Central Quotes
1135 Central quotes by 894 unique authors
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Women can drive progress towards the central goals of mine action, which aims to increase security, rebuild communities, reclaim land and end the looming fear…
— Ban Ki-moon
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In 2008, when Lehman Brothers collapsed, we anticipated that Europe was going to have a very different bailout scheme than the U.S. because of their…
— Lou Jiwei
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The Congress has had an uneasy relationship with banks and bankers since Alexander Hamilton. It took the United States until 1913 to set up a…
— Robert Zoellick
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Electricity transmission operates on a frequency between 49.7 Hertz and 50.2 Hertz. What I have done is petitioned the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission and squeezed…
— Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia
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In the central Indian state of Orissa, mining has scarred the landscape, and it is already too late to secure most of the traditional elephant…
— Mark Shand
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Religious freedom, often referred to as the first freedom, is of central import to the American experiment. As such it should feature prominently in U.S.…
— Frank Wolf
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I am a central European with an English education and a deplorable tendency to constant self-analysis. I am irritable and have weak nerves.
— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
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The central con of the political coalition assembled by Ronald Reagan and maintained by his successors was that government was a common enemy.
— Timothy Noah
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Celebrating historic triumphs is a favorite pastime for many Turks. Tales of how Turkic peoples emerged from Central Asia, crossed the steppes to Anatolia, established…
— Stephen Kinzer
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The government of Sudan, employing a back channel direct from its president to the Central Intelligence Agency, offered in the early spring of 1996 to…
— Barton Gellman
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In 2010, I created World Central Kitchen as a way to try and help find solutions to many of the food issues we face.
— Jose Andres Puerta
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In my view, while the single neuron is the basic anatomical and information processing-signaling unit of the brain, it is not capable of generating behaviors…
— Miguel Nicolelis
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I think social networking is absolutely here to stay. Now, whether or not the label will Facebook forever, depends in part, I think, on whether…
— Jonathan Zittrain
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My mother was a librarian, and she worked at the Black Resource Center in South Central Los Angeles and would call me to tell me…
— Unknown Author
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Business cycles lengthened greatly during the 20th century, as central banks learned to manage national economies by raising and lowering interest rates.
— Alex Berenson
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No central planning, no autocratic rule and no military regime can produce what free man can do.
— Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
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There is no central government database that allows officials to monitor water tests by local systems.
— Charles Duhigg
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A Central Bank official said that Q-coin did not affect the renminbi; it adds vibrancy to the economy.
— Ma Huateng
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Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.
— Victor Ponta
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Mexico has perhaps, in some ways, a good practice, in which it has officials devoted precisely to hold those children, to retain those children that…
— Enrique Pena Nieto
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Twenty-first century war adds new risks: more and more often there are no front lines, no central command, no rules of engagement - only a…
— Nancy Gibbs
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I always sort of swooned at the sight of the classic barn structures in central and northern Minnesota, where everything seemed rustic and weathered and…
— Richard Dean Anderson
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Religious people know deep down that that is the most vulnerable area of their lives, and when others question it, they are liable to hit…
— John Hurt
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There is a central flaw in contemporary culture and a corresponding and related inability to address it. Society seems somehow unable to adequately help or…
— Michael Leunig
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In the 1950s, Pakistan allied with the United States in something called the Central Treaty Organization. We were lined up with, at that time, Iran,…
— Wesley Clark
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