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“Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.”
Source : "Fictional character: Don Lucchesi". "The Godfather: Part III", www.imdb.com. 1990. 
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“The best result of mathematics is to be able to do without it.”
Source : Oliver Heaviside (2008). “Electromagnetic Theory”, p.7, Cosimo, Inc.
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“Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.”
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“Someday our grandchildren will very likely look back at the individual, selfish control of the wealth of the world by a small elite the same way we view slavery today.”
Source : Corinne McLaughlin (2009). “Spiritual Politics: Changing the World from the Inside Out”, p.574, Ballantine Books
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“The indolent mind is not empty, but full of vermin.”
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“We're at 103,000 feet. Looking out over a very beautiful, beautiful world . . . a hostile sky. As you look up the sky looks beautiful but hostile. As you sit here you realize that Man will never conquer space. He will learn to live with it, but he will never conquer it. Can see for over 400 miles. Beneath me I can see the clouds. . . . They are beautiful . . . looking through my mirror the sky is absolutely black. Void of anything. . . . I can see the beautiful blue of the sky and above that it goes into a deep, deep, dark, indescribable blue which no artist can ever duplicate. It's fantastic.”
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“I had to sign the paper to shut down the government. It's terrible.... [But] what the shutdown showed many, many people is the importance of the role of government. And as frustrated [as people get with] Washington, there are so many things [the government does] that are so important to people's lives every day. The panda cam, paying small businesses their loans - these are all things that shut down.”
Source : Source: www.glamour.com
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“For every mountain there is another one. The big question is if you reach the top of the mountain, what then? What do you do then? I suppose you die.”
