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I have traveled a fair amount, and I have visited some great cities. I love architecture and museums and castles and ruins and central markets and even double-decker bus tours. But, I am a sucker for a tropical beach.

~Chelsea Cain

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As a young kid, I spent a lot of time exploring the world around me. I lived a few miles outside of a tiny town in central Oklahoma. I would often run amok though the fields of wheat, the patches of trees, along the railroad tracks, and on red dirt roads.

~Chelsea Manning

Topics: Along Around Central Dirt Exploring Few Fields Kid Lived Lot Me Miles Often Oklahoma Outside Patches Railroad Red Roads Run Spent Though Time Tiny Town Tracks Trees Wheat World Would Young Young Kid

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While writing 'Half of a Yellow Sun,' I enjoyed playing with minor things: inventing a train station in a town that has none, placing towns closer to each other than they are, changing the chronology of conquered cities. Yet I did not play with the central events of that time.

~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Topics: Central Changing Cities Closer Conquered Did Each Enjoyed Events Half Inventing Minor None Other Placing Play Playing Station Sun Than Things Time Town Towns Train While Writing Yellow

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To achieve important things, we have to sacrifice what's important to us. That's an idea that's very central to Indian thinking.

~Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Topics: Achieve Central Idea Important Important Things Indian Sacrifice Things Thinking Us Very

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The goal is doing stand-up on TV somewhere, which is what I'm working on. Something on latenight or Comedy Central, but - I dunno, something. It could happen, it could not happen.

~Chris Cubas

Topics: Central Comedy Could Doing Goal Happen Something Somewhere Stand-Up Tv Which Working

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Bitcoin solved the double-spend problem. The key problem was payment confirmation without central clearing. Bitcoin's solution was ingenious but wasteful - it's fairly slow, and you can't put other things on it.

~Chris Larsen

Topics: Bitcoin Central Clearing Confirmation Fairly Ingenious Key Other Payment Problem Put Slow Solution Solved Things Wasteful Without You

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I try to construct each of my novels around one central theme - core tensions shared by the characters.

~Chris Pavone

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Mostly, I was only interested in television as a kid, and the majority of reading material I collected was an adjunct to that central concern, comic books and magazines included.

~Chris Ware

Topics: Books Central Collected Comic Comic Books Concern Included Interested Kid Magazines Majority Material Mostly Only Reading Television

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When it comes to films, people often don't differentiate between the message of a bad central character and the message of the film itself. They are two separate things.

~Christian Bale

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The central question is whether Medicare and Medicaid should remain entitlement programs guaranteeing a certain amount of care, as Democrats believe, or become defined contribution programs in which federal spending is capped, as Republicans suggest.

~Christina Romer

Topics: Amount Become Believe Care Central Certain Contribution Defined Democrats Entitlement Federal Medicaid Medicare Programs Question Remain Republicans Should Spending Suggest Whether Which

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