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“Pictures artists staged their own images or copied or cut out others already in existence. The viewer took them in separately, in sometimes paradoxical waves: an original image, then the manipulations of it, then the places where image and idea intersected. This created a crucial perceptual glitch that irony and understanding filled.”

Ideas Sometimes Artist Understanding Existence Cutting Originals Filled Wave Irony Manipulation Crucial Viewers Paradoxical Glitches

Author:Jerry Saltz

“It is crucial that rappers have the chance to express the truth that is in their heart.”

Heart Chance Crucial Rapper

Author:Russell Simmons

“I think almost every political leader is always told that the next speech they make is the most crucial one.”

Thinking Political Next Leader Speech Crucial Political Leaders

Author:Iain Duncan Smith

“On the simplest level, telecommuting makes it harder for people to have the kinds of informal interactions that are crucial to the way knowledge moves through an organization. The role that hallway chat plays in driving new ideas has become a cliche of business writing, but that doesn't make it less true.”

People Way Writing Kind Ideas Play Moving Levels Roles Organization Harder Driving Crucial Interaction New Ideas Simplest Cliche Hallways Business Writing

Author:James Surowiecki

“Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.”

Inspirational Important Answers Existence Knowing Importance Simplicity Meaningful Ease Indifference Crucial Not Knowing

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it - oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.”

People Looks Said Attention Too Much Minutes Yesterday Prize Crucial Nobel Invincible Apartheid Morale Nobel Peace Prize

Author:Desmond Tutu

“As any doctor can tell you, the most crucial step toward healing is having the right diagnosis. If the disease is precisely identified, a good resolution is far more likely. Conversely, a bad diagnosis usually means a bad outcome, no matter how skilled the physician.”

Ifs Mean Matter Healing Steps Disease Doctors Outcomes Resolution Crucial Physicians Diagnosis

Author:Andrew Weil

“It does kids no favors, and sets them up for a potential lifetime of poor health and social embarrassment, to excuse them from family meals of real food. Everyone benefits from healthy eating, but it is particularly crucial at the beginning of life.”

Doe Real Kids Social Poor Healthy Benefits Eating Lifetime Excuse Favors Meals Crucial Embarrassment Healthy Eating Beginning Of Life Real Food Poor Health

Author:Andrew Weil

“I think dress, hairstyle and make-up are the crucial factors in projecting an attractive persona and give one the chance to enhance one's best physical features.”

Thinking Giving Artist Chance Fashion Dresses Factors Features Attractive Crucial Persona Hairstyles

Author:Vivienne Westwood

“Iran is a country of 80 million people, educated and dynamic. It sits astride a crucial part of the world. It cannot be sanctioned and pressed down forever. It is the last great civilization to sit outside the global order.”

People World Country Lasts Order Millions Forever Civilization Educated Iran Crucial

Author:Fareed Zakaria

“Young voters are crucial. The trend over recent years has been for them to drift away. So anything that gets young voters interested in the electoral process not only has an immediate effect, but has an effect for years and years.”

Years Has Beens Young Process Effects Voters Trends Crucial Electoral Process

Author:Howard Rheingold

“I wake up like this, this sense that I've somehow been transported to an alternate universe where my life took a left instead of a right beacuse of some seeemingly insignificant yet cosmically crucial choice I've made, about a girl or a kiss or a date or a job or which Starbucks I went into...something.”

Made Jobs Choices Girl Universe Left Kissing Wake Up Crucial Insignificant Starbucks

Author:Jonathan Tropper

“Knowing the precies answers is not as crucial as the certainty that the answers do, in fact, exist.”

Facts Answers Knowing Certainty Crucial

Author:Chris Heimerdinger

“Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little of our imagination, for our crucial problem has been a lack of conventional means to render our lives believable. This, my friends, is the crux of our solitude.”

Mean Littles Has Beens Problem Reality Asks Imagination Our Lives Poet Solitude Creatures Musician My Friends Warrior Prophet Crucial Conventional Beggar Believable Scoundrels Crux

Book:Century of the Wind

Source: Century of the Wind

“Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.”

Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

“Then there came a faraway, booming voice like a low, clear bell. It came from the center of the bowl and down the great sides to the ground and then bounced toward her eagerly. 'You see I am fate,' it shouted, 'and stronger than your puny plans; and I am how-things-turn-out and I am different from your little dreams, and I am the flight of time and the end of beauty and unfulfilled desire; all the accidents and imperceptions and the little minutes that shape the crucial hours are mine. I am the exception that proves no rules, the limits of your control, the condiment in the dish of life.”

“As a Christian and a feminist, the most important message I can carry and fight for is the sacredness of each human life, and reproductive rights for all women are a crucial part of that. It is a moral necessity that we not be forced to bring children into the world for whom we cannot be responsible and adoring and present. We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society.”

World Humans Children I Can Important Christian Fighting Moral Rights Messages Responsible Feminist Human Life Crucial Being Responsible Unwanted Sacredness Reproductive Rights

Book:Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

Source: Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

“I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful hault, 'won't go,' or, even worse, explodes in some innocent person's face.”

Feels Persons Moments Faces Break Machines Innocent Crucial Breaking Down Inadequate Grind Crucial Moments Innocent Person

Author:May Sarton

“You were born to lead as mothers and fathers because nowhere is righteous leadership more crucial than in the family. You were born to lead as priesthood and auxiliary leaders, as heads of communities, companies, and even nations. You were born to lead as men and women willing 'to stand as witnesses of God at all times and in all things, and in all places' because that's what a true leader does.”

Men Doe Mother Father Nations Born Community Company Leader Willing Men And Women All Things All Time Witness Crucial Righteous Priesthood Mother And Father True Leader

Author:Sheri L. Dew

“I entered the classroom with the conviction that it was crucial for me and every other student to be an active participant, not a passive consumer...education as the practice of freedom.... education that connects the will to know with the will to become. Learning is a place where paradise can be created.”

Knows Practice Students Conviction Active Consumers Paradise Crucial Classroom Passive Participants

Author:Bell Hooks

“I watched my mother do what she did best, and realized there would never be a way to cut myself from her entirely. No matter how strong or weak I was, she was a part of me, as crucial as my own heart. I would never be strong enough, in all my life, to do without her.”

Way Heart Matter Enough Mother Strong My Own Cutting Weak Crucial Strong Enough

Book:How to Deal

Source: How to Deal

“If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things that others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.”

Ifs Knows Needs Feelings Asks Understanding Loses Crucial Know Yourself Understanding You

Book:Point Omega

Source: Point Omega

“There's a Spanish proverb," he said, "that's always fascinated me. "Take what you want and pay for it, says God.'" "I don't believe in God," Daniel said, "but that principle seems, to me, to have a divinity of its own; a kind of blazing purity. What could be simpler, or more crucial? You can have anything you want, as long as you accept that there is a price and that you will have to pay it.”

Want Believe Kind Long Said Seems Pay Accepting Principles Don't Believe What You Want Purity Divinity Believe In God Crucial Fascinated Blazing Spanish Proverb

Author:Tana French

“..Acts of appropriation are part of the process by which we make ourselves. Appropriating - taking something for one’s own use - need not be synonymous with exploitation. This is especially true of cultural appropriation. The “use” one makes of what is appropriated is the crucial factor.”

Needs Use Process Factors Crucial Exploitation Appropriation

Author:Bell Hooks

“Natural selection saw to it that professional heroes who at a crucial moment tended to ask themselves questions like 'What is my purpose in life?' very quickly lacked both.”

Moments Purpose Asks Natural Saws Hero Purpose Of Life Crucial Selection Natural Selection Discworld Interesting Times Crucial Moments

Book:Interesting Times: (Discworld Novel 17)

Source: Interesting Times: (Discworld Novel 17)

“The fragility of love is what is most at stake here—humanity's most crucial three-word avowal is often uttered only to find itself suddenly embarrassing or orphaned or isolated or ill-timed—but strangely enough it can work better as a literal or reassuring statement than a transcendent or numinous or ecstatic one.”

