, House

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• An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Sorry, Humor

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• You have ceded the concept of your own rights. You've converted them into something you get as a revocable privilege from the government, something that can be abrogated at its convenience. And that has diminished the measure of liberty within a society.

  Edward Snowden

  Rights, Government, Liberty

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• No truth is proved, no truth achieved, by argument, and the ready-made truths men offer you are mere conveniences or drugs to make you sleep.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Truth, Sleep, Men

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• The world will always choose convenience over reality. It's easier to hate, blame, and fear than it is to understand. No one wants the truth; they want entertainment.

  Chris Colfer

  Hate, Reality, World

  Chris Colfer (2012). “The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell”, p.204, Hachette UK

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• There is no reason that the universe should be designed for our convenience.

  John D. Barrow

  Reason, Should, Universe

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• There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we may obey. We may study the laws of matter at and for our convenience, but a successful life knows no law.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Success, Freedom, Law

  Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.138, Rowman & Littlefield

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• What is undeniable is that when comforts and convenience sap our energies and idealism, inactivity secretes sloth in to our minds like a poison in the blood.

  Os Guinness

  Blood, Sloth, Mind

  Os Guinness (2003). “The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life”, p.142, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Clever, Cunning

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• No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.

  Livy

  Law, Majority, Satisfied

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXXIV, section 3,

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• Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture.

  Joyce Meyer

  People, Culture, World

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• Lord please break the laws of the universe for my convenience. Amen.

  Emo Philips

  Law, Lord, Break

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• We seek neither convenience nor ease, but to live at the edge of possibility.

  Jane Kirkpatrick

  Ease, Possibility, Edges

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• An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Break, Stairs, Staircases

  "Live album: "Mitch All Together"". December 9, 2003.

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• The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

  Hermann Hesse

  Fire, Liberty, Comfort

  Der Steppenwolf (1927) "Tractat vom Steppenwolf" (Treatise on the Steppenwolf)

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• Sacrifice is a step beyond convenience.

  Bill Johnson

  Sacrifice, Steps

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• The success of family welfare depends on giving women complete freedom with their lives. The need of the hour is that people should plan their families as per their convenience and get the bare minimum health facilities.

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee

  Giving, People, Needs

  "Celebration, introspection as India's billionth citizen is born". www.cnn.com. May 12, 2000.

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• Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Desire, Waking Life, World

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Cities of the Plain”, p.285, Pan Macmillan

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