Alex Pentland Quotes
Only once we understand how social interactions work together with competitive forces can we hope to ensure stability and fairness.
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I don't think the folks in the low-tax states really want to go into a fairness discussion. Residents of Connecticut and New York would love to remind them how much they pay in federal taxes to support programs for Mississippi and South Dakota.
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The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time – but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.
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My alignment is with what I perceive as just and fair. If it's with the Muslims, then I'm with the Muslims, if it's with the West then I'm with the West. It's about justice and fairness.
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Takers are self-serving in their interactions. It's all about what can you do for me.
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What the oil producer gets paid is about 16 percent. The majority of it is tax, which in fairness to the government of this country they have accepted and admitted.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
Maybe we'll understand more about how the universe came to be, and what forces drove it in the early days and which forces drive it now.
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Of necessity, the autobiographical self is not just about one individual but about all the others that an individual interacts with. Of necessity, it incorporates the culture in which the interactions took place.
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Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds and these magnets attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts.
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Fair and unfair are among the most influential words in English and must be delicately used.
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We don't need to fight the forces of chaos so much as we need to restore and revitalize the forces of peace.
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There is a basic law that like attracts like. Negative thinking definitely attracts negative results. Conversely, if a person habitually thinks optimistically and hopefully, his positive thinking sets in motion creative forces - and success instead of eluding him flows toward him.
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I've got great faith in the essential fairness and decency - you may say goodness - of the human being.
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One must separate from anything that forces one to repeat No again and again.
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We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.
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The Bhagavadgita is a gospel of non-cooperation between the forces of darkness and those of light.
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Truth and nonviolence are perhaps the activest forces you have in the world.
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Sir, he's a good dog, and a fair dog.
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Never lose sight of this maxim, that you should establish your cantonments at the most distant and best protected point from the enemy, especially where a surprise is possible. By this means you will have time to unite all your forces before he can attack you.
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'Tis not to make me jealous To say my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company, Is free of speech, sings, plays, and dances well; Where virtue is, these are more virtuous.
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My job is to explain stuff you don't know or already know and have to unlearn. My job is to teach you stuff you don't know that you need to know, stuff you should know. I'm going to take what you already know and re-describe it.
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There is no question that what we are seeing - the horrible advance of ISIS - goes back, if you will, to the original sin of the invasion of Iraq.
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The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved; it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it.
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Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.
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Only once we understand how social interactions work together with competitive forces can we hope to ensure stability and fairness.
