Majors Quotes - Page 39

One of the messages I presented to the coal industry was, "If you want to have major transmission built, start encouraging wind development." That's because the cultural value and acceptance of wind energy provides an opportunity to build transmission lines that are not as desirable with traditional forms of generation.

Kevin Cramer

Acceptance, Opportunity, Wind

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She'll be evaluated like any other Double-A umpire. Major League Baseball has never attempted to influence our decision

Mike Fitzpatrick

Baseball, Umpires, League

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Major writing is to say that which has been seen, so that it need never be said again; so that which has been seen increases, changes in reality, in being.

Delmore Schwartz

Writing, Needs, Said

"Letters of Delmore Schwartz".

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A number of the major terrorist captures we have made, the terrorist operations designed for the United States that we have interrupted, were enabled by the terrorist tracking program.

Christopher Bond

Usa, Numbers, United States

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Mr. Speaker, in 1848, Karl Marx said, a progressive income tax is needed to transfer wealth and power to the state. Thus, Marx's Communist Manifesto had as its major economic tenet a progressive income tax. Think about it, 1848 Karl Marx, Communism.... I say it is time to replace the progressive income tax with a national retail sales tax, and it is time to abolish the IRS, my colleagues. I yield back all the rules, regulations, fear, and intimidation of our current system.

James Traficant

Thinking, America, Yield

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... what I believe to be one of the major tragedies in the Church today. Namely, that evangelicals are biblical, but not contemporary, while liberals are contemporary but not biblical, and almost nobody is building bridges and relating the biblical text to the modern context

John Stott

Believe, Biblical, Bridges

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This document will play an important role in protecting the strategic interests of Russia and Uzbekistan and ensuring stability and security in the region, which some politicians call Russia's soft underbelly. It's not a secret that after the Soviet collapse and especially in recent years, Central Asia has become the focus of interest of major nations because of its geographic location and rich mineral resources.

Islom Karimov

Russia, Years, Play

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With the absence of a flu vaccination last year, I did not take a flu shot; but there is still some immunity that carries over from year to year; but about every 30 years, there is a major change in the genetics of the flu virus.

Michael C. Burgess

Years, Vaccines, Viruses

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Research is subordinated (not to a long-term social benefit) but to an immediate commercial profit. Currently, disease (not health) is one of the major sources of profit for the pharmaceutical industry, and the doctors are willing agents of those profits.

Pierre Bosquet

Health, Doctors, Medicine

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The medical establishment has become the major threat to health.

Ivan Illich

Health, Medicine, Medical

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Our senior officers knew the war was going badly. Yet they bowed to groupthink pressure and kept up pretenses. ...Many of my generation, the career captains, majors, and lieutenant colonels seasoned in that war, vowed that when our turn came to call the shots, we would not quietly acquiesce in halfhearted warfare for half-baked reasons that the American people could not understand.

Colin Powell

Senior, War, Government

Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. Persico (2010). “My American Journey”, p.149, Ballantine Books

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It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can intimidate generals, and perhaps this is why history is so attractive to the more timid among us. We can recover self-confidence by snubbing the dead.

E. M. Forster

Self Confidence, History, Office

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Battles that involve oatmeal are just never going to end up being historic, you know?" Jake went on. "Gettysburg? No major oatmeal involvement. The Battle of Midway? Neither side used oatmeal. Desert Storm? No oatmeal.

Katherine Applegate

Oatmeal, Storm, Battle

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The Journey of Reconciliation was organized not only to devise techniques for eliminating Jim Crow in travel, but also as a training ground for similar peaceful projects against discrimination in such major areas as employment and in the armed services.

Bayard Rustin

Journey, Peaceful, Crow

Bayard Rustin (2003). “Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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Perhaps punctuality is a quality made even more valuable because it is found in so few people. Punctuality is not usually thought of in our day as a major virtue.

Sterling W Sill

People, Quality, Punctuality

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If you are not progressing along the true way, a slight twist in the mind can become a major twist. This must be pondered well.

Miyamoto Musashi

Mind, Progress, Twists

Miyamoto Musashi (2010). “The Complete Book of Five Rings”, p.40, Shambhala Publications

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All chronic and degenerative diseases are caused by two and only two major problems, toxicity and deficiency.

Charlotte Gerson

Two, Disease, Problem

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One of the major problems is what we do to the soil, the air, the water and everything, we take in our food.

Charlotte Gerson

Air, Water, Soil

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My major preoccupation is the question, 'What is reality?'

Philip K. Dick

Reality, Preoccupation

"Dictionary of Literary Biography". Book by Gale, vol. 8, part 1, 1981.

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It is my fervent goal and hope... that we will someday no longer have to rely on nuclear weapons to deter aggression and assure world peace. To that end the United States is now engaged in a serious and sustained effort to negotiate major reductions in levels of offensive nuclear weapons with the ultimate goal of eliminating these weapons from the face of the earth.

Ronald Reagan

Goal, Effort, World

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I mean, to win a major, you've got to be a good player and you've got to get your breaks, as well, to win.

Retief Goosen

Mean, Winning, Player

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I just scribbled away and eventually a C-major chord was there. I didn't ever decide I was going to be a composer. It was like being tall. It's what I was. It's what I did.

Richard Rodney Bennett

Chords, Composer, Tall

"A life in music: Richard Rodney Bennett". Interview with Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2011.

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We must create the conditions for immigrants to normally integrate into our society, learn Russian and, of course, respect our culture and traditions and abide by Russian law. In this regard, I believe that the decision to make learning the Russian language compulsory and administer exams is well grounded. To do so, we will need to carry out major organisational work and introduce corresponding legislative amendments.

Vladimir Putin

Believe, Law, Decision

"Vladimir Putin’s introductory remarks". web.archive.org. January 26, 2012.

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The need for de-development presents our economists with a major challenge. They must design a stable, low-consumption economy in which there is a much more equitable distribution of wealth than in the present one. Redistribution of wealth both within and among nations is absolutely essential if a decent life is to be provided for every human being.

John Holdren

Design, Challenges, Essentials

"White House Science Adviser Advocated 'De-Development' of the United States" by Christopher Neefus, www.cnsnews.com. July 28, 2009.

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I was an economics major, which I enjoyed because I had a good business sense.

Herb Ritts

Economics, Good Business, Business Sense

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