#dominant

Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

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It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

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In how many lives does love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of a 'grand passion' than of a grand opera. ↗

— Israel Zangwill

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The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it. ↗

— Mao Zedong

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It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

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Animation did not become the dominant form of children's television until the '60s. ↗

— Annette Funicello

#become #children #did #dominant #form

If that voice that you created that is most alive in the poem isn't carried throughout the whole poem, then I destroy where it's not there, and I reconstruct it so that that voice is the dominant voice in the poem. ↗

— Philip Levine

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There's been a slow death in a way. On the positive side, there are films getting into the Academy Awards that wouldn't have, but on the negative side, financiers are now dominant and making all the decisions. I can't count the ways a director's vision is compromised. ↗

— Lili Taylor

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Death and sex are the dominant reality of our day. ↗

— Nick Mancuso

#death #dominant #our #reality #sex

Dominant companies have a special responsibility to ensure that the way they do business doesn't prevent competition... and does not harm consumers and innovation. ↗

— Mario Monti

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