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• The people of North America, at this time, expect a revisal and reformation of the American Governments, and are better disposed to submit to it than ever they were, or perhaps ever will be again.97. This is therefore the proper and critical time to reform the American governments upon a general, constitutional, firm, and durable plan; and if it is not done now, it will probably every day grow more difficult, till at last it becomes impracticable.

  Sir Francis Bernard, 1st Baronet

  Government, America, People

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• Errors of omission, lost opportunities, are generally more critical than errors of commission. Organizations fail or decline more frequently because of what they did not do than because of what they did.

  Russell L. Ackoff

  Business, Opportunity, Errors

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• A critical issue for women is the possibility to be a mother and the ability to participate fully in the workforce.

  Erna Solberg

  Inspiring, Mother, Issues

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• While power is important, efficiency is critical. Many have worked hard and gone slow.

  Drew Ginn

  Important, Gone, Rowing

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• A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection - not an invitation for hypnosis.

  Umberto Eco

  Reflection, Hypnosis, Civilization

  "Can Television Teach?". Screen Education, 1979.

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• constituted a critical lapse in judgement and a personal failure on my part for which I am solely responsable

  William J. Clinton

  Stupid, Humorous, Judgement

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• I have fancied myself a rebel, but at every critical moment of my life, I have been exactly the child my parents raised.

  Robert Breault

  Children, Integrity, Parent

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• We held the team together for as long as possible and then sent all except the most critical personnel home.

  Bo Gritz

  Teamwork, Home, Long

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• The copy of an ad is merely a punning gag to distract the critical faculties while the image of the product goes to work on the hypnotized viewer. Those who have spent their lives protesting about 'false and misleading ad copy' are godsends to advertisers, as teetotalers are to brewers, and moral censors are to books and films. The protesters are the best acclaimers and accelerators. Since the advent of pictures, the job of the ad copy is as incidental and latent as the 'meaning' of a poem is to a poem, or the words of a song are to a song.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Song, Jobs, Book

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• People at .08 are too impaired to drive. Studies show that at .08, the ability to perform critical driving functions is decreased by as much as 60 percent.

  Frank Lautenberg

  People, Driving, Study

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• In so strong a light, nevertheless, do they appear to the Secretary, that, on their due observance, at the present critical juncture, materially depend, in his judgment, the individual and aggregate prosperity of the citizens of the United States; their relief from the embarrassments they now experience; their character as a people; the cause of good government.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Strong, Character, Light

  United States. Dept. of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton (1828). “Reports of the secretary of the Treasury of the United States”, p.4

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• Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young

  George Bernard Shaw

  Attitude, School, Discovery

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• ... the embryological record, as it is usually presented to us, is both imperfect and misleading. It may be compared to an ancient manuscript, with many of the sheets lost, others displaced, and with spurious passages interpolated by a later hand. ... Like the scholar with his manuscript, the embryologist has by a process of careful and critical examination to determine where the gaps are present, to detect the later insertions, and to place in order what has been misplaced.

  Francis Maitland Balfour

  Hands, Order, Records

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• Math and science fields are not the only areas where we see the United States lagging behind. Less than 1 percent of American high school students study the critical foreign languages of Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Russian, combined.

  Cathy McMorris Rodgers

  School, Math, Chinese

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• The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated."Mark McCormack, Author and sports entrepreneur"Psychologists tell us that money is a satisfier, not a motivator... Recognition is. That's why we do what we do... Recognition is critical to self-esteem. Without it, we feel undervalued, even insignificant. Money is nice, sure. But once you establish a basis of monetary rewards, without the accompanying verbal and social affirmation, the employee will quickly become disgruntled and ask for more. Eventually, more will never be enough.

  John Baldoni

  Inspiring, Sports, Nice

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• I think I am aggressive, I think I am critical when it's necessary.

  Jane Harman

  Thinking, Aggressive

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• Comics, at least in periodical form, exist almost entirely free of any pretense; the critical world of art hardly touches them, and they're 100% personal.

  Chris Ware

  Art, World, Transformation

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• Ultimately, your state of mind determines your circumstances. To realize the outcomes you want, it is critical to recognize and experience the transition from our present thoughts, habits, and actions to new thoughts, habits, and actions.

  Darren Johnson

  Mind, Transition, Want

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• Scientists make mistakes. Accordingly, it is the job of the scientist to recognize our weakness, to examine the widest range of opinions, to be ruthlessly self-critical. Science is a collective enterprise with the error-correction machinery often running smoothly.

  Carl Sagan

  Running, Jobs, Mistake

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• In the Java world, security is not viewed as an add-on a feature. It is a pervasive way of thinking. Those who forget to think in a secure mindset end up in trouble. But just because the facilities are there doesn't mean that security is assured automatically. A set of standard practices has evolved over the years. The Secure Coding Standard for Java is a compendium of these practices. These are not theoretical research papers or product marketing blurbs. This is all serious, mission-critical, battle-tested, enterprise-scale stuff.

  James Gosling

  Mean, Thinking, Years

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• Our chronic discomfort with ambiguity - which, ironically, is critical to both our creativity and the richness of our lives - leads us to lock down safe, comfortable, familiar interpretations, even if they are only partial representations of or fully disconnected from reality.

  Maria Popova

  Creativity, Reality, Locks

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• A strong player, which has the sufficient critical mass, can withhold pressure better and create a more stable environment that benefits shareholders as well as employees.

  Lakshmi Mittal

  Motivational, Strong, Player

  Les Echos interview, www.sec.gov. January 30, 2006.

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• If you write something in the evening or at night, look back over it the next morning. I tend to be less self-critical at night; sometimes, I've looked back at things I wrote the night before, and realized they were no good at all.

  Mark-Anthony Turnage

  Morning, Writing, Night

  "Top artists reveal how to find creative inspiration" by Polly Stenham, Guy Garvey, Tamara Rojo, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Fyfe Dangerfield, Martha Wainright, Anthony Neilson, Rupert Goold, Isaac Julien, Lucy Prebble, Jasmin Vardimon, Sunand Prasad, Susan Philipsz, Akram Khan, Polly Morgan, Kate Royal, Ian Rickson, Olivia Williams, Martin Parr, Wayne McGregor, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2012.

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• Journalism is a voyeuristic vocation that attracts to its employment many people who are often naturally shy and insatiably curious, and each day they are assigned to view the world with a critical eye and a detached sense of intimacy.

  Gay Talese

  Eye, Views, People

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• Don't neglect your critical faculties. Remember that God is a rational God, who has made us in His own image. God invites and expects us to explore His double revelation, in nature and Scripture, with the minds He has given us, and to go on in the development of a Christian mind to apply His marvellous revealed truth to every aspect of the modern and post-modern world.

  John Stott

  Christian, Mind, Development

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