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“Every hour of every day, at every level in every organization, influential people succeed and non-influential people don't,”
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“To step away from the world isn't to draw back; it's actually a way to tune in.”
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“I was having a bit of trouble. I wasn't in a good relationship. Or I was in too many bad relationships. I had so many girlfriends at that point. None of them seemed to care they weren't pleasing me very much. I was obviously in with the wrong group.”
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“It's something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them someone else's poetry because they do poetry better than you could do it, because you're too awkward to do it.”
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“The jealous and intolerant eye of the Kremlin can distinguish, in the end, only vassals and enemies, and the neighbors of Russia, if they do not wish to be one, must reconcile themselves to being the other.”
Source : George F. Kennan (2014). “The Kennan Diaries”, p.214, W. W. Norton & Company
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“Even in Madison’s day, the practice of gerrymandering for partisan advantage was familiar. In the late seventeen-eighties, there were claims that Patrick Henry had tried to gerrymander Madison himself out of the First Congress. The term was coined during Madison’s Presidency, to mock Elbridge Gerry, the governor of Massachusetts, who in 1811 approved an election district that was said to look like a salamander.”
Source : "Drawing the Line". www.newyorker.com. March 6, 2006. 
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“I hate love. Hate being in love. I never want it to happen to me again.”
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“Signs of a poorly understood but treatable house fire requires action, not inaction.”
Source : "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, truthout.org. September 17, 2016.
