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Columbus did not seek a new route to the Indies in response to a majority directive.
Milton Friedman / Economist
Columbus
Investing
Majority
Response
Directive
Indies
Seek
Route
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When I use music on stage, the prime directive is to entertain the public, so it is different.
Cliff Richard / Singer
Different
Host
Use
Directive
Entertain
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On December 18, 1940, Hitler signed Directive Number 21, better known as Operation Barbarossa.
Leopold Trepper /
December
Numbers
Operations
Directive
Operation
Signed
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When you give directives to a child, especially a teenager, you must consider the nature of your child.
Zig Ziglar / Author
Children
Giving
Teenager
Consider
Directive
Your Child
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Government should eschew suasion and directives to banks on interest rates that run counter to monetary policy actions.
Urjit Patel /
Monetary
Monetary Policy
Actions
Banks
Counter
Directive
Interest Rates
Rates
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Economic and technical imperatives - not any preconceived directives - will keep propelling the process of energy transition.
Vaclav Smil / Professor
Directive
Imperative
Preconceived
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And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship.
John Grierson / Film Producer
Art
Information
Most Powerful
Powerful
Propaganda
Statesmanship
Forms
Consequently
Directive
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Don't automatically obey Presidential directives if you disagree or if you suspect he hasn't considered key aspects of the issue.
Donald Rumsfeld / Former U.s. Secretary Of Defense
Disagree
Issues
Keys
Presidential
Considered
Aspects
Automatically
Directive
Issue
Obey
Suspect
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I often think that the prime directive for me as a teacher of writing is akin to that for a physician, which is this: do no harm.
Chang-Rae Lee / Novelist
Teacher
Harm
Often
Directive
Physician
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The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood.
Lewis Mumford / Historian
Action
Brotherhood
Earth
Economic
Fullness
Hollow
Humanity
Lord
Dictum
Directive
Thereof
Toward
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And I gave this directive to them, that if they free our assets in the United States, that would be a sign of goodwill. I have the same idea this time.
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani / Former President Of Iran
Assets
Goodwill
Directive
Sign
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I can't do a film after having debated it. I am unable to do a film while discussing it with my team. I issue directives. I do not achieve it otherwise.
Hayao Miyazaki / Film Director
Achieve
Discussing
Team
Debated
Directive
Issue
Otherwise
Unable
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At times it felt as if no one in Government was taking ownership of how COVID-19 directives would be perceived, interpreted and understood on the ground.
Pritam Singh /
Ownership
Directive
Interpreted
Perceived
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I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it.
Albert Ellis / Psychologist
Deeper
Form
Psychoanalysis
Therapy
Forms
More Than Thought
Directive
Foolishly
Intensive
Practiced
Trained
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If the prime directives were followed a little more accurately here on earth, I mean it sounds somewhat Pollyanna, but I think people would certainly get along better.
Jonathan Frakes / Actor
Mean
People
Pollyanna
Thinking
Accurately
Certainly
Somewhat
Directive
Followed
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I don't think drag will ever be mainstream because it's counter to what the mainstream directive is, which is picking an identity and sticking with it for the rest of your life.
Rupaul / Actor
Drag
Identity
Mainstream
Life Your Will
Counter
Directive
Rest
Picking
Sticking
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The number one taboo for boys is to be feminine, so for someone to not only override their internal directive but society's directive is mind-boggling and heroic. It's courageous.
Rupaul / Actor
Society
Courageous
Feminine
Heroic
Mind Boggling
Taboo
Boy
Directive
Number
Internal
Override
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That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation.
Charles Babbage / Mathematician
Adopted
Country
Influence
Instruction
Investigation
Obvious
Principles
Directive
Exert
Principle
Require
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But you know the second month I was here I put out a healthy lifestyles directive. The pundits will say it was because we were sued. Well that's what they say. It was never about that.
Jim Cantalupo /
Healthy
Lifestyle
Months
Pundits
Will Never Know
Month
Directive
Lifestyles
Sued
They Say
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The orders and directives issued on the basis of government decisions should be exhaustive and factual. Deep and thorough examination is required before taking a decision on important policy matters.
Pinarayi Vijayan /
Examination
Factual
Thorough
Directive
Exhaustive
Orders
Required
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Specifically, and contrary to misguided directives, I limited the broad use of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, promoted by the Administration as a panacea, but which clearly lack scientific merit.
Rick Bright /
Contrary
Merit
Misguided
Panacea
Broad
Directive
Promoted
Scientific
Specifically
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Personally, I think that for example the chemical directive in its present form does too much damage to the chemical industry - especially the medium sized businesses - and will hurt our worldwide competitiveness.
