Our Time Quotes - Page 16

• I do have the strength. Leadership, leadership is not about attacking people and disparaging people. Leadership is about creating a serious strategy to deal with the threat of our time.

  Jeb Bush

  Creating, People, Serious

  "5th Republican debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant". 2016 presidential debate in Las Vegas, Nevada, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

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• I think all of us have really got to redouble our efforts, first of all, to pay attention to the K-12 crisis. The sad fact is that I can look at your zip code and tell whether you're going to get a good education. That's not fair. And secondly, I hope that all of us who were fortunate enough to have benefited will put our time, our resources and our efforts into making sure that kids, particularly kids without means, have a way to achieve.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Mean, Kids, Thinking

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Here I encounter the most popular fallacy of our times. It is not considered sufficient that the law should guarantee to every citizen the free and inoffensive use of his faculties for physical, intellectual and moral self-improvement. Instead, it is demanded that the law should directly extend welfare, education, and morality throughout the nation. This is the seductive lure of socialism. And I repeat: these two uses of the law are in direct contradiction to each other.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Self, Law, Two

  Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.20, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The fact that we have to discuss reality as though there were no reality is an indication of the confusion of our times.

  Alistair Begg

  Reality, Confusion, Facts

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• The central task of our time is to evolve a new system of world order based on principles of peace and justice.

  Richard A. Falk

  Order, Justice, Principles

  Richard A. Falk (1983). “The end of world order: essays on normative international relations”, Holmes & Meier Publishers

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• Too many of us are afraid to slow down because then we would have to take a good look at how we're using our time and what we're becoming. We don't want to listen to that other voice deep inside, telling us something is not right.

  Dennis Rainey

  Voice, Looks, Want

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• One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words. We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken. We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words - an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words - is an essential prerequisite for prayer. By the word of God the world was created.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Prayer, Our World, Broken

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• The idea of "race" represents one of the most dangerous myths of our time.

  Ashley Montagu

  Race, Ideas, Dangerous

  Ashley Montagu (2001). “Man's Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race”, p.41, AltaMira Press

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• In our time, we have sifted the sands of Mars, we have established a presence there, we have fulfilled a century of dreams!

  Carl Sagan

  Dream, Mars, Sand

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.129, Ballantine Books

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• If we spend most of our time concerned about things we cannot truly directly influence, what we can influence will be reduced. If we spend our energies on those things over which we can expect positive results, we will expand our influence.

  Stephen Covey

  Energy, Influence, Results

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• It is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will thereby cease to be a moron.

  H. L. Mencken

  Running, Classic, Moron

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• As both a conservative and a Republican, I confess that we deserve to lose this year. We have governed badly and have earned the wrath of voters, who will learn in due course how inadequate the nostrums of liberal Democrats are to the crisis of our times. If I cannot in good faith cast a vote against the Bush years by voting for Obama, I can at least do so by withholding my vote from McCain.

  Rod Dreher

  Years, Wrath, Voting

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• One of the things I think the next president has to do is to stop fanning people's fears. If we spend all our time feeding the American people fear and conflict and division, then they become fearful and conflicted and divided. And if we feed them hope and we feed them reason and tolerance, then they will become tolerant and reasonable and hopeful.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, People, Hopeful

  Barack Obama's speech at the Democratic Presidential Debate on MSNBC at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, www.nytimes.com. September 26, 2007.

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• I think its a fundamental feature of images that they move from one medium to another. And this has become hyper-evident in our time with the computer, which is a kind of master-medium also and allows us to transfer data of all kinds from one platform to another, turning sounds into sights or language into image. The computer has made something that is very old evident in a new way.

  W. J. T. Mitchell

  Moving, Thinking, Sight

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• As president, I will stand up to the great human rights tests of our time - in China, Russia, and the Middle East. We must send a signal to our allies and adversaries that America is back in the leadership business.

  Carly Fiorina

  Russia, Rights, America

  "Carly Fiorina Answers 12 Christian Post Questions for Every Presidential Candidate". Interview with Napp Nazworth, www.christianpost.com. January 4, 2016.

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• Speaking of people I had to exclude: Hank Williams. which is to say, songs are part of lyric poetry in my book, my thinking. In fact they are the urgent element of poetry in our time, they carry the most emotion for the most people in our culture. everyone LOVES poetry, because we all love (one form or another) of rock and roll (be it folk to emo to rap). It's all rock and roll and all lyric poetry.

  Gregory Orr

  Song, Emo, Book

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Technology and television didn't dictate one path or the other - it was civil society and public policy intervening in creating alternative funding models. So I think that's one of the questions for our time: do we want to intervene in this model or completely acquiesce and leave it to the unfettered, not-actually-that-free market? Neither path is inevitable.

  Astra Taylor

  Technology, Thinking, Creating

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I would like people to be more aware of the fact that ultimately we are paying for things, and it's not just as privacy advocates point out that we're paying with our time and our data. We're also paying with money, because the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on advertising is just factored into the cost of the goods that we buy. It's all coming out of our pocket, just in a really roundabout way.

  Astra Taylor

  Data, People, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think cities are the primordial forests of our time. We evolve faster as a species in cities. Cities are chaotic, liminal places where the many aspects of human potential, good and/or bad, are most readily magnified.

  Chris Abani

  Thinking, Cities, Forests

  RUMPUS INTERVIEW with Peter Orner, therumpus.net. February 10, 2014.

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• I have nothing nice to say about Chris Pratt, of course. He's probably the greatest hero of our time in real life, honestly.

  Bryce Dallas Howard

  Real, Nice, Hero

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• I've always felt that if I worked hard enough and continued to refine my craft, while staying curious about our times and our world, I just might have something to contribute.

  Jerry Pinkney

  Our World, Crafts, Might

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I think that we just take our time with everything. We don't feel that there's a rush to become something that we're not yet. We like to really feel things out and know what we're doing. We hadn't ever really played a lot of shows live after we released our EP, and that's when we started doing it - we started playing out live consistently right after we released our EP and we got a new drummer because Shannyn [Sossamon] had quit.

  Theresa Wayman

  Thinking, Quitting, Drummer

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• This is what art can do in our time. Unite people, and give them hope.

  Hany Abu-Assad

  Art, People, Giving

  Source: variety.com

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• Violence against women and lack of intervention and man's inhumanity to man and this kind of atrocities are going on. These are big issues of our times, we must speak about them, we must learn how to better understand how these things happen so we can address them.

  Angelina Jolie

  Men, Issues, Inhumanity To Man

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• The whole immigration issue suggests the inevitability of people in our time seeking economic security that they can't find at home, which usually involves bringing their religion with them. One's children are going to be married to people outside their religious traditions as well as inside.

  Thomas Keating

  Religious, Children, Home

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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