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My decision to leave applied mathematics for economics was in part tied to the widely-held popular belief in the 1960s that macroeconomics had made fundamental inroads into controlling business cycles and stopping dysfunctional unemployment and inflation.
Robert C. Merton
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Cycles
Economics
Inflation
Mathematics
Stopping
Tied
Unemployment
Applied
Controlling
Dysfunctional
Fundamental
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From a scientific point of view, our mission is to seek answers to the fundamental questions about the universe. Many are open - we don't know about dark matter, which accounts for a quarter of the universe's matter, nor do we know why there's antimatter.
Fabiola Gianotti
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Physicist
Accounts
Answers
Dark
Point Of View
Universe
Fundamental
Fundamental Questions
Mission
Seek
Nor
Quarter
Scientific
View
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We do not see the sort of fundamental changes that would be necessary to reduce the trajectory of federal health spending by a significant amount and, on the contrary, the legislation significantly expands the federal responsibility for health care costs.
Doug Elmendorf
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Contrary
Health Care
Health Care Costs
Legislation
Significant
Spending
Trajectory
Care Costs
Health Responsibility Care
Fundamental
On The Contrary
Reduce
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People are very frightened in publishing at the moment. Nobody knows what sells. More so now because the market's changing so fundamentally because of Kindle and electronic publishing. It's a fundamental shift in the way stories are put out into the world.
Denise Mina
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Crime Writer
Frightened
Publishing
Sells
Moment World People
Electronic
Fundamental
Shift
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There is no doubt that human evolution has been linked to meat in many fundamental ways. Our digestive tract is not one of obligatory herbivores; our enzymes evolved to digest meat, whose consumption aided higher encephalization and better physical growth.
Vaclav Smil
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Professor
Consumption
Human Evolution
Linked
Meat
No Doubt
Aided
Digest
Digestive
Fundamental
Obligatory
Tract
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This is the fundamental problem with the ruling class in Washington, D.C. - the party bosses, the K Street crowd, the lobbyists who control all these politicians. They will do anything to maintain their power. They will do anything. They will say anything.
Corey Lewandowski
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Class
Lobbyists
Ruling
Bosses
Washington
Politicians
Street
Fundamental
Maintain
Ruling Class
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I think the aim - and certainly the aim of what I've tried to do since leaving - is not political and certainly not a witch hunt at individuals. It's to try to direct our attention at what I believe is a fundamental fault analysis that we must now examine.
David Kay
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Aim
Analysis
Attention
Direct
Leaving
Witch
Since
Try
Certainly
Examine
Fundamental
Hunt
Individuals
Tried
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As Attorney General, my most important responsibility is keeping New Yorkers safe by enforcing the laws that protect our people from harm. But another fundamental part of my job is to seek to advance the basic American principle of equal justice under law.
Eric Schneiderman
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New York Attorney General
Attorney
Equal Justice
Harm
Advance
Attorney General
Enforcing
Fundamental
Seek
Our People
Principle
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We're leading a fundamental shift from centralized energy to distributed energy. Energy will go in that direction, just like mainframe computers went to client servers, then to the Internet. I believe in solar, and the macro trends are just too undeniable.
Lynn Jurich
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Computers
Centralized
Client
Distributed
Fundamental
Shift
Solar
Undeniable
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There are very fundamental reasons we live our lives in social networks, and if we really understood the role they're playing in our society, we would take better care of social networks and find ways to take advantage of their power to improve our society.
Nicholas A. Christakis
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Physician
Advantage
Our Lives
Understood
Networks
Fundamental
Improve
Social Networks
Take Advantage
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Language is possible due to a number of cognitive and physical characteristics that are unique to humans but none of which that are unique to language. Coming together they make language possible. But the fundamental building block of language is community.
Daniel Everett
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Author
Block
Characteristics
Cognitive
Humans
Building Block
Due
Fundamental
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The most significant civil rights problem is voting. Each citizen's right to vote is fundamental to all the other rights of citizenship and the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960 make it the responsibility of the Department of Justice to protect that right.
Robert Kennedy
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Former U.s. Senator
Civil Rights
Department
Problem
Protect
Responsibility
Rights
Significant
Vote
Voting
Acts
Citizen
Department Of Justice
Fundamental
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Our choice of a reform framework dictated that we looked at the fundamental assumptions that had driven Nigeria's economy, society and policy hitherto and to seek ways of either abandoning or transcending those assumptions and their supporting institutions.
