Dominant Quotes - Page 10

• The percentage of Indian kids doing some sort of artistic work is much higher than in the general population - painting, drawing, dancing, singing. The creation of art is still an everyday part of Indian culture, unlike the dominant culture, where art is sort of peripheral.

  Sherman Alexie

  Art, Kids, Drawing

  Interview with Joelle Fraser, ir.uiowa.edu. 2000.

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• Traditional publishers will be dominant, and they should be because they really do assure quality. But eBooks, which are huge already, are going to eclipse everything. They will save traditional publishing the way DVDs saved movie studios (for a while) and they'll greatly expand the number of readers.

  Steven Pressfield

  Numbers, Dvds, Quality

  Source: goinswriter.com

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• To undertake the direction of the economic life of people with widely divergent ideals and values is to assume responsibilities which commit one to the use of force; it is to assume a position where the best intentions cannot prevent one from being forced to act in a way which to some of those affected must appear highly immoral. This is true even if we assume the dominant power to be as idealistic and unselfish as we can possibly conceive. But how small is the likelihood that it will be unselfish, and how great are the temptations!

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Responsibility, People, Temptation

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 15 : The Prospects of International Order, 1940 - 1943.

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• The full implications of feminism will evolve over time, as we organize, experiment, think, analyze, and revise our ideas and strategies in light of our experiences. No theory emerges in full detail overnight; the dominant theories of our day have expanded and changed over many decades. That it will take time should not discourage us. That we might fail to pursue our ideas - given the enormous need for them in society today - is unconscionable.

  Charlotte Bunch

  Thinking, Light, Ideas

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• when I talk about a writing life, I'm talking about a life in which writing is the dominant response to living.

  Julia Cameron

  Writing, Talking, Response

  "Becoming Intimate With Your Own Creative Impulses". Interview with Brad Crawford, www.writersdigest.com. March 11, 2008.

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• Of course, there are also faculty who are discouraged from speaking critically about social issues because of the increasing assumption in American society that any form of critique which calls official power into question is somehow un-American. This absurd attempt to define any critique of official power as unpatriotic has a chilling effect on faculty, especially when such views and the names of the people to whom they are ascribed are widely disseminated in right-wing and dominant media outlets.

  Henry Giroux

  Names, Wings, Issues

  "Higher Education Under Attack: An Interview With Henry A. Giroux". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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• The biggest thing that will define my legacy is how I've done it, and what I've done, and who I am. I'm a weird big guy. Doing rapping, doing movies. Do a lot of stuff. But always do things the right way. Went to the police academy to become a police officer. Get his master's in criminal justice, stayed out of trouble. Played for three different teams. Changed three different franchises around. This is a guy who they would have secret meetings about to change the rules. So, that's going to be my legacy: the most dominant player ever.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Team, Rap

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• ... All questions concerning the rise of Christianity are one: How was it done? How did a tiny and obscure messianic movement from the edge of the Roman Empire dislodge classical paganism and become the dominant faith of Western civilization? Although this is the only question, it requires many answers - no one thing led to the triumph of Christianity.

  Rodney Stark

  Civilization, Atheism, Empires

  Rodney Stark (1996). “The Rise of Christianity: A Sociologist Reconsiders History”, p.3, Princeton University Press

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• One answer to why public interest in men's tennis has been on the wane in recent years is an essential and unpretty thugishness about the power-baseline style that's become dominant on the tour. Watch Agassi closely sometime...he's amazingly absent of finesse, with movements that look more like a heavy-metal musician's than an athlete's...what a top PBer really resembles is film of the old Soviet Union putting down a rebellion. It's awesome, but brutally so, with a grinding, faceless quality about its power that renders that power curiously dull and empty.

  David Foster Wallace

  Sports, Athlete, Men

  "The String Theory" by David Foster Wallace, www.esquire.com. September 17, 2008.

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• There can be no doubt ... of our dependence upon forces beyond our control. Primitive man was so impotent in the face of these forces that g , especially in an unfavorable natural environment, fear became a dominant attitude, and, as the old saying goes, fear created gods.

