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• When you see a blonde with great tits and a great ass, you say to yourself, 'Hey, she must be stupid or must have nothing else to offer', which maybe is the case many times. But then again there is the one that is as smart as her breasts look, great as her face looks... so people are shocked.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Sex, Smart, Stupid

  "The governator" by Julian Borger and Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. August 8, 2003.

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• If it were really the case that terrorists "hate us for our freedoms," we'd be getting more popular with Al Qaeda every month.

  Julian Sanchez

  Hate, Democracy, Als

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• There are only two reasons for buying a book, after all. Either we intend to read it, in which case most of us find a printed version preferable, or we don't intend to read it, in which case a printed version is absolutely essential.

  Geoffrey Nunberg

  Book, Two, Democracy

  Geoffrey Nunberg (2009). “The Years of Talking Dangerously”, p.122, PublicAffairs

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• The discipline of colleges and universities is in general contrived, not for the benefit of the students, but for the interest, or more properly speaking, for the ease of the masters. Its object is, in all cases, to maintain the authority of the master, and whether he neglects or performs his duty, to oblige the students in all cases to behave toward him as if he performed it with the greatest diligence and ability.

  Adam Smith

  College, Discipline, Benefits

  'Wealth of Nations' (1776)

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• Gratitude is not a spiritual or moral dessert which we may take or push away according to the whims of the moment, and in either case without material consequences. Gratitude is the very bread and meat of spiritual and moral health, individually and collectively. What was the seed of disintegration that corrupted the heart of the ancient world beyond the point of divine remedy...? What was it but ingratitude?

  Noel 'Razor' Smith

  Thanksgiving, Spiritual, Gratitude

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• I met many Russians over the years who were convinced my brothers and I were a cabal, pulling strings behind the scenes to shape American policy. The Soviets had no conception of how a pluralistic democracy works and believed elected officials, up to and including the president of the United States, were only figureheads acting out the roles dictated to them by the real "powers that be" - in this case, my family.

  David Rockefeller

  Brother, Real, Power

  David Rockefeller (2011). “Memoirs”, p.329, Random House

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• What's keeping you from being rich? In most cases it's simply a lack of belief. In order to become rich, you must believe you can do it, and you must take the actions necessary to achieve your goal.

  Suze Orman

  Money, Believe, Order

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• There's no denying that a collapse in stock prices today would pose serious macroeconomic challenges for the United States. Consumer spending would slow, and the U.S. economy would become less of a magnet for foreign investors. Economic growth, which in any case has recently been at unsustainable levels, would decline somewhat. History proves, however, that a smart central bank can protect the economy and the financial sector from the nastier side effects of a stock market collapse.

  Ben Bernanke

  Smart, Challenges, Growth

  "A Crash Course for Central Bankers" by Ben Bernanke, foreignpolicy.com. Novemeber 20, 2009.

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• You know, in this business, you don't have any control over what the press says and how they portray things. And that's their prerogative. But I think anybody who looks at it objectively has trouble making the case that somehow this is a bad economy.

  Dick Cheney

  Thinking, Looks, Trouble

  Interview With Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. June 25, 2004.

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• In some cases, in order to protect global issues some sacrifice for national interest is worth it in the long run. Global warming, these things, they suffer everybody.

  Dalai Lama

  Running, Sacrifice, Order

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• What's at risk [in 100 years] if we do not take action, truly is the survival of civilization as we know it... Literally that is the case. We have seen global warming so far of just a little bit less than one degree Celsius and look at what's happened. Superstorm Sandy. Boulder Colorado. All these fires. Hurricane Irene one year before.

  Al Gore

  Fire, Years, Civilization

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• It is often the case that laws must change before fears about change dissipate.

  Hillary Clinton

  Law, Lgbt

  International Human Rights Day Address at Palais des Nations, delivered 6 December 2011, Geneva, Switzerland

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• In a great number of the cosmogonic myths the world is said to have developed from a great water, which was the prime matter. In many cases, as for instance in an Indian myth, this prime matter is indicated as a solution, out of which the solid earth crystallized out.

  Svante Arrhenius

  Science, Numbers, Water

  Svante Arrhenius (1912). “Theories of Solutions”

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• When an issue becomes a vital part of a political agenda, as is the case with climate, then the politically desired position becomes a goal rather than a consequence of scientific research.

  Richard Lindzen

  Issues, Goal, Political

  "Climate Science: Is it currently designed to answer questions?". Richard Lindzen's remarks for Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, arxiv.org. September 19, 2008.

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• Grammatici certant et adhuc sub iudice lis est. - Grammarians dispute, and the case it still before the courts.

  Horace

  Disputes, Court, Grammar

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• Self-esteem is the prize awarded by you to you for playing by your own rules - in which case, you'd think it would be easier to come by.

  Terry Rossio

  Self Esteem, Thinking, Would Be

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• I would do it [study UFOs], but before agreeing to do it, we must insist upon full access to discs recovered. For instance in the L.A. case, the Army grabbed it and would not let us have it for cursory examination.

  J. Edgar Hoover

  Army, Examination, Study

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• I rather wish to rest my case on material considerations, not those of the social future but those of the actual historical period of the capitalist world-economy.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Historical, Wish, World

  Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1995). “Capistalist Civilisation”, p.100, Verso

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• Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the purpose for which it has always been intended. Or is some riddle solved by my surviving forever? Is not this eternal life itself as much of a riddle as our present life?

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Life, Forever, Soul

  "Tractatus Logico Philosophicus".

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• Whatever the source of the leader's ideas, he cannot inspire his people unless he expresses vivid goals which in some sense they want. Of course, the more closely he meets their needs, the less "persuasive" he has to be, but in no case does it make sense to speak as if his role is force submission. Rather it is to strengthen and uplift, to make people feel that they are the origins, not the pawns, of the socio-political system.

  David McClelland

  Uplifting, Thinking, Ideas

  "Leadership: what every leader should know about people". Book by Robert A. Portnoy (p. 16), 1986.

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• Chemistry ceases to improve when one element is found from which all others are deductible. Physics ceases to progress when one force is found of which all others are manifestations. So religion ceases to progress when unity is reached, which is the case with Hinduism.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Unity, Progress, Elements

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• These are only outer symptoms. Death is the transfer of the soul from one body to another body, or in cases when a man is fully awakened, from one body to the body of the whole universe. It is a great journey, but you cannot know it from the outside. From outside, only symptoms are available; and those symptoms have made people afraid.

  Rajneesh

  Death, Journey, Men

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• It's not so much about powerful women. In some cases, there are stereotypes about women. I often don't hear men talked about in the same way. It's more a sexist stereotype than a powerful stereotype.

  Anna Wintour

  Powerful, Men, Way

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• We have been led to believe that we have come a long way toward world nuclear disarmament. But that is not the case. Our government is not doing all that it could. We must urge our leaders to fulfill the obligations of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The United States must assume world leadership to end once and for all the threat of nuclear war. It is our moral responsibility.

  Harrison Ford

  War, Believe, Responsibility

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• Never looking anyone in the eye when you're traveling on public transport, in case it's interpreted as a sign that you're trying to get off with them.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Eye, Trying

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