Ibrahim Babangida
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Choices
Driven
Framework
Fundamentals
Nigeria
Policy
Transcending
Way
Abandoning
Assumptions
Dictated
Fundamental
Hitherto
Seek
Our Choice
Supporting
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The exact details of how you practice value investing will vary investor to investor, but the fundamental principle of scouring the world, looking for dollar bills that you can buy for 50 cents or at some big discount - that is universal to value investing.
Whitney Tilson
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Author
Bills
Cents
Details
Investing
Vary
Discount
Dollar
Exact
Fundamental
Fundamental Principle
Principle
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In the end, abortion is an issue of fundamental human rights. To force women to undergo pregnancy and childbirth against their will is to deprive them of the right to make basic decisions about their lives and well-being, and to give that power to the state.
Katha Pollitt
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Poet
Abortion
Childbirth
Human Rights
Pregnancy
Well Being
Deprive
Fundamental
In The End
Undergo
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Religion has nothing to do with God. It's a fundamental attitude of human beings, who ask about the origins of life and what happens after death. For many, the answer is a personal god. In my opinion, it's religion that produces God, not the other way round.
Umberto Eco
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Essayist
Death
God
Religion
Attitude
Fundamentals
Happens
Human Beings
Opinion
Origin Of Life
Ask
Life God Death
Attitude Life God
Attitude Life Death
Nothing
After
Answer
Beings
Human
Round
Fundamental
In My Opinion
Origins
Other
Personal
Produces
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It's incredibly important to me that you remember a song right after the first or second time you hear it. That something sticks to you, something that makes you feel, 'I need to hear that song again.' That's fundamental. Something you want again. And again.
Max Martin
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Song
Sticks
Time Me Remember
Fundamental
Hear
Incredibly
Second
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These days we seem more bound to our bosses than ever before. We even identify our own selves with the jobs we do: 'What do you do?' is the first question we ask each other at parties, as if a job title could express a fundamental truth about our personality.
Tom Hodgkinson
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Writer
Bosses
Bound
Express
Fundamental
Identify
Parties
Selves
Title
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How fortunate I was to be alive and a lawyer when, for the first time in United States history, it became possible to urge, successfully, before legislatures and courts, the equal-citizenship stature of women and men as a fundamental constitutional principle.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
History
Alive
First Time
Fortunate
Lawyer
States
Stature
United States
Time Men Women
Time History Men
Time History Women
Became
Possible
Constitutional
Courts
Fundamental
Principle
Successfully
Women And Men
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One of life's fundamental truths states, 'Ask and you shall receive.' As kids we get used to asking for things, but somehow we lose this ability in adulthood. We come up with all sorts of excuses and reasons to avoid any possibility of criticism or rejection.
Jack Canfield
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Author
Adulthood
Criticism
Possibility
Rejection
Avoid
Excuses
Fundamental
Receive
Truths
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But Eddie does not make all the decisions. Eddie can listen to reason; Eddie can be swayed or talked in or out of certain things. Eddie allows other people to lead in this band and to have certain roles that are very fundamental to the decision-making process.
Stone Gossard
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Musician
Decision Making
Decision Making Process
Roles
Certain Things
Eddie
Fundamental
Swayed
Talked
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Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error. The error is thinking that when someone stands in the way of our wants, we can justify getting that person out of our lives. Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness.
Alveda King
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Pro-Life Activist
Abortion
Errors
Human Error
Justify
Our Lives
Poisonous
Racism
Roots
Selfishness
Stem
Symptoms
Thinking
Way
Person
Someone
Both
Same
Getting
Human
Error
Fundamental
Lives
Root
Stands
Wants
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Chemical compounds of carbon can exist in an infinite variety of compositions, forms and sizes. The naturally occurring organic substances are the basis of all life on Earth, and their science at the molecular level defines a fundamental language of that life.
Elias James Corey
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Science
Carbon
Compounds
Earth
Infinite
Variety
Naturally
Basis
Forms
Chemical
Exist
Fundamental
Molecular
Organic
Sizes
Substances
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I had been educated in the rhythms of the mountain, rhythms in which change was never fundamental, only cyclical. The same sun appeared each morning, swept over the valley, and dropped behind the peak. The snows that fell in winter always melted in the spring.
Tara Westover
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Change
Morning
Educated
Mountain
Spring
Sun
Winter
Had
Always
Appeared
Only
Never
Been
Same
Cyclical
Dropped
Each
Each Morning
Fell
Fundamental
Over
Melted
Peak
Rhythms
Swept
Valley
Which
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I let go of the notion of wanting someone to ignore the way I look in order to find me attractive, because really, what kind of relationship would that be? One where someone's only attracted to you because they're ignoring a fundamental part of you? No thanks.
