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Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make… — Bill Gates
There is a basic lesson on financial crises that governments tend to wait too long, underestimate the risks, want to do too little. And it… — Timothy Geithner
A genocide in Africa has not received the same attention that genocide in Europe or genocide in Turkey or genocide in other part of the… — Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later on, but it's… — Carlos Ghosn
The basic premise that children must learn about emotions is that all feelings are okay to have; however, only some reactions are okay. — Daniel Goleman
Developmental scientists like me explore the basic science of learning by designing controlled experiments. — Alison Gopnik
The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it's also the same mathematically as… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Relativity challenges your basic intuitions that you've built up from everyday experience. It says your experience of time is not what you think it is,… — Brian Greene
Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature. — Billy Corgan
I'm definitely responsible for coming in with some basic chord changes, or ideas. Everybody in the band looks to me to come up with the… — Billy Corgan
Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen… — Norman Cousins
It's a very frightening time when something as basic as due process is seen as somehow radical. — John Cusack
Every three seconds in the developing world, a child dies needlessly due to lack of basic health care and other things we all take for… — Claire Danes
On some levels, you can also have this feeling that we are being duped, somehow. And that the world is at play for something you… — Edwidge Danticat
The fact that radio is so hopeless at delivering data makes it an uncluttered medium, offering the basic story without the detailed trappings. But it… — Evan Davis
A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound… — Richard Dawkins
I'm not shy about heated debate or passionate discourse, but when people get crazy or rude, that's a buzz kill. There's got to be a… — Mos Def
The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the… — Philip K. Dick
It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated… — Edsger Dijkstra
But the basic difficulty still remains: It is the expansion of Federal power, about which I wish to express my alarm. How easily we embrace… — Everett Dirksen

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