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  • Carroll Quigley In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures.
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Eda J. Le Shan In all our efforts to provide ''advantages'' we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.''
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  • Billy Evans In all probability, when the 1919 series is over, a diagnosis of it will show that the final result was brought about by some unusual situation or freak happening that was given no consideration when the relative strength of the two clubs was considered.
    Billy Evans
    American umpire in Major League Baseball (1884 - )
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  • Herbert Hoover In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land.
    Speech Stanford University, 11 august 1928
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • Herbert Hoover In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • Ben Katchor In America, there's a very long tradition of a comic strip that comes in newspapers, which is not true all over the world. To sell papers, they put color comics in.
    Ben Katchor
    American cartoonist and illustrator (1951 - )
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  • Andrei Sakharov In and after 1964 when I began to concern myself with the biological issues, and particularly from 1967 onwards, the extent of the problems over which I felt uneasy increased to such a point that in 1968 I felt a compelling urge to make my views public.
    Andrei Sakharov
    Russian nuclear physicist, dissident and activist (1921 - 1989)
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  • Bun E. Carlos In April of 1976, Epic Records was flying out to sign us when I tripped over a light case after a gig and broke my arm. We called the next morning and said, 'Don't go to the airport - Bun E. broke his arm.' They thought Mercury or someone was trying to sign us, so they offered us, like, $25,000 more on top of the deal.
    Bun E. Carlos
    American drummer (1950 - )
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  • Walter Bagehot In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Alexander Hamilton In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Alex Cox In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the critics were all over this as evidence of the genius of Scorsese and Scorsese is a genius.
    Alex Cox
    English film director, screenwriter and actor (1954 - )
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  • André Gide In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Barry White In my day, we didn't have the cocaine, so we went out and knocked somebody over the head and took the money. But today, all this cocaine and crack, it doesn't give kids a chance.
    Barry White
    American singer-songwriter, record producer and composer (1944 - 2003)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Ben Bernanke In September 2008, the two largest housing mortgage companies called Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which were government-sponsored enterprises, which hold hundreds of billions of dollars of mortgages, because of the losses they took on the mortgages, they essentially became insolvent, and the government had to take them over.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Francis Bacon In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • C. Wright Mills In the formulas of 'personnel experts', men and women are to be shaped into the 'well rounded, acceptable, effective personality.' Just like small proprietors, they cannot higgle over prices, which are fixed, or 'judge the market' and accordingly buy wisely.
    White Collar :The American Middle Classes (1951)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Alexander Hamilton In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Bayard Taylor In the glory which overhangs Palestine afar off, we imagine emotions which never come, when we tread the soil and walk over the hallowed sites.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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