  John Dewey

  Attitude, Men, Primitive Man

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• A gene can be either dominant or recessive, depending on which type of gene it is.

  Dave Barry

  Literature, Genes, Type

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• Part of the reason why we're only now reaching a point in American society where we can talk about the need for truth and reconciliation and the legacy of slavery is that it was such a dominant part of our history.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Legacy, Needs, Slavery

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I cannot think of a country in which I would be happy with the government and dominant ideology and available propaganda.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Country, Thinking, Government

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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• In my opinion, the continued popularity of these gross distortions of Iran in the U.S. seems to reveal more about certain aspects of America than about Iran. It seems that the popularity of these memoirs is largely due to the fact that, while claiming to do the opposite, they regularly reinforce the dominant representations of Iran in America by constructing an exotic, backward, and barbaric Iran principally based on U.S. archives.

  Mohammad Marandi

  Iran, Opposites, America

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The marquee scrolling across our minds trying to reinterpret life reads: "God-Against-Us." This becomes the dominant lens through which our flesh interprets life. We no longer give our loving Father the benefit of the doubt. Instead, we view every event as conclusive proof that God is against us.

  James MacDonald

  Father, Views, Giving

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• It is now a documented principle of psychology that human beings subconsciously move in the direction of their most dominant thought.

  Napoleon Hill

  Moving, Psychology, Principles

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• When writing becomes too dominant, it gets leached of its own power. We spend more and more time writing and we have less and less to write about.

  Julia Cameron

  Writing, More Time

  "Becoming Intimate With Your Own Creative Impulses". Interview with Brad Crawford, www.writersdigest.com. March 11, 2008.

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• The creative process ignites our imagination, and I believe that that same imagination is what will propel us forward with issues of social change. I do think we have to acknowledge that we are a very capitalistic and consumptive nation, and that talk about conservation or issues of sustainability is never going to be popular with the dominant culture because it means checks and balances on an economy that is reserved for the dollar, rather than an economy that honors and respects spiritual resources and the right of all life to participate on the planet, not just our species.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Spiritual, Believe, Mean

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• the distinction between rich nations and poor nations is one of the great dominant political and international themes of our century.

  Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

  Political, Poor Nations, Rich

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• I turned to photography because I thought it was the dominant language of our culture.

  Sarah Charlesworth

  Photography, Culture, Language

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• The overriding problems are brought on by the existence of the ego, a maladaptive behavioral complex in the psyche that gets going like a tumor. If it's not treated - if there's not pharmacological intervention - it becomes the dominant constellation of the personality.

  Terence McKenna

  Personality, Ego, Problem

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• NASA's Aqua satellite is showing that water vapor, the dominant greenhouse gas, works to offset the effect of carbon dioxide - CO2. This information, contrary to the assumption used in all the warming models, is ignored by global warming alarmists.

  Walter Cunningham

  Aqua, Water, Information

  "In Science, Ignorance is not Bliss". waltercunningham.com.

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• Why have we had such a decline in moral climate? I submit to you that a major factor has been a change in the philosophy which has been dominant, a change from belief in individual responsibility to belief in social responsibility. If you adopt the view that a man is not responsible for his own behavior, that somehow society is responsible, why should he seek to make his behavior good?

  Milton Friedman

  Philosophy, Responsibility, Men

  Milton Friedman, William Richard Allen (1983). “Bright promises, dismal performance: an economist's protest”, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc.

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• The dominant factors affecting control valuations are earning power (past and prospective) and asset values.

  Warren Buffett

  Past, Earning, Assets

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• There is something very consistent about governance in the Arab world. Among the Arab countries today in which there is a modicum of internal stability, each is controlled by an Arafat-type figure - an anti-democratic strongman who is able to crush all challenges to his authority. Likewise, among those Arab countries that aren't ruled by a despot, the political dynamic is also consistent: In Lebanon, Iraq, and now Gaza, sectarian violence is the dominant form of political expression.

  Michael Totten

  Crush, Country, Expression

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