"History shows that there is no more potent engine for reform than the passion of voters who feel betrayed by the politicians they hoped would do the right thing."

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Source : "Ending Piggybank Politics: Checkbook Balancing in San Francisco" by Michael Moritz, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 7, 2011.

Michael Moritz

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“My favorite composers are the ones that tell the story. I love Wagner. I love Mahler. Prokofiev. The programmatic music. I listen more to classic rock because I don't like the contemporary music very much.”
“Don't go to a school just because your friends are there or because it sounds like a dream school. Go to a program that fits your style of play.”
“Gambling has held human beings in thrall for millennia. It has been engaged in everywhere, from the dregs of society to the most respectable circles.”

Source : Peter L. Bernstein (2012). “Peter L. Bernstein Classics Collection: Capital Ideas, Against the Gods, The Power of Gold and Capital Ideas Evolving”, p.321, John Wiley & Sons
“[In geology,] As in history, the material in hand remains silent if no questions are asked. The nature of these questions depends on the "school" to which the geologist belongs and on the objectivity of his investigations. Hans Cloos called this way of interrogation "the dialogue with the earth," "das Gesprach mit der Erde."”
“I look a certain way. I have a very specific kind of look.”

Source : "Famke Janssen on her directorial debut, the X-Men films, and Taken 2". Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. October 8, 2012.
“Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.”

Source : Barbara Johnson (1996). “The Joy Journal”, Thomas Nelson
“The Chinese government since 1979 has been very successful in economic development, and successful enough, simply by surviving, in the realm of political development.”
“The moon has set In a bank of jet That fringes the Western sky, The pleiads seven Have sunk from heaven And the midnight hurries by; My hopes are flown And, alas! alone On my weary couch I lie.”

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