Crucial Quotes - Page 25

• You know it's important to have a Jeep in Los Angeles. That front wheel drive is crucial when it starts to snow on Rodeo Drive.

  Christopher Guest

  Snow, Important, Jeeps

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• Knowledge is sacred and the choice to be informed or merely entertained in today's world is a very revealing test of the times.  Expanding your mind to penetrate the deeper meanings of life is not only liberating, it is crucial to your well-being, for knowledge is power, and how you use your power inevitably determines the course of your personal and collective life.

  Barbara Marciniak

  Choices, Mind, Use

  Barbara Marciniak (2010). “Path of Empowerment: New Pleiadian Wisdom for a World in Chaos”, p.3, New World Library

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• We found out tonight how important and how crucial momentum swings can be. I thought we were playing very well. We were doing a lot of positive things but then we lost the puck two times in our zone and things swung their way. You can't afford to give teams momentum.

  Saku Koivu

  Team, Swings, Two

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• The Recovery plan will put money in the pockets of the American worker, create and save millions of new jobs and invest in crucial areas such as health care, education, energy independence and a new infrastructure.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Jobs, Recovery, Independence

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• In all my novels, a sense of place - not just geographic but social - is a critical element. I have always been drawn to the novels of Edith Wharton, among others, where social dynamics are crucial. Wharton's class consciousness fascinates me, and some of the tension in my books stems from that.

  Susan Wiggs

  Book, Class, Elements

  Interview with Suzanne Fox, www.publishersweekly.com. January 28, 2002.

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• Openness has been vital to Asia's fast growth in the past and it will continue to be crucial for the area's further development.

  Li Keqiang

  Past, Growth, Development

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• What's invisible to us is also crucial for our own well-being.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Literature, Invisible, Well Being

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• Many ideas have been transformed by adding one crucial adjective-women's bank, women's music, women's studies, women's caucus. That adjective did more than change a phrase. It implied a lot of new content: child care, flexible work hours, new standards of creditworthiness, new symbolism, new lyrics.

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Ideas, Symbolism

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• Integrity is crucial for business success - once you can fake that, you've got it made.

  Henry Ford

  Integrity, Fake, Honor

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• No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem.

  Harold Bloom

  Strong, Enough, Milton

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• The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural.

  Ruth Benedict

  Differences, Culture, Humans

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• We are a scientific civilization. That means a civilization in which knowledge and its integrity are crucial. Science is only a Latin word for knowledge ... Knowledge is our destiny.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Integrity, Latin, Mean

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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• Depression leads him close to his wounds, but only the mourning for what he has missed, missed at the crucial time, can lead to real healing.

  Alice Miller

  Real, Grief, Healing

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• Discipleship is crucial to our ultimate destiny, but its cost is total commitment.

  David Jeremiah

  Commitment, Destiny, Cost

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• The first step is crucial - keep it tiny. Do not be ambitious yet. That leads to failure. Consistency is what you’re shooting for here so make the hurdle as low as possible.

  Eric Barker

  Consistency, Ambitious, Shooting

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• The choices that women make have huge impact on families, on communities and on nations. Being able to provide an enabling environment for them to exercise their rights and make choices in their lives is crucial. It is at the heart of human development!

  Babatunde Osotimehin

  Heart, Exercise, Impact

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• And for the sake of humility--a characteristic crucial to sacred questioning we might do well to confess that we're capable at any moment of such bad religion ourselves.

  David Dark

  Humility, Might, Sacred

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• I worry that if whatever pops into your head at any instant immediately goes online, you lose the crucial time for your thoughts to simmer and evolve and build up nuance, depth and empathy.

  Paul Harding

  Worry, Empathy, Depth

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• The second part of the New Right's policy package has been the belief that free-market solutions are always best. It is this latter view which is profoundly mistaken. Markets and profits are crucial, but the pure free-market model itself is deeply flawed.

  Paul Ormerod

  Views, Belief, Profit

  "The Death of Economics". Book by Paul Ormerod, 1994.

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• The ultimate folly is to think that something crucial to your welfare is being taken care of for you.

  Robert Breault

  Taken, Responsibility, Thinking

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• The new century demands new partnerships for peace and security. The United Nations plays a crucial role, with allies sharing burdens America might otherwise bear alone. America needs a strong and effective U.N. I want to work with this new Congress to pay our dues and our debts. We must continue to support security and stability in Europe and Asia - expanding NATO and defining its new missions, maintaining our alliance with Japan, with Korea, with our other Asian allies, and engaging China.

  William J. Clinton

  Strong, Korea, Europe

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999”, p.68, Best Books on

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• We in politics are accustomed to seeing reality firsthand and then watching its distant cousin, events as portrayed by the media, unfold on our televisions. We know that what happened in Congress and what is reported to have taken place are two very different things. But that disjuncture, so familiar to politicians, is new to the viewing public. By seeing war and war coverage juxtaposed nightly on their screens, Americans have learned the crucial lesson: not to trust the news anchors.

  Dick Morris

  Cousin, War, Taken

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• If New Orleans is allowed to die, a crucial part of the world's music heritage will disappear.

  Ray Davies

  New Orleans, Heritage, World

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• But doubt is a crucial to faith as darkness is to light. Without one, the other has no context and is meaningless. Faith is, by definition, uncertainty. It is full of doubt, steeped in risk. It is about matters not of the known, but of the unknown.

  Carter Heyward

  Light, Darkness, Risk

  Carter Heyward (1976). “A Priest Forever”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I think for me, happiness is crucial, but I think we think that happiness comes from amassing goods and getting things and being loved and being successful, when in fact my experience of happiness comes when you give everything away, when you serve people, when you're watching something you do make somebody happy, that's when happiness happens.

  Eve Ensler

  Successful, Thinking, People

  "Eve Ensler on art and activism". "Books and Arts" with Michael Cathcart, www.abc.net.au. February 15, 2012.

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