Severe Quotes - Page 4

• I have a feeling that climate change may be an issue as severe as a war. It may be necessary to put democracy on hold for a while.

  James Lovelock

  War, Issues, Feelings

  Interview with The Guardian, March 29, 2010.

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• Poverty persists, essentially, because the people at the bottom - the bottom quarter and also the bottom half - see the gains from the rising global average income wiped out by severe declines in their relative share.

  Thomas Pogge

  Average, People, Income

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The musical culture in the United States has no doubt suffered severe setbacks, especially in funding, since the early 2000's. However, I've been amazed at the resiliency of those involved with contemporary music in this country. I think composers and those dedicated to contemporary music have reacted with tremendous creativity and resourcefulness.

  Michael Hersch

  Country, Creativity, Thinking

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• I think you have to humble yourself before the process of starting and running a business. Only the incredibly fortunate achieve their success quickly. Most people, it takes many many years of incredible hard work, and many periods of severe poverty, and it kind of makes it all the better.

  Patrick Grant

  Running, Hard Work, Humble

  "Recognize Craftsmanship". Interview with Daniel Barna, www.askmen.com. October 8, 2013.

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• Severe opposition is a measure of success (because) one inevitable result of winning a majority change in consciousness is a backlash from those forces whose power depended on the old one.

  Gloria Steinem

  Winning, Majority, Consciousness

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• I lead a life of severe self-control mitigated by moments of impulse.

  Elise Valmorbida

  Self, Moments, Impulse

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• NIE presents a major obstacle to those who are pushing for military confrontation. In many ways it is a severe blow to their agenda. However, I wouldn't go as far as to say that the risk has been significantly reduced or eliminated.

  Trita Parsi

  Military, Blow, Risk

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Louisville, Colorado, which was just voted by CNN and Money magazine as the best place to live, is a veritable Whitopia that is unaffected by the housing crisis and even the severe recession. You look at the best places to live, according to Money's 2009 list, and 9 of the 10 are Whitopias.

  Richard Benjamin

  Cnn, Colorado, Louisville

  "Journey into the Heart of Whiteness". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. December 23, 2009.

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• Things can change if the military can do a paradigm shift and gets out of the shame and coverup cycle and be a leader in our culture. In the 50s, 60s and 70s there were huge race problems in the military even more severe than the culture at large. The military saw it was detrimental and it changed and became a model to society at large.

  Amy Ziering

  Military, Race, Leader

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Art has to be severe. It cannot be commercial. It cannot be for the producer or even for the public. It has to be for oneself.

  Vittorio De Sica

  Art, Producers, Oneself

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• A severe apprenticeship in the trade of praying must be served in order to become a journeyman in it.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Order, Praying, Apprenticeship

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• If people knew how badly animals were treated in today's factory farms, if people knew how completely confined and immobilized these creatures are for their entire lives, if people knew how severe and unrelenting is the cruelty these animals are forced to endure, there would be change. If people knew. But too many of us choose to look the other way, to keep the veil in place, to remain unconscious and caught in the cultural trance. That way we are more comfortable. That way is convenient. That way we don' t have to risk too much. This is how we keep ourselves asleep.

  John Robbins

  Animal, People, Risk

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• Severe initiations increase a member's liking for the group.

  Carol Tavris

  Groups, Increase, Members

  Carol Tavris, Elliot Aronson (2008). “Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I could well believe that it is God's intention, since we have refused milder remedies, to compel [Christians] into unity, by persecution even. Satan is without doubt nothing else than a hammer in the hand of a benevolent and severe God.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Believe, Hands

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• You read statistics all the time like, "13 million people are at risk because of the severe drought in East Africa," but I think those kinds of numbers fall on deaf ears - there's so much devastation in the world, that it's a bit overwhelming for people.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Fall, Thinking, Numbers

  Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 22, 2011.

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• General observations drawn from particulars are the jewels of knowledge, comprehending great store in a little room; but they are therefore to be made with the greater care and caution, lest, if we take counterfeit for true, our loss and shame be the greater when our stock comes to a severe scrutiny.

  John Locke

  Loss, Jewels, Care

  John Locke (1828). “An essay concerning human understanding ... The twentieth edition, etc”, p.559

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• There were schools and hospitals who were ready to take people with undescribed injuries, but not necessarily ready to take people with severe radiation poisoning.

  William Scranton

  School, People, Radiation

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• The experience of past ages may inform us, that when the circumstances of a people render them distressed, their rulers generally recur to severe, cruel, and oppressive measures. Instead of endeavoring to establish their authority in the affection of their subjects, they think they have no security but in their fear.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Past, Thinking, People

  Alexander Hamilton, John Church Hamilton (1850). “The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Miscellanies, 1774-1789: A full vindication; The farmer refuted; Quebec bill; Resolutions in Congress; Letters from Phocion; New-York Legislature, etc”, p.50

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• Prison is a severe and terrible punishment; but for me, thanks to Arthur Balfour, this was not so. I was much cheered on my arrival by the warder at the gate, who had to take particulars about me. He asked my religion, and I replied 'agnostic.' He asked how to spell it, and remarked with a sigh: 'Well, there are many religions, but I suppose they all worship the same God.' This remark kept me cheerful for about a week.

  Bertrand Russell

  God, Punishment, Religion

  Bertrand Russell (1998). “Autobiography”, p.257, Psychology Press

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• I was in Toronto when they had a severe outbreak of SARS - you know, Severe Asian Racism Syndrome. I was in the airport and there were these big snowboarder guys and they had white masks around their necks, and as soon as they saw me, they put their masks on. So I went "cough, cough, cough... You wanna egg rorr?

  Margaret Cho

  Airports, Eggs, White

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• The world was warned of extremely severe dangers unless urgent steps are taken to deal with global warming.

  Noam Chomsky

  Taken, World, Steps

  Source: www.brooklynrail.org

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• One of the people from my online team said he didn't notice - almost immediately after the [Donald] Trump victory within the following days, he noticed that there was a severe spike in hateful messages that were coming towards me.

  Trevor Noah

  Team, People, Victory

  "Trevor Noah Says He Grew Up 'In The Shadow Of A Giant' (His Mom)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 16, 2016.

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• Punishment by definition isn't going to help. So what you need to do is to help people to change and recover is to help them find different areas of passion and help them find better ways of coping. Because about 50 percent of people with addiction have a preexisting mental illness, about two-thirds have had some type of severe trauma during childhood, and they are not using to the point where they're risking their lives because it's fun. They're doing something to help them cope.

  Maia Szalavitz

  Fun, Passion, Punishment

  Source: sojo.net

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• I had severe asthma and kidney problems and would get 105-degree fevers. I actually almost had to go on dialysis for my kidneys. I was also in the hospital for pneumonia.

  Jessica Alba

  Pneumonia, Degrees, Fever

  "Hollywood Honey". Cosmopolitan interview, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 26, 2005.

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• One patient had severe pre-treatment pain resulting from skeletal meta-stases...at 5 weeks after the onset of (laetrile and metabolic) therapy, she claimed complete relief.

  Charles Moertel

  Pain, Dark, Age

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