“We must contemplate some extremely unpleasant possibilities, just because we want to avoid them and achieve something better. Nobody, however, likes to think about anything unpleasant, even to avoid it. And so the crucial problem of thermonuclear war is frequently dispatched with the label 'War is unthinkable' -- which, translated freely, means we don't want to think about it.” ThinkingWantMeanWarProblemHistoryLearningAchievePossibilityLikesLabelsCrucialContemplatingSomething BetterUnthinkableNuclear War Author:Albert Wohlstetter
“It's really crucial to achieve that balance with a film like this, cause it is unique and witty and then there's the tendency to force that. It becomes contrived and I know the feeling like, give me a fork that I can stab in my eye in those kinds of movies.” KnowsGivingKindI CanFeelingsEyeFilmForceCausesAchieveBalanceUniqueGive MeWittyTendenciesCrucialForks Author:Ellen Page
“A crucial turning point in that earlier history occurred when men and women of good will turned aside from the task of shoring up the Roman imperium and ceased to identify the continuation of civility and moral community with the maintenance of that imperium. What they set themselves out to achieve instead - often not recognizing fully what they were doing - was the construction of new forms of community within which the moral life could be sustained so that both morality and civility might survive the coming age of barbarism and darkness.” MenMightAgeFormCommunityMoralDarknessAchieveMoralityMen And WomenTasksCrucialConstructionRecognizingGood WillCivilityMaintenanceTurning PointsBarbarismContinuationMoral Life Author:Alasdair MacIntyre
“Acceptance and its counterpart, understanding, are crucial to achieving relationship harmony. It is sacred love, the highest form of love, and like most things worth striving for in life, it requires patience, commitment, personal responsibility, and practice.” FormUnderstandingResponsibilityPracticeAchieveAcceptanceHighestCommitmentHarmonySacredStriveCrucialPersonal ResponsibilityCounterpartsForms Of Love Author:Arielle Ford
“An unstated but crucial premise is that the "responsible men" achieve that exalted status by their service to authentic power, a fact of life that they will discover soon enough if they try to pursue an independent path.” IfsMenTryingEnoughFactsPathAchieveResponsibleIndependentPursueCrucialPremisesFacts Of LifeExaltedSoon Enough Author:Noam Chomsky
“It's crucial that people think that their lives have meaning and a purpose and that there's a reward or some sort of reality to achieving something and to learning something and becoming functional.” PeopleThinkingRealityPurposeAchieveBecomingRewardsCrucial Author:Rush Limbaugh