"In February of 1996, about six months after I created eBay, I started receiving a spate of complaints. Everyone was complaining about each other. I felt very much like I was a parent who had to adjudicate the brothers beating each other up."

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Pierre Omidyar

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“Poetry is to be found nowhere unless we carry it within us.”
“The night is a tunnel ... a hole into tomorrow.”
“If some people are so hungry for a feeling of importance that they actually go insane to get it, imagine what miracle you and I can achieve by giving people honest appreciation this side of insanity.”
“You know, you only get to live life once, so there are two things that that yields. One is that there's no point in crying over spilt milk, but secondly you hate wasting time, energy, and whatever talent you've got.”

Source : "David Miliband: politics for the pinched generation". Interview with Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2012.
“The undisciplined child enters into discipline by working in the company of others; not being told he is naughty.â€Â â€œDiscipline is, therefore, primarily a learning experience and less a punitive experience if appropriately dealt with.”
“We have gone through some difficult times like everyone else and perhaps our working together and respecting each other's abilities, in addition to that little thing called love, helped us survive.”

Source : "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.
“We are going to scourge the Third Reich from end to end. We are bombing Germany city by city and ever more terribly in order to make it impossible for her to go in with the war. That is our object, and we shall pursue it relentlessly.”

Source : Radio address on July 28, 1942. "Bishop George Bell: House of Lords Speeches and Correspondence with Rudolf Hess". Book edited by Peter K. Raina, api.parliament.uk. 2009.
“I trust the time is nigh when, with the universal assent of civilized people, all international differences shall be determined without resort to arms by the benignant processes of civilization.”

Source : Chester A. Arthur's second annual message to the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, December 4, 1882.

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