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• Kissinger's major, and most lucrative role, has come as head of Kissinger Associates in New York City, founded on a loan obtained in 1982 from the international banking firm of E.M. Warburg, Pincus and Company. Nominally, Kissinger Associates (KA) is an "international consulting firm" but "consultant" covers many sins, and in KA's case, this means international political influence-peddling for its two dozen or so important corporate clients.

  Murray Rothbard

  New York, Mean, Cities

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• Sometimes you walk into things, that, if you were paying attention, vibrationally, you would know right from the beginning that it wasn't what you are wanting. In most cases, your initial knee-jerk response was a pretty good indicator of how it was going to turn out later. The things that give most of you the most grief are those things that initially you had a feeling response about, but then you talked yourself out of it for one reason or another.

  Esther Hicks

  Grief, Giving, Feelings

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• One thing, however, is sure, - that in all cases the effort should be to impose all the cost of repairing the wrong upon the doer of the wrong. This alone is real justice, and of course such justice is necessarily free.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Real, Justice, Effort

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• If you want to conquer lust for wealth, love selflessness and sparing way of life. If you want to conquer anger, develop meekness and generosity. Grieve only if you have committed a sin, but even in this case do not grieve too much, otherwise you may become desperate. If you want to conquer conceit, do not desire praise, laurels, nice garments, respect, favor, but like to be blamed and slandered by people... If you want to conquer pride, do not say that your deed was done by your hands and might; say that with God's help and guidance it was done, not by my power and efforts.

  Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

  Life, Nice, Pride

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• Each human being has the right to two blessings, which are: the blessing to do right, and the blessing to err. In the latter case, there is always a path of learning leading to the right way.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Blessing, Two

  Paulo Coelho (2015). “Warrior of the Light -”, p.25, Booklassic

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• I read true crime books, and I read when people do case studies of stuff. I'm into books like that. Case studies or forensics or murder - all that good stuff.

  Tom Araya

  Book, People, Stuff

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• But they never notice the following inconsistency: this so-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the time.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Events, Worst, Inconsistency

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.73, Random House

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• In at least one way we are atypical bloggers. That’s because we just keep on posting. The typical blogger, like most people who go on diets and budgets, quits after a few months, weeks, or in many cases, days.

  Stephen J. Dubner

  Funny, Thoughtful, People

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  Let sleeping dogs lie or lying dogs sleep or whatever. Time to move on. People get divorced. Life doesn't owe you your own personal happy ending especially at another's, or in this case several others', expense.

  Axl Rose

  Dog, Lying, Moving

  "Axl Rose to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: I'm Not Coming and Don't Induct Me" by Erik Pedersen, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 11, 2012.

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• Every psychological event depends upon the state of the person and at the same time on the environment, although their relative importance is different in different cases

  Kurt Lewin

  Events, Different, Environment

  Kurt Lewin (2013). “Principles of Topological Psychology”, p.24, Read Books Ltd

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• First of all, in any sport where you can measure distance, height speed and all of that, you see how athletes have changed their sport and made it better. I believe, with every generation, the sport has improved. Certainly, in the men's game, that has been the case. I think that I played Pete [Sampras] at his best, I played Roger [Federer] at his best.. I believe wholeheartedly that Roger and [Rafael] Nadal have pushed the game much further than myself or Pete ever did. Their options on the tennis court are considerably more than ours.

  Andre Agassi

  Sports, Distance, Believe

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• My case clearly demonstrates the need for comprehensive whistleblower protection act reform. If we had had a real process in place, and reports of wrongdoing could be taken to real, independent arbiters rather than captured officials, I might not have had to sacrifice so much to do what at this point even the President seems to agree needed to be done.

  Edward Snowden

  Real, Taken, Independent

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• During the last considerable epidemic at the turn of the century, I was a member of the Health Committee of London Borough Council, and I learned how the credit of vaccination is kept up statistically by diagnosing all the revaccinated cases (of smallpox) as pustular eczema, varioloid or what not---except smallpox.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Epidemics, Credit, Eczema

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• I am most thankful to Almighty Providence for mercies received, and determined still to press the case into public notice as a token of gratitude.

  William Banting

  Gratitude, Thank You God, Thankfulness

  William Banting (2005). “Letter on Corpulence”, p.50, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I am under obligations to most of those advisers for the pains and interest they took in my case; but only to one for an effectual remedy.

  William Banting

  Pain, Interest, Obligation

  William Banting (1864). “Letter on Corpulence: Addressed to the Public”, p.13

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• When I was in China, Mao was Chairman, and parents were terrified to tell their children anything that differed from the party line in case the children repeated it and endangered the whole family.

  Jung Chang

  Children, Party, Parent

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• I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs.

  Lamar Alexander

  Country, Thinking, Goal

  "Interviews with Speaker Pelosi & Sen. Alexander". "This Week" with Jose Antonio Vargas, www.realclearpolitics.com. February 28, 2010.

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• One of the things about leadership is that you've got to show up. And if you want to be president of the United States you've got to make a case to the American people that Barack Obama needs to be dismissed from his position.

  Tim Pawlenty

  People, President, United States

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• All travellers who had preceded me into the Barren Grounds had relied on the abundant game, and in consequence suffered dreadful hardships; in some cases even starved to death.

  Ernest Thompson Seton

  Games, Hardship, Barren

  Ernest Thompson Seton (2010). “The Arctic Prairies: A Canoe Journey”, p.3, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Well, you know, there's depression and depression. What I mean by depression in my own case is that depression isn't just the blues. It's not just like I have a hangover in the weekend ... the girl didn't show up or something like that. It isn't that. It's not really depression, it's a kind of mental violence which stops you from functioning properly from one moment to the next. You lose something somewhere and suddenly you're gripped by a kind of angst of the heart and of the spirit.

  Leonard Cohen

  Girl, Hangover, Heart

  "Depression and Depression: Paul Krugman, Leonard Cohen and St. Paul" by Christopher Cocca, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 20, 2011.

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• I know the pundits and the news media have carried a lot of commentary about cameras in the courtroom, and theres a lot of controversy about it as a result of the Simpson case. But I have not had enough time to step back and enough time to evaluate that.

  Lance Ito

  Media, Cameras, Enough Time

  "Ito: 'What you see is what's there'". www.cnn.com. October 24, 1995.

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• I no longer teach law. But when I did I advised my students that they should never accept a case if it meant that by doing so you couldn't sleep at night.

  Christopher Darden

  Sleep, Night, Law

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• I could teach an eighth-grader in twenty minutes how to brief a case. Yet for all three years in most law schools the casebook method of learning the law is still in. The matriculating young lawyer is as qualified to represent a client with the education he has suffered through as a doctor who has never seen a patient, who has never held a scalpel in his hand and who learns surgery by having read text books about it and becomes skilled in surgery, if ever, after having stacked up piles of corpses who represent his pathetic learning process.

  Gerry Spence

  Book, School, Doctors

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• I wanted to tell the story of these women and the war in the Congo and I couldn't find anything about them in the newspapers or in the library, so I felt I had to get on a plane and go to Africa and find the story myself. I felt there was a complete absence in the media of their narrative. It's very different now, but when I went in 2004 that was definitely the case.

  Lynn Nottage

  War, Media, Library

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• People have accused me of many things: racism, anti-Semitism, misogyny, intolerance, anti-Darwinism and anti-homosexualism [sic]. Well, I tell those people that there was someone else who was accused of things...our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. I rest my case.

  Jerry Falwell

  Jesus, Racism, People

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