Stella Young
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Comedian
Attractive
Notion
Thanks
Fundamental
Ignore
Let Go
Wanting
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The fact that a task cannot be computerized does not imply that computerization has no effect on that task. On the contrary, tasks that cannot be substituted by computerization are generally complemented by it. This point is as fundamental as it is overlooked.
David Autor
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Contrary
Overlooked
Computerized
Effect
Fundamental
Generally
Imply
On The Contrary
Task
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Ponzi and all of his successors tap into a fundamental part of human nature. One part of our brain tells us this is too good to be true. The other side tells us this is too good to miss. The key to any con is getting a mark to tip to the too-good-to-miss side.
Mitchell Zuckoff
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Professor
Brain
Mark
Miss
Be True
Side
Con
Tap
Getting
Fundamental
Tip
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I think being a scientist is a position of respect and power and access, and it's a privileged position in society. And I think there are fundamental mechanisms that keep men and women from achieving the same level of power and access and privilege in society.
Hope Jahren
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Respect
Women
Society
Access
Men And Women
Position
Privilege
Scientist
Men Women Respect
Men Women Power
Achieving
Same
Fundamental
Mechanisms
Same Level
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When governments are cowed or simply don't care to enforce fundamental human and labour rights or to ensure corporate tax is paid so that they can invest in social protection and in the health and education of their people, they cede control to corporate greed.
Sharan Burrow
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Corporate
Greed
Labour
Protection
Education Health Care
Invest
Enforce
Ensure
Fundamental
Governments
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One of the things that is particularly precious about working at Apple is that many of us on the design team have worked together for 15-plus years, and there's a wonderful thing about learning as a group. A fundamental part of that is making mistakes together.
Jonathan Ive
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Designer
Making Mistakes
Apple
Fundamental
Precious
Wonderful Thing
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Jumping genes are fundamental because they're agents of change. Everybody knows that organisms evolve. What makes them evolve is that their genes are dynamic and in motion. A familiar example is the stripe-y corn - called Indian corn - that you buy in the fall.
Nina Fedoroff
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Professor
Agents
Corn
Evolve
Fall
Familiar
Genes
Indian
Jumping
Organisms
Stripes
Dynamic
Fundamental
Motion
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It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of life cannot be ascribed to natural selection, and therefore were designed. But we must deal with our shock as best we can and go on.
Michael Behe
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Biochemist
Fundamentals
Goes On
Natural
Natural Selection
Selection
Shock
Twentieth Century
Life Best Science
Designed
Discover
Fundamental
Mechanisms
Observations
Therefore
Twentieth
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Due to the failure of politics, which has become a process of middle-management, art has become one of the last open spaces to question core beliefs and to design a viable future. Art becomes an open space where we can ask fundamental questions about ourselves.
Antony Gormley
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Sculptor
Beliefs
Due
Fundamental
Fundamental Questions
Open Space
Spaces
Viable
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My fundamental concern about the role of faith groups in providing social provision is democratic: how do we hold them to account? To whom are they responsible? How do we, the public, the recipients of welfare, punish them if they make mistakes or become corrupt?
Mehdi Hasan
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Concern
Democratic
Groups
Providing
Welfare
Account
Mistakes
Corrupt
Fundamental
Hold
Punish
Recipients
Whom
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It's not completely obvious what gravity is, fundamentally, or what dimensions are, fundamentally. One of these days we'll understand better what we mean, what is the fundamental thing that's given us space in the first place and dimensions of space in particular.
Lisa Randall
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Physicist
Dimensions
Gravity
Obvious
First Place
Fundamental
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Fundamental physics is like an art more or less. It's completely non-practical, and you can't use it for anything. But it's about the universe and how the world came into being. It's very remote from your daily life and mine, and yet it defines us as human beings.
Yuri Milner
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Entrepreneur
Art
Daily Life
Fundamentals
Human Beings
Physics
Use
Life Art Daily
Daily
Fundamental
More Or Less
Remote
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Cosmologists have attempted to account for the day-to-day laws you find in textbooks in terms of fundamental 'superlaws,' but the superlaws themselves must still be accepted as brute facts. So maybe the ultimate laws of nature will always be off-limits to science.
Paul Davies
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Physicist
Accepted
Day To Day
Facts
Fundamentals
Law
Textbooks
Ultimate
Account
Attempted
Brute
Fundamental
Terms
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Living with only the bare essentials has not only provided superficial benefits such as the pleasure of a tidy room or the simple ease of cleaning, it has also led to a more fundamental shift. It's given me a chance to think about what it really means to be happy.
