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When you're marginalized, there are no "them people," if we're all on the outskirts of the same margin.

Darnell Lamont Walker
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The individuals inside are frequently fighting that their individual voices be heard, while the walls of the place, which are the mask, and the perception, are reluctant to give over to the voices of the individuals. Those in the margins are always trying to get to the center, and those at the center, frequently in the name of tradition, are trying to keep the margins at a distance. Part of the identity of a place is the tension between those in the margins, and those in the center, and they all live behind the walls which wear the tradition.

Anna Deavere Smith
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In the lean approach, companies are taught that prices are set by the market and that one way to improve profit margin is to reduce costs. This thinking flies in the face of "cost plus" thinking, where we look first at our own costs and set prices based on our desired profit margin. The reality is that most companies whether manufacturers or hospitals, do not have market power to set prices as they wish.

Mark Graban, Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee Satisfaction
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No daylight to separate us.Only kinship. Inching ourselves closer to creating a community of kinship such that God might recognize it. Soon we imagine, with God, this circle of compassion. Then we imagine no one standing outside of that circle, moving ourselves closer to the margins so that the margins themselves will be erased. We stand there with those whose dignity has been denied. We locate ourselves with the poor and the powerless and the voiceless. At the edges, we join the easily despised and the readily left out. We stand with the demonized so that the demonizing will stop. We situate ourselves right next to the disposable so that the day will come when we stop throwing people away.

Gregory J. Boyle, Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion
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Poetry itself hasn't been well served by poets who fled to the margins.

Edward Hirsch
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Instead of a book, what if we're actually writing (or not writing) in the margins of our lives? What if our lives are books? What is the sign of our presence? Are we pressing into the margins our interpretations and questions? Are we circling offending verbs and drawing furious arrows to the margin where we scrawl "irony," "frustration," "voiceless," "unfair!" Or do we simply turn the pages, passively receiving what's given, furiously disagreeing but remaining silent about it?

Patti Digh, Life Is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally
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In the same way that the picturesque designers were always careful to include some reminder of our mortality in their gardens -- a ruin, sometimes even a dead tree -- the act of leaving parts of the garden untended, and calling attention to its margins, seems to undermine any pretense to perfect power or wisdom on the part of the gardener. The margins of our gardens can be tropes too, but figures of irony rather than transcendence -- antidotes, in fact, to our hubris. It may be in the margins of our gardens that we can discover fresh ways to bring our aesthetics and our ethics about the land into some meaningful alignment.

Michael Pollan, Second Nature: A Gardener's Education
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Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.

Joanna Russ
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It's not hard to marginalize people when they've already done it to themselves.

Seanan McGuire, Rosemary and Rue
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You must create more margin so you have room for what’s important, not merely urgent.

Michael Hyatt, Living Forward: A Proven Plan to Stop Drifting and Get the Life You Want
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