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The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making than ever in human civilisation. That requires you to place yourself in far more hubs of power than ever before. ↗

— William Hague

#before #blocs #centres #civilisation #decision-making

I don't laugh out loud at comics a lot. ↗

— Dane Cook

#i #laugh #lot #loud #out

I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#group #i #jazz #liked #lyrics

A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher. ↗

— James S. Coleman

#characteristics #child #classmates #function #his

I was babysitting the night High School Musical premiered last year. I watched with the kids and we sang along to the lyrics. I was making $12 an hour. ↗

— Monique Coleman

#babysitting #high #high school #hour #i

I believe sanity and realism can be restored to the teaching of Mathematical Statistics most easily and directly by entrusting such teaching largely to men and women who have had personal experience of research in the Natural Sciences. ↗

— Ronald Fisher

#directly #easily #experience #had #i

As I look back on the day I signed my professional contract in 1973, I've never gone to sleep wondering if I could pay the bills or take care of my family. That's what basketball has done for me. It's given me the greatest of thrills from high school to college to the Olympics to coaching to broadcasting. ↗

— Doug Collins

#basketball #bills #broadcasting #care #coaching

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#charity #creed #deny #half #happens

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps. ↗

— Christopher Columbus

#execution #i #indies #intelligence #make

Listen, Peaches, trickery is what humans are all about," said the voice of Maurice. "They're so keen on tricking one another all the time that they elect governments to do it for them. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#humor #politics #sarcasm #trickery #voting