Fumio Sasaki
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Chance
Benefits
Cleaning
Ease
Essentials
Given
Pleasure
Simple
Superficial
Tidy
Bare
Be Happy
Fundamental
Led
Room
Provided
Shift
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I am personally convinced - and I think the Greek people share this belief in a fundamental way - that we can achieve fiscal consolidation more effectively and we can restore competitiveness in a more fundamental and permanent way within the euro area than outside.
Lucas Papademos
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Former Prime Minister Of Greece
Achieve
Belief
Competitiveness
Consolidation
Euro
Greek
People
Permanent
Thinking
I Am People Way
Effectively
Fiscal
Fundamental
Greek People
Personally
Restore
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The American people need to know that there are folks here fighting as hard as they can for individual liberty, economic freedom, appropriate national security and the fundamental moral values that have made our nation the greatest nation in the history of mankind.
Tom Price
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Appropriate
Economic Freedom
Individual Liberty
Liberty
Mankind
Moral Values
National Security
American People
Fundamental
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The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain.
Tom Stoppard
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Playwright
Altered
Educate
Journalism
Media
Might
Notion
Pressure
Purpose
Commercial
Different Kind
Distract
Divert
Elevate
Entertain
Fundamental
Inform
Institution
Perhaps
Whose
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Once Canadians no longer believe that there is any good in politics, they no longer feel we can work together to solve the challenges we're facing, and that is my fundamental motivation: how do we work together as a country to solve the big challenges we're facing.
Justin Trudeau
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Member Of The Canadian House Of Commons
Politics Work Good
Canadians
Facing
Fundamental
Work Together
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If I do something I think is new, it will be misunderstood, but if people like it, I will be disappointed because I haven't pushed them enough. The more people hate it, maybe the newer it is. Because the fundamental human problem is that people are afraid of change.
Rei Kawakubo
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Fashion Designer
Disappointed
Hate
Misunderstood
Problem
Afraid
Change People New
Fundamental
Maybe
More People
Pushed
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A fundamental premise in cancer therapy is trying to identify how the metabolism of cancer cells differs from normal tissue. When differences are identified, it often paves the way for treatments that will disrupt the cancer's metabolism while sparing normal tissue.
David Perlmutter
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Author
Cancer
Differences
Metabolism
Normal
Therapy
Disrupt
Fundamental
Identified
Premise
Sparing
Tissue
Treatments
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On the other hand, I think that the family, the traditional family, has a fundamental social role, because it's there that children are born and the investment in children is the greatest investment a country can make. The benefits of this investment go to everyone.
Rocco Buttiglione
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Italian Politician
Benefits
Children
Country
Investment
Thinking
Traditional
Traditional Family
Fundamental
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We shall be forced to attempt planned and directed research employing hundreds of workers for many years, and this cannot be done without risking the loss of independence and originality. This is a serious and fundamental obstacle but it may be overcome in two ways.
John Desmond Bernal
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Physicist
Independence
Employing
Loss
Originality
Research
Serious
Workers
Overcome
Attempt
Directed
Forced
Fundamental
Hundreds
Obstacle
Planned
Risking
Shall
Ways
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With the full power of our 360,000 people, we said to the external world, 'This is what we believe at Accenture is the right thing to do, and gender equality is among the business principles which are fundamental for a company, and we want this to be known outside.'
Pierre Nanterme
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Equality
Gender
Principles
Right Thing
Among
External
External World
Fundamental
The Right Thing
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The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In the trinitarian dogma God is one, good, true, and beautiful because he is essentially Love, and Love supposes the one, the other, and their unity.
Hans Urs Von Balthasar
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Theologian
Beautiful
Christian
Dogma
Incarnation
Response
Trinity
Two
Unity
Love God Good
Contained
Essentially
Fundamental
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Championing liberty begins at the local level. There is nothing more fundamental than the principle that a man's home is his castle. Donald Trump's career-long willingness to trample this right tells you everything you need to know about his bogus tea party sideshow.
Michelle Malkin
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Blogger
Home
Men
Liberty
Party
Tea
Tea Party
Trump
Willingness
Begins
Castle
Championing
Donald
Fundamental
Home Man Castle
Local
Local Level
Principle
Trample
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Fortunately, when Korea was struck by the 1997/8 financial crisis, that was a good opportunity for us to engage in fundamental reforms and strengthen our financial structure. As a result, our financial regulatory structure and regime have been very much strengthened.
Lee Myung-Bak
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Former President Of South Korea
Crisis
Financial
Financial Crisis
Good Opportunity
Engage
Fortunately
Fundamental
Reforms
Regime
Regulatory
Result
Strengthen
Struck
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