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“As the twentieth century draws to a close it has become obvious that material yardsticks alone cannot serve as an adequate measure of human well-being. Even as basic an issue as poverty has to be re-examined to take into account the psychological sense of deprivation that makes people feel poor.”

People Feels Humans Wells Enough Poor Poverty Issues Century Materials Draws Accounts Obvious Psychological Well Being Adequate Twentieth Century Deprivation Yardsticks

Book:Towards a true refuge

Source: Towards a true refuge

“Why do I have an issue with banks? They have their greedy fingers in everyones money. No other industry has the power to deduct a bill or fees directly from your own bank account without so much as a notice.”

Issues Industry Accounts Bills Fingers Greedy Fees Bank Accounts

Author:Jonathan Raymond

“The environmental agenda seems swept under the rug a lot, and environmentalists are looked at as tree-huggers who aren't dealing with the real issues when in fact someone needs to be keeping an eye on how we're treating the planet. When politicians bring up the environment, they're immediately labeled as being anti-business. But for the sake of the planet on which we live, we need to take the environment into account.”

Needs Real Facts Seems Eye Issues Environment Tree Planets Politician Accounts Environmental Sake Agendas Environmentalist

Author:Rachel Dratch

“I find it very annoying that so many animal advocates talk about the difficulty of being vegan. Many animal advocates are inclined to make the issue their suffering and not the animals' suffering, and I suppose that accounts for part of the reason that veganism is portrayed as such a "sacrifice." And many animal advocates are not vegans, or are "flexible vegans," which means that they do not observe veganism at all or not consistently, and emphasizing the supposed difficulty of veganism is part of justifying their own behavior.”

Mean Reason Suffering Animal Issues Sacrifice Behavior Accounts Difficulty Vegan Annoying Consistently Flexible Veganism Animal Suffering

Author:Gary L. Francione

“We represent people, and any good congressperson wants to know how their people at home feel about issues. I can tell you for sure in our office that is taken into account, and that is true for any congresspersons I know.”

People Knows Want Feels I Can Home Know How Issues Taken Office Accounts

Author:Charlie Norwood

“What had the board been doing when they see these things happening. I mean, you can write a law that says you cannot provide incentives for the openings of accounts, but I think it gets to be a deeper issue of the value structure of any organization and the value of its leaders.”

Thinking Writing Mean Law Values Leader Issues Happenings Organization Accounts Structure Deeper Things Happen Opening Boards Incentives

Author:John Kasich

“I'll say God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I'm not crazy about. I'm pretty much anti-death. God looks by all accounts to be pro-death. I'm not seeing how we can get together on this issue, he and I.”

Looks Kind Seems Together Issues Seeing Crazy Style Accounts Management Get Together Laid Back

Book:Infinite Jest

Source: Infinite Jest

“However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbor, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in a war simply on her account. If we have to fight it must be on larger issues than that.”

Ifs May War Whole Bigs Fighting Nations Powerful Issues Military Circumstances Accounts British Neighbor Empires British Empire Small Nations

Author:Neville Chamberlain

“Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.”

May Ideas Science Issues Accounts Cemetery

Book:Tragic Sense of Life

Source: Tragic Sense of Life

“Science simply cannot adjudicate the issue of God's possible superintendence of nature.”

God Science Issues Accounts Simplicity Science And Religion

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to experiment. Arguments from authority are unacceptable.”

Trying Mind Science Understanding Freedom Simple Issues Lessons Authority Argument Accounts Complexes Experiments Guarantees Dogma Publish

Book:Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium

Source: Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium

“The protestant martyrs and their monuments testify to the fact that they died, not on account of ecclesial differences, but because the issue was the way of salvation.”

Way Facts Differences Issues Accounts Died Salvation Martyr Monument Protestants

Author:Alistair Begg