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suicidal science long
Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One of the criteria for national leadership should therefore be a talent for understanding, encouraging, and making constructive use of vigorous criticism. Carl Sagan
suicidal acceptance people
When the institutions of money rule the world, it is perhaps inevitable that the interests of money will take precedence over the interests of people. What we are experiencing might best be described as a case of money colonizing life. To accept this absurd distortion of human institutions and purpose should be considered nothing less than an act of collective, suicidal insanity. David Korten
suicidal energy viruses
We have become a plague upon ourselves and upon the Earth. It is cosmically unlikely that the developed world will choose to end its orgy of fossil energy consumption, and the Third World its suicidal consumption of landscape. Until such time as Homo Sapiens should decide to rejoin nature, some of us can only hope for the right virus to come along. David Graeber
suicidal decades conditions
I suffered from severe depression for over a decade. My condition deteriorated steadily. I was suicidal. Byron Katie
suicidal environmental warning
The environmental crisis is a sign that the ecosphere is now so heavily strained that its continued stability is threatened. It is a warning that we must discover the source of this suicidal drive and master it before it destroys the environment-and ourselves. Barry Commoner
suicidal silliness torment
It is silliness to live when to live is torment. William Shakespeare
suicidal men ahab
Captain Ahab was a man possessed with an obsessional drive to pursue the white whale which had harmed him - which had torn his leg out - to the ends of the Earth, no matter what happened. In the final scene of the novel, Captain Ahab is being borne out to sea, wrapped around the white whale with the rope of his own harpoon and going obviously to his death. It was a scene of almost suicidal finality. Edward Said
suicidal answers consciousness
It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer. Arthur Schopenhauer
suicidal love-is feelings
Love Is Louder is a movement that is hopefully going to bring some awareness and make some noise when it comes to teens who are feeling suicidal or even just sad, outcasts, and being bullied, and really feel like they have nowhere to turn to. Brittany Snow
means obama rookie
When Obama heralds another 'teachable moment,' it means he has already made an egregious rookie mistake. Tina Brown
meant
Well, I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner. And that's what I try to do, is sometimes I lean to one side of it, sometimes I lean to the other. Irving Ravetch
means songs taught
'Miss Saigon' taught me what it means to help carry a big show, and it had some of the most gorgeous songs wrote. Will Chase
mean picking polls virtually week
The polls mean virtually nothing, ... We're not tottering on the edge. Each week we're picking up momentum. Gary Bauer
mean patients serve
The patients are happier, and we can serve more patients. More patients mean more revenues.
meant met
And I haven't met too many actors along the way that haven't told me how much the show has meant to them. It's one of the reasons they say they are doing what they're doing, today. David Selby
means overseas passing takes
My representation overseas can't stand me doing theatre because it takes me out of action. But it's what I want to do. If it means passing up other possibilities, them's the breaks. David Wenham
means million plugging records stands
With Celine Dion, we were selling 25 million records a pop. 'Pop' stands for 'popular.' It means we're plugging into the masses. David Foster
means played slang
'Chamalkay' is an old Guyanese slang word. It means a 'young mischievous girl.' It's not derogatory, but it isn't over complimentary, either. It was probably a word I just Googled one day, and the song kind of played into the feel of that. Dev Hynes
ideas listen people quickly stronger tough
On a film crew, you can see very quickly that some people who are working with you are stronger than you. Then you have to have the humility to listen to them. And because very often they have better ideas than yours, it can be tough on the evil ego. But it makes a better film. Denis Villeneuve
ideas sticks brilliant
I have found out one thing and that is, if you have an idea, and it is a good idea, if you only stick to it you will come out all right. Cecil Rhodes
ideas needs sometimes
sometimes we have absolutely no idea where we are, we need the smallest clue to show us where to begin. Cecelia Ahern
ideas jars cookies
I found out when I did the Oprah Winfrey show that there was a cookie jar of me. So she gave it to me. I had no idea prior to that that it even existed. Carrie Fisher
ideas persons my-own
No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience. Carl Rogers
ideas return becoming
Experience is, for me, the highest authority. The touchstone of validity is my own experience. No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience. It is to experience that I must return again and again, to discover a closer approximation to truth as it is in the process of becoming me.
ideas fiction firsts
Ours is the first generation that has grown up with science-fiction ideas.
ideas littles merit
The well-meaning contention that all ideas have equal merit seems to me little different from the disastrous contention that no ideas have any merit.
ideas numbers world
The Hindu religion is the only of the World's great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths.