Rising Quotes - Page 7

• This rising global humanism is, in fact, the rising into consciousness of a tribal god similar to the kind of tribal god that functioned in these pre-Hellenic societies.

  Terence McKenna

  Facts, Kind, Consciousness

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• I discovered early on that the player who learned the fundamentals of basketball is going to have a much better chance of succeeding and rising through the levels of competition than the player who was content to do things his own way. A player should be interested in learning why things are done a certain way. The reasons behind the teaching often go a long way to helping develop the skill.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Teaching, Player

  John R. Wooden, Bill Sharman, Bob Seizer (1975). “The Wooden-Sharman method: a guide to winning basketball”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• My mother's father was from Sligo, and he used to say it was the hardest thing in the world to find a man alive in Dublin who wasn't in the GPO during the Easter Rising. Twenty brave men marched into that post office, he said, and thirty thousand marched out.

  Lawrence Block

  Mother, Easter, Father

  Lawrence Block (2011). “Out On The Cutting Edge”, p.72, Hachette UK

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• Where's that toxic rhetoric coming from? Let's not make a false pretense of balance: it's coming, overwhelmingly, from the right. It's hard to imagine a Democratic member of Congress urging constituents to be "armed and dangerous" without being ostracized; but Representative Michele Bachmann, who did just that, is a rising star in the G.O.P.

  Paul Krugman

  Stars, Balance, Toxic

  "Climate of Hate". www.nytimes.com. January 9, 2011.

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• ...first check whether the market as a whole is rising or falling. In other words, are you in a bull market or bear market? If the latter, stay out. The odds are against you.

  Nicolas Darvas

  Fall, Odds, Bulls

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• Once you've written a good script, it will get made or not get made, according to variables you cannot control, like stars getting interested, and the superstitions in Hollywood rising or falling around what is over and done with versus what's in.

  Jon Spaihts

  Stars, Fall, Hollywood

  Source: collider.com

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• People are finally able to look around and say, 'I can see the drought, I can see the rising sea levels, I can see the crops dying. Okay, now I get it.' It is finally beginning to sink in that there has been a lot of damage.

  Robert Redford

  Sea, People, Dying

  "Robert Redford: We Have to Act on Climate Change Without Washington". Interview with Vivienne Walt, time.com. December 6, 2015.

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• There is nothing inevitable about rising unemployment.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Unemployment, Inevitable

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• If the Fed ceases hiking, against the backdrop of still rising commodity prices, then the Australian dollar will have few reasons for resisting any topside advances.

  Craig Ferguson

  Commodity Prices, Hiking, Dollars

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• Challenges are solved by rising to a level higher than the challenge.

  Deepak Chopra

  Challenges, Levels, Higher

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• If upon this earth we ever have a glimpse of heaven,it is when we pass a home in winter, at night,and through the windows, the curtains drawn aside,we see the family about the pleasant hearth; the old lady knitting; the cat playing with the yarn;the children wishing they had as many dolls or dollars or knivesor somethings, as there are sparks going out to join the roaring blast;the father reading and smoking, and the clouds rising like incense from the altar of domestic joy.I never passed such a house without feeling thatI had received a benediction.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Children, Father, Reading

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.220, Library of Alexandria

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• I am not a global warming sceptic. I accept that rising human-caused CO2 from fossil sources could 'change the climate'. The basic physics is there to support this view. But where is the evidence that the putative change would be large or damaging?

  Chris de Freitas

  Views, Support, Fossils

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• These proven positive consequences of elevated CO2 are infinitely more important than the unsubstantiated predictions of apocalypse that are hypothesized to result from global warming, which itself, may not be occurring from rising atmospheric CO2 levels. The aerial fertilization effect of atmospheric CO2 enrichment is the only aspect of global environmental change about which we can be certain; and to restrict CO2 emissions is to assuredly deny the biosphere the many benefits that accrue from this phenomenon.

  Keith E. Idso

  Environmental, Important, Benefits

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• Let's ask the Lord to give us a Jubilee strategy for this nation! Below, I have an article related to the Freedom Fighters and Triumphant Reserve that the Spirit of the Lord is rising up in days ahead. That is why we need Apostolic Hubs (Freedom Outposts).

