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Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and take refuge in illusion. Because of these strange circumstances, Peruvian life, a life in which so few actually do read, has become literary. ↗

— Mario Vargas Llosa

#because #become #circumstances #dream #few

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

Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#able #being #complicated #complicated things #famous

One of the things that I've been doing recently in my scientific research is to ask this question: Is the universe actually capable of performing things like digital computations? ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#ask #been #capable #computations #digital

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

For the past 32 years, I've done nothing outside the entertainment business. I've had some real highs and some real lows, but I love the work so much that I never once thought of quitting. ↗

— Meat Loaf

#done #entertainment #entertainment business #had #highs

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

Every year, some 65,000 high school students - many of them star students and leaders in their communities - are unable to go to college or get a good job because they have no legal status. ↗

— Gary Locke

#college #communities #every #get #go

We have dozens and dozens and dozens of judicial nominees up there waiting and we have a court system that's crying out for more judges. ↗

— Joe Lockhart

#crying #dozens #judges #judicial #more

Whomever you're going to interview, you have to be interested in what it is you want to know from them. You have to be interested in the subject. ↗

— Kurt Loder

#interested #interview #know #subject #them