Staggering Quotes - Page 2

• The semi-colon is a burp, a hiccup. It's a drunk staggering out of the saloon at 2 a.m., grabbing your lapels on the way and asking you to listen to one more story.

  James Scott Bell

  Drunk, Asking, Stories

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• People do not realize that Alzheimer's is not old age. It is a progressive and fatal disease, and staggering amounts of people develop Alzheimer's every day.

  Melina Kanakaredes

  Alzheimer's, People, Age

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• These numbers are staggering, in fact incomprehensible. By all accounts, we are dealing with the greatest health crisis in human history.

  Nelson Mandela

  Numbers, Facts, Healthcare

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• There's no blame placed at Kate Middleton, who was in the hospital for, as far as I can see, absolutely no reason . . . She feels no shame about the death of this woman. The arrogance of the British royals is staggering, absolutely staggering.

  Steven Morrissey

  Arrogance, Royal, Blame

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• A staggering 63 percent of Americans say that addiction to alcohol or other drugs has had an impact on them at some point in their lives.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  Impact, Addiction, Alcohol

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• If all the bank loans were paid, no one could have a bank deposit, and there would not be a dollar of coin or currency in circulation. This is a staggering thought. We are completely dependent on the commercial banks. Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash, or credit. If the banks create ample synthetic money we are prosperous; if not, we starve. We are absolutely without a permanent money system. When one gets a complete grasp of the picture, the tragic absurdity of our hopeless situation is almost incredible - but there it is.

  Robert W. Hemphill

  Commercial Banks, Bankers, Dollars

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• Human enhancement is now being driven by military imperatives, at least in the US, because civilian society is more conservative in its approach. It’s a missed opportunity for a society-wide push to understand and reduce our need to power the brain down for hours every day. Every hour we sleep is an hour we are not working, finding mates, or teaching our children; if sleep does not have a vital adaptive function to pay for its staggering opportunity cost, it could be ‘the greatest mistake the evolutionary process ever made’.

  Jessa Gamble

  Children, Military, Mistake

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• I find the universe so staggering that I just don't have any faith in my ability to grasp it.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Ability, Universe

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• During World War II, the pilot losses were staggering. In some bombing raids, as many as 80% of the planes that left did not return.

  Simon Sinek

  War, Loss, Pilots

  "Look Forward: Simon Sinek". www.askmen.com.

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• Several devices he has to draw souls to sin, and several plots he has to keep souls from all holy and heavenly services, and several stratagems he has to keep souls in a mourning, staggering, doubting and questioning condition. He has several devices to destroy the great and honorable, the wise and learned, the blind and ignorant, the rich and the poor, the real and the nominal Christians.

  Thomas Brooks

  Christian, Wise, Real

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• Nadie puede permanecer neutral ante la resurrección de Jesús.
  La afirmación es demasiado asombrosa,
  el evento es demasiado estremecedor,
  las implicaciones demasiado significativas
  y el asunto demasiado serio.
  Debemos recibirla o rechazarla como verdad para nosotros.
  Permanecer indiferentes o indecisos es rechazarla.

  Mark Driscoll

  Jesús, Materia, Serio

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• Fight the staggering rise of type-2 diabetes by simply learning to cook healthy fresh food - it's fun, and it could save your life!

  Jamie Oliver

  Fun, Fighting, Type 2 Diabetes

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• We've seen more reform in the last year than we've seen in decades, and we haven't spent a dime yet. It's staggering how the Recovery Act is driving change.

  Arne Duncan

  Recovery, Years, Reform

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• Yes, aging can be tough and rough... But it is possible to approach the ultimate without staggering and even with a kind of glow, like a radiant sunset.

