#critical

My efforts in Congress are guided by the belief that environmental preservation and restoration are a critical part of the legacy we leave to future generations. ↗

— Sue Kelly

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The War on Terror is one of the most critical national security efforts in our history. ↗

— Sue Kelly

#efforts #history #most #national #national security

In addition, the oil royalties the Federal Government does not collect from big oil will starve the Land and Water Conservation Fund of critical financial resources. ↗

— Ron Kind

#big #big oil #collect #conservation #critical

Even though I wanted to experience all these things I was interested in, I couldn't get them. So I had to think critically and culturally about what was available. ↗

— Chuck Klosterman

#available #critically #culturally #even #experience

Religion has the capacity to silence critical thinking and create blindness in entire groups of people. It can infect the minds of followers so completely as to allow the most egregious sexual acts against children and others to go unchallenged for centuries. ↗

— Darrel Ray

#religion #sexual-abuse #religion

It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#critical #getting #making #making mistakes #mistakes

Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#adolescence #atmosphere #beginning #being #critical

If Washington continues to fumble issues like taking care of the debt, getting the troops home, and rebuilding our economy, my wife and I may sit down and say, 'These are critical things and maybe we need to get back in the ball.' ↗

— Joe Scarborough

#ball #care #continues #critical #debt

In quiet moments when you think about it, you recognize what is critically important in life and what isn't. Be wise and don't let good things crowd out those that are essential. ↗

— Richard G. Scott

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If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and that gave me a secret purpose to my work, to make them live. Because I wanted to live. I wanted to grow up. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

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