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The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.
H. L. Mencken
Government
Man
Dangerous
Think
Intolerable
Insane
Out
Able
Taboos
Prevailing
Superstitions
He
Almost
Most
Without
Conclusion
Inevitably
Any
Dishonest
Regard
Who
Lives
Things
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
Colin Powell
Attitude
You
Achieve
Big
Matters
Prevailing
Excellence
Habit
Exception
Develop
Going
Big Things
Little
Things
By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.
Christopher Columbus
Destination
Distractions
Prevailing
Over
Obstacles
Arrive
His
Goal
May
Chosen
Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and chance the future.
Saul Alinsky
Attitude
Future
Change
People
Lost
Past
Our
Our People
System
Willing
Must
Prevailing
Feel
Toward
Mass
Go
Passive
Affirmative
Revolutionary
Any
Frustrated
Let Go
Among
Defeated
Chance
What is Americanization? It manifests itself, in a superficial way, when the immigrant adopts the clothes, the manners and the customs generally prevailing here. Far more important is the manifestation presented when he substitutes for his mother tongue the English language as the common medium of speech.
Louis D. Brandeis
Mother
Language
Important
Clothes
Manners
Medium
Way
Immigrant
Superficial
Adopt
Prevailing
More
Generally
He
Mother Tongue
His
Itself
Common
Substitutes
Manifestation
Customs
Far
English
English Language
Here
Tongue
Presented
Speech
The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he's managing. A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he's put in charge anyway.
W. Edwards Deming
Attitude
Good
Knowledge
Man
Financial
Car
Shoes
Nothing
Good Manager
Background
Charge
About
Prevailing
Foolish
He
Put
Know
Manager
Managing
May
Process
Anyway
Anywhere
Production
Special
Manufacturing
Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.
Jean Toomer
Acceptance
Own
Our
Prevailing
Often
Means
Standards
The Kingdom is the love of God prevailing in politics, in business, in government, in media. It is all the impact of the laws of God creating a social environment where the strong help the weak, where those who have give to those who don't. It's a society where relationships are built on love.
Myles Munroe
Love
Politics
God
Government
Business
Strong
Society
Relationships
Those
Weak
Impact
Kingdom
Give
Prevailing
Laws
Environment
Built
Where
Social
Creating
Help
Who
Media
If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.
Bill Vaughan
Worse
Hates
Prevailing
Another
Than
Anything
Conform
Conformist
Standard
Who
Why are we in this mess, now facing the prospect of economic armageddon? It's because the prevailing characteristic has been greed, and it doesn't matter whether it's individuals living beyond their means or governments living beyond their means or people seeking to get rich quick.
Jeremy Paxman
People
Matter
Greed
Rich
Living
Characteristic
Has-Been
Seeking
Prevailing
Economic
Facing
Individuals
Prospect
Armageddon
Beyond
Mess
Because
Been
Governments
Quick
Get
Whether
Means
Now
Why
I think everybody should have an interest in peace prevailing and the ridiculousness, the bestiality of war. I don't have any time for that. Anybody pulling a trigger is wrong. There is no right in war.
Liam Cunningham
War
Time
Peace
Think
Everybody
Trigger
Prevailing
Wrong
Any
Anybody
Interest
Should
Right
Pulling
Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling creativity of the kind practiced by great artists, directors, writers, musicians, actors, who know how to touch a chord in humans everywhere.
Maurice Saatchi
Time
Great
Nature
Musicians
Creativity
Human Nature
Trends
Everywhere
Kind
Touch
Prevailing
Directors
Tendencies
Writers
Know
Practiced
How
Amenable
Human
Artists
Prediction
Who
Chord
Actor
Based
Humans
Startling
The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
W. Edwards Deming
Management
Crushed
System
Out
Prevailing
Fun
Workplace
Right from the outset, the prevailing mindset in British comics fandom was a radical and progressive one. We were all proto-hippies, and we all thought that comics would be greatly improved if everything was a bit psychedelic like Jim Steranko.
