"Loyalty is an asset, independent and scarce, parceled out among different contestants for power. No ruling government or nonruling group enjoys absolute loyalty - no contestant can have the whole pie."

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Source : Yossi Shain (2010). “The Frontier of Loyalty: Political Exiles in the Age of the Nation-State”, p.18, University of Michigan Press

Yossi Shain

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“It doesn't matter who you are. What matters is your plan.”
“If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.”
“Fear shall force what friendship cannot win.”

Source : Thomas Kyd “The Spanish Tragedy”, W. W. Norton & Company
“Some people mistake weakness for tact. If they are silent when they ought to speak and so feign an agreement they do not feel, they call it being tactful. Cowardice would be a much better name. Tact is an active quality t hat is not exercised by merely making a dash for cover. Be sure, when you think you are being extremely tactful, that you are not in reality running away from something you ought to face.”
“I have not had the chance to go out there and do myself justice in an Olympic marathon yet. I have not been able to get to an Olympic marathon injury-free yet.”

Source : "Paula Radcliffe plans to run on past London 2012 Olympics". www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2010.
“A band's only unique thing is its chemistry, especially if none of you are prodigious players or particularly handsome. The one thing you have is your uniqueness, so we hold on to that.”
“Obedience is the crown and honour of all virtue.”
“My father told me marijuana would cause me brain damage - because if he caught me doing it he was going to break my head.”

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