Maintenance Quotes - Page 3

• After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital.

  Maurice Strong

  Running, Mean, Romance

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• A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.

  Rowan Williams

  Media, Common, Argument

  "This media tribe disfigures public life" by Rowan Williams, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2005.

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• "Jobs for every American" is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the dignity and the wherewithal for shelter, basic food, and medical care. I'm talking about welfare for all. Without it, you're going to have warfare for all.

  Jerry Brown

  Jobs, Talking, Automation

  "Jerry Brown Speaks Out on Welfare Reform: 'That's the Way I See It'". Jerry Brown's "We the People" talk show in the Pacifica Radio station, February/March 1995.

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• In the matter of the maintenance and rearing of children the Anarchists would neither institute the communistic nursery which the State Socialists favor nor keep the communistic school system which now prevails.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Children, School, Favors

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1893). “Instead of a Book”, Ayer Company Pub

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• You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Islamic, Equality, Justice

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah's address to the officers and men of the 5th Heavy Ack Ack and 6th Light Ack Ack Regiments in Malir, Karachi, February 21, 1948.

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• There has not been a war in South America for fifty years, and I have every confidence that the countries of Central and South America are deeply in earnest in the maintenance of peace.

  Frank B. Kellogg

  Country, War, Years

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• Each one of these treaties is a step for the maintenance of peace, an additional guarantee against war. It is through such machinery that the disputes between nations will be settled and war prevented.

  Frank B. Kellogg

  War, Guarantees, Steps

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• No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America has ever deployed one woman per child without simultaneously assigning her such major productive activities as weaving, farming, gathering, temple maintenance, and tent-building. The reason is that full-time, one-on-one child-raising is not good for women or children.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Mother, Children, America

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• The new experience that has replaced dignified suffering is artificially prolonged, opaque, depersonalized maintenance.

  Ivan Illich

  New Experiences, Suffering, Opaque

  Ivan Illich (1976). “Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis, the Expropriation of Health”, Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd

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• In public buildings set aside for the care and maintenance of the goods of the middle ages, a staff of civil service art attendants praise all the dead, irrelevant scribblings and scrawlings that, at best, have only historical interest for idiots and layabouts.

  George Grosz

  Art, Historical, Age

  George Grosz, Heartfield, Wieland Herzfelde (1987). “Art Is in Danger”

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• Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.

  Barry Goldwater

  Art, Freedom, Order

  Barry Goldwater (1994). “The Conscience of a Conservative”, p.7, Regnery Publishing

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• Back in 2011, when the weekend maintenance disruptions got more aggressive, we were told that the work on weekends and at night and midday would be enough to get the system back to a state of good repair.

  Robert James Thomson

  Weekend, Night, Would Be

  "Dr. Gridlock" with Robert Thomson, live.washingtonpost.com. October 3, 2016.

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• We must make it an imperative duty of our government to protect the gifts which Nature has bestowed on America and to insure the maintenance of a clean, healthy, wholesome environment for our people.

  George Lincoln Rockwell

  Government, America, People

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• Whatever work he does, beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance, can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own.

  Adam Smith

  Doe, Violence, Economics

  Adam Smith, Laurence Dickey (1993). “Wealth of Nations (Abridged)”, p.91, Hackett Publishing

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• Jesse Jackson's living depends on the maintenance of an African-American victim culture

  Mark Steyn

  African American, Culture, Politics

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• We are not that flash, me or the missus. In fact, we are quite low-maintenance.

  Guy Ritchie

  Facts, Lows, Flash

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

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• In the last 17 years of his working life, my father was finally rewarded with having landed a great job as first, a maintenance engineer, and then a senior locksmith with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

  Tony Visconti

  Senior, Jobs, New York

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• I believe that in the end the abolition of war, the maintenance of world peace, the adjustment of international questions by pacific means will come through the force of public opinion, which controls nations and peoples.

  Frank B. Kellogg

  War, Believe, Mean

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• Even with only two people on board, where maintenance is a large piece of our working day, we still have time to do scientific research. We have to be ready to support those Shuttle visits in a lot of different ways.

  John L. Phillips

  Two, People, Support

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• The maintenance of secrets acts like a psychic poison which alienates the possessor from the community.

  Carl Jung

  Psychics, Community, Secret

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• You can reach a situation where things of intelligence and refinement and culture can be considered elite, and things that are crass and ignorant can be considered to be real and of the people. And when you begin to have the mass of populus striving for something that's not worth striving for, then tremendous amounts of energy go into...the maintenance of that which is worthless.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Real, People, Ignorant

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• At this level, the individual perceives the maintenance of the expectations of his family, group, or nation as valuable in its own right, regardless of immediate and obvious consequences.

  Lawrence Kohlberg

  Expectations, Groups, Levels

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• Opinion, and the just maintenance of it, shall never be a crime in my view.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Views, Opinion, Crime

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph”, p.473

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• The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consonant and 'regular' throughout is, for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only 'good guys' in it, or eating cottage cheese.

  Frank Zappa

  Music, Drama, Guitar

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• The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial (20-50 percent) chance of introducing another. So the whole process is two steps forward and one step back.

  Fred Brooks

  Two, Fundamentals, Fixing

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