Paul Kurtz Quotes (14 Quotes)


    we passed better today than we did in our best game last year.

    Over the last 14 months, we are starting to see a cumulative effect, what I would call a crisis in confidence. People are becoming more uncertain.

    The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.

    We'll be a little more familiar with it than some of the other teams. Hopefully, that'll help out. We've been there the last couple years. A few years ago, we didn't win it. If we have any kind of edge, I suppose that would be it, but it's still a matter of whoever plays the best and has the best players will win it.

    Since then, we've really been on a downward slope. There are some places where we see some limited progress, but the overall strategic level of leadership -- someone who is there full time, all the time making sure programs are in place and properly funded -- that's what's lacking.


    What is at stake is the precious right of freedom of expression. Cartoons often provide an important form of political satire ... To refuse to distribute a publication because of fear of vigilante violence is to undermine freedom of press so vital for our democracy.

    In government, when it came to senior level focus after Sept. 11, 99.9 was skewed towards physical protection, and cyber-security took a back seat.

    We didn't pass all that well but we still got the win. We've got a big one coming up so we'll have to play our best Thursday.

    The government doesn't have to solve everyone's problem here.

    We thought we were prepared, ... I think we could have gone all the way.

    It was frightening enough for American consumers when major corporate database breaches here at home started exposing the potential vulnerability of their personal information.

    Calling for stronger security in the context of terrorism is a mistake. I think it is a mistake because the implication is that it is the government's responsibility to solve the problem. The government cant defend all these networks.

    Most humans feel the transcendent temptation, the emotional drive to festoon the universe with large-scale meaning

    They've been working hard on their games this year. I had them doing a lot of short-game practice. We practiced on the par 3 course, a lot of chipping and putting, really concentrating on the short game, trying to eliminate some strokes. Everybody has cut three or four strokes off their rounds this year. We'll keep doing the same things we've been doing all year and hopefully it'll work out for us.


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