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The CIA could not face up to the American people and admit that its former employees had conspired to assassinate the President; so from the moment Kennedy's heart stopped beating, the Agency attempted to sweep the whole conspiracy under the rug. ↗

— Jim Garrison

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To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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They have the ability to take a person's freedom from them. On certain situations, they have the ability to take a person's reputation. And under certain circumstances, they have the authority to take a person's life. ↗

— Daryl Gates

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The key point to understand is that prosperity is an internal experience, not an external state, and it is an experience that is not tied to having a certain amount of money. ↗

— Shakti Gawain

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Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand. ↗

— John Gay

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And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by understanding them psychoanalytically. ↗

— Peter Gay

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To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just a terrible creature but somebody with whom you disagree. ↗

— Peter Gay

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The more I understand the mind and the human experience, the more I begin to suspect there is no such thing as unhappiness; there is only ungratefulness. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

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The roads are filled with armed robbers, and murders for mere plunder are of daily occurrence. ↗

— John White Geary

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