Severe Quotes - Page 18

• It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe...

  Frederick Seitz

  Cutting, Environmental, Problem

  "2008 Climate Debate" by William F. Jasper, www.thenewamerican.com. March 31, 2008.

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• When I met my first savant in 1962, I was impressed by the abilities in these youngsters who had severe disabilities. They appeared to me to be islands of genius in the sea of disability. So I've maintained that word picture since that time, of these islands of genius that are so striking and so jarring when you see them, especially in people who have severe disability.

  Darold Treffert

  Islands, Sea, People

  "Conversations on Creativity with Darold Treffert, Part I: De". Interview with Scott Barry Kaufman, www.psychologytoday.com. April 11, 2011.

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• Take pandemics. There could easily be a severe pandemic. A lot of that comes from something we don't pay much attention to: Eating meat. The meat production industry, the industrial production of meat, uses an immense amount of antibiotics.We're now running out of antibiotics that deal with the threat of rapidly mutating bacteria. A lot of that just comes from the meat production industry. Well, do we worry about it? Well, we ought to be.

  Noam Chomsky

  Running, Worry, Meat

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Maybe [the Republicans] 'll find ways around it, but the financial system of the world depends very heavily on the credibility of the US Treasury Department. US Treasury securities are what's called "good as gold"; they're the basis of international finance, and if the government can't uphold them, if they become valueless, the effect on the international financial system could be quite severe. But in order to destroy a limited health-care law, the right-wing Republicans, the reactionary Republicans, are willing to do that.

  Noam Chomsky

  Government, Order, Law

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• If we have to continue to live under sequestration, it will have a maximum impact on our ability to fulfill the president's strategic guidance. We can't do it all. It's as simple as that, with the limitations of the budget as severe as they are. These deep, abrupt cuts have forced us to make decisions that are not in the interest of America.

  Chuck Hagel

  Cutting, Simple, Impact

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• In the Bible and Holy Qur'an, God shows us through the life of His prophets and messengers that none of them came into the world to do their work without severe opposition against them. That was with Abraham, Noah, Lot, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad, peace be upon them all and all the prophets and messengers in between. That is our role today.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Jesus, Roles, World

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• The thing is, autism is all different, you know, variables. And you start out with a certain amount of, you know, the point where the differences in the brain are going to just be a personality variant and, like, for very mild Asperger's. But you get into more severe kinds of autism where there's obvious speech delay, obvious abnormal behavior in a two and three-year-old child, you know, the initial neurology is different from case to case. But all children with autism are going to do better if they get really good educational intervention.

  Temple Grandin

  Children, Educational, Two

  "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 20, 2006.

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• When I was diagnosed, mothers were blamed for causing autism. There was no autism support. They'd put autistic kids in institutions. I had severe autism. But my mom wouldn't accept that. I was put in speech therapy. My mother was always pushing me to do stuff.

  Temple Grandin

  Mom, Mother, Kids

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• The bottom half of humanity is living in severe poverty; not all of them are malnourished or severely deprived now, but they are extremely vulnerable to even small upsets in their income or in the prices they face of basic necessities, and when something like this happens, they can be thrown off kilter in terms of a disease of a family member or a change in food prices; anything like that can throw them into destitution.

  Thomas Pogge

  Upset, Humanity, Income

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

  Voltaire

  Wise, Fierce

  "Epшtre au Roi de Prusse". Book by Voltaire (translated), 1740.

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• The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.

  Giambattista Vico

  Nature, Firsts, Fierce

  Giambattista Vico (2015). “The New Science of Giambattista Vico”, p.153, Cornell University Press

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• One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with conditions crippling enough to prevent them living normal lives.

  Polly Toynbee

  Pain, Anxiety Disorder, People

  "It is not fanciful to make the pursuit of happiness a political imperative" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2006.

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• I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sorry, Apology, Men

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.128, Courier Corporation

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• Importantly, in the 1930s, in the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve, despite its mandate, was quite passive and, as a result, financial crisis became very severe, lasted essentially from 1929 to 1933.

  Ben Bernanke

  Financial, Great Depression, Results

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• The Israelis have taken a lot of security measures which reduce significantly the ability of Iran to inflict truly severe pain in Israel. But America is vulnerable with 100,000 troops in Iraq and more than half of that in Afghanistan, and we depend heavily on access to Middle Eastern oil. We're sitting targets for debilitating Iranian retaliation.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Pain, Taken, America

  Source: www.realclearworld.com

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• I talked to a lot of Black Lives activists in various states. What I learned is that the relationship of police departments around the country with the black community is far, far more severe and awful than I had originally known.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Community, Police

  Source: billmoyers.com

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• As a child I experienced firsthand the severe effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially upon women and children. My parents taught me the importance of education and that it was a key to improving an individual's life.

  Naveen Jain

  Children, Keys, Parent

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• Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.

  Josh Billings

  Life, Adversity, Fighting

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

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• I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.

  Lord Byron

  Thinking, Humanity, Devil

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2725, Delphi Classics

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• The notion that somehow through a trade war or protectionism or magical thinking that we're going to return to a romanticized economic past is, in the end, going to be an illusion. And a severe disappointment to millions of decent, hard-working people.

  David Remnick

  Disappointment, War, Hard Work

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Although two thirds of our planet is water, we face an acute water shortage. The water crisis is the most pervasive , most severe, and most invisible dimension of the ecological devastation of the earth.

  Vandana Shiva

  Two, Water, Earth

  Vandana Shiva (2002). “Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution and Profit”, p.1, Pluto Press

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• Resource extraction impacts a global environment that is increasingly at severe risk.

  Noam Chomsky

  Impact, Risk, Environment

  "Chomsky: "The Business Elites ... Are Instinctive Marxists"". Interview with Keane Bhatt, www.truth-out.org. November 19, 2010.

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• Legalized drugs would cause dislocations in the US economy - the prison industry for example and tens of billions spent annually on drug enforcement. But because the US economy is so large, this would be a minor blow, hardly as severe as the ultimate nightmare for the US economy, global peace, which would shutter its death industry commonly called the military/industrial complex.

  Charles Bowden

  Military, Blow, Drug

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Philosophy would long ago have reached a high level if our predecessors and fathers had put this into practice; and we would not waste time on the primary difficulties, which appear now as severe as in the first centuries which noticed them. We would have the experience of assured phenomena, which would serve as principles for a solid reasoning; truth would not be so deeply sunken; nature would have taken off most of her envelopes; one would see the marvels she contains in all her individuals.

  Marin Mersenne

  Nature, Truth, Father

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• Sadness, disappointment, and severe challenge are events in life, not life itself.

  Richard G. Scott

  Disappointment, Sadness, Events In Life

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