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- Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.
- Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
- In a true zero-defects approach, there are no unimportant items.
- Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
- If my religion is true, it will stand up to all my questioning; there is no need to fear.
- Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - )
- Once they were men. Now they are land crabs.
- dialogue from 'Attack of the Crab Monsters'
- For John Caputo, hermeneutics means radical thinking without transcendental justification: attending to the ruptures and irregularities in existence before the metaphysics of presence has a chance to smooth them over. Radical Hermeneutics forges a closer collaboration between the hermeneutics and deconstruction than has previously been attempted.
- ad for 'Radical Hermeneutics', Repetition, Deconstruction, and the Hermeneutics Project'
- Separate together in a bunch. [And don't] stand around so much in little bundles!
- director Michael Curtiz to movie extras
- This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. Being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as I live it is my privilege - my *privilege* to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I love. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me; it is a sort of splendid torch which I've got a hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him. A vapour, a drop of water, suffices to kill him. But if the universe were to crush him, man would still be more noble than that which killed him, because he knows that he dies and the advantage which the universe has over him; the universe knows nothing of this.
- Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662), quoted by Rebecca West in BLACK LAMB AND GREY FALCON: A JOURNEY THROUGH YUGOSLAVIA, 1940
- To middle-class Americans who have paid a great deal for the last 12 years and from whom I ask a contribution tonight, I will say again... you're not going at it alone anymore - you're certainly not going first, and you're not going to pay more for less as you have too often in the past.
- President Bill Clinton, Joint session of Congress, February 17, 1993
- I'm not going to raise taxes on middle-class Americans to pay for the programs I've recommended.
- Bill Clinton (1946 - ), Presidential Debate, October 19, 1992
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