Maintaining Quotes - Page 5

• The Great Society went wrong for three major reasons. First, the self-organization the Johnson administration promoted turned out to be not the pooling of family and community resources into shops and businesses, but political pressure for government handouts. Second, the Great Society failed to anticipate the perverse side-effects of handing money out to people who have done nothing to earn it. Third, while the Great Society was showering money on the poor, the Supreme Court was with childlike glee smashing to bits traditional methods of maintaining law and order.

  David Frum

  Self, Order, Law

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• It is perhaps life's greatest accomplishment to live to old age, maintaining one's wits, one's sense of humor, one's health, and one's charm.

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Accomplishment, Age, Sense Of Humor

  Yehudi Menuhin (1978). “Unfinished journey”

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• There is nothing more pitiable than a soulless, sapless, shriveled church, seeking to thrive in a worldly atmosphere, rooted in barren professions, bearing no fruit, and maintaining only the semblance of existence; such a church cannot long survive.

  George C. Lorimer

  Long, Atmosphere, Church

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 147), 1895.

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• I have seen something of the project of M. de St. Pierre, for maintaining a perpetual peace in Europe. I am reminded of a device in a cemetery, with the words: Pax perpetua ; for the dead do not fight any longer: but the living are of another humor; and the most powerful do not respect tribunals at all.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Powerful, Fighting, Europe

  Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Patrick Riley (1988). “Leibniz: Political Writings”, p.183, Cambridge University Press

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• All these cries of having "abolished slavery," of having "saved the country," of having "preserved the union," of establishing a "government of consent," and of "maintaining the national honor," are all gross, shameless, transparent cheats - so transparent that they ought to deceive no one.

  Lysander Spooner

  Country, Government, Honor

  Lysander Spooner (1972). “Let's Abolish Government”, Ayer Company Pub

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• Running back-to-back races requires a certain tactical prudence. Going too hard in any one race might jeopardize your performance in another. Maintaining proper hydration and caloric equilibrium also becomes increasingly critical.

  Dean Karnazes

  Running, Hydration, Race

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• Whatever success we have had in maintaining our culture has been instrumental in Intel's success in surviving strategic inflection points.

  Andy Grove

  Culture, Strategic, Has Beens

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• Maintaining marriage seems to be tougher than fatherhood: apparently its the most difficult thing in the world.

  Kelly Slater

  Fatherhood, World, Difficult

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• I recognize that it is through the engagement with my craft - by recognizing an idea and drawing it out, building physical models, collaborating with experts, constructing the sculptures at urban scale, and maintaining them through years of weather and interaction with the public - that a new art for cities has become real.

  Janet Echelman

  Art, Real, Drawing

  "Imagination Becomes Reality" by Janet Echelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2012.

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• Children, those who are unmarried should conserve their vital energy by maintaining celibacy. To turn what we gain by this in to ojas (vitality), we also need to do spiritual practice. With increase in ojas, our intelligence, memory, health and beauty will also increase. We will gain lasting mental quietude.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Relationship, Spiritual, Children

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• Health reform is an essential part of restoring America's economy and maintaining our competitiveness.

  Max Baucus

  America, Essentials, Reform

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• The thought of both East and West (philosophies) can indeed be integrated into a higher truth. They show us that the West is correct in maintaining that life is about progress about evolving toward something higher. Yet the East is also correct in emphasizing that we must let go of control with the ego. We can't progress by using logic alone. We have to attain a fuller consciousness, an inner connection with God, because only then can our evolution toward something better be guided by a higher part of ourselves.

  James Redfield

  Letting Go, Philosophy, Ego

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• Maintaining joy in God takes 'work'; that is, it's a fight against every impulse for alien joys and every obstacle in the way to seeing and savoring Christ.

  John Piper

  Fighting, Joy, Way

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• Everything we think about regarding sustainability - from energy to agriculture to manufacturing to population - has a water footprint. Almost all of the water on Earth is salt water, and the remaining freshwater supplies are split between agricultural use and human use - as well as maintaining the existing natural environment.

