"Coming [to Paris] has been a wonderful experience, surprising in many respects, one of them being to find how much of an American I am."

-- Augustus Saint-Gaudens

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“The best way to quiet a country is a good thrashing, followed by great kindness afterwards. Even the wildest chaps are thus tamed.”

Source : "Queen Victoria's Little Wars". Book by Byron Farwell, p. 27-31, 1972.
“I was ten years old in 1969, and while we lived in Arizona that year, I spent most of the summer staying with family friends in Portland, Oregon while my parents visited Spain. It was an adventure all around.”
“Every morning our newspapers could read, 'More than 20,000 people perished yesterday of extreme poverty.' How? The poor die in hospital wards that lack drugs, in villages that lack antimalarial bed nets, in houses that lack safe drinking water. They die namelessly, without public comment. Sadly, sad stories rarely get written.”
“For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy can be nothing less than the abolition of the wrong.”
“Although the drama of games of strategy is strongly linked with the psychological aspects of the conflict, game theory is not concerned with these aspects. Game theory, so to speak, plays the board. It is concerned only with the logical aspects of strategy.”

Source : "The Use and Misuse of Game Theory". Scientific American, (p. 110), December 1962.
“You make the world come alive. You make the world colorful. You are the inspiration behind all that happens. You are the pillar of strength to many around you, the centrifugal force of your own little world, called family. I love being a women and celebrate being one everyday, hope you all do too!! And to all those who battle their various circumstances, the hurdles, the sacrifices and the compromises they make, wish them all inner strength! Happy Women's Day!”
“I've always been optimistic. When things come together and I feel comfortable, I know I can be a productive player with an impact.”
“If you need to conceal your true nature to get in the door, understand that you'll probably have to conceal your true nature to keep that job.”

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