Crucial Quotes - Page 19

• All the world is not, of course, a stage, but the crucial ways in which it isn’t are not easy to specify

  Erving Goffman

  World, Way, Easy

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• The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror

  Carl Levin

  Iraq, Campaigns, Liberation

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• People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.

  Irving Kristol

  Inspirational, Life, People

  Reason Magazine Interview, 1983.

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• This right to life, this right to liberty, and this right to pursue one's happiness is unabashedly individualistic, without in the slightest denying at the same time our thoroughly social nature. It's only that our social relations, while vital to us all, must be chosen - that is what makes the crucial difference.

  Tibor R. Machan

  Differences, Liberty, Individualism

  "Collectivist Thinking Is Rife in the USA". www.strike-the-root.com. March 01, 2004.

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• And it is crucial of course that chief constables are able to make decisions within their budgets about how they deploy their police officers to the greatest effect to ensure that they're able to do the job that the public want them to do.

  Theresa May

  Jobs, Decision, Police

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's important for people to believe in themselves. It's important for young girls to have the opportunity to excel and promote themselves, and learn how to communicate and that they can be individuals, yet accomplish so much. The Girl Scouts and other organizations like them make that so important, so vital. Girls are given the opportunity very early in life to give them that confidence in themselves. It's crucial for organizations to support young women.

  Linda Chavez-Thompson

  Girl, Believe, Opportunity

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• The real crucial link in the international exchange is the last three feet, which is bridged by personal contact, one person talking to another.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Real, Talking, Feet

  "Prime time; the life of Edward R. Murrow". Book by Alexander Kendrick, 1969.

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• Being goal-oriented instead of self-oriented is crucial. I know so many people who want to be writers. But let me tell you, they really don't want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a book in print. They don't want to go through the work of getting the damn book out. There is a huge difference.

  James A. Michener

  Book, Writing, Self

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• The ancient Hebrews had a word for this awareness of the importance of things. They called it kavod. Kavod originally was a business term, referring to the heaviness of something, which was crucial in weights and measures and the maintaining of fairness in transactions. Over time the word began to take on a more figurative meaning, referring to the importance and significance of something.

  Rob Bell

  Weight, Maintaining, Fairness

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• Eastern Washington has experienced a number of deadly forest fires this season, and it is crucial that we have bipartisan legislation that will expedite the research and restoration process.

  Cathy McMorris Rodgers

  Numbers, Fire, Forests

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• The saved sinner is prostrate in adoration, lost in wonder and praise. He knows repentance is not what we do in order to earn forgiveness; it is what we do because we have been forgiven. It serves as an expression of gratitude rather than an effort to earn forgiveness. Thus the sequence of forgiveness and then repentance, rather than repentance and then forgiveness, is crucial for understanding the gospel of grace.

  Brennan Manning

  Gratitude, Expression, Order

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.48, Multnomah

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• You'll realize the transformation is not for you alone. You'll learn that you're here to use this gift to shine light on the dark world around you. You become a miracle worker in the world. As you begin to understand how love is crucial to the healing of the world, your miracle work will take on a whole new meaning.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Healing, Dark, Love Is

  Gabrielle Bernstein (2013). “May Cause Miracles: A 6-week Kick-start to Unlimited Happiness”, p.205, Hay House, Inc

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• You see, no matter how important everything else is to magical success,
  belief is the most crucial.

  Dorothy Morrison

  Important, Matter, Paganism

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• Ultimately, Leibniz argued, there are only two absolutely simple concepts, God and Nothingness. From these, all other concepts may be constructed, the world, and everything within it, arising from some primordial argument between the deity and nothing whatsoever. And then, by some inscrutable incandescent insight, Leibniz came to see that what is crucial in what he had written is the alternation between God and Nothingness. And for this, the numbers 0 and 1 suffice.

  David Berlinski

  Simple, Two, Numbers

  David Berlinski (2000). “The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World”, Houghton Mifflin

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• To push for excellence today without continuing to push for access for less privileged students is to undermine the crucial but incomplete gains that have been made. Equity and excellence cannot be divided.

  Ernest L. Boyer

  Education, Excellence, Today

  Ernest L. Boyer (1997). “Ernest L. Boyer, Selected Speeches, 1979-1995”, Jossey-Bass

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• It is my conviction that physical courage at crucial moments comes from the sum of intellectual courage and integrity that you muster at that moment.

  Michael Weisskopf

  Integrity, War, Intellectual

  Michael Weisskopf (2016). “Blood Brothers: Among the Soldiers of Ward 57”, p.188, Holt Paperbacks

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• Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about. There is almost nothing you can say that holds up as a generalization, because it depends on too many factors: size, modulation, the rest of the field, a certain consistency that color has with forms, and the statement you're trying to make.

  Roy Lichtenstein

  Color, Consistency, Trying

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• Plant trees. They give us two of the most crucial elements for our survival: oxygen and books.

  A. Whitney Brown

  Book, Oxygen, Two

  A. Whitney Brown (1991). “The Big Picture: An American Commentary”, Harper Perennial

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• What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary action versus physical coercion or compulsion.

  Ayn Rand

  Liberty, Principles, Essentials

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.43, Penguin

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• Propose theories which can be criticized. Think about possible decisive falsifying experiments-crucial experiments. But do not give up your theories too easily-not, at any rate, before you have critically examined your criticism.

  Karl Popper

  Giving Up, Science, Thinking

  Sir Karl Raimund Popper, Karl Raimund Popper (1974). “The Philosophy of Karl Popper”

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• I have tried to show why I believe that the biologist is the most romantic figure on earth at the present day. At first sight he seems to be just a poor little scrubby underpaid man, groping blindly amid the mazes of the ultra-microscopic, engaging in bitter and lifelong quarrels over the nephridia of flatworms, waking perhaps one morning to find that someone whose name he has never heard has demolished by a few crucial experiments the work which he had hoped would render him immortal.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Morning, Believe, Science

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• It is our task-our essential, central, crucial task-to transform ourselves from mere social creatures into community creatures.

  M. Scott Peck

  Community, Essentials, Tasks

  M. Scott Peck (2010). “The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• Motivated employees are crucial to a company's success.

  Anne Rice

  Diversity, Motivated, Employee

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• The First Amendment is crucial. Of course it is. So are all the others. And the Second Amendment is the one that guarantees that people can bear arms to protect themselves.

  Charlton Heston

  Gun, Guarantees That, People

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• The MDGs have been a fundamental framework for global development. A clear agenda, with measurable goals and targets, and a common vision have been crucial for this success. There is now an expectation around the world that sooner, rather than later, all these goals can and must be achieved.

  Sha Zukang

  Mdgs, Common Vision, Goal

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