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“Business often does a good job supporting communities: the arts, universities, and scientific enterprises... But that philosophy has rarely reached poor countries. Even businesses that are enlightened in their home bases see Africa, Latin America, and parts of Asia as places to exploit natural resources or use cheap labor.”
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“Depending on how we start the season, I can play center or wing... It doesn't matter to me.”
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“[Dr. Constain James] refuted so well the aberrations of Darwinism.... [A system] which is repugnant at once to history, to the tradition of all people, to exact science, to observed facts, and even to reason itself, would seem to need no refutation. But the corruption of this age, the machinations of the perverse, the danger of the simple, demand that such fancies, altogether absurd though they are, should - since they borrow the mask of science - be refuted by true science.”
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“Why do you think there's so many thousands of Cuban doctors in Florida? Because they all had to leave Cuba. Because doctors were rich, and so the [Fidel] Castro government began confiscating all their property. Not much different from this plan to tax you at a higher rate if you and your family, you and your spouse make over $250,000. You're rich! So they must confiscate more your money.”
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“No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane.”
Source : "Anything That Jiggles" by Emma Allen, www.newyorker.com. December 18, 2013.
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“Derivatives are a huge, complex issue.”
Source : "Senator Judd Gregg on Financial Regulation". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 19, 2010.
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“Among the New Hollanders whom we were thus engaged with, there was one who by his appearance and carriage, as well in the morning as this afternoon, seemed to be the chief of them, and a kind of prince or captain among them.”
Source : William Dampier (1703). “A New Voyage Round the World”, p.147
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“I think the game has opened up, and that's why I decided to come back and try to be a part of it.”