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  • A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to experiment. Arguments from authority are unacceptable.
  • In 1949, Mao Tse-tung's Communists established the People's Republic of China, and the following year, his People's Liberation Army invaded central Tibet.
  • Banks hold deposits and savings entrusted to them by individuals, by businesses, by governments and by central banks. They put that money to work, helping people to buy homes, for example, or lending to businesses to invest in expansion.
  • You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose.
  • What are the odds that a nuclear emergency like the one at Fukushima Dai-ichi could happen in the central or eastern United States? They'd have to be astronomical, right?
  • Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.
  • History proves... that a smart central bank can protect the economy and the financial sector from the nastier side effects of a stock market collapse.
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  • Carl Sagan A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to experiment. Arguments from authority are unacceptable.
    Billions and Billions: Thoughts of Life and Death at the Brink of the Millenium (1997) Ch. 14, The Common Enemy.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Ben Bernanke 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 and moderate long-term interest rates.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Arthur Henderson As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Bob Diamond Banks hold deposits and savings entrusted to them by individuals, by businesses, by governments and by central banks. They put that money to work, helping people to buy homes, for example, or lending to businesses to invest in expansion.
    Bob Diamond
    Anglo-American banker (1951 - )
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  • Brent Scowcroft But the central point is that any campaign against Iraq, whatever the strategy, cost and risks, is certain to divert us for some indefinite period from our war on terrorism.
    Brent Scowcroft
    American US Air Force officer (1925 - 2020)
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  • Virginia Woolf But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world - a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Bill Shuster Central and western Pennsylvania has one of the best workforces in the country and this will provide job training, new skills and additional resources for those trying to find a job.
    Bill Shuster
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Ben Elton Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me.
    Ben Elton
    British-Australian comedian, author, playwright, actor and director (1959 - )
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  • Carl Hiaasen Disney's something to be a little alarmed about. It's not just a little theme park anymore. It's now an ethic and outlook and strategy that goes way beyond central Florida.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Gore Vidal Envy is the central fact of American life.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Samuel Huntington Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history.
    The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996)
    Samuel Huntington
    American political scientist (1927 - 2008)
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  • Bret Easton Ellis Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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  • Ben Bernanke History proves... that a smart central bank can protect the economy and the financial sector from the nastier side effects of a stock market collapse.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Cass Sunstein Humility is of central importance; I think it's an underappreciated virtue in the contemporary discussion of law and politics.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Barack Obama I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that.
    President Obama Misses Anonymity, People-Watching - ABC News website, 11 April 2011
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Arthur Keith I prize the conditions under which I have lived because they have permitted me to choose my opportunities, to inquire into such matters as interested me, and to publish what I believed to be true, uncontrolled by any central authority.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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  • Bill Hicks I was walking through Central Park, and I saw an old man smoking. Nothing makes a smoker happier than to see an old person smoking. This guy was ancient, bent over a walker, puffing away. I'm like, Duuude, you're my hero! Guy your age smoking, man, it's great. He goes, What? I'm 28.
    Shock and Awe
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Don Delillo If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.
    Don Delillo
    American Author (1936 - )
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  • Kofi Annan If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.
    Twitter (2015)
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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