Enough Humanity Three Love Is Ill Statements Crucial Stakes Isolated Embarrassing Embarrassment Literal Transcendent Ecstatic Fragility Reassuring Three Words Numinous

Book:Hitch 22: A Memoir

Source: Hitch 22: A Memoir

“He'd always had that fearless optimism that made cynics like me squirm. I wondered if it was enough for both of us. I would never know from here, though. And time was passing. Crucial minutes and seconds, each one capable of changing everything.”

Ifs Knows Made Enough Minutes Capable Optimism Passing Like Me Passings Fearless Seconds Crucial Changing Everything

Book:This Lullaby

Source: This Lullaby

“My faith in Christ is central to my life. My conversion from a pessimistic atheist lost in a world I didn't understand, to an optimistic believer in a universe created and sustained by a loving God is crucial to me. But following Christ does not mean following His followers. Christ is infinitely more important than Christianity and always will be, no matter what Christianity is, has been, or might become.”

“One's thoughts are one's most crucial adventures. Seriously and strongly and intently to contemplate doing murder is everyway more exciting, more romantic, more profoundly tragic than the murder done.”

Done Adventure Exciting Murder Tragic Crucial Contemplating

Book:Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader

Source: Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader

“Although the far territory of the extreme can exert an intoxicating pull on susceptible individuals of all bents, extremism seems to be especially prevalent among those inclined by temperament or upbringing toward religious pursuits. Faith is the very antithesis of reason, injudiciousness a crucial component of spiritual devotion. And when religious fanaticism supplants ratiocination, all bets are suddenly off.”

Source: Under The Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

“They meet in the girls' bathroom. The last time they were forced to meet in a place like this, they took separate, isolated stalls. Now they share one. They hold each other in the tight space, making no excuses for it. There's no time left in their lives for games, or for awkwardness, or for pretending they don't care about each others, and so they kiss as if they've done it forever. As if it is as crucial as the need for oxygen.”

Ifs Needs Done Care Lasts Girl Games Left Space Forever Share Kissing Excuse Don't Care Pretending Crucial Isolated Last Time Bathroom Oxygen No Excuses Awkwardness Time Left Tight Spaces

Book:Unwind

Source: Unwind

“And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.”

Whole Sin Christianity Virtue Opposites Definitions Crucial

Book:The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition of Edification and Awakening by Anti-Climacus

Source: The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition of Edification and Awakening by Anti-Climacus

“I was born to love - but none of you wanted to believe it, and that misunderstanding was crucial in forming my character. It's true that nature was strangely inconsistent in giving me a warm heart, but also a face that was like a stone mask and a tongue that was heavy and slow. She refused me what she bestowed freely on even the most loutish of my fellow men. . . . People judged my inner character by my outer covering, and like a sterile fruit, I withered under the rough husk I couldn't slough off.”

“Gerald Westerby, he told himself. You were present at your birth. You were present at your several marriages and at some of your divorces, and you will certainly be present at your funeral. High time, in our considered view, that you were present at certain other crucial moments in your history.”

Moments Certain Views Birth Divorce Crucial Funeral Crucial Moments

Author:John le Carre

“I like being in love, but loving is what is crucial to me. Loving is the reason to live.”

Reason Crucial Being In Love Reason To Live

Author:Saffron Burrows

“The brain is more than an assemblage of autonomous modules, each crucial for a specific mental function. Every one of these functionally specialized areas must interact with dozens or hundreds of others, their total integration creating something like a vastly complicated orchestra with thousands of instruments, an orchestra that conducts itself, with an ever-changing score and repertoire.”

Brain Creating Areas Function Instruments Complicated Score Crucial Dozen Integration Orchestra Autonomous Creating Something Assemblage

Author:Oliver Sacks

“Addictions [...] started out like magical pets, pocket monsters. They did extraordinary tricks, showed you things you hadn't seen, were fun. But came, through some gradual dire alchemy, to make decisions for you. Eventually, they were making your most crucial life-decisions. And they were [...] less intelligent than goldfish.”

Fun Decision Intelligent Extraordinary Addiction Monsters Tricks Pet Pockets Crucial Alchemy Goldfish Life Decision

Book:Zero History

Source: Zero History

“Real life is a funny thing, you know. In real life, saying the right thing at the right moment is beyond crucial. So crucial, in fact, that most of us start to hesitate, for fear of saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. But lately what I've begun to fear more that that is letting the moment pass without saying anything. I think most of us fear reaching the end of our life, and looking back, regretting the moments we didn't speak up. When we didn't say "I love you." When we should've said "I'm Sorry." When we didn't stand up for ourselves or some one who needed help.”

