Appropriate Quotes
788 Appropriate quotes by 669 unique authors
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Side note to parents: Anyone who thinks 'Dude, Where's My Car' is more appropriate for children than 'American Pie' because it obtained a PG-13 rating…
— James Berardinelli
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If current trends continue, the typical U.S. worker will be considerably more productive several decades from now. Thus, one might argue that letting future generations…
— Ben Bernanke
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The most appropriate type of daily life for me was a day-by-day world destruction; peace was the most difficult and abnormal state to live in.
— Yukio Mishima
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Get yourself in trouble. If you get yourself in trouble, you don't have the answers. And if you don't have the answers, your solution will…
— Chuck Close
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I often think of a quote from entrepreneur Jim Rohn: 'You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.' Surround…
— Alexis Ohanian
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Although it was in primitive times and differently called the Lord's day or Sunday, yet it was never denominated the Sabbath; a name constantly appropriate…
— Charles Buck
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Trust me. If you do not decide where you are heading, and refuse to take the appropriate action, you will end up being shaped into…
— Chris Murray
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When music is presented which, however appropriate for other occasions, does not fit the Sabbath, much is lost. . . . The Spirit does not…
— Boyd K. Packer
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Is not the festive season when families and friends exchange gifts in memory of The Gift laid on the altar of the world for the…
— Lottie Moon
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Shamans can be defined as socially sanctioned practitioners who purport to voluntarily regulate their attention and awareness so as to access information not ordinarily available,…
— Stanley Krippner
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Independent of harmony rules, any color 'goes' or 'works' with any other color, presupposing that their quantities are appropriate.
— Josef Albers
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Indeed our survival and liberation depend upon our recognition of the truth when it is spoken and lived by the people. If we cannot recognize…
— James H. Cone
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It happens every once in awhile at the federal level when the solicitor general, on behalf of the U.S., will confess error or decline to…
— Ted Olson
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What great philosophers do for us is not to hand out such an all-purpose system. It is to light up and clarify some special aspect…
— Mary Midgley
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The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a…
— Anatole Broyard
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Being brought up in a culture is a matter of learning appropriate forms of feeling as much as particular ways of thinking.
— Terry Eagleton
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To the extent that we hyper-separate ourselves from nature and reduce it conceptually in order to justify domination, we not only lose the ability to…
— Val Plumwood
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One of the deep mysteries to me is our logo, the symbol of lust and knowledge, bitten into, all crossed with the colours of the…
— Jean-Louis Gassee
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Leaders are problem solvers by talent and temperament, and by choice. For them, the new information environment-undermining old means of control, opening up old closets…
— Harlan Cleveland
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The virtue which we appreciate, we to some extent appropriate.
— Henry David Thoreau
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When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their…
— Christopher Lasch
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...I returned to walking up the mountain, and there, in the dim asexual beauty of reddening dawns and skies that firmed to blue, I discovered…
— Mark Helprin
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In practice, without appropriate government intervention, Smith's "invisible hand" dons brass knuckles and conducts gang warfare, creating fierce battles between competitors who would be more…
— Denise Caruso
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My understanding – of course, I’m not a philosopher or a scientist – of an aspect of Goethe’s theory of color is that he felt…
— Alex Webb
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We have also obtained a glimpse of another crucial idea about languages and program design. This is the approach of statified design, the notion that…
— Hal Abelson
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