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If you really want to show power in its larger aspects, you need to show the effects on the powerless, for good or ill - the human cost of public works. That's what I try to do, show not only how power works but its effect on people. ↗

— Robert Caro

#cost #effect #effects #good #how

When you have enough power to do what you always wanted to do, then you see what the guy always wanted to do. ↗

— Robert Caro

#enough #guy #power #see #then

I've learned there's a big difference between a long-focused value investor and a good short-seller. That difference is psychological and I think it falls into the realm of behavioral finance. ↗

— James Chanos

#between #big #big difference #difference #falls

If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing. ↗

— John le Carre

#doing #dozen #eternal #good #nothing

Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

#bringing #conditions #hard #human #human personality

I can't see why we can't toss in a Junior Walker or Wilson Pickett number in every once in a while. ↗

— Jose Carreras

#i #junior #number #once #pickett

I've always said that music is like literature. ↗

— Jose Carreras

#i #like #literature #music #said

I think I could go away tomorrow. I've already accomplished something. It's such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#already #away #business #could #get

You know, I live a monastic lifestyle. No, I do. I do live in extremes, basically. I go back and forth. Once every six months, I'll have a day where I eat more chocolate than has ever been consumed by a human being. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#basically #been #being #chocolate #consumed

Making use of human weaknesses in intelligence work is a logical matter. It keeps coming up, and of course you try to look at all the aspects that interest you in a human being. ↗

— Markus Wolf

#being #coming #course #human #human being