"My obligation as president, and what I promise the country, is that the courts will be able to do their job free of all pressure."

-- Ricardo Lagos

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“I believe that love that is true and real creates a respite from death.Â All cowardice comes from not loving, or not loving well, which is the same thing.”
“Conclusions I. A curve has been found representing the frequency distribution of standard deviations of samples drawn from a normal population. II. A curve has been found representing the frequency distribution of values of the means of such samples, when these values are measured from the mean of the population in terms of the standard deviation of the sample... III. Tables are given by which it can be judged whether a series of experiments, however short, have given a result which conforms to any required standard of accuracy or whether it is necessary to continue the investigation.”
“Those who do not believe do not pray. This is a good functional definition of faith. Faith prays, unbelief does not.”

Source : John A. Hardon (1971). “Christianity in the Twentieth Century”
“American business would be run better today if there was more alignment between CEOs' interest and the company. For example, would the financial crisis of 2008 have occurred if the CEO of Lehman and Morgan Stanley and Goldman and Citibank had to take a very small percentage of every mortgage-backed security... or every loan they made?”

Source : "Chesapeake Energy: Everything You Need To Know About The ‘World’s Biggest Fracker’". stateimpact.npr.org. May 29, 2012.
“A money-financed tax cut is essentially equivalent to Milton Friedman's famous 'helicopter drop' of money.”
“People might gain insight the longer they live, but things never get easy. There will always be challenges and miscommunications and the temptation to eat greasy, bowel clogging fried food, and take others for granted. The secret is to keep moving and try to see people yo love for what they are: flawed, beautiful and as confused as you.”

Source : "Working Class Zero". Book by Rob Payne, 2003.
“There is in some men a dispassionate neutrality of mind, which, though it generally passes for good temper, can neither gratify nor warm us: it must indeed be granted that these men can only negatively offend: but then it should also be remembered that they cannot positively please.”
“I think I like playing the bad girl. I like complicated. I like flawed, messed up complicated. It's more interesting.”

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