verna Quotes and Quotations
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verna Quotes and Quotations
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Yet, much of what lies beneath the ocean's surface remains a mystery, and our nation continues to rely on a confused, antiquated system of ocean governance. Tom Allen | top
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Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance. Kofi Annan | top
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I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred. David Antin | top
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I have just come out of an electoral experience with the people of my country in which I invited them to join me in a partnership for governance. Perry Christie | top
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We want a vernacular in art. No mere verbal or formal agreement, or dead level of uniformity but that comprehensive and harmonizing unity with individual variety which can be developed among people politically and socially free. Walter Crane | top
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We are having Internet Governance discussions and meetings and a very large number of people are discussing the future of the Internet who have no clue as to what the Internet is except that it is important and that they have to be involved. Steve Crocker | top
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It must be remembered that the Bush White House has a separate talent for character assassination that must not be confused with a talent for governance. Richard Dreyfuss | top
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What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it's not one particular set of sounds. Carlisle Floyd | top
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Russia under President Putin is less democratic and less free today than when he assumed office. If Russia cannot fulfill its obligation to the G-8 and maintain a high standard of democratic governance then its membership should be suspended. Vito Fossella | top
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Aid can work where there is good governance, and usually fails where governments are unable or unwilling to commit aid to improve the lives of their people. Lee H. Hamilton | top
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However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but more different from other dialects. William Labov | top
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This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in many ways, and it is more different from standard English than any other dialect spoken in continental North America. William Labov | top
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Democracy, good governance and modernity cannot be imported or imposed from outside a country. Emile Lahud | top
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Regional exchange can be a source of growth and development, and of enhancing good governance. Anna Lindh | top
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I am working to make sure we don't only protect the environment, we also improve governance. Wangari Maathai | top
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To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population. Thomas B. Macaulay | top
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I'm not saying that there weren't other inherent problems with the score that couldn't have been overcome with a bit of remixing, but why did they ask me to do it, and why did Griffin ask me to do it this way, for a film that had nothing to do with American vernacular? Michael Nyman | top
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I don't know the rules of grammar... If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language they use every day, the language in which they think. We try to write in the vernacular. David Ogilvy | top
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A well balanced, inclusive approach, according to certain standards and ideals, is essential for the proper governance of any country. Laisenia Qarase | top
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Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur. Joanna Russ | top
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Until we totally change the way we elect our leaders, until we remove private money from public campaigns, lying will be the de facto method of governance in this country. Peter Schuyler | top
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One thing is obvious: Our policy, which is directed at making the country ungovernable, has started to bear fruit. The process that has been initiated is irreversible. Joe Slovo | top
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The whole path of American music has been so much about the recognition of stylistic diversity, and the recognition of the importance of music which was from one of the vernacular traditions. Michael Tilson Thomas | top
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In situations of military conflict, civil strife, lawlessness, bad governance, and human rights violations, terrorists find it easier to hide, train and prepare their attacks. Gijs de Vries | top
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One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can. William Wordsworth | top