  Jamais Cascio

  Thinking, Agriculture, Water

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• Maintaining the trust of the consumer is critical to our business

  Jeremy Stoppelman

  Consumers, Critical

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• I've never been one who enjoys maintaining the status quo. I'm always pushing for new ideas, whether it's in business or philanthropy.

  Eli Broad

  Maintaining The Status Quo, Ideas, Challenging The Status Quo

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• Why do you keep maintaining your ideas are right if you can't prove them?

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Ideas, Prove, Ifs

  Jean Paul Sartre (1955). “No exit, and three other plays”, Vintage

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• I am wary of the whole dreary deadening structured mess that we have built into such a glittering top-heavy structure that there is nothing left to see but the glitter, and the brute routines of maintaining it.

  John D. MacDonald

  Glitter, Structure, Heavy

  John D MacDonald (1985). “Deep Blue Goodbye”, Fawcett

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• Puke and starve and cut and drink because you don't want to feel any of this. Puke and starve and cut and drink because you need an anesthetic and it works. For awhile. But then the anesthetic turns into poison and by then it's to late because you are maintaining it now,straight into your soul. It is rotting you and you can't stop.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Cutting, Soul, Poison

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.124, Penguin

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• …“white supremacy” is a much more useful term for understanding the complicity of people of color in upholding and maintaining racial hierarchies that do not involve force (i.e slavery, apartheid) than the term “internalized racism”- a term most often used to suggest that black people have absorbed negative feelings and attitudes about blackness. The term “white supremacy” enables us to recognize not only that black people are socialized to embody the values and attitudes of white supremacy, but we can exercise “white supremacist control” over other black people.

  Bell Hooks

  Attitude, Exercise, Color

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• Tell me about it. It’s so hard to deal with a single parent. They take out all their anxiety on you. It’s like, she’s so angry all the time. And I didn’t even do anything!” “That’s so wrong.” “Yeah.” “Where’s your dad?” “I don’t know. My mom had me when she was still in high school, so . . .” “You don’t see him at all?” “No, and I don’t want to. I have no interest in maintaining a relationship with someone who didn’t love me enough to stick around.

  Susane Colasanti

  Mom, Dad, School

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• It is not easy to be at peace in today’s troubled world. Necessarily peace is a personal acquisition. … It can be attained only through maintaining constantly a repentant attitude, seeking forgiveness of sins both large and small, and thus coming ever closer to God.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Attitude, Acquisition, World

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• While Maddox now believed the demon did not want to hurt Ashlyn, he wasn't willing to take a chance. He would talk about flowers and moonbeams - he cringed - if it meant maintaining this delectable inner peace. "Is there a way to break your death-curse?" Ashlyn asked. So much for flowers and moon-beams.

  Gena Showalter

  Hurt, Flower, Moon

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Night”, p.158, HQN Books

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• Monsters remain human beings. In fact, to reduce them to a subhuman level is to exonerate them of their acts of terrorism and mass murder — just as animals are not deemed morally responsible for killing. Insisting on the humanity of terrorists is, in fact, critical to maintaining their profound responsibility for the evil they commit. And, if they are human, then they must necessarily not be treated in an inhuman fashion. You cannot lower the moral baseline of a terrorist to the subhuman without betraying a fundamental value.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Fashion, Responsibility, Animal

  "The Abolition Of Torture". newrepublic.com. December 19, 2005.

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• In the beginning I remember when I would spend three hours a day on MySpace just trying to comment everyone back, and now, I spend a half hour a night on MySpace just putting up new stuff and answering people back and monitoring all the fan sites, and saying hi and thank you. I'm still way on top of it. I haven't grown out of it because it'll always be something that helped launch my career, and I'm going to keep maintaining it.

  Taylor Swift

  Night, Careers, People

  "Taylor Swift" by Dan Koday, www.seventeen.com. May 2, 2008.

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