- Better Off
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- Nov 07, 2020
Concentrated Quotes
On power, focus, and gathered resources.
These Hands quotes examine concentration in several forms, from wealth and power gathered into few hands to the concentrated language poets reach for and the focused energy behind meaningful work.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing, for me at least, takes a lot of concentrated work and effort. It takes dedication and the willingness to do the work even when that feeling of inspiration isn't there at all.
- Blacks
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gun-related violence and murders are concentrated among blacks and Latinos in big cities.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Uribe and I have very good relations. I owe him loyalty, I admire him, he did great things for our country, and I think that because of what he did, I can now concentrate on different issues, different from what he concentrated on.
- Competition
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- Nov 07, 2020
I concentrated on Rossini when I began, and I never really felt any competition. I sang in the best houses, and I believed I was always a first choice. I was lucky in a way - I never felt there was someone else who was getting the roles in another theatre and that we were competing.
- Innovation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our work at the OECD shows that migration, if well managed, can spur growth and innovation. Unfortunately, in the past, migration has not always been well managed: migrants have been concentrated in ghetto-like conditions, with few public services or employment prospects.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
A real active music set, based and really concentrated on what the music's all about. That's what I'm all about - singing and a really good strong music set.
- Attention
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- Nov 07, 2020
The nation did not begin to realize the extraordinary possibilities of the vast Western territory until its attention was thus suddenly and definitely concentrated on the Pacific by the annual addition of over fifty million dollars to the circulating medium.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
A pig has a plow on the end of its nose because it does meaningful work with it. It is built to dig and create soil disturbance, something it can't do in a concentrated feeding environment. The omnivore has historically been a salvage operation for food scraps around the homestead.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the biggest thing was that when I was in college, I really concentrated on personnel. That was my strength, and I was, in essence, my own recruiting coordinator. And when I went to the pros, I did the same thing.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
Populists have always been out to challenge the orthodoxy of the corporate order and to empower workaday Americans so they can control their own economic and political destinies. This approach distinguishes the movement from classic liberalism, which seeks to live in harmony with concentrated corporate power by trying to regulate excesses.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The overwhelming majority of new mortgages are issued with government backing in a highly concentrated securitization market. That leaves us with both potential taxpayer liability and systemic risk.
- Finance
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Fed's organization reflects a long-standing desire in American history to ensure that power over our nation's monetary policy and financial system is not concentrated in a few hands, whether in Washington or in high finance or in any single group or constituency.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020