#margin

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self. ↗

— George Eliot

#close #glory #i #know #leave

Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who went to the same colleges; those from Queens are margin clerks in the back offices and they speak of friends who live in the same neighborhood. ↗

— Jimmy Breslin

#brokers #clerks #colleges #friends #live

The point is not to stay marginal, but to participate in whatever network of marginal zones is spawned from other disciplinary centers and which, together, constitute a multiple displacement of those authorities. ↗

— Judith Butler

#centers #constitute #disciplinary #displacement #marginal

I have, in some ways, saved characters that have been marginalized by society by playing them - and having them still have dignity and still survive, still get through it. ↗

— Jodie Foster

#characters #dignity #get #having #i

So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#comes #limit #margins #miss #much

I would not run as a one-issue candidate. Anybody who does that is declaring himself to be marginal. ↗

— John Bolton

#candidate #declaring #does #himself #i

But if you - if what - the reports are true, what they're saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that's going to increase our costs, we knew that. ↗

— Barack Obama

#care #consequence #costs #getting #going

No daylight to separate us. Only kinship. Inching ourselves closer to creating a community of kinship such that God might recognize it. Soon we imagine, with God, this circle of compassion. Then we imagine no one standing outside of that circle, moving ourselves closer to the margins so that the margins themselves will be erased. We stand there with those whose dignity has been denied. We locate ourselves with the poor and the powerless and the voiceless. At the edges, we join the easily despised and the readily left out. We stand with the demonized so that the demonizing will stop. We situate ourselves right next to the disposable so that the day will come when we stop throwing people away. ↗

— Gregory Boyle

#compassion #god #kinship #margins #solidarity

A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#first-rate #his #hurry #keeps #late

Percentage margins don't matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#actually #always #amount #companies #dollar