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“Walk it how I talk it, so I talk it how I live it.”
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“All the risky things that were happening back in ’06 and ‘07 are back again to the same level, if not more. So we are in the beginning of a credit bubble, but just the beginning.”
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“The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories. The Cold war is over. Europe is at peace, if not always diplomatically.”
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“I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom”
Source : "No Easy Answers: An Interview with James Q. Wilson". Interview with William D. Eggers and John O'Leary, reason.com. February 1, 1995.
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“The mechanical brain does not secrete thought "as the liver does bile," as the earlier materialists claimed, nor does it put it out in the form of energy, as the muscle puts out its activity. Information is information, not matter or energy. No materialism which does not admit this can survive at the present day.”
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“Love is unconditional acceptance. It is love of parents for child; also the non-possessive love of partners; also the caring love between all people that enables forgiveness. It's above energy, though it may be expressed energetically. It's our essential nature: Spirit itself, the quality we share with God. And it is the binding force of the Universe, inherent in all that is.”
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“I also identify as a Latin person, a person who has Latin blood.”
Source : Interview with Kay Bonetti, www.missourireview.com. March 1, 1995.
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“It is easy to have calmness in inactivity, it is hard to have calmness in activity, but calmness in activity is true calmness.”
Source : Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.31, Shambhala Publications