Susan Wiggs Quotes
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Oil has become the principal wealth in the hands of the great Yankee transnationals; through this energy source, they had an instrument that considerably expanded their political power in the world.
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Truth-tellers who expect others to believe them tend to speak naturally and un-self-consciously. But if they don't expect to be believed, they may try too hard to seem honest. Unfortunately, the result makes them sound less believable. Obviously, then, not every oddly phrased statement is a lie.
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As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always looking for more.
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The incentive for digging up gossip has become so great that people will break the law for the opportunity to take that picture. Then it crosses the line into invasion of privacy. The thing that's really bad about it, though, is that the tabloids don't tell the truth.
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The truth is, I need 10 lifetimes to scratch the surface of the things I'd love to do.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.
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Money is power and power gives you choice.
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Illinois' economy will benefit from the modernization of the power sector.
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In the twilight, it was a vision of power.
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Radium, discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898, was especially popular: the 'it' element of its day. Radium glows an eerie blue-green in the dark, giving off light for years without any apparent power source. People had never seen anything like it.
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Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things.
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American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation.
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I just believe in the goodwill of people, the power of people to do something positive.
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The more you create authentic power, the more the characteristics of authentic power become yours, and the more meaning, purpose and joy enter your life.
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Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
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A psychiatrist today has the power to (1) take a fancy to a woman (2) lead her to take wild treatment as a joke (3) drug and shock her to temporary insanity (4) incarnate [
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The war has made us a nation of great power and intelligence. We have but little to do to preserve peace, happiness and prosperity at home, and the respect of other nations. Our experience ought to teach us the necessity of the first; our power secures the latter.
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I was not silent, I answered every top journalist in the country from 2002–2007, but noticed there was no exercise to understand truth.
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I have followed after the truth, across this windy planet upon which every person is nourished by one or another lie.
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When we change, the world changes. The key to all change is in our inner transformation- a change of our hearts and minds. This is human revolution. We all have the power to change. When we realize this truth, we can bring forth that power anywhere, anytime, and in any situation.
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At the centre of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power.
