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Control over the production and distribution of oil is the decisive factor in defining who rules whom in the Middle East.

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I could have done even better, miss, and I'd know a lot more, if it wasn't for my destiny ever since childhood. I'd have killed a man in a duel with a pistol for calling me low-born, because I came from Stinking Lizaveta without a father, and they were shoving that in my face in Moscow. It spread there thanks to Grigory Vasilievich. Grigory Vasilievich reproaches me for rebelling against my nativity: 'You opened her matrix,' he says. I don't know about her matrix, but I'd have let them kill... Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I'm either shooting nine grams of coke a day or spending two hours at the gym. There's no middle ground. Dave Navarro
We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity in every society, to forgo the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks. Woodrow Wilson
I love you, Eliza,” I said. She thought about it. “No,” she said at last, “I don’t like it.” “Why not?” I said. “It’s as though you were pointing a gun at my head,” she said. “It’s just a way of getting somebody to say something they probably don’t mean. What else can I say, or anybody say, but, ‘I love you, too’? Kurt Vonnegut
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I started to be really proud of the fact I was gay even though I wasn't Kurt Cobain
When you need to borrow money the Mob seems like a better deal I think. 'You don't pay me back I break both yer legs.' Is that all? You won't take my house or wreck my credit rating? Fine where do I sign. Legs? Fine. You don't even have to sign anything. Craig Ferguson
We are reverting to the civilization of luggage, and historians of the future will note how the middle classes accreted possessions without taking root in the earth, and may find in this the secret of their imaginative poverty. E. M. Forster
our unconscious reactions come out of a locked room, and we can't look inside that room. but with experience we become expert at using our behavior and our training to interpret - and decode - what lies behind our snap judgment and first impressions. Malcolm Gladwell
While it is clear that we need to make some adjustments to protect Social Security for the long term, it is disingenuous to say that the trust fund is facing a crisis. Carl Levin
Frank Luntz quote: "A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be more..."
A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be more emotionally compelling than a dry recitation of the truth. Frank Luntz
Math and science fields are not the only areas where we see the United States lagging behind. Less than 1 percent of American high school students study the critical foreign languages of Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Russian, combined. Cathy McMorris Rodgers
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This is just the beginning, the beginning of understanding that cyberspace has no limits, no boundaries. Nicholas Negroponte
George Herbert quote: "A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a..."
A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin. George Herbert
We become side-tracked if we make physical health our aim and imagine that because we are children of God we shall always be perfectly well. Oswald Chambers
Gideon Raff quote: "I'm Israeli and gay."
I'm Israeli and gay. Gideon Raff