"A lot depends on the starting point."

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Source : Howard Raiffa (1982). “The Art and Science of Negotiation”, p.215, Harvard University Press

Howard Raiffa

#Starting Quotes

“A cross could be a shape for expressing something spacious, such as the coordinators of space. That could be called its first significance or its first relevance.”

Source : "Tàpies, Werke auf Papier 1943 - 2003" by Antoni Tapies, Kunsthalle Emden, edited by Achim Sommer, Altana, (p. 27), 2004.
“The history of creation is but a succession of battles between amateurs of genius-inspired heretics- and orthodox professionals.”
“I had a few fibroids removed, and they left me with a Grand Canyon of scar tissue in my uterus. The doctors weren't sure I'd be able to reproduce. I was prepared for a rough road, and then out of nowhere we conceived.”
“Everything you do, every experience that you have, enlightens you a little bit or worsens you.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We revisit those places where we experienced love, as pilgrims return to holy places, to be reminded, restored, and reaffirmed by them.”
“You know in the U.S. everyone has a gun in the room. That's not the reason why you go and invade the home with anti-terrorist forces.”
“In the USA, where so many people compete for one and the same thing, where job opportunities, residential facilities, and food resources have to be spread over so many people, the question of justice becomes more imperative than ever before if communal and individual life is to be made possible and enjoyable.”
“Criminal trials are fundamentally about individual accountability whereas truth commissions are less about the guilt of the perpetrator and more about the suffering of the victim. A criminal trial is only incidentally a therapeutic or cathartic process for victims. But truth commissions, as we saw in South Africa, have the advantage of giving tens of thousands of people the opportunity to tell their stories, and not only does that contribute to healing but it also contributes to reconciliation, especially when perpetrators also come and express contrition.”

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