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“Investigative journalism and reporting has become much more dangerous. This is especially true for journalists and sources in National Security - but it has been getting pretty bad for beat reporters and small outlets doing local reporting, too.”

Has Beens Security Dangerous Source Beats Locals Journalism Journalist Reporters National Security Outlets Investigative Journalism

Author:Chelsea Manning

“When you find your passion, that becomes your energy source and that becomes what you commit yourself to.”

Passion Energy Source Commit Energy Sources

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“[Romans] never made any improvements on the cavalry. And amazingly, when you read the sources, they couldn't make it because stirrups were not known in Europe. For hundreds of years, the Romans couldn't make a cavalry which proved to be extremely effective.”

Years Made Known Source Europe Improvement Cavalry Stirrups

Author:Garry Kasparov

“I can't think of a scenario under which [Vladimir Putin] would gradually resign from power. For him and those around him, power became a source of unlimited enrichment. A loss of power would be tantamount to an annihilation of the economic success that has been achieved so far.”

Thinking Has Beens I Can Would Be Loss Economic Source Unlimited Putin Scenarios Annihilation Enrichment Economic Success

Author:Garry Kasparov

“My students are very special. They are my source of pride, my source of joy, my source of hope. I am terribly fond of my students.”

Joy Special Students Source Pride

Author:Elie Wiesel

“Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.”

Different Modern Source Painter

Book:Jackson Pollock

Source: Jackson Pollock

“I love to write - it is a great source of reflection, especially as I continue to meet many new inspiring people.”

People Writing Source Reflection

Author:Jane Goodall

“It's important to remember that some of our best sources in the war against radical Islamic terrorism are Muslims, both in America and overseas.”

Important War America Remember Source Terrorism Radical Islamic Islamic Terrorism

Author:Mitch McConnell

“I find reading to be a delight, a source of comfort, a way to explore.”

Way Reading Source Comfort Delight

Author:Junot Diaz

“I don't really drink, but I've been around a lot of drinking and, at 18, when you start playing in bars, you start to witness the good, the bad and the ugly of alcohol as a source of escape. I wrote about it because I witnessed its use as a means of medicating - a lot of people using it to medicate themselves from hurt.”

People Mean Use Hurt Source Drink Drinking Ugly Alcohol Bars Witness Good The Bad And The Ugly

Author:Dwight Yoakam

“Don't depend on acting as your sole source of income. Work nights, so you can have your days off to attend auditions. Have something to fall back on. That's what my mother taught me, and it's critical in Hollywood.”

Mother Night Fall Acting Taught Source Depends Hollywood Critical Income Sole Auditions Fall Back Days Off

Author:Michael Clarke Duncan

“One of the things I noticed about the Trump supporters was a lot of projected fear. I can't tell you how many times a conversation went like this: "We've got to stop these immigrants, because it's terrible." I'd say, "Okay, what personally have you observed about this?" And there would be basically nothing in that box. And I'd say, "Where'd you get your information?" thinking they were going to say Fox. But they would always say, "Well, I get my information from all kinds of sources." Fox is kind of center-left to a lot of people now.”

People Thinking Wells Kind I Can Would Be Left Information Source Trump Terrible Conversation Okay Boxes All Kinds Immigrants Foxes Supporter

Author:George Saunders

“There are capitalist states which consider themselves cheated, during previous redivisions of spheres of influence, territories, sources of raw materials, markets, etc., and which would again desire to redivide them to their own advantage.”

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Author:Joseph Stalin

“Whole swaths of the book [Lincoln in the Bardo] are made up of verbatim quotes from various historical sources, which I cut up and rearranged to form part of the narrative.”

Made Book Whole Form Cutting Source Historical Various Narrative

Author:George Saunders

“I really never wanted to do source control management at all and felt that it was just about the least interesting thing in the computing world .”

World Wanted Felt Interesting Source Management Interesting Things Computing

Author:Linus Torvalds

“I never know who's influencing me at any time. I mean, I can take a play by Brecht and adapt it, I'm consciously adapting that play, or, as I've done with the Greek classics, Euripides and Oedipus, and I'm consciously adapting that play. Whether it influences me or not, I think it's the critics, the analysts who have to decide that. Me, I don't feel that I'm under the influence of any such sources.”

Thinking Knows Feels Mean I Can Done Play Influence Source Critics Greek Analysts Adapting Brecht Oedipus

Author:Wole Soyinka

“You have the entire gamut of human experience captured in the mythology of the Yoruba. This is what makes the Yoruba mythology a natural source material for me in my creative endeavours.”

Humans Natural Creative Materials Source Mythology Human Experience Captured Endeavour

Author:Wole Soyinka

“The big thing about distributed source control is that it makes one of the main issues with SCM's go away - the politics around "who can make changes." BitKeeper showed that you can avoid that by just giving everybody their own source repository.”

Giving Bigs Issues Source Going Away Big Things Making Changes

Author:Linus Torvalds

“While we ended up having several core maintainers use BitKeeper - it was free to use for open source projects - it never got ubiquitous. So it helped kernel development, but there were still pain points.”

