Quotes about message
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“May 15th-19th has been designated “National Infrastructure Week” by the US Chambers of Commerce, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)... Their message: “It’s time to rebuild.””

Ellen Brown (1945) American writer

Ever since ASCE began issuing its “National Infrastructure Report Card” in 1998, the nation has gotten a dismal grade of D or D+. In the meantime, the estimated cost of fixing its infrastructure has gone up from $1.3 trillion to $4.6 trillion.
While American politicians debate endlessly over how to finance the needed fixes and which ones to implement, the Chinese have managed to fund massive infrastructure projects all across their country, including 12,000 miles of high-speed rail built just in the last decade...
A key difference between China and the US is that the Chinese government owns the majority of its banks... The US government could do that too, without raising taxes, slashing services, cutting pensions, or privatizing industries.... The federal government could set up a bank on a similar model. It has massive revenues, which it could leverage into credit for its own purposes. Since financing is typically about 50 percent of the cost of infrastructure, the government could cut infrastructure costs in half by borrowing from its own bank. Public-private partnerships are a good deal for investors but a bad deal for the public. The federal government can generate its own credit without private financial middlemen. That is how China does it, and we can to.

Ellen Brown: If China Can Fund Infrastructure With Its Own Credit, So Can We https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/05/18/if-china-can-fund-infrastructure-with-its-own-credit-so-can-we/, CounterPunch (18 May 2017)

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“When people hear me sing…I want them to be happy, happy, happy. I don't want them thinking about when there's not any money, or when there's fighting at home. My message is always felicidad - happiness.”

Celia Cruz (1925–2003) Cuban singer (1925-2003)

On what she hopes for her audience in “CELIA CRUZ: AT THE TOP OF SALSA” https://www.nytimes.com/1985/11/19/arts/celia-cruz-at-the-top-of-salsa.html in New York Times (1985 Nov 19).

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“I don't want any messages saying 'I'm holding my position.' We're not holding a goddamned thing. We're advancing constantly and we're not interested in holding anything except the enemy's balls.”

George S. Patton (1885–1945) United States Army general

Source: George S. Patton's speech to the Third Army https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_S._Patton%27s_speech_to_the_Third_Army
Context: I don't want any messages saying 'I'm holding my position.' We're not holding a goddamned thing. We're advancing constantly and we're not interested in holding anything except the enemy's balls. We're going to hold him by his balls and we're going to kick him in the ass; twist his balls and kick the living shit out of him all the time. Our plan of operation is to advance and keep on advancing. We're going to go through the enemy like shit through a tinhorn.

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“When I’m creating music, I don’t have an agenda for a sound or a genre or a message, I just want it to be truthful and representative of the lyrical content that means something to me, and the music that I love.”

Chris Carmack (1980) American actor and model

‘Nashville’ Star Chris Carmack on Introspective New EP: Ram Report https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/nashville-star-chris-carmack-on-introspective-new-ep-ram-report-188637/ (December 11, 2015)

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“The message of Christ isn't that you can't kill me. The message of Christ is you can kill me and that's not death.”

Stephen Colbert (1964) American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor

Interview with Joe Hagan appearing in Vanity Fair, October 2020

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“I don't want to get any messages saying, "I am holding my position."”

George S. Patton (1885–1945) United States Army general

We are not holding a Goddamned thing. Let the Germans do that. We are advancing constantly and we are not interested in holding onto anything, except the enemy's balls. We are going to twist his balls and kick the living shit out of him all of the time. Our basic plan of operation is to advance and to keep on advancing regardless of whether we have to go over, under, or through the enemy. We are going to go through him like crap through a goose; like shit through a tin horn!
Speech to the Third Army (1944)

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“Some people found error messages they couldn't ignore more annoying than wrong results, and, when judging the relative merits of programming languages, some still seem to equate "the ease of programming" with the ease of making undetected mistakes.”

Edsger W. Dijkstra (1930–2002) Dutch computer scientist

Dijkstra (1976-79) On the foolishness of "natural language programming" https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD667.html (EWD 667)
1970s

“I have no doubt that the only reason I’m alive today at 92 is because God has work for me to do. I have a message to deliver; God has kept me alive to deliver it.”

