"The greater the number of prescriptions, the more people's sense of personal responsibility dwindles."

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Source : "European Cities Do Away with Traffic Signs" by Matthias Schulz, www.spiegel.de. November 16, 2006.

Hans Monderman

#Responsibility Quotes #Numbers Quotes #People Quotes

“When I die, they might as well bury me at the finish line at Churchill Downs so they can run over me one more time.”
“I think the process of being hopeful, being really opportunity oriented, not just in rhetoric but in action, showing that no one get's left behind, not just by talking about it but by doing it, I think is really a key [to political success].”
“Contemplate the choice between going after money or ideals. There is so much pressure to go for money, idealism gets little airplay. Do something that means something to you.”
“The powder is mixed with water and tastes exactly like powder mixed with water.”
“Oil is also essential for military operations. No other substance, no other raw material, is so vital for the prosecution of warfare, than petroleum. And the United States being the world's only global power, is totally dependent on petroleum.”

Source : "The Permanent Energy Crisis". Interview with Julian Brookes, www.motherjones.com. June 19, 2006.
“When we talk about defending Muslims, defending women, we're automatically by default excluding someone, but when we talk about defending liberty, when we talk about defending the freedoms that are enshrined within our founding documents, that is inclusive of every American. That's a message the American left needs to learn as we move forward.”
“Music before all else, and for that choose the irregular, which is vaguer and melts better into the air...”
“Discover what you don't like doing and stop doing it.”

Source : Marcus Buckingham (2008). “The One Thing You Need to Know: ... About Great Managing, Great Leading and Sustained Individual Success”, p.219, Simon and Schuster

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