#critical

I have a great deal of difficulty with those who live in a hugely prosperous country telling people in the developing world that they should be deprived of a critical source of energy. ↗

— Lee R. Raymond

#critical #deal #deprived #developing #developing world

U.S. assistance provides the Jordanian government needed flexibility to pursue policies that are of critical importance to U.S. national security and to foreign policy objectives in the Middle East. ↗

— Richard Armitage

#critical #east #flexibility #foreign #foreign policy

I could never do a show, or be a personality like Howard Stern, where you take all that heat from critics. What he does, he does, but the critical heat would crucify me. ↗

— Chuck Barris

#critical #critics #crucify #does #heat

And I also serve on a caucus that addresses financial literacy for young people in this country. And it is so hypocritical that we want to talk to these kids about how to better manage their money when we are not doing a good job with our Nation's resources. ↗

— Melissa Bean

#also #better #caucus #country #doing

The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#critically #detachment #development #economy #imagined

So, for me, working with larger companies has often been very satisfying, precisely because of the ability of bringing critical mass to bear on a given effort. ↗

— Vinton Cerf

#bear #because #been #bringing #companies

Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#critical #cut #destroys #dishonest #emotions

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#critical #granted #gratitude #life #take

I was critical of race-based affirmative action early on in my career and I've changed my mind. And I've publicly acknowledged that I was wrong. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#action #affirmative #affirmative action #career #changed

Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students. ↗

— Christopher Dodd

#critically #education #grants #higher #higher education