Margaret Chan Quotes
My argument is, whatever resources you put in place, compared to the possible economic loss in the event of a pandemic, is peanuts.
Margaret Chan
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As digital communications have multiplied, and NSA capabilities with them, the agency has shifted resources from surveillance of individual targets to the acquisition of communications on a planetary scale.
Barton Gellman
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Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources.
Iqbal Quadir
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So if we are really concerned about generating more taxes, we ought to be investing in our people, not taking away the kinds of resources that contribute to their ability to become greater taxpayers in this country.
Patrick J. Kennedy
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The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries.
Omar Bongo
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Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people's points of view - these are very liberal and enlightened values that people are right to hold, but we can't allow them to delude us to the point where we can't recognise people who are needlessly perpetrating human misery.
Sam Harris
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Americans have long recognized the need to protect our public lands and their vast resources.
Barbara Boxer
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I always felt like if you get to a point where you've got enough money to invest in something real, you gotta invest in anything that's related to a natural resource because that's gonna be here forever - so you might as well invest in something that's gonna be here, rather than invest in something that's gonna wear out.
Akon
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There's a young Danish guy who has done a lot of work from an evolutionary perspective, Mathias Clasen. Basically, his argument is we've evolved to fear the monstrous, to be very wary of large, unknown, life-threatening forces. In art, we can play with these things in ways that allow us to feel the intensity of the horror, but in "safe mode," if you like, detached from real consequences.
Brian Boyd
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Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
Oscar Wilde
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I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.
Edith Sitwell
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She sensed it, saw my eyes wet with tears, and only then must have discovered I was no longer the man I had been, and I endured her glance with a courage I never thought I had.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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My argument is, whatever resources you put in place, compared to the possible economic loss in the event of a pandemic, is peanuts.
Margaret Chan