Stills Use Pain Source Development Projects Core Kernel Open Source

Author:Linus Torvalds

“I want to control our own energy by developing oil and natural gas but also the energy sources of the future.”

Want Energy Natural Source Oil Developing Gas Natural Gas Energy Sources

Author:Barack Obama

“I believe the Chinese are gradually realizing that they're dependent on the system that, as they run out of energy, for example, they have to reach out to foreign sources for energy, for raw materials. They have to reach out to the world for markets. They have to export. They have to maintain full employment. They've got a terrible population problem. So they need a stable world, in a way.”

“My ideas and creativity are the sources of inspiration for me.”

Ideas Inspiration Creativity Source Ideas And Creativity Source Of Inspiration

Author:Yayoi Kusama

“There are books on my shelf that I'm not into. They are things I don't know anything about yet. It's going to lead me off into a new place. The books don't represent an interest; they represent a source of my ignorance.”

Knows Book Interest Ignorance Source Shelves Leading Me New Places

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“I think a lot of the people who feel out of step with contemporary society or feel that they've been left back economically or feel disaffected and are drawn to the Republican Party, they are looking for a news source that will tell them something they would like to hear and then is reassuring, emotionally rewarding, and confirming. And affirming to them. So to deliver that product is pretty valuable. It's kind of like they're an insurgency and they're not getting what they need to hear from the mainstream.”

“If you're going to live in the anxiety of the surface of this world, you're never going to find the depth, the source. If you want calmness, you've got to go deeper.”

Ifs World Want This World Source Anxiety Depth Deeper Surface Calmness

Author:Agapi Stassinopoulos

“If we strive for happiness, it's going to be elusive because things constantly happen with human beings that disrupt that happiness. But if you focus on euphoros, the Greek word for "the bearer of goodness," you will be inhabited by the divine source of life.”

Ifs Humans Happens Human Beings Focus Divine Source Goodness Strive Greek Elusive Source Of Life

Author:Agapi Stassinopoulos

“Trump will have to take up juggling if he goes ahead and scraps the agreement with Iran and at the same time, seeks to avoid alienating Russia, and quite possibly France and Germany. These European countries are already nervous about what the Trump presidency means with respect to the future of the post-World War II international order that has essentially kept the peace on the continent since 1945. This order is far from perfect, of course, and under pressure from other sources, especially due to the rise of chauvinism and European Trumpism.”

“The primary source of waste in government is that legislators are often under heavy pressure to vote for projects that will benefit their campaign contributors, even when those projects fail a simple cost-benefit test. But with the Supreme Court showing little interest in permitting tighter rules on campaign contributions in recent years, there is little reason to be optimistic that we'll start curbing this kind of waste any time soon.”

“Religion has gotten a bad rap for good reasons. Often, there are a lot of people - women, LBGT, and others - you know, hierarchical monotheism has been a real source of a type of oppression.”

People Knows Has Beens Real Reason Source Type Rap Oppression Monotheism

Author:Van Jones

“Curiosity is the greatest source of ideas, retail revolutions, and insights.”

Ideas Source Revolution Curiosity Insight Retail

Book:Rocket: Eight Lessons to Secure Infinite Growth

Source: Rocket: Eight Lessons to Secure Infinite Growth

“The most effective CEOs have a primary source for tracking their markets. They meet with their teams frequently enough to keep innovation flowing, to reduce and focus costs, to be energized. They create a tight agenda and they set high goals.”

Enough Goal Focus Team Source Cost Innovation Primaries Agendas Ceo Tracking Primary Source High Goals

Author:Michael J. Silverstein

“People underestimate the power of the Internet. For some consumers, it is the source of all information. Younger adults are on their phones more than they watch television. They don't read newspapers. It is their real world. It is not a set of virtual lenses.”

People World Real Watches Information Television Source Internet Adults Phones Newspapers Consumers Real World Underestimate Lenses

Author:Michael J. Silverstein

“When I look back at my paintings, they don't give me a sense of where I was when I first met that guy. They don't give me a sense of what I felt like when I first saw that original source material. They give me a sense of the world that I'm trying to create. And we all just have to deal with that.”

World Giving Trying Firsts Looks Guy Felt Deals Saws Painting Materials Source Mets Give Me Originals That Guy

Author:Kehinde Wiley

“The most poisonous source in any kitchen is a chef's ego.”

Source Ego Kitchen Chef Poisonous

Author:Marco Pierre White

“I've always found relationships, men and women, the fact that they are so radically different, and it manifests itself in so many different ways, and yet somehow we still try to live together and be friends. I find that endlessly valuable as a source of material for humor. Generally dogs are always funny in my opinion. And the federal government - just a relentlessly productive source of humor.”

Men Way Trying Stills Different Facts Government Together Found Opinion Dog Materials Source Men And Women Valuable Different Ways Productive Federal Government

Author:Dave Barry

“I tell people view the federal government as a source of entertainment. It's a lot easier.”