Alan Moore
Thought
Radical
Progressive
Jim
Everything
Mindset
Bit
Would
Would-Be
Prevailing
Outset
Like
Comics
Were
Greatly
Improved
Psychedelic
Right
British
Fracking has been used for more than 60 years to successfully drill over a million oil and gas wells in the U.S. Nonetheless, the prevailing mythology on the radical left is that the technology is 'poisoning our children' by polluting the water we drink and the air we breathe.
Bob Beauprez
Environmental
Technology
Water
Radical
Our
Air
Has-Been
Prevailing
More
Drill
Drink
Mythology
Poisoning
Over
Nonetheless
Been
Years
Left
Than
Oil
Children
Polluting
Breathe
Successfully
Used
Million
Gas
Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.
Brian Ferneyhough
Success
Nature
Failure
Sense
Criteria
Entering
Scarcely
Prevailing
Only
Implications
Involves
Questioning
Where
Spaces
Technical
Specifically
Necessarily
Apply
I didn't do it because of the underlying greed that's prevailing, but it is about greed, doing the right thing at the right time using your clout when you have it and what for and what reason.
Danny DeVito
Time
You
Doing The Right Thing
Greed
Right Thing
Right Time
About
Prevailing
Underlying
Because
Doing
The Right Thing
Clout
Your
Reason
Using
Right
Thing
My father instilled in me the attitude of prevailing. If there's a challenge, go for it. If there's a wall to break down, break it down.
Donny Osmond
Attitude
Me
Challenge
Father
Down
Prevailing
Instilled
Go
Go For It
Wall
Break
I know I can serve Hawaii and our country well in the U.S. Senate, know we can mount a solid statewide campaign, know we have a good chance of prevailing.
Ed Case
Good
Country
Our
Solid
Prevailing
Hawaii
Know
Well
Campaign
Mount
Senate
Good Chance
Serve
Chance
Those who profess the faith of Life regard the ideals of mankind as an expression of man's higher needs. Ideals which were once incentives to development thus become a drag upon it whenever life's needs demand new forms that are not recognised by the prevailing idealism.
Ellen Key
Life
Faith
Needs
Man
Become
Once
Those
Recognised
Prevailing
Higher
Development
Thus
Demand
Idealism
New
Ideals
New Forms
Were
Whenever
Regard
Which
Forms
Mankind
Incentives
Profess
Who
Expression
Drag
The logic of collective security is flawless, provided it can be made to work under the conditions prevailing on the international scene... The odds, however, are strongly against such a possibility.
Elliott Abrams
Work
Made
Collective
Odds
Possibility
Security
Logic
Strongly
Prevailing
Scene
However
Provided
Conditions
Against
Flawless
International
Women compete, compare, undermine, and undercut one another - at least, that is the prevailing notion of how we interact.
Emily V. Gordon
Women
Prevailing
Undercut
Undermine
Another
How
Least
Interact
Notion
Compare
Compete
The fact remains; chauvinism is prevailing.
Emma Bonino
Prevailing
Fact
Remains
Not considering this opening worthy of more attention, I continued our pursuit to the Northwest, being desirous to embrace the advantages of the prevailing breeze.
George Vancouver
Our
Considering
Worthy
Embrace
Prevailing
More
Pursuit
Attention
Advantages
Opening
Continue
Northwest
Being
Breeze
When I was a teenager, science meshed with my developing ideals - such as the challenge to authority that was central to punk rock. In science, anyone from any walk of life could make a discovery that would overturn prevailing hypotheses. And that was a cause for celebration among scientists.
Greg Graffin
Life
Science
Cause
Walk
Challenge
Punk
Teenager
Punk Rock
Would
Prevailing
Could
Hypotheses
Developing
Ideals
Make
Rock
Scientists
Discovery
Overturn
Celebration
Authority
Any
Anyone
Central
Among
We have serious challenges regarding climate change, unsustainable use of natural resources, water scarcity, loss of biodiversity, forests and farmland. Not to mention the huge inequality still prevailing in several parts of the planet.
Guilherme Leal
Change
Challenges
Natural
Water
Resources
Several
Scarcity
Prevailing
Mention
Unsustainable
Parts
Inequality
Climate
Climate Change
Still
Loss
Huge
Forests
Regarding
Natural Resources
Planet
Use
Farmland
Serious
Biodiversity
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