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Unprecedented technological capabilities combined with unlimited human creativity have given us tremendous power to take on intractable problems like poverty, unemployment, disease, and environmental degradation. Our challenge is to translate this extraordinary potential into meaningful change. -- Muhammad Yunus
Unprecedented amnesty in history of Georgia took place -- Vano Merabishvili
Unprecedented financial pressures, and an ever-increasingly aggressive public culture, along with social, moral and spiritual fragmentation, are leading to lives being overwhelmed by stress, intolerable interior isolation and even quiet despair. -- Sean Brady
Unprecedented warnings by officials most closely linked with nuclear arms negotiations and defense strategy indicate that we are running out of time. If we fail to act soon, the scars of a major nuclear disaster will mark our immediate and distant future. -- Alan Cranston
This unprecedented crisis, which is without doubt the worst since the second world war, is not over. -- Giorgio Napolitano
A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before. -- Jack Bowman
I introduced the Transparency in Government Act, a multi-faceted transparency bill that would bring unprecedented access and accountability to the federal government. -- Mike Quigley
Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness. -- James D. Watson
Social media has shaken up the world of sales, with Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter offering new ways to hound leads and unprecedented insights into clients. -- Ryan Holmes
Because of new technologies, new wealth, new conditions of domestic life and of international relations, unprecedented criteria and issues are coming up for national decision. -- Herman Kahn
We live in a world of increasing dependence on electronic records and retrieval, unprecedented security and preservation concerns, and insufficient attention to civic and democratic education. -- Allen Weinstein
We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States. -- Zbigniew Brzezinski
Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race. -- Mary McLeod Bethune
Hurricane Katrina this past week was certainly the worst episode in what has become an all-too-familiar and tragic cycle, and our nation is now faced with a set of unprecedented challenges. -- Jo Bonner
The Nasdaq bubble and crash were followed by the real estate bubble then subprime crash, which led to the unprecedented printing of trillions of dollars in an attempt to prevent a global depression. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Some scientists believe climate change is the cause of unprecedented melting of the North Pole, and that effects these very uncertain weather patterns. I think we should listen to those scientists and experts. -- Dalai Lama
So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality. -- Bono
The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition. -- Nancy Pelosi
We who work in technology have nurtured an especially rare gift: the opportunity to effect change at an unprecedented scale and rate. Technology, community, and capitalism combine to make Silicon Valley the potential epicenter of vast positive change. -- Justin Rosenstein
People say that globalisation has negative aspects, but I don't believe globalisation is bad. It's criticised from a western perspective, but if you put yourself in the shoes of people in the developing world, it provides an unprecedented opportunity. -- Tadashi Yanai
Teenagers have more intense reading experiences because they've had fewer of them. It's like the first time you fall in love. You have a connection to that first person you fell in love with because it was so intense and unprecedented. -- John Green
That nature does not care, one way or the other, is the true abyss. That only man cares, in his finitude facing nothing but death, alone with his contingency and the objective meaninglessness of his projecting meanings, is a truly unprecedented situation. -- Hans Jonas
These are times of unprecedented challenge and change in the airline industry, and the appointments we are announcing today will put American in an even stronger position to continue the substantial progress that has already been made under the tenets of our Turnaround Plan. -- Gerard Arpey
Thanks to the unprecedented reach of British navigation, London in the early 18th century was not just the emporium of the world, it was the first place in which it was possible to assemble artifacts from around the world and allow people to study them. -- Neil MacGregor
Don't ever empty the bucket of mystery. Never let people define what you do. It's not about zigging when you should zag. It's not about doing something unprecedented and unpredictable. It's just about never being a word, or something that is not in the process of transformation. -- Marilyn Manson
As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions. -- Al Gore
Social enables word of mouth at an unprecedented scale. Its most powerful effect, through reviews and recommendations, is to put product quality and value for money as the key to success in commerce. Social brings a level of transparency that prevents marketers from advertising their way to success without underlying product quality. -- Roelof Botha
It is beyond dispute that President Obama and his aides have an extreme, even unprecedented obsession with concealing embarrassing information, controlling the flow of information, and punishing anyone who stands in the way. But, at least theoretically speaking, it is the job of journalists to impede that effort, not to serve and enable it. -- Glenn Greenwald
There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on. -- Mark Zuckerberg
Governance allows organizations to...achieve unprecedented automation. -- Dick Taylor
... every human being is an unprecedented miracle. -- James A. Baldwin
Each human being is unique, unprecedented, unrepeatable. -- Rene Dubos
Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented. -- Hannah Arendt
All good dialogue perhaps deals with something unprecedented. -- Elizabeth Bowen
The Bahamas is headed for unprecedented economic activity. -- Perry Christie
We live in a time of unprecedented abundance. -- David Wolfe
My pan plays down an unprecedented amount of our national debt. -- George W. Bush
