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“Money-crimes have an abstract quality. History is laden with the victims of gold, but their remains are odourless.”

Quality Crime Gold Victim Remains Abstract

Author:Georges Bernanos

“My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant, someone who disrupts the daily drag of life just enough to leave the victim thinking there's maybe more to it all than the mere hum-drum quality of existence.”

Thinking Enough Life Is Existence Quality Ultimate Victim Mere Drag Vocation Irritants

Author:Elvis Costello

“The wild, the absurd, the seemingly crazy: this kind of thinking is where new ideas come from ... The people capable of such playful thought carry forward their childish qualities and childhood dreams, applying them in areas where most of us get stuck, victims of our adult seriousness. Staying a child isn't easy.”

People Thinking Kind Children Ideas Dream Easy Quality Crazy Childhood Capable Adults Areas Victim Stuck Absurd Staying New Ideas Seriousness Childhood Dreams

Author:Nicholas Negroponte

“If you want to be known for whom you are as a person, then your responsibility it to make your qualities more visible. I believe if you don't you are becoming a victim.”

Ifs Want Believe Persons I Believe Quality Responsibility Known Becoming Victim Visible

Author:Marla Runyan

“I was keenly aware that I didn't want to draw on too many typically doomed aspects of the fated singer. Whether it's Judy Garland or Norma Desmond, there is this tragic quality to older women that one can revel in, and you want it to be more three-dimensional than that. So it was important for the character to be strong and resilient, because there are so many victims in opera.”

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Author:Rufus Wainwright

“What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their voices are stifled we shall lend them ours, that while their freedome depends on ours, the quality of our freedom depends on theirs.”

Knows Needs Voice Forget Quality Depends Victim Not Alone

Author:Elie Wiesel

“I'm inclined to reserve all judgement, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men.”

Source: F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trimalchio: An Early Version of 'The Great Gatsby'

“There is much to be done, there is much that can be done... One person of integrity, can make a difference, a difference of life and death. As long as one dissident is in prison, our freedom will not be true. As long as one child is hungry, our lives will be filled with anguish and shame. What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their voices are stifled we shall lend them ours, that while their freedom depends on ours, the quality of our freedom depends on theirs.”

“Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome'. You must be willing to fire.”

“The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.”

Wells War Decision Quality Military Army Victim Strikes Art Of War Making Decisions Decisions Made Decisions You Make Falcon War Strategy Wise Decision

Book:The Art of War

Source: The Art of War

“Imposition of the death penalty is arbitrary and capricious. Decision of who will live and who will die for his crime turns less on the nature of the offense and the incorrigibility of the offender and more on inappropriate and indefensible considerations: the political and personal inclinations of prosecutors; the defendant's wealth, race and intellect; the race and economic status of the victim; the quality of the defendant's counsel; and the resources allocated to defense lawyers.”

“The consumer is both culprit and victim of the confusion on quality.”

Quality Victim Confusion Consumers Culprit

Author:Nino Cerruti

“Don't fall victim to what I call the ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome. You must be willing to fire.”

Fall Quality Fire Willing Ready Aim Victim Syndromes Making Decisions Decisions Made Decisions You Make

Author:George S. Patton

“...testifying for Dr. Privitera...To these 19 cancer victims, the enforcement of (California) Health and Safety Code Sect. 1701.1, the denial of them medical treatment, albeit unorthodox, albeit unapproved by a state agency, must surely take on a Kafka-esque, a nightmare quality. No demonstrated public anger, no compelling interest of the state warrants an Orwellian intrusion into the most private of zones of privacy.”