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To protect the right of expression is the central part of an artist's activity... In China many essential rights are lacking, and I wanted to remind people of this.

~Ai Weiwei

Topics: Activity Artist Central China Essential Expression Lacking Many Part People Protect Remind Right Rights Wanted

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The central task for a business is to make a profit. The challenge is to make a profit by doing things which are genuinely good for people and good for societies.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Business Central Challenge Doing Genuinely Good Make People Profit Societies Task Things Which

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The key to truly rebuilding our central city on a vital and sustainable foundation is people.

~Alan Autry

Topics: Central City Foundation Key Our People Rebuilding Sustainable Truly Vital

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The central focus of what we are doing at the Fed is to keep inflation from accelerating - and preferably decelerating.

~Alan Greenspan

Topics: Accelerate Central Doing Fed Focus Inflation Keep

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For me, consciousness is the most interesting unsolved problem of science, and, in fact, we may never know what it is about a particular arrangement of neurons that gives rise to consciousness. Our consciousness, like the air we breathe or like the passage of time, is central to our existence as intelligent beings.

~Alan Lightman

Topics: About Air Arrangement Beings Breathe Central Consciousness Existence Fact Gives In Fact Intelligent Interesting Know Like May Me Most Neurons Never Our Particular Passage Problem Rise Science Time

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My main point about films is that I don't like the adaptation process, and I particularly don't like the modern way of comic book-film adaptations, where, essentially, the central characters are just franchises that can be worked endlessly to no apparent point.

~Alan Moore

Topics: About Adaptation Apparent Central Characters Comic Endlessly Essentially Films Just Like Main Modern Particularly Point Process Way Where Worked

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If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.

~Alan Paton

Topics: Africa Central Concern Issues Novel Publishing South South Africa Which Worth Wrote You

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I'm a wishy-washy 'Guardian' reader, but the last thing I want to do is force a political agenda down people's throats. It's not central to my work, unlike, say, China Mieville, who's very politicised.

~Alastair Reynolds

Topics: Agenda Central China Down Force Guardian Last People Political Political Agenda Reader Say Thing Throats Unlike Very Want Work

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Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.

~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Topics: Beings Central Even Human Human Beings Important Long Many Prolongs Situations Spiritual Well-Being Yield

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Business cycles lengthened greatly during the 20th century, as central banks learned to manage national economies by raising and lowering interest rates.

~Alex Berenson

Topics: Banks Business Central Century Cycles Economies Greatly Interest Interest Rates Learned Lowering Manage National Raising Rates 20Th Century

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