“There was a time when I believed I was the redeemed one, the boy borne safely home on the ebb of whatever freak tide carried Peter and Jamie away. Not any more. In ways too dark and crucial to be called metaphorical, I never left that wood.”

Way Home Left Dark Boys Woods Crucial Freak Peter Tides Redeemed Jamie Metaphorical

Author:Tana French

“Of course all such conclusions about appropriate actions against the rich and powerful are based on a fundamental flaw: This is us, and that is them. This crucial principle, deeply embedded in Western culture, suffices to undermine even the most precise analogy and the most impeccable reasoning.”

Action Culture Courses Powerful Principles Rich Fundamentals Western Conclusion Reasoning Appropriate Flaws Crucial Precise Analogies Embedded Western Culture Impeccable

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Some have argued that confronting the threat from Iraq could detract from the war against terror. To the contrary, confronting the threat posed by Iraq is crucial to winning the war on terror.”

War Winning Threat Iraq Terror Contrary Crucial War On Terror Confronting

Author:George W. Bush

“She was at that crucial age when a women begins to regret having stayed faithful to a husband she never really loved, when the glowing sunset colors of her beauty offer her one last, urgent choice between maternal and feminine love. At such a moment a life that seemed to have chosen its course long ago is questioned once again, for the last time the magic compass needle of the will hovers between final resignation and the hope of erotic experience.”

“The only real difference between a wise man and a fool, Moore knew, was that the wise man tended to make more serious mistakes—and only because no one trusted a fool with really crucial decisions; only the wise had the opportunity to lose battles, or nations.”

Men Real Opportunity Nations Loses Differences Decision Mistake Wise Serious Fool Battle Crucial Trusted Serious Mistakes

Book:Clear and Present Danger

Source: Clear and Present Danger

“The absolute worst part of being depressed is the food. A person's relationship with food is one of their most important relationships. I don't think your relationship with your parents is that important. Some people never know their parents. I don't think your relationship with your friends are important. But your relationship with air-that's key. You can't break up with air. You're kind of stuck together. Only slightly less crucial is water. And then food. You can't be dropping food to hang with someone else. You need to strike up an agreement with it.”

“If your heart tells you something but your mind tells you something else, which do you believe? Both are just as apt to lie. In fact, they play at deceit all the time. Mostly they balance each other, giving us that crucial reality check. But what happens on the rare occasions when they conspire together?”

Ifs Giving Mind Believe Heart Play Facts Reality Happens Together Lying Balance Checks Occasions Deceit Crucial Rare Occasion

Author:Neal Shusterman

“She couldn't take her eyes off the boxers. Mostly, she had a view of the back, but he turned halfway when he looked over. She commanded herself not to look at the front flap, which, of course, was exactly what she honed in on. He spit and put his mouth under the tap to get some water. All while just wearing underwear. All while she just stared at the crucial spot of the Action Pants.”

Looks Eye Action Courses Water Views Fronts Mouths Spots Crucial Pants Her Eyes Halfway Spit Underwear Boxers

Author:Maureen Johnson

“It's the same story with a few crucial additions; the most important one is you.”

Important Stories Crucial

Author:J. K. Rowling

“Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of the various societies' histories] towards success or failure: long-term planning and willingness to reconsider core values. On reflection we can also recognize the crucial role of these same two choices for the outcomes of our individual lives.”

“I liked looking on at other people in crucial situations. If there was a road accident or a street fight or a baby pickled in a laboratory jar for me to look at, I'd stop and look so hard I never forgot it.”

People Ifs Way Looks Made Hard Fighting Situation Streets Baby Sick Accidents Crucial Laboratory Jars

Author:Sylvia Plath

“What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every act. What matters is to find a purpose, to see what it really is that God wills that I shall do; the crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.”

Knows Needs Ideas Matter Purpose Dies Clear Willing Existentialism Crucial What Matters

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

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