Henry Louis Gates Quotes

Lincoln had a tremendous capacity for personal growth - more than any other American President.

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• The President's post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Politics
  • President
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• The economy has become seriously unbalanced. Its growth has not been driven by investment or by overcoming Britain's long-standing weaknesses in investment and productivity, particularly skills. Instead, there has been a binge of debt-financed consumer spending.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Long
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• Japan is already a leader in energy efficiency, and it has a wealth of innovative technologies. We must put this expertise to use creating a model for growth and sustainability that we can share with the world.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • World
  • Energy
  • Growth

• A company logo may be the last thing cost-conscious CEOs focus on when they're looking to jump-start growth. Which is perhaps why it took more than two decades for White Mountain Footwear, a privately held shoe manufacturer based in Lisbon, N.H., to finally give its own emblem some serious thought.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Why
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• The growth in emissions is coming from the developing world. So if we are going to get out of this, it's going to come out of a process of cooperation and collaboration. That's why it really requires a paradigm shift.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • World
  • Why
  • Growth

• Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Life
  • Energy
  • Quality

• Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Strong
  • Proud
  • Growth

• Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Taken
  • Positive
  • Growth

• All sensible politicians favor growth, just as we all favor sound public finances. Both can be achieved if we rationalize spending, invest available resources wisely, and clamp down on tax evasion.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Growth
  • Sound
  • Down

• President Reagan has no enemies in the Phillipines.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • President
  • Enemies
  • Reagan

• A great deal of energy is spent daily on pushing the Russian e-commerce boom along while managing all aspects of growth and development along the way.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Great
  • Energy
  • Growth

• Pessimism about America's future tends to underestimate its capacity for self-renewal.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • America
  • Future
  • Capacity

• I believe growth should be constant, sustained and inclusive. It's only meaningful if these three things are there. Otherwise they're just economic figures.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Believe
  • Growth
  • Meaningful

• It's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Dream
  • President
  • Europe

• Where countries have been able to carry through on their reform commitments - as in Korea, Thailand and the Philippines - results are starting to come in the form of lower interest rates, new investment and increased growth.

  

  Lawrence Summers
  • Growth

• The evil of it is that it is a world wrapped up in too much jeweller’s cotton and fine wool, and cannot hear the rushing of the larger worlds, and cannot see them as they circle round the sun. It is a deadened world, and its growth is sometimes unhealthy for want of air.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Up
  • World
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• The characters that I'm typically drawn to are sensitive men who are experiencing some sense of identity crisis or growth in their life that they don't know how to overcome.

  

  Billy Crudup
  • Life
  • Men
  • Growth

• Disruption to the flow of oil through the Straits of Hormuz would threaten regional and global economic growth. Any attempt by Iran to close the Straits would be illegal and unsuccessful.

  

  Philip Hammond
  • Growth

• Hillary Clinton announced she's running for president. Yesterday in Ohio, Hillary popped into a Chipotle and she ordered a burrito bowl with chips and salsa. And on her way out she said, 'That locks down the Hispanic vote.'

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • She
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  • President

• As we were baptized, so we profess our belief. As we profess our belief, so also we offer praise. As then baptism has been given us by the Savior, in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, so, in accordance with our baptism, we make the confession of the creed, and our doxology in accordance with our creed.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Father
  • Son
  • Name

• I'm independent. If a guy is too clingy or needy, I actually get afraid of hurting him - and I can't deal with that.

  

  Ashley Greene
  • Guy
  • Independent

• We play at the world's most beautiful beaches but in the world's most challenging conditions. It is not like you play one match and you go back to air conditioning. We do it all day long.

  

  Karch Kiraly
  • Long
  • Beautiful
  • Challenges

• Lincoln had a tremendous capacity for personal growth - more than any other American President.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Growth
  • President
  • Capacity