“If one defines the term 'dropout' to mean a person who has given up serious effort to meet his responsibilities, then every business office, government agency, golf club and university faculty would yield its quota.” IfsMeanPersonsGovernmentGivenTermWorkEffortResponsibilitySeriousOfficeGolfUniversityClubsAgencyFacultyYieldGiven UpQuotaGolf ClubsDropoutsGovernment Agencies Book:The Recovery of Confidence Source: The Recovery of Confidence
“The honest and serious student of American history will recall that our Founding Fathers managed to write both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution without using the term 'democracy' even once. No part of any of the existing state Constitutions contains any reference to the word. [The men] who were most influential in the institution and formulation of our government refer to 'democracy' only to distinguish it sharply from the republican form of our American Constitutional system.” MenWritingStatesGovernmentFormFatherTermDemocracyHonestStudentsHe ManSeriousRepublicanConstitutionIndependenceInstitutionsHistoricalRecallsAmerican HistoryDeclarationFoundingInfluentialOur Founding FathersDeclaration Of Independence Author:Clarence Manion
“The hippies had in mind something that they wanted, and were calling it freedom, but in the final analysis freedom is a purely negative goal. It just says something is bad. Hippies weren't really offering any alternatives other than colorful short-term ones, and some of these were looking more and more like pure degeneracy. Degeneracy can be fun but it's hard to keep up as a serious lifetime occupation.” MindHardWantedFunGoalTermSeriousCallingPureNegativeLifetimeFinalsAlternativesAnalysisOccupationOfferingShort TermHippieColorful Author:Robert M. Pirsig
“Human population growth is probably the single most serious long-term threat to survival. We're in for a major disaster if it isn't curbed...We have no option. If it isn't controlled voluntarily, it will be controlled involuntarily by an increase in disease, starvation and war.” IfsHumansLongWarGrowthTermSeriousDiseaseMajorsSurvivalIncreaseThreatPopulationDisasterLong TermControlledStarvationPopulation GrowthHuman Population Author:Prince Philip
“We believe that the developing crisis in the capitalist system, by which we mean both economic stagnation, and the social and political conflicts to which it gives rise, makes it possible to think in terms of developing a sizeable and serious revolutionary socialist party in a way that was not possible 20 or even 10 years ago.” ThinkingWayGivingYearsBelieveMeanPoliticalSocialTermPartyEconomicSeriousConflictYears AgoCrisisDevelopingRevolutionaryCapitalistSocialistStagnationSocialist Party Author:Anthony Crosland
“There is no reason why people should not call themselves Cubists, or Octagonists, or Parallelopipedonists, orKnights oftheIsoscelesTriangle, or Brothers of the Cosine, if they so desire; as expressing anything serious and permanent, one term is as fatuous as another.” PeopleIfsShouldReasonDesireTermSeriousBrotherPermanentReason WhyNo Reason Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“Today the term "global" can no longer constitute a serious topic for an in-depth intellectual discussion because it simply means "Camerica".” MeanTodayTermSeriousIntellectualDepthDiscussionTopics Author:Genco Gulan
“I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it.” ThinkingMenWayWantTermHoursSituationSeriousBecomingMiracleBecoming A Man Author:F. Murray Abraham
“For me, music is in no way ornamental or decorative, it's constitutive of who I am. And that's why, when I say I'm a blues man, that's a very serious vocation - to muster the courage to find your own unique voice, to forge your distinctive style in the world, to leave your imprint in the sands of time in such a way that your singularity, your individuality, remains something that people have to come to terms with.” PeopleMenWorldWayVoiceTermStyleSeriousMusic IsUniqueRemainsIndividualityWho I AmSandVocationDistinctiveSingularityMusterUnique VoicesSands Of Time Author:Cornel West
“When I got fired, I had a feeling of loss because Viacom had been a passionate long-term relationship. But I got my balance back. I guess its like getting jilted by a girlfriend, a serious girlfriend. You move on.” LongFeelingsMovingTermLossSeriousBalancePassionateLong TermGirlfriendLong Term RelationshipJilted Author:Tom Freston
“Chaga is significant in ethnomycology, forest ecology, and increasingly in pharmacognosy. Its long-term human use and cultural eastern European and Russian acceptance should awaken serious researchers to its potential as a reservoir of new medicines, and as a powerful preventive ally for protecting DNA.” ShouldHumansLongUseTermPowerfulAcceptanceSeriousMedicineSignificantForestsLong TermAlliesEcologyEasternDnaResearchersReservoirs Author:Paul Stamets
“What worries me, especially, is that public opinion over here is patting itself on the back every morning and thanking God for theAtlantic Ocean (and the Pacific Ocean). We greatly underestimate the serious implications to our own future.... Things move with such terrific speed these days, that it is really essential to us to think in broader terms and, in effect, to warn the American people that they, too, should think of possible ultimate results in Europe and the Far East.” PeopleThinkingShouldWarMovingTermResultsOpinionMorningWorryEffectsSeriousEssentialsOceanEuropeUltimateSpeedEastThese DaysThank GodEvery MorningUnderestimatePublic OpinionTerrificImplicationsPacificNeutralityPacific Ocean Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt
“They know the outward shows of this life present but of the next life are they careless. Have they not consider the heavens and the earth and all that is between them but for a serious end, and for a fixed term? But truly most men believe not that they shall meet their Lord.” KnowsMenBelieveBookEndsShowsEarthNextHeavenTermLordSeriousHolyThis LifeFixedCarelessNext LifeHoly Books Author:Elijah Muhammad
“Bashar Assad has said many things. We will see in the near term whether he is serious about a political process.” SaidPoliticalProcessTermSeriousAssad Author:Adel al-Jubeir
“The thing about being on the majors, from the beginning, going into this, I was like, "I'm not going to be treated like a factory," because that's never the way it was done before. You're talking about a major label, we're talking about serious business; you're not an artist anymore, you're a business, you have to work in terms of product, you have to release a product, and I don't really think that way at all.” ThinkingWayDoneArtistTermTalkingSeriousProductsMajorsTreatedReleaseLabelsFactoriesSerious Business Author:Beth Ditto
“Collaborating with the musical genius of our time in some ways with Prince himself - late, great Gerald Levert,all these are forms of singing education, what the Greeks call paideia,that deep education to get us to shift from superficial things to serious things, to shift from bling-bling to life and death to justice and pain and joy, those fundamental, elemental things that we must come to terms with as we make our moves from our mother's womb to the tomb.” WayPainMovingFormJoyMotherTermJusticeSeriousGeniusLateSingingFundamentalsMusicalGreekOur TimeLife And DeathSuperficialWombTombsElementalsCollaboratingSerious ThingsBlingSuperficial ThingsMusical Genius Author:Cornel West
“My hope is that Barack Obama will make a serious long term commitment to bringing many more women, minorities and young people into leadership positions within the Democratic Party. That's the way to plan for the future. The US faces some incredibly rough challenging times ahead.” PeopleWayLongFacesYoungTermChallengesPartyPlansPositionSeriousCommitmentDemocraticBarackLong TermMinoritiesRoughDemocratic PartyChallenging Times Author:Rob Kall
“We have also seen an economic crisis that is very serious within Venezuela, we are seeing cutbacks, I believe even more are coming in terms of electricity. Government employees no longer work on Fridays, and that has not been enough.” BelieveEnoughGovernmentI BelieveTermSeeingEconomicSeriousCrisisEmployeeElectricityFridayVenezuelaEconomic CrisisGovernment EmployeesCutbacks Author:Marco Rubio
“That term was used with hyperbole about the parts of the health care bill where doctors are mandated, if people are on Medicare and of a certain age or in serious physical condition, to counsel them on their end-of-life alternatives. I don't believe that was a death panel.” PeopleIfsBelieveEndsCareAgeUsedCertainTermConditionsSeriousDoctorsBillsDon't BelieveAlternativesHealth CareMedicareEnd Of LifeHyperbole Author:Nat Hentoff
“In terms of President Trump, I really do hope that he does accomplish some of the things he said on the campaign trail. If he is willing to make investments in infrastructure, but not on the backs of the middle class and the working class, and put people back to work, that would be a good thing. If he's serious about making Obamacare better, and not pulling the rug out from 20 million Americans who benefit from it, that would be a good thing too.” PeopleIfsDoeSaidWould BePresidentTermClassMillionsMiddleWillingSeriousTrumpBenefitsGood ThingsInvestmentAccomplishCampaignsMiddle ClassPullingWorking ClassTrailsInfrastructureObamacareBack To Work Author:Nina Turner
“What has to be done today is (1) large-scale conversion (weatherizing , etc.), (2) sharp change in transportation to greater efficiency, like high-speed rail, (3) serious efforts to move to sustainable energy, probably solar in the somewhat longer term, (4) other adjustments that are feasible. If done effectively, that might be enough to stave off disaster. If not, then we can give up the ghost, because there are no alternatives in this world, at least none that I've seen suggested.” IfsWorldGivingDoneEnoughMightTodayMovingEnergyTermEffortGreaterThis WorldSeriousGiving UpSpeedDisasterScalesConversionGhostAlternativesEtcEfficiencyAdjustmentTransportationRailLarge ScaleHigh SpeedSustainable EnergyHigh Speed Rail Author:Noam Chomsky
“Quebec's financial situation is serious. In terms of intensity, we're close to matching 1982 and 1997. We won't do the same things this time, but the problems we face today are about as pressing.” ProblemTodayFacesTermSituationSeriousFinancialIntensityMatchingQuebec Author:Philippe Couillard
“I love musicals but it's very, very different. It's really just a different form than serious drama, and has very different rules and a completely different set of characters and requirements and ambitions. It maybe shouldn't be as separate as it is, but it's got a different history. In terms of serious drama, I think you'd have to say that you could break it down essentially into the narrative realist tradition and experimental theater.” ThinkingDifferentCharacterFormTermBreakSeriousDramaAmbitionTraditionTheaterNarrativeRequirementsRealistI Love Music Author:Tony Kushner
“I always thought that I could write a novel. In my case, it was misguided. I do believe that the best nonfiction is not "literary journalism," a misleading term, but rather journalism that asks the questions that serious literature asks. It's storytelling that happens to be true. So I don't think it was a missed opportunity. After awhile you learn what you're really good at. Life is short, so spend time doing that.” ThinkingWritingBelieveLiteratureOpportunityTermNovelSeriousStorytellingBeing TrueJournalismEnd TimesSpend TimeLife Is ShortMisleadMissed Opportunity Author:Ron Rosenbaum