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“Make no man your friend before inquiring how he has used his former friends; for you must expect him to treat you as he has treated them. Be slow to give your friendship, but when you have given it, strive to make it lasting; for it is as reprehensible to make many changes in one's associates as to have no friends at all. Neither test your friends to your own injury nor be willing to forego a test of your companions.”
Source : "Complete Works of Isocrates".
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“I try to take large, general questions that are difficult to resolve and break them down into small, very specific questions that have clear answers.”
Source : "Stats Geek Bill James Applies His Science to Serial Killers" by Brian Raftery, www.wired.com. April 04, 2011. 
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“Within 2 years Im predicting...that youre going to see a suitcase nuke in this country. Youre probably going to see a release in a few years of something communicable. & I am predicting that you will see a lot of conventional bombings...in the next year or so.”
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“Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.”
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“As long as children and young men and women find pleasure in study, they will continue studying throughout life - and upon that depends their happiness.”
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“I was a Air Force kid. I got out of high school and I decided to join the military. I traveled and I was international before I got home. I did my thing in Japan, and I did it on big stages.”
Source : "Donnis Talks 'Fashionably Late,' Atlantic Debut & Texting With T.I". Interview with Jordan Martins, www.complex.com. June 24, 2010.
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“The best player ever? Pele. Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are both great players with specific qualities, but Pele was better.”
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“Our dear country, Iran, throughout history has been subject to threats.”
