Crux Quotes

• Money was the crux. Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical destruction of war itself.

  Barbara Tuchman

  War, Cost, Pay

  "A Distant Mirror". Book by Barbara Tuchman, p. 81, 1978.

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• This is the crux of the problem: because the Republicans and the right wing have been successful in almost eliminating unions, everyone else has suffered as a result.

  Michael Moore

  Successful, Wings, Unions

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• A cosmic mystery of immense proportions, once seemingly on the verge of solution, has deepened and left astronomers and astrophysicists more baffled than ever. The crux ... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.

  William Broad

  Science, Missing, Baffled

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• The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.

  William Broad

  Stupidity, Missing, Majority

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• The importance of detachment from things, the importance of poverty, is that we are supposed to be free from things that we might prefer to people. Wherever things have become more important than people, we are in trouble. That is the crux of the whole matter.

  Thomas Merton

  People, Important, Might

  Thomas Merton (1989). “Thomas Merton in Alaska: Prelude to the Asian Journal : the Alaskan Conferences, Journals, and Letters”, p.97, New Directions Publishing

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• Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Thinking, Language, Reason

  "Sämtliche Werken". Book edited by Josef Nadle. Volume 3, p. 286, 1949 - 1957.

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• The crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe!

  Frank Zappa

  Biscuits

  Song: Stink-Foot, 1974

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• When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Truth, Stupid, May

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• The crux of the matter is whether total war in its present form is justifiable, even when it serves a just purpose. Does it not have material and spiritual evil as its consequences which far exceed whatever good might result? When will our moralists give us an answer to this question?

  John Hersey

  Spiritual, War, Evil

  John Hersey (2015). “Hiroshima [Illustrated Edition]”, p.31, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• The big studio era is from the coming of sound until 1950, until I came in ... I came in at a crux in film, which was the end of the studio era and the rise of filmmaking.

  Charlton Heston

  Sound, Eras, Film

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• God has not had an identity crisis. He knows that he is Great and deserves to be the center of our lives.

  Francis Chan

  Identity, Crisis, Knows

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.15, David C Cook

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• You can fool the eyes and minds of the audience, but you cannot fool their hearts.

  Howard Thurston

  Dance, Heart, Eye

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• The question is not, do we go to church; the question is, have we been converted. The crux of Christianity is not whether or not we give donations to popular charities but whether or not we are really committed to the poor.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Peace, Giving, Church

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• The Cross of Christ is the crux of history. Without the Cross, history cannot be defined or corrected.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Christ, Crosses, Defined

  Twitter post from Apr 03, 2015

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• I think that the whole thing, the crux of the whole psychedelic issue, is that it accentuates personal responsibility by making people take their own experiences seriously.

  Terence McKenna

  Responsibility, Thinking, Issues

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• 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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• It is the ability to make predictions about the future that is the crux of intelligence.

  Jeff Hawkins

  Predictions, Ability

  Jeff Hawkins, Sandra Blakeslee (2007). “On Intelligence”, p.6, Macmillan

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• There is no end in creativity. Hence, to strive towards an end result is a fool's errand. Set goals, make music and paint pictures, but know that the crux of your happiness balances delicately on the wings of the act of creativity itself. Not at the finish line.

  Brandon Boyd

  Creativity, Wings, Goal

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• Freedom is the crux of self-respect. It is difficult to feel good about ourselves when we are unnaturally dependent on someone or something.

  David J. Lieberman

  Self, Feel Good, Difficult

  David J. Lieberman (2010). “Find Out Who's Normal and Who's Not: The Proven System to Quickly Assess Anyone's Emotional Stability”, p.55, David Lieberman

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• The crux of the matter, is that people don't understand the true nature of money. It is meant to circulate, not be wrapped up in a stocking

  Guglielmo Marconi

  People, Matter, Stockings

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• The fear of death is for all of us everywhere, but for the great intelligence of the opium eater it is beautifully narrowed into the crux of drugs.

  John Cheever

  Death, Drug, Opium

  John Cheever (2010). “Falconer”, p.45, Vintage

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• If you want to have a nonmiraculous day, I suggest that newspaper and caffeine form the crux of your morning regimen. Listen to the morning news while you're in the shower, read the headlines as you are walking out the door, make sure you're keeping tabs on everything: the wars, the economy, the gossip, the natural disasters. . . But if you want the day ahead to be full of miracles, then spend some time each morning with God.

  Marianne Williamson

  God, Morning, War

  Marianne Williamson (2004). “Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles”, p.60, Penguin

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• Freedom of the press, or, to be more precise, the benefit of freedom of the press, belongs to everyone – to the citizen as well as the publisher… The crux is not the publisher’s ‘freedom to print’; it is, rather, the citizen’s ‘right to know.’

  Arthur Hays Sulzberger

  Citizens, Benefits, Print

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• Here is the crux of the matter, the distilled essence, the only thing you need to remember: When considering whether to say yes or no, you must choose the response that feels like freedom. Period.

  Martha Beck

  Essence, Needs, Matter

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• Regarding the mantra..."There is no overtraining" Just because you can handle large amounts of volume doesn't mean it's needed. That's the crux of the issue. Just because the body can tolerate something doesn't mean it's a necessity for progress. This is simply poor logic.

  Steve Shaw

  Workout, Mean, Issues

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