Quotes with central

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  • Barbara Demick 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.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • Leon Trotsky In inner-party politics, these methods lead, as we shall yet see, to this: the party organization substitutes itself for the party, the central committee substitutes itself for the organization, and, finally, a ''dictator'' substitutes himself for the central committee.
    Leon Trotsky
    Russian revolutionary and writer (1879 - 1940)
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  • Samuel Smiles It is energy - the central element of which is will - that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Bell Hooks Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.
    Feminism Is for Everybody (2014)
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Angela Merkel Overcoming the Cold War required courage from the people of Central and Eastern Europe and what was then the German Democratic Republic, but it also required the steadfastness of Western partner over many decades when many had long lost hope of integration of the two Germanys and Europe.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Caroline Glick Perhaps the central reason that Ahmadinejad's message, and the hundreds of thousands of voices echoing his call throughout the world, are so dangerous is because the Free World is making precious little effort to assert its own message.
    Reprinted in Live from NYs 92nd Street Y continues. Vail Daily. October 7, 2007. Discussing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
    Caroline Glick
    American-born Israeli columnist, journalist and author
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  • Alan Greenspan Since becoming a central banker, I have learned to mumble with great incoherence. If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
    Senaats committee in 1987
    Alan Greenspan
    American economist (1926 - )
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman That conflict between the reach for the divine and the lure of earthly things was to be the central problem of the Middle Ages.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Bill Shuster The Army War College has been a tradition in central Pennsylvania for years.
    Bill Shuster
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Ben Bernanke The benefit of appointing a hawkish central banker is the increased inflation-fighting credibility that such an appointment brings.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Ben Bernanke The central bank needs to be able to make policy without short term political concerns.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Bob Woodward The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Gertrude Stein The central theme of the novel is that they were glad to see each other.
    Gertrude Stein
    American author (1874 - 1946)
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  • Ben Bernanke The economic repercussions of a stock market crash depend less on the severity of the crash itself than on the response of economic policymakers, particularly central bankers.
    A Crash Course for Central Bankers, Foreign Policy (September/October 2000)
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Aharon Appelfeld The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. Besides, in Israel, everyone carries a biography deep inside him.
    Aharon Appelfeld
    Israeli writer (1932 - 2018)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing practical to alter or deflect the impulse to destroy the enemy, which is central to the very idea of war.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Ben Bernanke The more guidance a central bank can provide the public about how policy is likely to evolve the greater the chance that market participants will make appropriate inferences.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Bayard Taylor The original home of the Aryan race appears to have been somewhere among the mountains and lofty table-lands of Central Asia. The word 'Arya,' meaning the high or the excellent, indicates their superiority over the neighboring races long before the beginning of history.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Arthur Keith The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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