Currents Quotes - Page 9

• I am delighted to be joining 'Guardian U.S.''s team as a weekly columnist, and to have the chance to address American and global current events on its distinguished platform. 'Guardian U.S.' brings the 'Guardian''s hard-hitting investigative brand to a new focus on American news and opinion.

  Naomi Wolf

  Team, Focus, Events

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• Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover seeds of truth.

  Virginia Woolf

  Truth, Business, Mean

  "Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid".

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• I understand that it's hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions... we'll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we'll have to work on overcoming it.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Work, Giving, Overcoming

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• Health care can be made more affordable for the poor without requiring major new scientific developments, just the smart application of current technologies. We have seen a $25 incubator and diagnostic instruments that are built tough, cheap, and reusable for the developing world.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Smart, Technology, Development

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• I have always said that human beings are multidimensional beings. Their happiness comes from many sources, not, as our current economic framework assumes, just from making money.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Assuming, Making Money, Economic

  "Social Business and the Pursuit of Happiness" by Muhammad Yunus, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 10, 2013.

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• I love travelling and going on wildlife safaris. I have an interest in astronomy. I like reading on current affairs, business and science. I love doing nothing if I can help it.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Reading, Doing Nothing, Wildlife

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• You bring to chess facets of your personality and what you are. I have interests other than chess, like music and world and current affairs. I also have many friends around the world with whom I like to keep in touch.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Personality, World, Chess

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• If my own current husband was suddenly a stay-at-home dad, it would be emasculating. That would be hard for me.

  Hanna Rosin

  Husband, Dad, Home

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• Let the current of your being set towards God, then your life will be filled and calmed by one master-passion which unites and stills the soul.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Life, Passion, Soul

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• A friend of ours said if the same laws were applied to U.S. Presidents as were applied to the Nazis after WWII, that every single one of them, every last rich white one of them, from Truman on would be hung to death and shot. And this current administration is no exception. They should be hung and tried and shot as war criminals.

  Zack de la Rocha

  War, Law, White

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• There'll be a growing disparity between economics and politics. An economy that grows so rapidly is intractably global. On the other hand, the current political system is intractably national. So there is a growing dichotomy between a global economy and locally based politics.

  Walter Wriston

  Hands, Political, Growing

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• If you're too focused on your current business, it's hard to change and concentrate on innovating.

  Bill Gates

  Business, Hard, Ifs

  Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson (1996). “The Road Ahead”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• Security can only be achieved through constant change, through discarding old ideas that have outlived their usefulness and adapting others to current facts.

  William O. Douglas

  Change, Ideas, Facts

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• Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Yoga, Self, Awareness

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• "Historians of every generation, I believe, unless they are pure antiquarians, see history against the background - the controlling background - of current events. They call upon it to explain the problems of their own time, to give to those problems a philosophical context, a continuum in which they may be reduced to proportion and perhaps made intelligible."

  Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper

  Believe, Philosophical, History

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• At Current, television is all we do - that's our business. We don't have amusement parks I have to worry about, we don't have environmental cases against us, we don't have a series of outdoor-advertising companies.

  Keith Olbermann

  Worry, Environmental, Television

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• Recognizing that the current form of globalization is nothing more than a generalized downward leveling in which global corporations are extracting more and more of the wealth, power, and productive energies from communities and the environment is the right approach. And knowing that in every specific battle, what we are fighting for is merely the substitution of the human agenda for the corporate agenda is what can guide and sustain us.

  Robin Hahnel

  Fighting, Knowing, Community

  "Panic Rules!: Everything You Need to Know about the Global Economy". Book by Robin Hahnel, 1999.

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• The myriad valleys could have arisen anywhere on the landscape. The current positions are quite accidental. If we could repeat the experiment, we might obtain no valleys at all, or a completely different system. Yet we now stand at the shore line contemplating the fine spacing of valleys and their even contact with the sea. How easy it is to be misled and to assume that no other landscape could possibly have arisen.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Sea, Different, Valleys

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• We must have faith, first, that the peasant masses are ready to advance step by step along the road of socialism under the leadership of the Party, and second, that the Party is capable of leading the peasants along this road. These two points are the essence of the matter, the main current.

  Mao Zedong

  Party, Essence, Two

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.22, Lulu.com

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• Rivers must have been the guides which conducted the footsteps of the first travelers. They are the constant lure, when they flow by our doors, to distant enterprise and adventure, and, by a natural impulse, the dwellers on their banks will at length accompany their currents to the lowlands of the globe, or explore at their invitation the interior of continents.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Adventure, Rivers, Doors

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.92, Penguin

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• Let's face it.., our current [immigration control] system is like a busy intersection without a traffic cop: sure there are laws on the books, but absent enforcement, there are too many accidents.

  Ronald Reagan

  Book, Law, Immigration

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• Labor force needs and economic conditions are disregarded in our policies. Many aspects of our current policies and procedures are patently wrong. For example, legal immigration has almost no link to U.S. employment needs or economic conditions.

  Ronald Reagan

  Labor Force, Policies And Procedures, Immigration

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• In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Past, Rules To Live By

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• If people want to change, they will. If they don't want to, it's hard to make them do so. The current interest in the environment is a good thing. The best way to make a contribution in fashion is to promote the idea that a fundamental interest in preserving the environment is itself fashionable.

  Giorgio Armani

  Change, Fashion, Ideas

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• Evangelical agencies with ready funding may have too little depth and vision to cope with the current conflict. God's kingdom is built not on perpetual motion, one-liners, and flashbulbs but on Christ.

  Carl F. H. Henry

  Agency, Vision, Depth

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