People Government Views Source Easier Entertainment Federal Government

Author:Dave Barry

“I think Twitter is kind of fun, it's not deep and it never will be, but it's a great way to communicate one-liners and to sort of see what people are laughing about. It's a terrific source of misinformation.”

People Thinking Way Kind Fun Laughing Source Communicate Terrific One Liner Misinformation

Author:Dave Barry

“I think if you use Twitter and social media as your main source of information you are an idiot, but I think most people who use it know better, so I kind of enjoy it.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Kind Use Social Enjoy Media Information Source Social Media Idiot

Author:Dave Barry

“In every single case, the truth is that the atmosphere created by the Iraq invasion and the staggeringly mismanaged occupation has incited terrorists to act. It's been a contributing factor. It's unavoidable throughout Europe - in Spain, in Germany, in Britain. The truth is that we need long-term American policy to shift in order to really soak up and get rid of these sources of terrorism that threaten our Western allies.”

Needs Long Order Term Cases Policy Source Truth Is Europe Western Iraq Terrorism Terrorist Factors Atmosphere Long Term Germany Britain Occupation Allies Spain Invasion Contributing

Author:Sidney Blumenthal

“I do believe that if you reach a just and fair settlement between the Israelis and the Palestinians it will have a massive influence on countering extremism. Which is not to say that the Israel-Palestinian situation is the source of the problem, but it is very potent fuel.”

Ifs Believe Problem Situation Influence Source Fairs Israel Fuel Massive Palestinian Extremism Settlement

Author:Tony Blair

“Yet now the industrialized world is moving away from fossil fuels and moving towards renewable sources of energy. And because we have not invested so much into education, we don't have the technology and sometimes we don't even have the capital to buy this technology.”

World Sometimes Moving Energy Technology Source Fuel Fossils Fossil Fuel Moving Away

Author:Wangari Maathai

“When a person supposes that he knows, and does not know; this appears to be the great source of all the errors of the intellect.”

Knows Persons Doe Source Errors Intellect

Book:Plato: The Complete Works: From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias

Source: Plato: The Complete Works: From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias

“All soul is immortal. For that which is always in movement is immortal; that which moves something else, and is moved by something else, in ceasing from movement ceases from living. So only that which moves itself, because it does not abandon itself, never stops moving. But it is also source and first principle of movement for the other things which move.”

Firsts Doe Soul Moving Principles Movement Source Moved Cease Abandon Immortal

Author:Plato

“As a breath of wind or some echo rebounds from smooth, hard surfaces and returns to the source from which it issued, so the stream of beauty passes back into its possessor through his eyes, which is its natural route to the soul; arriving there and setting him all aflutter, it waters the passages of the feathers and causes the wings to grow, and fills the soul of the loved one in his turn with love.”

Soul Hard Eye Turns Grows Causes Water Natural Wind Source Return Breaths Wings Surface Setting Settings Streams His Eyes Passages Loved Ones Echoes Smooth Routes Feathers Arriving Rebound

Author:Plato

“The love, more especially, which is concerned with the good, and which is perfected in company with temperance and justice, whether among gods or men, has the greatest power, and is the source of all our happiness and harmony, and makes us friends with the gods who are above us, and with one another.”

Men Justice Company Source Concerned Harmony Temperance

Book:Plato: The Complete Works: From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias

Source: Plato: The Complete Works: From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias

“Dogs are our best teachers and biggest healers. We can learn so much from them about how to live life in balance, and they are a constant source of spiritual uplift and unconditional love that is so important to have in order to be healthy.”

Important Spiritual Order Teacher Dog Source Balance Healthy Constant Uplifting Live Life Unconditional Love Unconditional Healer Best Teacher How To Live Life

Author:Cesar Millan

“I try to focus on the present, what I'm doing now. I feel like the best design I can have is an awareness of where I've come from so that I don't repeat myself. Luckily, my work provides me with a tremendous source of new opportunities.”

Feels Trying I Can Opportunity Focus Awareness Design Source Repeats New Opportunity Best Design

Author:Demi Moore

“Business is a noble vocation, directed to producing wealth and improving the world. It can be a fruitful source of prosperity for the area in which it operates, especially if it sees the creation of jobs as an essential part of its service to the common good. This common good also includes the earth... the environmental challenge we are undergoing, and its human roots, concern and affect us all.”

Ifs World Humans Earth Jobs Challenges Wealth Common Creation Source Essentials Areas Concern Roots Environmental Prosperity Noble Improving Vocation Common Good Environmental Challenges

Author:Pope Francis

“Government's the primary source of prosperity for you, if you're on the left. And if you believe that business exists to kill you, if you believe that business exists to poison you, then government is a source of prosperity for you.”

Ifs Believe Government Left Source Prosperity Primaries Poison If You Believe Primary Source

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“That's a large part of the source of the gun culture. You have to have a gun when you go into Starbucks, because who knows what's going to happen. It just doesn't happen in other countries.”

Knows Country Happens Culture Source Gun Other Countries Starbucks Gun Culture

Author:Noam Chomsky