Convenience Quotes - Page 4

• It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.

  Murray Kempton

  Philosophy, Government, Demand

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• Let us agree that we are marrying so we can go on quarrelling in the greatest possible comfort and convenience.

  Patrice Kindl

  Comfort, Goes On, Agree

  Patrice Kindl (2012). “Keeping The Castle”, p.125, Penguin

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• Unfortunately, nature seems unaware of our intellectual need for convenience and unity, and very often takes delight in complication and diversity.

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  Nature, Diversity, Intellectual

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• The man who has successfully solved the problem of his relations with the two worlds of data and symbols is a man who has no beliefs. With regard to the problems of practical life he entertains a series of working hypotheses, which serve his purposes, but are taken no more seriously than any other kind of tool or instrument. In other words, symbols should never be raised to the rank of dogmas, nor should any system be regarded as more than a provisional convenience.

  Aldous Huxley

  Taken, Men, Data

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• Jesus has many lovers of His kingdom of heaven, but he has few bearers of His Cross. Many desire His consolation, but few desire His tribulation. He finds many comrades in eating and drinking, but He finds few hands who will be with Him in His abstinence and fastingBut those who love Jesus purely for Himself, and not for their own profit or convenience, bless Him as heartily in temptation and tribulation and in all other adversities as they do in time of consolation. And if He never sent them consolation, they would still bless and praise Him.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Jesus, Drinking, Adversity

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• We do children an enormous disservice when we assume that they cannot appreciate anything beyond drive through fare and nutritionally marginal, kid-targeted convenience foods. Our children are capable of consuming something that grew in a garden or on a tree and never saw a deep fryer. They are capable of making it through diner at a sit-down restaurant with tablecloths and no climbing equipment. Children deserve quality nourishment.

  Victoria Moran

  Children, Kids, Garden

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• Don't wait for a more convenient day to discipline your mind!

  T. B. Joshua

  Discipline, Waiting, Mind

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• Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Power, Men, Enemy Of Progress

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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. Nothing worthwhile is easy. Your ability to overcome unfavorable situations will provide you with time to demonstrate your true strength and determination for success. Always set your standards high, your greatest achievements lie within the infinite feats you achieve in your life.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Meaningful, Determination, Lying

  Strength to Love (1963) ch. 3

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• Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism.

  Edward Bond

  Democracy, Literature, Violence

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• I come by my conservatism authentically, not by convenience. And I offer the American people a new direction.

  Rick Perry

  People, New Directions, Conservatism

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• Wealth cannot purchase any great private solace or convenience. Riches are only the means of sociality.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mean, Riches, Wealth

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2109, Delphi Classics

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• Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life.

  Adam Smith

  Money, Men, Rich Or Poor

  Adam Smith (2010). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.36, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Bulk collection means all of your communications are being secretly intercepted. They are being stolen as they cross India, and they're being stored in these silos so that they can be rifled through at the convenience of secret agents, basically.

  Edward Snowden

  Communication, Mean, Secret

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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• We achieve active mastery over illness and death by delegating all responsibility for their management to physicians, and by exiling the sick and the dying to hospitals. But hospitals serve the convenience of staff not patients: we cannot be properly ill in a hospital, nor die in one decently; we can do so only among those who love and value us. The result is the institutionalized dehumanization of the ill, characteristic of our age.

  Thomas Szasz

  Love, Responsibility, Sick

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• In some dim beginning, man created the institution of government as a convenience for himself. And, ever since that time, government has been doing its best to become an inconvenience.

  Ronald Reagan

  Men, Institutions, Has Beens

  Ronald Reagan, Bill Adler (1981). “The Reagan wit”, Jameson Books

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• And when we are tolerant, we must know whether it is because of convenience or conviction.

  Margrethe II of Denmark

  Denmark, Conviction, Knows

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• The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man.

  Rachel Carson

  Nature, Philosophy, Men

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.297, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The world is filled with unfortunate souls who didn't hear opportunity knock at the door, because they were down at the convenience stor buying lottery tickets.

  Napoleon Hill

  Opportunity, Doors, Soul

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• The greatness of man cannot be seen in the hours of comfort and convenience, but rather in moments of conflict/adversity

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Adversity, Men, Greatness

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• When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique. He is universal by virtue of the inseparability of his organism from the cosmos. He is unique in that he is just this organism and not any stereotype of role, class, or identity assumed for the convenience of social communication.

  Alan Watts

  Communication, Unique, Men

  Alan Watts (2017). “Psychotherapy East & West”, p.7, New World Library

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• Necessity invented stools,
  Convenience next suggested elbow-chairs,
  And luxury the accomplish'd Sofa last.

  William Cowper

  Luxury, Elbows, Lasts

  William Cowper (1852). “Poems”, p.159

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• If you would follow on to know the Lord, come at once to the open Bible expecting it to speak to you. Do not come with the notion that it is a thing which you may push around at your convenience. It is more than a thing, it is a voice, a word, the very Word of the living God.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Voice, May, Speak

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• Now that I have all the things I once thought would make me happy, they have little meaning for me. Experience, and not just a little heartache, has taught me money buys convenience and conveniences.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Heartache, Littles, Taught

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• Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with no eye to our convenience at all.

  Norbert Wiener

  Eye, Science, Discovery

  The Human Use of Human Beings ch. 7 (1949)

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