Endemic Quotes
27 quotes by 27 authors
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Poverty arises and persists where corruption is endemic and enterprise is stifled, where basic fairness provided by the rule of law is absent. In such…
— Colin Powell
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If I hazard a guess as to the most endemic, prevalent anxiety among human beings-including fear of death, abandonment, loneliness-nothing is more prevalent than the…
— R. D. Laing
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The situation of the Salvadorian people is terrible; all their rights are violated. There is a direct violation against the human person, a violation of…
— Maria Julia Hernandez
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Because I don`t think it`s true. I don`t think corruption is endemic to the process in Annapolis at all. It`s the exception, not the rule.
— Brian E. Frosh
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The problem with making an extrinsic reward the only destination that matters is that some people will choose the quickest route there, even if it…
— Daniel H. Pink
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It looks perverted and wasteful to us, but then one thing that empires are not about is the efficient use of resources and the spread…
— Iain Banks
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What becomes of the surplus of human life? It is either, 1st. destroyed by infanticide, as among the Chinese and Lacedemonians; or 2d. it is…
— James Madison
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Endemic is a very hard, a very wide ranging word. I also have to be very careful not to prejudice the course of justice that…
— Rupert Murdoch
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The most dangerous of devotions, in my opinion, is the one endemic to Christianity: I was not born to be of this world. With a…
— E. O. Wilson
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Woman must be put back in her place. Man’s great error was to put woman on a pedestal, when she is far more at ease…
— Boyd Rice
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I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you…
— Peter Shaffer
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Originally the structure was . . . a modern narrator who would appear intermittently and talk about his memories of his grandmother, which would then…
— David Henry Hwang
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The Noonday Demon explores the subterranean realms of an illness which is on the point of becoming endemic, and which more than anything else mirrors…
— W G Sebald
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Mistakes, after all, are endemic to foreign and military policy given the unpredictability of events and the difficulty of securing reliable information in a place…
— Eric Alterman
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I cite a good example, say, of agriculture, .. In agriculture we need to move with speed to bring to full utilization the land that…
— Gideon Gono
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Life is the power to perceive. Without perception there is no life, and what is most endemic to perception is power.
— Frederick Lenz
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Sitting in the Oval Office, beneath a painting of George Washington, with a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. over his right shoulder and a…
— Ron Fournier
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I think provincialism is an endemic characteristic with mankind, I think everybody everywhere is provincial, but it is particularly striking with Texans, and we tend…
— Molly Ivins
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Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make…
— Pete Townshend
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Observations,†he says. “Four imperial Unseelie guards were the only commonality I was able to isolate endemic to both scenes.†They’d been standing, armed, at…
— Karen Marie Moning
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