Angela Merkel / Chancellor Of Germany
Competitiveness
Damage
Example
Hurt
Thinking
Businesses
Chemical
Directive
For Example
Medium
Personally
Sized
Worldwide
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I do not espouse the unitarian position. President Clinton's assertion of directive authority over administration, more than President Reagan's assertion of a general supervisory authority, raises serious constitutional questions.
Elena Kagan / Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Administration
Assertion
Authority
Clinton
Position
President
Raises
Serious
Unitarian
General
Constitutional
Directive
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Know thyself. Remain steadfast. Follow your dreams. These are great directives and perfectly fitting for graduates. But reality is that achieving dreams takes a solid education - education that remains elusive for too many Americans.
Dorothy Bush Koch /
Elusive
Fitting
Follow Your Dreams
Graduates
Steadfast
Thyself
Your Dreams
Achieving
Directive
Follow
Solid
Perfectly
Remain
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Whether it's Baidu or Chinese versions of YouTube or Sina or Sohu, Chinese Internet sites are getting daily directives from the government telling them what kinds of content they cannot allow on their site and what they need to delete.
Rebecca Mackinnon / Blogger
Chinese
Site
Versions
Youtube
Delete
Directive
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If National Security Agency (NSA) heads fundamentally lack an understanding of what constitutes constitutionally protected communications, or worse, chose to disregard those directives, then it's time for the appropriate heads of these agencies to resign.
Mark Meadows /
Appropriate
Disregard
National Security
Nsa
Protected
Agencies
Chose
Communications
Directive
Fundamentally
Heads
Resign
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Whether it is clamping down on tax avoidance by multinationals, setting ambitious targets for tackling climate change, or reforming the posted workers' directive to better protect migrant workers, European countries are working together to get things done.
Chuka Umunna / British Politician
Avoidance
Climate Change
European Countries
Setting
Tackling
Working Together
Directive
Migrant
Multinational
Posted
Reforming
Targets
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America has a long history of pride in the military uniform, and the Army has a 362-page directive on proper uniform wear. Included are guidelines that accommodate freedom of religion by outlining what religious attire or jewelry can be worn with the uniform.
Martha Mcsally / United States Representative
Accommodate
Army
Attire
Freedom Of Religion
Guidelines
Jewelry
Outlining
Worn
Directive
Included
Long History
Proper
Uniform
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Every state in America has an end of life directive or durable power of attorney provision. For the peace of mind of your children and your spouse as well as the comfort of knowing the government won't make these decisions, it's a very popular thing. Just not everybody's aware of it.
Johnny Isakson / United States Senator
America
Attorney
Children
Comfort
Knowing
Peace Of Mind
Provision
Spouse
Decisions
Aware
Directive
Durable
Popular
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In Seattle, I've talked about how Pete Carroll is such... I'm kind of surprised at the variety of styles that successful coaches can have. Some are very communicative and positive and energized - like, Pete Carroll has all that in spades. Some of them are more cerebral; some are more directive.
Paul Allen / Philanthropist
Cerebral
Coaches
Variety
Communicative
Directive
Styles
Talked
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Although at the time I didn't realize what was happening, I was unable to make a decision that might displease those around me. For years, whatever directive I may have issued ended with the phrase, 'If it's all right with you.' If I thought I'd done anything to make someone unhappy, I'd agonize.
Katharine Graham / Publisher
Decision
Unhappy
Time Done Decision
Time Done Me
Time Decision Me
Agonize
Although
Directive
Displease
Ended
Happening
Phrase
Realize
Unable
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I want completing the single market to be our driving mission. I want us to be at the forefront of transformative trade deals with the US, Japan and India as part of the drive towards global free trade. And I want us to be pushing to exempt Europe's smallest entrepreneurial companies from more EU directives.
David Cameron / Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Completing
Deals
Entrepreneurial
Europe
Free Trade
Japan
Pushing
Smallest
Want
Companies
Directive
Eu
Exempt
Forefront
Global
Towards
Mission
Market
Transformative
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From the directives that govern the way we do business to the chilling effect of the eurozone crisis on our exports, the European Union pervades our daily lives like never before. Like many of my colleagues on the Tory benches, I believe that renegotiating the terms of our membership is vital for this country's long-term prosperity.
Dominic Raab / Politician
Colleagues
European Union
Eurozone
Long Term
Membership
Prosperity
Bench
Chilling
Daily Lives
Directive
Exports
Govern
Vital
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