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Robert D. Kaplan

"While the foreign policy elite in Washington focuses on the 8,000 deaths in a conflict in Syria â€“ half a world away from the United States â€“ more than 47,000 people have died in drug-related violence since 2006 in Mexico. A deeply troubled state as well as a demographic and economic giant on the United Statesâ€™ southern border, Mexico will affect Americaâ€™s destiny in coming decades more than any state or combination of states in the Middle East."

-- Robert D. Kaplan

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“It is doubtful if even experience of riches and success is as intense among those who have experienced nothing else as among those who have also experienced poverty and failure. There is little romance in wealth to those who have been born wealthy and whose families have been wealthy for generations.”
“I got so many emails and text messages, my phone blew up because it couldn't handle everybody. It's like almost being at your own funeral because of the way the headline read.”

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“The money our society spends goes to appease those with power. As such, it goes mainly to those who don't need it. A nation that redistributes income to its poor buys a civilized and humane society, and it buys this with a miniscule share of the national income and a modest reduction in the supply of cleaning women. A country that subsidizes workers in the prime working years sacrifices, not a dust-free living room, but the very muscle of the national economy.”
“I personally feel it is presumptuous to believe that man can determine the whole temporal structure of the universe, its evolution, development and ultimate fate from the first nanosecond of creation to the last 10^10 years, on the basis of three or four facts which are not very accurately known and are disputed among the experts.”
“Popular music has always had its really horrendous stuff.”
“Mom's dad was in the army, stormed the beach at Normandy, fought through the French hedgerows, the Battle of the Ardennes, the Battle of the Bulge, and liberated concentration camps at the end of the war.”
“I love lamps. I can't stand overhead lighting. I have to have everything on a dimmer.”

Source : "Kate Spade offers insights on her stylish home". Interview with Stacy Downs, www.kentucky.com. September 29, 2012.
“What are the aspects of yourself that line up with the character? You magnify those, and the ones that don't match up you kind of kick to the curb.”

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