Minors Quotes - Page 21

• Man should regard lower animals as being in the same dependent condition as minors under his government ... For a man to torture an animal whose life God has put into his hands, is a disgrace to his species.

  Ed Buckner

  Animal, Men, Hands

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• The large-scale homogeneity of the universe makes it very difficult to believe that the structure of the universe is determined by anything so peripheral as some complicated molecular structure on a minor planet orbiting a very average star in the outer suburbs of a fairly typical galaxy.

  Stephen Hawking

  Stars, Believe, Moon

  Stephen W. Hawking (1993). “Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays”, Bantam

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• The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not be swayed by petty doubts.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Order

  Sun Tzu, General Press (2016). “The Art of War”, p.41, GENERAL PRESS

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• It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change!

  Thom Gunn

  Teacher, Gay, Proud

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• I am not interested in women just because they're women. I am interested, however, in seeing that they are no longer classed with children and minors.

  Crystal Eastman

  Children, Not Interested, Seeing

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• When Ronald Reagan was elected I was on a bus traveling with a band in France. I wrote a little arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner in a minor key.

  Carla Bley

  Stars, Keys, Band

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• I want to see somebody go to jail over the financial crisis and not just black, brown and poor whites over humbles and minor drug beefs.

  Don Cheadle

  Jail, Drug, Black

  "Don Cheadle Says President Obama Should Have Been More ‘Gangster,’ Clarifies Comments". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 30, 2011.

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• We need to be a leadership position about protecting minors on the Internet and, more importantly, giving the parents the tools they need to protect them.

  Peter Chernin

  Giving, Parent, Needs

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• Blind Curve, the book I'm working on now, sprang from a crazy incident that happened to me last year while on my book tour. I was pulled out of my car for a minor traffic violation - an incident that escalated into my being thrown into cuffs and told I was going to jail. Except in my story, the hero doesn't get off as easily as I did.

  Andrew Gross

  Crazy, Book, Hero

  Interview with Lisa Gardner, www.amazon.com. 2012.

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• I don't get a sense of American pride. I just get a sense that everyone is here, battling the same thing - that around the world everybody's after the same thing, just some minor piece of happiness each day.

  Paul Thomas Anderson

  Pride, Around The World, Pieces

  "The Search for Purpose in the Films of Paul Thomas Anderson". thefilmstage.com. March 20, 2017.

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• There is no question in my mind that we live in one of the truly bestial centuries in human history. There are plenty of signposts for the future historian, and what do they say? They say 'Auschwitz' and 'Dresden' and 'Hiroshima' and 'Vietnam' and 'Napalm.' For many years we all woke up to the daily body count on the radio. And if there were a way to kill people with the B Minor Mass, the Pentagon-Madison Avenue axis would have found it.

  Erwin Chargaff

  Death, Science, Axes

  Erwin Chargaff (1977). “Voices in the labyrinth: nature, man, and science”, Harper San Francisco

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• The chances are that, in the course of his lifetime, the major poet will write more bad poems than the minor, simply because major poets write a lot.

  W. H. Auden

  Writing, Chance, Lifetime

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• I am absolutely sick unto death of hearing people say - they all say this; it must be Item One on the curriculum in Trend College - "I just hate to talk to a machine!" They say this as though it is a major philosophical position, as opposed to a description of a minor neurosis. My feeling is, if you have a problem like this, you shouldn't go around trumpeting it; you should stay home and practice talking to a machine you can feel comfortable with, such as your Water Pik, until you are ready to assume your place in modern society.

  Dave Barry

  Hate, Philosophical, Humorous

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• I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.

  Sue Grafton

  Art, College, Humanity

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• I no longer want it all, just some comfort and some sex and some minor love.

  Charles Bukowski

  Sex, Comfort, Want

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• When classes are small enough to allow individual student-teacher interaction, a minor miracle occurs: Teachers teach and students learn

  LouAnne Johnson

  Teacher, Class, Miracle

  LouAnne Johnson (1995). “Dangerous Minds”, p.8, Macmillan

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• The inconveniences we faced within this state are minor compared to... New Orleans.

  Richard Burr

  New Orleans, States, Inconvenience

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• The logistic requirements for a large, elaborate mission to Mars are no greater that those for a minor military operation extending over a limited theatre of war.

  Wernher von Braun

  Military, War, Theatre

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• If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Morality, Modern, Strengthening

  "By What Definition is Gavin Newsom’s Sex Life 'Breaking News'?" by Arianna Huffington, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 1, 2007.

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• The lawyer must either learn to live more capaciously or be content to find himself continuously less trusted, more circumscribed, till he becomes hardly more important than a minor administrator, confined to a monotonous round of record and routine, without dignity, inspiration, or respect.

  Learned Hand

  Inspiration, Important, Routine

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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• There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Honorable Man, Very True

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.5800, e-artnow

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• I have a suggestion that I think would help fight serious crime. Signs. There are lots of signs for minor infractions: No Smoking, Stay Off the Grass, Keep Out, and they seem to work fairly well. I think we should also have signs for major crimes: Murder Strictly Prohibited, NO Raping People, Thank You for Not Kidnapping Anyone. It's certainly worth a try. I'm convinced Watergate would never have happened if there had just been a sign in the Oval Office that said, Malfeasance of Office Is Strictly Against the Law, or Thank You for Not Undermining the Constitution.

  George Carlin

  Humor, Fighting, Thinking

  George Carlin (2015). “3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, p.69, Hachette UK

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• People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.

  Herbert Beerbohm Tree

  God, People, Royalty

  Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1916). “Nothing Matters, and Other Stories”

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• Correct is to recognize what diseases are and whence they come; which are long and which are short; which are mortal and which are not; which are in the process of changing into others; which are increasing and which are diminishing; which are major and which are minor; to treat the diseases that can be treated, but to recognize the ones that cannot be, and to know why they cannot be; by treating patients with the former, to give them the benefit of treatment as far as it is possible.

  Hippocrates

  Science, Long, Giving

  Hippocrates (1979). “Hippocrates”

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• The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences.

  Pierre Bourdieu

  Hobbies, Culture, Influence

  "The Intellectual Class Struggle". New York Times, January 6, 2001.

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