Convenience Quotes - Page 7

• I think people at least now, as opposed to ten-15-20 years ago, kind of get it, what is the bad food. I think, before, there was a time when they didn't even get it that processed food was hurting them. Now, I think they get that, but the big enemies to switching over to good food are convenience.

  Mark Bittman

  Hurt, Thinking, Years

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• The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. When you reach the line which marks that drop - for convenience, the one hundredth meridian - you have reached the West.

  Bernard DeVoto

  Average, Twenties, Lines

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• If you want to stand out, find a way to be either high fidelity or high convenience in whatever you do. If you're halfway in between on both measures, you're not going to make people feel very excited about you.

  Kevin Maney

  People, Way, Want

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• What are wanted ...are not Constitutions and Revolutions, nor all sorts of Conferences and Congresses, nor the many ingenious devices for submarine navigation and aerial navigation, nor powerful explosives, nor all sorts of conveniences to add to the enjoyment of the rich, ruling classes... but one thing only is needful: the knowledge of the simple and clear truth ...that for our life one law is valid - the law of love, which brings the highest happiness to every individual as well as to all mankind.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Life, Powerful, Simple

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• While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum , or in disputes about Hebrew points, Greek particles, or the accent and quantity of the Roman language, the youth of America will be employed in acquiring those branches of knowledge which increase the conveniences of life.

  Benjamin Rush

  Education, Country, Europe

  "Letters".

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• Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man.

  Thomas Tredgold

  Art, Men, Engineering

  The Times, London, June 30, 1828.

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• I am old enough to know that time passing is just a trick, a convenience. Everything is always there, still unfolding, still happening. The past, the present, and the future, in the noggin eternally, like brushes, combs and ribbons in a handbag.

  Sebastian Barry

  Past, Ribbons, Handbags

  Sebastian Barry (2008). “The Secret Scripture”, p.165, Faber & Faber

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• I have a lot of compact discs. I need them for radio play and convenience. Many bands and artists I am a fan of don't always release their work on vinyl, so I take what they feel like giving me.

  Henry Rollins

  Artist, Play, Giving

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• Where was the use, originally, in rushing this whole globe through in six days? It is likely that if more time had been taken in the first place, the world would have been made right, and this ceaseless improving and repairing would not be necessary now. But if you hurry a world or a house, you are nearly sure to find out by and by that you have left out a towhead, or a broom-closet, or some other little convenience, here and there, which has got to be supplied, no matter how much expense or vexation it may cost.

  Mark Twain

  Taken, Rushing, House

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.6231, Delphi Classics

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• In the long run magazines can't be a convenience play - the Web has stolen that. So magazines have to be high fidelity - a fantastic experience - to thrive. Magazines will survive the Internet age, but only the ones that give people an experience they just can't get anywhere else. A magazine will have to be truly loved to make it.

  Kevin Maney

  Running, Play, Long

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• High fidelity is a rich experience, and you'll put up with terrible convenience to get it - maybe it's high cost, waiting in line, jumping through hoops. High convenience is the opposite - it's a commodity, but it's cheap and easy and ubiquitous. A great exclusive boutique shop is high fidelity; Wal-Mart is high convenience. Both are hard to establish in their own way. The thing to remember about sustaining either is that you can't sit still. Some other entity will always find a way to challenge your fidelity position or your convenience position.

  Kevin Maney

  Opposites, Waiting In Line, Jumping

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Every purchasing decision involves a trade-off between what I call fidelity and convenience. Fidelity is the total experience of something - how great the experience is. Convenience is how easy it is to get something. A live concert is a high fidelity way to experience music; an MP3 file is a high convenience way to experience music. Depending on the situation, one or the other is probably pretty appealing. What's not appealing is something that offers neither.

  Kevin Maney

  Live Concerts, Mp3, Decision

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding— certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of other so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.

  Jane Austen

  Moving, Believe, Pride

  Jane Austen (2015). “Pride and Prejudice (Diversion Classics)”, p.64, Diversion Books

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• Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?

  Charlotte Bronte

  Law, Temptation, Soul

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Jane Eyre: Easyread Edition”, p.149, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I have discovered that I cannot ignore the infliction of suffering - especially for my convenience or pleasure! It's as if a puppy is being kicked in front of me. I must try to do something.

  Kristin Bauer van Straten

  Suffering, Trying, Puppy

  "Interview with True Blood Star, Kristin Bauer". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Eroticism is mystique; that is, the aura of emotion and imagination around sex. It cannot be 'fixed' by codes of social or moral convenience, whether from the political left or right. For nature's fascism is greater than that of any society. There is a daemonic instability in sexual relations that we may have to accept.

  Camille Paglia

  Sex, Imagination, Political

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.41, Canongate Books

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• Talking about freedom, about ethical issues, about responsibilities as well as convenience, is asking people to think about things they might prefer to ignore, such as whether their conduct is ethical. This can trigger discomfort, and some people may simply close their minds to it. It does not follow that we ought to stop talking about these things.

  Richard Stallman

  Responsibility, Thinking, Ethical Issues

  "Why 'Free Software' Is Better Than 'Open Source'". www.gnu.org. 1998.

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• It's a double-headed coin, because technology is a convenience but it's stifled our attention spans. At one time, albums had songs that were like ten minutes long, with different variations and chord progressions and changes.

  Cee Lo Green

  Song, Technology, Long

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• The kitchen clock is more convenient than sidereal time. We must use the popular category, as we do by the Linnæan classification, for convenience, and not as exact and final. Otherwise, we are presently confounded, when the best-settled traits of one race are claimed by some new ethnologist as precisely characteristic of the rival tribe.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Race, Kitchen, Finals

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2128, Delphi Classics

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• May I just single out for salutations, on the "anti-war" side: Pop Stars For Appeasement, Dancers Against Democracy, Actors For Apathy, Fashionistas For Fascism and Jugglers For Genocide. All of them united under that flaccid flag of convenience, Show-Offs For Saddam.

  Julie Burchill

  Stars, War, Dancer

  "Silly show-offs against Saddam!" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2003.

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• Our grocery store now has self-checkout, for your convenience. It's like getting punched in the throat, for your comfort.

  Dana Gould

  Self, Comfort, Stores

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• I don't think of myself as a critic or teacher either, but simply - and at the obvious risk of disingenuousness - as someone who teaches, writes drama criticism (and other things) and feels that the American compulsion to take your identity from your profession, with its corollary of only one trade to a practitioner, may be a convenience to society but is burdensome and constricting to yourself.

  Richard Gilman

  Teacher, Drama, Writing

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• I believe that the telephone and telegraph and other such conveniences were permitted by the Lord to be developed for the express purpose of building the kingdom. Others may use them for business, professional or other purposes, but basically they are to build the kingdom.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Believe, Technology, Purpose

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• In fundamental theory socialism and democracy are almost if not quite one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right of the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members. Men as communities are supreme over men as individuals. Limits of wisdom and convenience to the public control there may be: limits of principle there are, upon strict analysis, none.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Destiny, Men, Rights

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1968). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• The fundamental magic of flying, a miracle that has nothing to do with any of its practical purposes - purposes of speed, accessibility, and convenience - and will not change as they change.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Miracle, Flying, Magic

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1963). “NORTH TO THE ORIENT”

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