Serious Quotes - Page 35

• My dreams for the future are simple: work, a happy, healthy family, a lovely long motorcycle ride, and continuing the struggle to awaken people to the need for serious human rights reform.

  Mike Farrell

  Dream, Struggle, Simple

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• No serious sociologist any longer believes that the voice of the people expresses any divine or specially wise and lofty idea. The voice of the people expresses the mind of the people, and that mind is made up for it by the group leaders in whom it believes and by those persons who understand the manipulation of public opinion. It is composed of inherited prejudices and symbols and clichés and verbal formulas supplied to them by the leaders.

  Edward Bernays

  Wise, Believe, Ideas

  "Propaganda". Book by Edward Bernays, 1928.

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• You never feel good when you lie. It doesn't matter how much you want something, if you lie to somebody you love, and they actually, sincerely believe you, you feel like a cockroach that needs some serious Raid action.

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Lying, Believe, Want Something

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• When you deal with a man, deal with his most valuable possession, his life. There's play and there's the deep flow. I like to take things to the deep flow of play, because everything is a game, serious and nonserious at the same time. So play life like it's a game.

  Huey Newton

  Men, Games, Play

  "Huey: Spirit of the Panther". Book by David Hilliard, p. 46, 2006.

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• Being overweight and obesity are major risk factors for many chronic diseases for South Dakotans of all ages. When people are overweight or obese, they have more health problems and more serious health problems, in addition to higher health care costs.

  Mike Rounds

  People, Risk, Age

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• All suggested accounts of the origin of the solar system are subject to serious objections. The conclusion in the present state of the subject would be that the system cannot exist.

  Harold Jeffreys

  Would Be, States, Conclusion

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• I'm not a big theory person. So when I get asked questions that demand serious statements, I just make it up.

  Albert Oehlen

  Demand, Bigs, Theory

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• The notebooks of Paul Brunton represent the acme of wisdom on the nature of human spirituality. Every serious student of this subject will profit enormously by becoming acquainted with Brunton's seminal work.

  Kenneth Ring

  Notebook, Becoming, Spirituality

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• Janet's a serious racer with some good race-car stuff. She can get the job done. I respect her as a racer.

  Neil Bonnett

  Jobs, Race, Car

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• One of the most serious errors, if not the most serious error, committed by colonial powers in Africa, may have been to ignore or underestimate the cultural strength of African peoples.

  Amilcar Cabral

  Errors, May, Underestimate

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• We are in the realm not of logic but of wistfulness, and I must maintain that wistfulness is a respectable, serious condition. How, otherwise, to account for much of one's life?

  Joseph O'Neill

  Logic, Wistfulness, Realms

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• Most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated. No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function.

  Solomon Asch

  Thinking, Errors, Facts

  "Social Psychology". Book by Solomon Asch, p. 61, 1952.

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• Most of our country's serious problems can be laid at the feet of Congress and the White House and not at capitalism.

  Walter E. Williams

  Country, White, Feet

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• Now is the time to get serious about living your ideals. Once you have determined the spiritual principles you wish to exemplify, abide by these rules as if they were laws, as if it were indeed sinful to compromise them. Don't mind if others don't share your convictions. How long can you afford to put off who you really want to be? Your nobler self cannot wait any longer.

  Epictetus

  Life, Spiritual, Self

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• I am only serious about 20% of the time; one of the great joys of my life is the fact that I alone know when that is.

  Mark Richards

  Life, Joy, Facts

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• I am going to explain to you why we went to war. Why mankind always goes to war. It is not social or political. It is not countries that go to war, but men. It is like salt. Once one has been to war, one has salt for the rest of one's life. Do you understand?

  John Fowles

  Life, Country, Laughter

  "The Magus".

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• Serious numbers will speak to us always.

  Paul Simon

  Numbers, Speak, Mathematics

  Song: When Numbers Get Serious, Album: Hearts and Bones

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• "I am appalled at the prospect of using water as a vehicle for drugs. Fluoride is a corrosive poison that will produce serious effect on a long-range basis. Any attempt to use the water this way is deplorable." Charles Gordon Heyd, M.D., Past President, American Medical Association.

  Charles Bernhard Heyd

  Food, Past, Long

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• I was a serious method actor until I visited this site.

  Robin Williams

  Surfing, Actors, Site

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• I'm here to tell you that I am proud of a couple of things. First, I am very good at projectile vomiting. Second, I've never had a really serious venereal disease.

  Herb Kelleher

  Couple, Vomiting, Disease

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• Forgiveness is the most effective way of dealing with arguments; altruism and forgiveness bring humanity together so that no conflict, however serious, will go beyond the bounds of what is truly human.

  Dalai Lama

  Happiness, Humanity, Together

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• I have a car. I have a steady job. I have a business, and I have to make serious decisions.

  Avril Lavigne

  Motivational, Jobs, Car

  Exclusive Avril Lavigne Interview, Slide 5, www.seventeen.com. April 18, 2011.

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• If a man could understand all the horror of the lives of ordinary people who are turning around in a circle of insignificant interests and insignificant aims, if he could understand what they are losing, he would understand that there can only be one thing that is serious for him - to escape from the general law, to be free. What can be serious for a man in prison who is condemned to death? Only one thing: How to save himself, how to escape: nothing else is serious.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Men, Law, Circles

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• My parents put skates on me at age 2, the way it should be if you're serious, and I've always liked it.

  Bonnie Blair

  Sports, Parent, Age

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• The fashion industry tends to attract people with serious personality defects. They just want to be rich and famous. But at some point you have to decide: Are you going to mindlessly go the easy way or are you going to go the ethical way?

  Katharine Hamnett

  Fashion, People, Personality

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