  Norman Corwin

  Sunset, Age, Tough

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• La mayoría de los animales, incluidos la mayoría de los primates domesticados (humanos), muestran una capacidad asombrosa para "ignorar" ciertos tipos de información, la que no "encaja" en su túnel de realidad impreso/condicionado.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Animal, Reality, Tunnels

  Robert Anton Wilson (1990). “Quantum Psychology: How Brain Software Programs You and Your World”, New Falcon Publications

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• Not all introductions worked well. Rabbits were an unmitigated environmental disaster. Unchecked by any natural predator, they bred at a staggering rate and chewed their way across vast areas of pastureland as well as any garden that came their way. Attempts to control them by introducing ferrets, weasels and stoats did much more harm than good. Although these predators probably killed a reasonable number of rabbits, they also devastated populations of kiwi and raided the nests of flighted birds.

  Bee Dawson

  Garden, Numbers, Bird

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• Es ciertamente una concepción maravillosa, asombrosa... que nuestro propio universo estelar no sea más que uno de cientos de miles de universos similares... La familiaridad con estos poderosos conceptos no engendra ciertamente desprecio, no embota nuestro asombro ante el poderío del universo en el que desempeñamos un papel tan pequeño. Es muy dudoso que alguno de los que estudian seriamente los cielos pierda alguna vez su sentimiento de reverencia por este universo supremamente maravilloso y por Quienquiera o Lo Que Sea que esté detrás de todo ello.

  Heber Doust Curtis

  Juego, Espacio, Cielo

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• Even with the recent story about the nurse killing herself in King Edward Hospital, there's no blame placed on Kate Middleton, who was in the hospital as far as I could see for absolutely no reason. She feels no shame about the death of this woman, she's saying nothing about the death of this poor woman. The arrogance of the British royals is staggering, absolutely staggering. And why it's allowed to be I really don't know... It wasn't because of two DJs in Australia that this woman took her own life, it was the pressure around her.

  Steven Morrissey

  Kings, Australia, Two

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• The vast knowledge we have to prevent cancer, heart disease, and other chronic illnesses is staggering.

  Tom Rath

  Cancer, Heart, Disease

  Tom Rath (2013). “Eat Move Sleep: How Small Choices Lead to Big Changes”, p.6, Missionday, LLC

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• ...[I am] utterly entranced, at times, with the mere fact that there are other people, and that they experience themselves as the primary center of consciousness just as I do. That fact alone...Well, that fact alone is staggering.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  People, Facts, Consciousness

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• I think one of the most shocking things is how little our elected officials knew about what the NSA was doing. Congress is learning from the reporting and that's staggering. Snowden and [former NSA employee] William Binney, who's also in the film as a whistleblower from a different generation, are technical people who understand the dangers.

  Laura Poitras

  Thinking, Nsa, People

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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• There's all of this stuff where we have so much debate over nonsense; it could be cured if we had a better educational system, if we trained people to really try and look into things on their own. That's a tough thing to do, particularly with the educational system staggering.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Educational, People, Trying

  "Preguntas y respuestas: Paul Ehrlich". Entrevista con Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• Each year, food companies use an amount of salt that is every bit as staggering as it sounds: 5 billion pounds.

  Michael Moss

  Years, Sound, Use

  Twitter post from Feb 20, 2013

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• On one planet [earth], and possibly only one planet in the entire universe, molecules that would normally make nothing more complicated than a chunk of rock, gather themselves together into chunks of rock-sized matter of such staggering complexity that they are capable of running, jumping, swimming, flying, seeing, hearing, capturing and eating other such animated chunks of complexity; capable in some cases of thinking and feeling, and falling in love with yet other chunks of complex matter.

  Richard Dawkins

  Running, Falling In Love, Swimming

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• En un mundo que depende del comercio internacional y que se tambalea bajo una pesada carga de deuda internacional, ninguna política es más destructiva que el proteccionismo. Corta los mercados, elimina el comercio, causa desempleo en las industrias exportadoras de todo el mundo, deprime los precios de los productos básicos de exportación, especialmente los productos agrícolas de Estados Unidos. Es la mayor locura de la intervención gubernamental.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Deprimente, Recortes, Gobierno

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