We`re in an historic drought, and that demands unprecedented action. -- Chris Hayes
America's leadership is essential. America's resources are vast. America's opportunities are unprecedented. -- Gerald R. Ford
Languages are dying at an unprecedented rate. A language dies every 14 days. -- Patricia Ryan
America's development began with a large-scale ethnic cleansing, unprecedented in human history. -- Vladimir Putin
The amount of writing that people do online is astonishing, and historically unprecedented. -- Clive Thompson
My administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in government. -- Barack Obama
I did not have one bad spell during writing - an unprecedented record. -- Zane Grey
What we put into the atmosphere in terms of burning fuel is unprecedented. -- Sylvia Earle
Donald Trump has taken the Peter Principle to unprecedented heights. Or is it depths? -- Michael R. Burch
You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are. -- John Green
Finally, after more than a year of unprecedented anticipation, the talking stops and the cricket begins. -- Jonathan Agnew
Except for fools and madmen, everyone knows that nuclear war would he an unprecedented human catastrophe. -- Carl Sagan
The picture must be... a revelation, an unexpected and unprecedented resolution of an eternally familiar need. -- Mark Rothko
The pending merger with XM will offer unprecedented choice for consumers and create tremendous value for stockholders. -- Mel Karmazin
We are in a world of irredeemable paper money - a state of affairs unprecedented in history. -- John Exter
Technological evolution is leading to something new: a worldwide, interlocked, monolithic, technical-political web of unprecedented negative proportions -- Jerry Mander
For an American president to be aiding America's enemy in developing nuclear weapons technology is unprecedented, absolutely. -- Liz Cheney
The catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented - and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable. -- Al Gore
We're living in an era of unprecedented change, and I want to be a part of documenting it. -- Ron Fournier
It's true that climate change is an unprecedented problem so it's not surprising that it's so difficult to address. -- Dale Jamieson
With the world's unprecedented inspections and access to Iran's program, we'll know if Iran ever tries to break out. -- Barack Obama
I'm particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conventional wisdom about how the world works. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
We have found ways to capture, kill and market ocean wildlife on an unprecedented scale. It's an absolute catastrophe. -- Sylvia Earle
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. -- James A. Baldwin
In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event. -- Jeff Goodell
Humanity is facing a challenge unlike any we've ever had to confront. We are in an unprecedented period of change. -- David Suzuki
Is it unprecedented for two goalkeepers employed in a match comprising seven goals to be the fixture's most competent protagonists? -- Pete Gill
The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary. -- Karl Liebknecht
There is no western, capitalistic country in which the conditions of the masses have not improved in an unprecedented way. -- Ludwig von Mises
While the Internet is censored in China, the censorship is allowing a level of speech to take place that's unprecedented. -- Ethan Zuckerman
We must accept our reality as vastly as we possibly can; everything, even the unprecedented, must be possible within it. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
I took the unprecedented step of asking that the State Department make all my work-related emails public for everyone to see. -- Hillary Clinton
We don't have a prayer of defeating the Red Threat of our generation without a long boom of almost unprecedented duration. -- Mitch Daniels
Congress has funded numerous programs to provide care and compensation to 9/11 victims, spending several billion dollars on extraordinary and unprecedented efforts." -- Michael Enzi
Congress has funded numerous programs to provide care and compensation to 9/11 victims, spending several billion dollars on extraordinary and unprecedented efforts. -- Michael Enzi
I was imprisoned in the aftermath of the 11 September 2001 attacks, when Egypt's state security was rounding people up in unprecedented numbers. -- Maajid Nawaz
Technology, and applications of this technology, will continue to improve and evolve, providing unprecedented, global access to information, individuals, training, and opportunities. -- Maynard Webb
With virtually no knowledge of or interest in history, the masses simply take their unprecedented high living standards under capitalism for granted. -- Ralph Raico
Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years. -- Jared Diamond
Americans have always evinced some distrust of government, but the current situation has exacerbated this to a degree that may be unprecedented. -- Eric Alterman
We are facing a tipping point of environmental crisis unprecedented in human history and our very survival is dependent on protecting nature. -- Leonardo DiCaprio
...the unprecedented rise of the Christian Social Party... was to assume the deepest significance for me as a classical object of study. -- Adolf Hitler
The world can now maintain an acute infection in a way that is unprecedented in the history of life on our planet. -- Nathan Wolfe
I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade unprecedented in the history of cinema. -- Werner Herzog
To be the first to enter the cosmos, to engage, single-handed, in an unprecedented duel with nature-could one dream of anything more? -- Yuri Gagarin
You cannot carry on forever squeezing the productive bit of the economy in order to fund an unprecedented engorgement of the unproductive bit. -- Daniel Hannan
I think we're in an era of unprecedented dominance by corporations. I think people understand that deeply; I don't think that's even questioned. -- Josh Fox
This type of gathering is unprecedented. The time has come for Christians to publicly affirm our Jewish roots, distinctions and oneness in Jesus Christ. -- Bill McCartney
While the end-of-the-world scenario will be rife with unimaginable horrors, we believe that the pre-end period will be filled with unprecedented opportunities for profit. -- Robert Mankoff
Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine. -- Sean Penn
France, like other countries, is facing a terror threat that is unprecedented in its nature and magnitude, ... Terrorists are targeting France to divide us. -- Manuel Valls
The international community . . . allows nearly 3 billion people almost half of all humanity to subsist on $2 or less a day in a world of unprecedented wealth. -- Kofi Annan
This unprecedented racism, bigotry and proto-fascist agenda that Donald Trump is trying to shove down America's throat has unleashed the resistance that will dethrone him. -- Tom Morello
It is individuals who must be encouraged to undertake the unprecedented - and unprecedentedly profitable - effort to prevent the annihilation of the human race. -- L. Neil Smith
If [Donald] Trump wins narrowly, Democrats can blame the loss on FBI director James Comey, who inserted himself late in the campaign in an unprecedented way. -- Mara Liasson
involving into an iterative process of simplifying the 'complexity', and then transforming this 'simplicity into newer complexity' while integrating the unsolved domain for an unprecedented success. -- Priyavrat Thareja
As we move into unprecedented changes in our world, new and better tools are needed for meeting the challenges. The Michael teachings are one such tool. -- Shepherd Hoodwin
I will sleep no more but arise, You oceans that have been calm within me! how I feel you, fathomless, stirring, preparing unprecedented waves and storms. -- Walt Whitman
The IIFA Weekend has my unprecedented support. The relationship between India and the UK is long standing and one we would like to keep developing forever. -- Gordon Brown
If you are not open to the unprecedented, you will repeat history. If you are open to the unprecedented, you will change history. The difference is prayer. -- Mark Batterson
During these last ten thousand years, we have made massive, unprecedented changes to the environment, creating problems for ourselves that we may not be able to solve. -- Robyn Davidson
President-elect Donald Trump is an unprecedented figure in many respects, in part because there has never been an American president who has such complicated global business interests. -- Rachel Martin
In the last two years, the amount of legislation in the House of Representatives and state legislatures has been really unprecedented, that has focused on reproductive rights. -- Sandra Fluke
Monterey was the Maraschino cherry on top of the Sundae that was the '60s. It was totally unprecedented, and the audience was unprecedented in their joy. -- Art Garfunkel
History has become more important than ever because of the to unprecedented ability of the historical sciences to take in man's life on earth as a whole. -- Alfred Kazin
This is our greatest challenge: learning to live in a crowded and interconnected world that is creating unprecedented pressures on human society and on the physical environment. -- Jeffrey Sachs
One could safely say that David Lifton took folly to an unprecedented level. And considering the monumental foolishness of his colleagues in the conspiracy community, that's saying something. -- Vincent Bugliosi
We're living in an unprecedented day (when) evil is no longer evil. We've changed the terminology-- iniquity is now infirmity; wickedness is now weakness; devilry is now deficiency. -- Leonard Ravenhill
Humanity is undergoing, in the post-Cold War era, an economic and social crisis of unprecedented scale leading to the rapid impoverishment of large sectors of the world population. -- Michel Chossudovsky
When your government, employer, landlord, merchant, banker and local sports team gang up to picture, digitize and permanently record your every activity, you are placed under unprecedented control. -- William Safire
What can we say about a marketing culture that so openly feeds and colludes with obsession? The Disney empire has developed this to an unprecedented degree of professionalism. -- Rowan Williams
I take great pride in having been able to overcome the Asian financial crisis and seeking the opportunities available to bring about an unprecedented growth in the economy. -- Zhu Rongji
2.2 billion worth of military equipment had been stripped from U.S. Forces in West Germany and America and shipped to Israel in an unprecedented day and night airlift. -- George Scratchley Brown
In the United States, to an unprecedented degree, the individual's social role has come to be determined not by who he is but by what he can accomplish. -- John W. Gardner
I had no expectation that the Prince would offer me the unprecedented and unfettered access to the original and entirely untapped sources on which this biography is based. -- Jonathan Dimbleby
I believe that humans adapt to circumstance. The Internet is quite an unprecedented circumstance, so it's going to take people a while to get their heads around it. -- Jarvis Cocker
I take great pride in having been able to overcome the Asian financial crisis and seeking the opportunities available to bring about an unprecedented growth in the economy -- Zhu Rongji
The capitalist system, in spite of all obstacles put in its way by governments and politicians, has raised the standard of living of the masses in an unprecedented way. -- Ludwig von Mises
There was unprecedented elite condemnation of the plans to invade Iraq. Sensible analysts were able to perceive that the enterprise carried significant risks for U.S. interests, however conceived. -- Noam Chomsky
There is no doubt that we live in an age of unprecedented, and sometimes terrifying, technological advance where the speed of advance so often outstrips the necessary ethical considerations. -- Prince Charles
Indian enterprises seemed to work so well they produced disasters; success made them burst at the seams and the disruption of unprecedented orders led to shortages and finally failure. -- Paul Theroux
Our combination of great research universities, a pro-risk business culture, deep pools of innovation-seeking equity capital and reliable business and contract law is unprecedented and unparalleled in the world. -- Marc Andreessen
The unprecedented development of science and technology... so rapid that it is said that 90 per cent of the scientists which this country has ever produced are still living today. -- Robert Platt

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