Charles A. Murray (Charles Alan Murray) Quotes

Illegitimacy is the single most important social problem of our time - more important than crime, drugs, poverty, illiteracy, welfare or homelessness because it drives everything else.

Charles A. Murray

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• Problem
• Poverty
• Drug
• Crime
• Welfare
• Homelessness

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• The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denial and stupidity. We played an enormous part in the history of America.

  

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• As you make your way along life's tumultuous highways, it's important to note that you should always carry a map, have plenty of fuel in the tank, and take frequent rest stops.

  

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• What can you do if a part of it is uphill? You can't work out another route. You've just got to run the one they give you. But they tell me London is a nice course. Even the cobbles, I hope, are not very much of a problem for me.

  

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• The work that we do during the winter is very important; we have a new bike and it's important to develop it during this time, and we start with this test.

  

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• If I couldn't see the colors, now that would be a problem.

  

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• Being a parent is about your survival. Surviving the terrible two's is the most important thing.

  

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• I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
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• I always work with a goal - and the goal is to improve as a player and a person. That, finally, is the most important thing of all.

  

  Rafael Nadal
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• We have global interests, potential threats from elsewhere, North Korea, Iran, Taiwan Straits and the like. We must be prepared for any future threat. That is why it is important that this be a transition year, 2006.

  

  Ike Skelton
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• As a child I experienced firsthand the severe effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially upon women and children. My parents taught me the importance of education and that it was a key to improving an individual's life.

  

  Naveen Jain
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• To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.

  

  Irene Peter
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• Nurses are an integral component of the health care system, and it is important that we recognize the over 2.7 million registered nurses for the significant work that they do.

  

  Nathan Deal
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• Richard Childress and myself have made some important innovations on our cars.

  

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• It's impossible to be someone you're not, so quit trying. I am as passionate about my hobbies as I am about my work and my family. All three are equally important to me at all times.

  

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• Even after marriage, our home is important for us.

  

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• Why did the Soviet Union disintegrate? Why did the Soviet Communist Party collapse? An important reason was that their ideals and beliefs had been shaken.

  

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• After a divorce, men’s biggest fear is, typically, losing their children (women’s is poverty).

  

  Warren Farrell
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• You look at things you enjoy in your life, but much more important is what you can do to make the world a better place.

  

  Paul Allen
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• There's not much music I'll listen to if it doesn't have pretty heavy swing. Rhythm is so important. Punk rock would have more power and feeling if it had swing.

  

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• If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not understand it. I feel it as a torture, which I must get rid of, but never as a pleasure. On the contrary, I think composition a great pain.

  

  Lord Byron
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• I don't see democracy getting better. I see democracy diminishing. More rules, more legislation. Eventually governments will see everything.

  

  Taki Theodoracopulos
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• People have things that happen between them. I certainly don't keep grudges.

  

  Dan Gilbert
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• Illegitimacy is the single most important social problem of our time - more important than crime, drugs, poverty, illiteracy, welfare or homelessness because it drives everything else.

  

  Charles A. Murray
  • Important
  • Problem
  • Poverty