"You and I both know that as long as our representatives are held hostage to their funders - and their funders are not all of us - our system will not work"

-- Lawrence Lessig

#Long Quotes #Hostage Quotes

“What do my science fiction stories have in common with pornography? Fantasies of an impossibly hospitable world, I'm told.”
“Just five years before that the Russians were our allies”
“Whenever we see an unprotected piece we must keep our eyes peeled because this is one of the most important ingredients of a combination.”

Source : "Excelling at Positional Chess". Book by Jacob Aagaard, 2001.
“Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.”
“Political leaders have to withstand headwinds.”
“The desire to run comes from deep within us - from the unconscious, the instinctive, the intuitive.”
“Remember that the good angels do what they can to preserve men from sin and obtain God's honor. But they do not lose courage when men fail.”
“He was Caesar and Pope in oÂne; but he was Pope without Pope's pretensions, Caesar without the legions of Caesar: without a standing army, without a bodyguard, without a palace, without a fixed revenue; if ever any man had the right to say that he ruled by the right divine, it was Mohammed, for he had all the power without its instruments and without its supports.”

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