Crucial Quotes - Page 16

• Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little of our imagination, for our crucial problem has been a lack of conventional means to render our lives believable. This, my friends, is the crux of our solitude.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Mean, Warrior, Reality

  Eduardo Galeano, Cedric Belfrage (1988). “Century of the Wind”, Pantheon Books

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• Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Revenge, Men

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.115, Beacon Press

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• Then there came a faraway, booming voice like a low, clear bell. It came from the center of the bowl and down the great sides to the ground and then bounced toward her eagerly. 'You see I am fate,' it shouted, 'and stronger than your puny plans; and I am how-things-turn-out and I am different from your little dreams, and I am the flight of time and the end of beauty and unfulfilled desire; all the accidents and imperceptions and the little minutes that shape the crucial hours are mine. I am the exception that proves no rules, the limits of your control, the condiment in the dish of life.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Dream, Fate, Voice

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• As a Christian and a feminist, the most important message I can carry and fight for is the sacredness of each human life, and reproductive rights for all women are a crucial part of that. It is a moral necessity that we not be forced to bring children into the world for whom we cannot be responsible and adoring and present. We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society.

  Anne Lamott

  Christian, Children, Fighting

  Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.81, Penguin

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• I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful hault, 'won't go,' or, even worse, explodes in some innocent person's face.

  May Sarton

  Innocent Person, Machines, Faces

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• You were born to lead as mothers and fathers because nowhere is righteous leadership more crucial than in the family. You were born to lead as priesthood and auxiliary leaders, as heads of communities, companies, and even nations. You were born to lead as men and women willing 'to stand as witnesses of God at all times and in all things, and in all places' because that's what a true leader does.

  Sheri L. Dew

  Mother, Father, Men

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• I entered the classroom with the conviction that it was crucial for me and every other student to be an active participant, not a passive consumer...education as the practice of freedom.... education that connects the will to know with the will to become. Learning is a place where paradise can be created.

  Bell Hooks

  Practice, Paradise, Students

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• I watched my mother do what she did best, and realized there would never be a way to cut myself from her entirely. No matter how strong or weak I was, she was a part of me, as crucial as my own heart. I would never be strong enough, in all my life, to do without her.

  Sarah Dessen

  Mother, Strong, Heart

  Sarah Dessen (2003). “How to Deal”, Puffin

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• I wasn't in love with her. And she didn't love me. For me the question of love was irrelevant. What I sought was the sense of being tossed about by some raging, savage force, in the midst of which lay something absolutely crucial. I had no idea what that was. But I wanted to thrust my hand right inside her body and touch it, whatever it was.

  Haruki Murakami

  Hands, Ideas, Lust

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• If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things that others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.

  Don DeLillo

  Understanding, Feelings, Needs

  Don DeLillo (2010). “Point Omega”, p.51, Pan Macmillan

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• The Holy Ghost is a comforter and a guide. But it is also a cleansing agent. That is why service in the kingdom is so crucial to enduring. When we are called to serve, we can pray for the Holy Ghost to be our companion with assurance it will come.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Agents, Kingdoms, Cleansing

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• Iran is a country of 80 million people, educated and dynamic. It sits astride a crucial part of the world. It cannot be sanctioned and pressed down forever. It is the last great civilization to sit outside the global order.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Country, Iran, Order

  "To deal with Iran’s nuclear future, go back to 2008". Article by Fareed Zakaria, www.washingtonpost.com. October 26, 2011.

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• I think dress, hairstyle and make-up are the crucial factors in projecting an attractive persona and give one the chance to enhance one's best physical features.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Fashion, Artist, Thinking

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• I think there are so many ways to become interested in music. I believe signs of sustained interest gives a sense of the right time. Music, if thought of as a language, would perhaps indicate that as early as possible is not so bad. I do believe that a really nurturing first teacher that makes the child love something is crucial.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Teacher, Children, Believe

  "Cellist Yo Yo Ma: His career and music". www.cnn.com. March 15, 2001.

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• Every Olympic athlete prepares differently. For me, I am 100 percent into the sport. And if I decide to really make a crucial career decision to say, 'This is something I want to do,' I want to leave no stone unturned in my preparation.

  Apolo Ohno

  Sports, Athlete, Careers

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• I believe that peace with the Palestinians is most urgent - urgent than ever before. It is necessary. It is crucial. It is possible. A delay may worsen its chances. Israel and the Palestinians are, in my judgment, ripe today to restart the peace process.

  Shimon Peres

  Believe, Israel, Delay

  Presidential Medal of Freedom Acceptance Address, delivered 13 June 2012, White House, Washington, D.C.

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• Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility, or 'the ability to vote with your feet.' If you don't support the death penalty and citizens packing a pistol - don't come to Texas. If you don't like medicinal marijuana and gay marriage, don't move to California.

  Rick Perry

  Moving, Gay, Marijuana

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• It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards.

  Robert Plant

  Awards, Land, Achievement

  "The Survivors: Robert Plant". "GQ" Interview, www.gq.com. November 6, 2011.

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• The audience should feel like voyeurs. Their response is absolutely crucial.

  Alan Rickman

  Should, Feels, Response

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• We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

  Carl Sagan

  Technology, Civilization, Elements

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• Pictures artists staged their own images or copied or cut out others already in existence. The viewer took them in separately, in sometimes paradoxical waves: an original image, then the manipulations of it, then the places where image and idea intersected. This created a crucial perceptual glitch that irony and understanding filled.

  Jerry Saltz

  Cutting, Artist, Ideas

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• It is crucial that rappers have the chance to express the truth that is in their heart.

  Russell Simmons

  Heart, Rapper, Chance

  FaceBook post by Russell Simmons from Apr 06, 2016

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• I think almost every political leader is always told that the next speech they make is the most crucial one.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Thinking, Leader, Political

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• On the simplest level, telecommuting makes it harder for people to have the kinds of informal interactions that are crucial to the way knowledge moves through an organization. The role that hallway chat plays in driving new ideas has become a cliche of business writing, but that doesn't make it less true.

  James Surowiecki

  Moving, Writing, Play

  "Face Time". www.newyorker.com. March 18, 2013.

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• Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Meaningful, Knowing

  "Four Years After the Oprah-Eckhart Tolle Web Class, What I Still Can Learn" by Meryl Davids Landau, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 1, 2012.

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