  Chuck Pierce

  Rising Up, Giving, Needs

  "Chuck Pierce: Freedom Fighters! Calling Forth a Prophetic Triumphant Reserve". www.elijahlist.com. July 12, 2012.

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• It's a class war, and a war on young people too... that's why tuition is rising so rapidly. There's no real economic reason for that. It's a technique of control and indoctrination. And this is really the first organized, significant reaction to it, which is important.

  Noam Chomsky

  Real, War, Class

  "Noam Chomsky on America's Economic Suicide". Interview with Laura Flanders, www.alternet.org. May 4, 2012.

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• We think about our country and the big issues that we face in this country; creating jobs, making sure people can keep their jobs, the need for rising wages, whether our children when they graduate from college can find a job, protecting the homeland, destroying ISIS, rebuilding defense. These are all the things that we need to focus on but we'll never get there if we're divided. We'll never get there if republicans and democrats just fight with one another.

  John Kasich

  Country, Jobs, Children

  CNN-Facebook Republican Presidential Debate, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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• China is a rising adversary. So one of the things we have to do if we want China's support is to push back on China.

  Carly Fiorina

  Support, Want, China

  5th Republican debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

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• Discomfort levels in our societies are rising, or so it would seem. In theory, we invoke diversity and tolerance. But in real life, we raise our hackles and withdraw into ourselves.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Real, Diversity, Tolerance

  "Calming our fears" by Tariq Ramadan, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2007.

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• Though the two issues may seem utterly unrelated, they do have this in common - both health care and higher education are realms of American life in which government has undermined the operation of market forces and caused artificially high prices. These are two arenas in which the Democrats now propose to do exactly the wrong thing. Their reform reinforces old errors and will infinitely compound the problem of rising prices.

  Mona Charen

  Rising Prices, Two, Issues

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• In trying to explain our political paralysis, analysts cite President Obama's tactical missteps, the obstinacy of congressional Republicans, rising partisanship in Washington, and the Senate filibuster, which has devolved into a super-majority threshold for important legislation. These are large factors to be sure, but that list neglects what may be the biggest culprit of all: the childishness, ignorance, and growing incoherence of the public at large.

  Jacob Weisberg

  Ignorance, Political, Important

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• When we start helping the weak and the poor to rise everyone will begin to change. Those who have power and riches will start to become more humble, and those who are rising up will leave behind their need to be victims, their need to be angry or depressed....This is the spirituality of life, that helps people to rise up and take their place. It is not a spirituality of death. Jesus wants those who have been crushed to rise up and those who have power to discover that there is another road, a road of sharing and compassion.

  Jean Vanier

  Jesus, Humble, Compassion

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• Across the curve of the earth, there are women getting up before dawn, in the blackness before the point of light, in the twilight before sunrise; there are women rising earlier than men and children to break the ice, to start the stove, to put up the pap, the coffee, the rice, to iron the pants, to braid the hair, to pull the day's water up from the well, to boil water for tea, to wash the children for school, to pull the vegetables and start the walk to market, to run to catch the bus for the work that is paid. I don't know when most women sleep.

  Adrienne Rich

  Running, Children, Twilight

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• A great unification is now taking place between science and spirituality. The most advanced discoveries of modern science are rising to reaffirm the timeless wisdom of the great religious and spiritual traditions of every culture.

  John Hagelin

  Spiritual, Religious, Discovery

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• It has been difficult for [young people in the U.S.] to connect the dots between rising tuition costs and other assaults on their dignity with the ongoing assault on public life and its myriad democratic institutions. Today's generation faces an enormous battle in turning back the current assaults on the social state, higher education, and the social good.

  Henry Giroux

  People, Battle, Today's Generation

  "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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• In terms of fiction, there are a number of writers who are thinking about the future of the environment whose work complements mine. Kim Stanley Robinson's novel 2312 is a great example, as is Tobias Buckell's novel Arctic Rising.

  Annalee Newitz

  Thinking, Numbers, Example

  Source: therumpus.net

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