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The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict fashion, but that was their distinct effect. ↗

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

#convinced #distinct #effect #fashion #find

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around. ↗

— Mario Vargas Llosa

#convicts #like #live #more #move

If our republican form of government is perishing because communications - the infrastructure of that republic - is under the yoke of international business how, at last, do we save it? We must build a confrontational movement to reclaim our democracy, a movement committed to active and sustained protest against the present order. ↗

— Mark Lloyd

#against #because #build #business #committed

Financial crises are an unfortunate but necessary consequence of modern capitalism. ↗

— Andrew Lo

#consequence #crises #financial #financial crises #modern

Many of us like to think of financial economics as a science, but complex events like the financial crisis suggest that this conceit may be more wishful thinking than reality. ↗

— Andrew Lo

#conceit #crisis #economics #events #financial

The explosive growth in places like Shanghai has helped lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and into a thriving new middle class. What China has done is nothing short of an economic transformation, and the citizens of this country have every right to be proud. ↗

— Gary Locke

#citizens #class #country #done #economic

China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day. ↗

— Gary Locke

#american #brands #china #class #contrast

I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits. ↗

— John Locke

#ask #attribute #been #conversing #descriptions

We can only undo the election if the behavior meets the constitutional standard of subverting and threatening our system of government. ↗

— Zoe Lofgren

#constitutional #election #government #meets #only

You must have love as the core; it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go. ↗

— Kenny Loggins

#core #courage #each #go #letting