"AIDS and malaria and TB are national security issues. A worldwide program to get a start on dealing with these issues would cost about $25 billion... It's, what, a few months in Iraq."

-- Jared Diamond

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“The very first company I started failed with a great bang. The second one failed a little bit less, but still failed. The third one, you know, proper failed, but it was kind of okay. I recovered quickly. Number four almost didn't fail. It still didn't really feel great, but it did okay. Number five was PayPal.”
“The gun becomes this psychological totem, this thing of who I am. And it's almost as if using the gun is going to be the thing that's going to be my expression of how I make a difference in the world.”
“I love pain. Love pain.”
“Spring sprang suddenly onto the land.”
“A lot of education is like teaching marching; I try to make it more like dancing.”
“That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.”

Source : Paul Cézanne, Alberto Giacometti, Felix Andreas Baumann, Poul Erik Tøjner, Tobia Bezzola (2008). “Cézanne & Giacometti: paths of doubt”, Hatje Cantz Pub
“Federal laws, including those that made so many people immigrate without documents, gutted the enforcement power of the Department of Labor and created a lower minimum wage for tipped workers than for everybody else, reinforcing the industryâ€™s”

Source : Rinku Sen (2009). “The Accidental American: Immigration and Citizenship in the Age of Globalization: Easyread Large Edition”, p.280, ReadHowYouWant.com
“You were never created to live depressed, defeated, guilty, condemned, ashamed or unworthy. You were created to be victorious.”

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