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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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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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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Men have gained control over the forces of nature to such an extent that with their help they would have no difficulty exterminating one another to the last man. They know this, and hence comes a large part of their current unrest, their unhappiness and their mood of anxiety.
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It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.
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Is there any fairness in a system where a group of people can borrow a bunch of money to buy a company and pay themselves millions of dollars in dividends and fees, while the company itself ends up bankrupt and its employees lose their jobs, health insurance and pensions?
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One of them, who I became really friendly with, used to talk about the tunnels, ... He'd say, 'In the wintertime, I'm going into the tunnels. I'm sick of sleeping out here.'
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What I value in life is quality rather then quantity.
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If some people think, "Why am I eating a dead bird soaked in poop?" I think if some people get disgusted by that, it's all to the good. Their coronary arteries will be healthier.
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Only once we understand how social interactions work together with competitive forces can we hope to ensure stability and fairness.
