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• Freedom of choice is meaningless without knowledge. That's why it's crucial we all get engaged and get informed.

  Neil Young

  Choices, Freedom Of Choice, Engaged

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• Most people associate reading with laying on the beach. They don't see that it's crucial for a democracy!

  David Baldacci

  Beach, Reading, People

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• Paradigm shifts aren't always obvious when you're in the middle of one. Danny Kennedy makes a compelling case for why solar power is the crucial energy technology of the 21st century.

  Michael Brune

  Technology, Energy, Century

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• Doing more with less, is a crucial principle to learn; especially if you're going to be in business in this rapidly changing world.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Principles, World, Ifs

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• desserts are the most crucial part of any meal.

  Linda Sunshine

  Food, Meals, Dessert

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• Illusions are crucial to the maintenance of life functions.

  Sheila Ballantyne

  Maintenance, Illusion, Function

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• The variation between countries is partly due to cultural and institutional differences, but undoubtedly the economic landscape within each territory is crucial.

  Lorna Byrne

  Country, Differences, Variation

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• Belief in oneself is a crucial quality of leadership, because 'a house divided against itself cannot stand.' A leader who fluctuates back and forth sends a very wavery signal. Like the soprano who can shatter glass by finding that high note and holding it, a leader who can hold that high note, without wavering, can shatter walls.

  Laurie Beth Jones

  Leadership, Wall, Glasses

  Laurie Beth Jones (1995). “Jesus, CEO: using ancient wisdom for visionary leadership”, Hyperion Books

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• One key element to Hitchcock is the drooping jowl. That was crucial because his silhouette is crucial. There is something about his silhouette that became his brand.

  Toby Jones

  Keys, Elements, Silhouettes

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• Since the choice of what we curl up with is often crucial for our solace and sanity, we need to learn how to nurture the talent of selection. Book browsing is a meditative art...Books are as essential as breathing.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Art, Book, Breathing

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• There will come a moment when the most urgent threats posed by the credit crisis have eased and the larger task before us will be to chart a direction for the economic steps ahead. This will be a dangerous moment. Behind the debates over future policy is a debate over history-a debate over the causes of our current situation. The battle for the past will determine the battle for the present. So it's crucial to get the history straight.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Past, Battle, Causes

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• It is crucial that members of Congress cast votes that are supportive of the values upon which our nation was founded: equality, freedom, and opportunity for all people.

  Joe Baca

  Opportunity, Equality, People

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• Failure to summon forth the courage to risk a nondogmatic and nonevasive stance on such crucial existential matters can also blur our ethical vision. If our actions in the world are to stem from an encounter with what is central in life, they must be unclouded by either dogma or prevarication. Agnosticism is no excuse for indecision. If anything, it is a catalyst for action; for in shifting concern away from a future life and back to the present, it demands an ethics of empathy rather than a metaphysics of fear and hope.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Empathy, Risk, Vision

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• . .the most crucial ingredient by far for success in music is . . .what happens in the practice room.

  William Westney

  Practice, Rooms, Ingredients

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• I promise you that there are a lot of people involved in various kinds of retail activities who think they have a crucial role in the economy, and they're right.

  Lawrence Summers

  Thinking, People, Promise

  "Inside the Crisis" by Ryan Lizza, www.newyorker.com. October 12, 2009.

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• In a movie like this, the relationship between the two guys is crucial. It sinks or swims on how these two guys are together. I think we did a good job.

  Eddie Murphy

  Relationship, Jobs, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Eddie Murphy from Jul 30, 2013

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• Walking shares with making and working that crucial element of engagement of the body and the mind with the world, of knowing the world through the body and the body through the world.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Journey, Hiking, Knowing

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.27, Penguin

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• Libraries function as crucial technology hubs, not merely for free Web access, but for those who need computer training and assistance. Library business centers help support entrepreneurship and retraining.

  Scott Turow

  Business, Technology, Support

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• Courage is required not only in a person's occasional crucial decision for his own freedom, but in the little hour-to-hour decisions which place the bricks in the structure of his building of himself into a person who acts with freedom and responsibility.

  Rollo May

  Courage, Responsibility, Decision

  Rollo May (2009). “Man's Search for Himself”, p.173, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Terrorism is an evil that threatens all the countries in Europe. Vigorous cooperation in the European Union and worldwide is crucial in order to meet this evil head on.

  Jan Peter Balkenende

  Country, Order, Europe

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• This is the reason why it is crucial to distinguish anger from hatred. There is a kind of anger (nonsinful kind) which...is in God himself, while hate is not in God but is in Satan. If we do not clearly distinguish anger from hatred, then we do not clearly distinguish God from Satan!

  Peter Kreeft

  Hate, Hatred, Reason Why

  Peter Kreeft (2016). “Back to Virtue: Traditional Moral Wisdom for Modern Moral Confusion”, p.85, Ignatius Press

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• In my early life my mother tried to create a nurturing environment in which my mind could play. Her big rule was "Never lose in your imagination." She told me that thoughts were things and that I would become the thing I thought of most. This kind of empowerment is crucial to creative thinking.

  Joey Reiman

  Mother, Thinking, Play

  Joey Reiman (2001). “Thinking for a Living: Creating Ideas That Revitalize Your Business, Career, and Life”, p.141, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• The crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Ideas, Existentialism, Willing

  The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, (Journals 1A), August 1, 1835.

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• If comics are modern mythology, then black participation and representation is crucial.

  Reginald Hudlin

  Black, Comic Book, Modern

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• It was through reading that I discovered the crucial, even sacrosanct place the rituals of drinking held in the American imagination - the ingenious way alcohol seemed to lubricate everything from onerous chitchat to self-conscious sexual advances.

  Daphne Merkin

  Reading, Drinking, Self

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