René Henry Gracida (1923) American Roman Catholic bishop

Airman, Monk, Priest, Bishop: An interview with Bp. Rene Henry Gracida https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2016/01/11/airman-monk-priest-bishop-an-interview-with-bp-rene-henry-gracida/ (January 11, 2016)

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“The Freedom Monument impersonates the message about the will of state of the founders of the country and Latvian people, our dreams about freedom, ur readiness to fight for it, and our readiness to safeguard it.”

Egils Levits (1955) Latvian judge, jurist and politician

Source: Address given Assuming the Office / at the Freedom Monument, https://www.president.lv/en/article/address-he-president-latvia-mr-egils-levits-ar-freedom-monument

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“The pleasing part is not that you say things that people want to hear but that your message is attractive to people and they want to engage it.”

Christopher J. Coyne (1958) Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop in the United States

A Bishop Who Tweets, Podcasts and Talks to the Flock From His Car https://aleteia.org/2016/02/01/a-bishop-who-tweets-podcasts-and-talks-to-the-flock-from-his-car/ (2016)

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“Messages are like files. We don't care how it was created.”

Joe Armstrong (1950–2019) British computer scientist

The How and Why of Fitting Things Together

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“"Messages take time", and they propagate through space, there’s no guarantee it gets there.”

Joe Armstrong (1950–2019) British computer scientist

The forgotten advantage of concurrent programming

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“There are people who can get your heart beating through a simple message, it means to love.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Esistono persone in grado di farti arrivare il battito del loro cuore tramite un semplice messaggio, significa amare.
Source: prevale.net

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“The beauty of nature lies in detail; the message, in generality.”

Source: Wonderful Life (1989), Preface

“We need to open our hearts to him and be there for our brothers and sisters. It’s time to proclaim his love and carry his message he gave us the power to be his tools and to bring his love to others. It is our duty.”

Eusebio Ramos Morales (1952) Puerto Rican bishop

Source: Puerto Rican Catholics Urged to Open Hearts to Others at Cathedral Mass https://www.cny.org/stories/puerto-rican-catholics-urged-to-open-hearts-to-others-at-cathedral-mass,4099 (1 December 2010)

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“The long game for Christians in the public square is a big loss if more people don't get out there and proclaim the Gospel message.”

Brian T. Carroll (1949) American educator and politician

Source: He won’t win. So why is Brian Carroll running for president? https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/43755/he-wont-win-so-why-is-brian-carroll-running-for-president (4 March 2020)

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“I was stuck in their cycle of poverty under their failed policies and I busted out, and glory to God, I am never going back and taking the same message of freedom to everybody.”

Lauren Boebert (1986) American politician

Source: Lauren Boebert: 2020 Election Is a Choice Between ‘Freedom’ and ‘Government Control’ https://www.breitbart.com/radio/2020/08/14/lauren-boebert-2020-election-is-choice-between-freedom-government-control/ (14 August 2020)

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“When people watch a good film with a good message, the result is the same everywhere.”

Stephanie Okereke Linus (1982) Nigerian Actress and singer

Source: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/exclusive-interview-with-_37_b_11591236 During an interview (December 6 2017)

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“When Allah has decided to take the message to all the corners of earth, who on earth can prevent this progress.”

Mirza Masroor Ahmad (1950) spiritual leader of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community

Eid and Friday Sermons
Source: Khilafat-e-Ahmadiyya https://www.alislam.org/friday-sermon/2013-05-24.html, Friday Sermon May 24th, 2013

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“I think we (NASA) need to do a better job of getting the message out about what life is really like up here (from space). It's pretty spectacular.”

Garrett Reisman (1968) American astronaut

Source: Garrett Reisman (2021) cited in " Bringing Space Down to Earth With Toilets and Toys https://www.space.com/5513-bringing-space-earth-toilets-toys.html" on Space.com, 14 June 2008.

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“Let's learn to distinguish and consider the message of a wise elder. Every event in life, he experienced before us.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Impariamo a distinguere e considerare il messaggio di un saggio anziano. Ogni evento della vita, lui l'ha vissuto prima di noi.
Original: prevale.net