Marginal Quotes
72 quotes by 69 authors
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More and more political analysts and weak-kneed politicians are advising the historically pro-life Republican Party to abandon its pro-life stance for political gain. My first…
— Gary Bauer
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
— William S. Burroughs
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Of all the joint ventures in which we might engage, the most productive, in my view, is educational exchange. I have always had great difficulty-since…
— J. William Fulbright
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I'm not saying that they were Einsteins; they were marginal students. But every ballplayer whoever touched me has moved up his station in life. And…
— Al McGuire
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Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledge has become a vital part of our species' repertory.…
— E. O. Wilson
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The essential role of the environment is still marginal in discussions about poverty. While we continue to debate these initiatives, environmental degradation, including the loss…
— Wangari Maathai
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We fought a military war; our opponents fought a political one. We sought physical attrition; our opponents aimed for our psychological exhaustion. In the process…
— Henry A. Kissinger
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I expect to see the State, which is in a position to calculate the marginal efficiency of capital-goods on long views and on the basis…
— John Maynard Keynes
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Rushing to optimize before the bottlenecks are known may be the only error to have ruined more designs than feature creep. From tortured code to…
— Eric S. Raymond
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A lot of times in the rhetoric, people forget the facts. And the facts are that thousands of small businesses-Hispanically owned or otherwise-pay taxes at…
— George W. Bush
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I am not particularly distressed by the state of fiction or the role of the writer. The more marginal, perhaps ultimately the more trenchant and…
— Don DeLillo
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My doctor told me I was going to be marginal at this test and he'd given me some hope that maybe I was going to…
— Doug MacDonald
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I go out of my way to stay off commuter planes. I have skipped conferences because I would not fly on marginal airlines (and because…
— Mary Schiavo
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When we have an experience -- hearing a particular sonata, making love with a particular person, watching the sun set from a particular window of…
— Daniel Gilbert
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The margin is very marginal.
— Bobby Robson
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A Tong can perhaps be defined as a mutual benefit society for people with a common interest which is illegal or dangerously marginal - hence,…
— Hakim Bey
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Biology occupies a position among the sciences at once marginal and central. Marginal because-the living world constituting but a tiny and very "special" part of…
— Jacques Monod
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The road to hell is paved with the pursuit of volume. Volume leads to marginal products, marginal customers, and greatly increased managerial complexity.
— Richard Koch
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Our current use of time is not rational. There is therefore no point in seeking marginal improvements in how we spend our time. We need…
— Richard Koch
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It has been calculated that one marginal win is worth $7 million and we can increase that by five percent each year to figure out…
— Max Scherzer
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