Central Quotes
1135 quotes by 922 authors
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Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of…
— Karen Armstrong
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Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the…
— Mary Kay Ash
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A country like Belgium, or socialist countries in central Europe spend more money on art education than the United States, which is a really puzzling…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our local and national…
— Melissa Bean
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Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but the heart, or…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Because when you watch U.S. television, all the presenters and reporters, they're all out of central casting.
— Diane Abbott
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Achieving price stability is not only important in itself, it is also central to attaining the Federal Reserve's other mandate objectives of maximum sustainable employment…
— Ben Bernanke
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The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.
— Wendell Berry
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Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide central indexes of the data.…
— David Boies
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The central problem of novel-writing is causality.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I had been afraid of breast cancer, as I suspect most women are, from the time I hit adolescence. At that age, when our emerging…
— Geraldine Brooks
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It is time to end the western policy of malign neglect. It is in the interest of the whole world to help tackle the actual…
— James Buchan
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My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.
— Madeleine Albright
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Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I'm riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown traffic. But when I'm riding on…
— David Byrne
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To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the root criterion of…
— Christopher Alexander
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After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the…
— David Cameron
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Although I am a young leader, I actually came to it strangely quite late. I have a different perspective, partly because of my family, partly…
— Nick Clegg
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There are grander and more sublime landscapes - to me. There are more compelling cultures. But what appeals to me about central Montana is that…
— Sam Abell
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The United States is the most powerful nation on Earth and it just can't walk away from the Middle East and central Asia and the…
— John Abizaid
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There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as…
— Kofi Annan
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