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The 'Occupy' movement seems to have found a central theme to its 2012 movement around overturning 'the corporation as a person,' and some legislators are supporting that concept.
~ John Battelle
Nomad horsemen from central Asia, who depended on the 'delicate grassland ecology
~ Roderick Beaton
The problem isn't with the choices made by central bankers. The problem is that they possess the power to make any choice at all.
~ Ron Paul
According to an OGPU report, so many livestock had been slaughtered in the Central Black Earth Region that peasants were feeding pigs with meat.
~ Lynne Viola
town is organized around a large central square. Facing the square is the Palazzo Marchesale, the palace of
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Insofar as the idea of the limitlessness of human freedom is central to the arts of our time, this is also where the Anthropocene will most intransigently resist them.
~ Amitav Ghosh
ALLICIENCY  (ALLI'CIENCY)   n.s.[allicio, Lat. to entice or draw.]The power of attracting any thing; magnetism; attraction. The feigned central alliciency is but a word, and the manner of it still occult.Glanville'sScepsis Scientifica.
~ Samuel Johnson
aquel que ocupa el primer puesto, rara vez desempeña el papel principal.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He was liberal in his determination to understand the Biblical writers historically He was orthodox in his belief that the Bible was "dictated" by the Spirit. He was "neo-orthodox" in making Christ who came to save sinners central to the whole Bible.
~ John Calvin
Although recognition of the fact still halts, because of traditions established before the power of art was adequately recognized, science itself is but a central art auxiliary to the generation and utilization of other arts.*
~ John Dewey
It really is a very radical call ... to reject materialism as our central value and to think about the sanctity of life and what that really means if we take it seriously.
~ Naomi Oreskes
It's not surprising to me that books ended up playing a central role in my life, but it is somewhat mysterious that poetry did.
~ Campbell McGrath
Love is such central chemistry that creates generations to transfer knowledge for discovering the secrets of the universe and life.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
I'm the boogeyman used to scare South Central kids when they tell ghost stories.
~ Jerry Heller
The way that Dickens structured his books has a form that we most readily recognize now from, say, the great T.V. series, like 'The Wire' or 'The Sopranos.' There's one central plot line, but then from that spin off all kinds of subplots.
~ Jennifer Egan
While the move to central clearing has made the system safer, we need to make sure that the central counterparties have the resources and risk-management practices to withstand plausible but severe shocks.
~ Jerome Powell
I've lived in Washington now for 44 years, and that's a lot of folly to witness up close. Whatever confidence and optimism I felt towards the central government when I got here on January 1, 1970 has pretty much dissipated at the hands of the government.
~ George Will
I think Trump is so dangerous because the people that he appeals to the most have this sense of despair and oppression that has become a central defining characteristic of their lives. And they feel like only he is their avatar; only he will fight for them; only he will keep the wolf from the proverbial door.
~ Rick Wilson
Life satisfaction essentially measures cheerful moods, so it is not entitled to a central place in any theory that aims to be more than a happiology.
~ Martin Seligman
The focus is on the Middle East, so there are a lot of eyes on the battlefield. But there are other things that are happening around the world, in Northern Africa, things happen in the Southern Hemisphere and in Central and South America.
~ Rodney Frelinghuysen
The people of South and Central Texas and the Coastal Bend need jobs, they need health care, they need water infrastructure improvements, they need a quality education, and they need the resources to keep our borders safe and secure.
~ Ruben Hinojosa
But I do see the phrase "kingdom of God" as central to Jesus. As I have argued elsewhere, I see it as a metaphor or symbol with a range of meanings rather than as a concept with a single meaning. In the message and activity of Jesus, its meanings include the following.
~ Marcus J. Borg
Whether I'm a Super Bowl Champion or a regular guy stocking groceries at the Hy-Vee, sharing my faith and glorifying Jesus is the central focus of my time on this earth.
~ Kurt Warner
You see in Once Upon a Time in the West the whole film moves around her [Claudia Cardinale]. If you take her out, there's no more film. She's the central motor of the entire happening.
~ Sergio Leone