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All Quotes Collection
"People respected my experience, they hire me, they pay me what I am worth to coach their team."
43
"I travel to Jakarta, I see what an important country it is. I've been working with them for a year."
36
"I think that people ran out of oxygen and don't really know what happened up there, maybe some of them just made things up because they weren't sure what had happened."
40
"I offer my expertise and experience for hire in order to help a group of people reach the summit."
44
"I explained I wanted to descend as quickly as possible to camp IV in order to warm myself and gather a supply of hot drink and oxygen in the event I might need to go back up the mountain to assist descending climbers."
30
"I don't know what being an Everest guide means. I am a coach, not a guide."
40
"Concerned that others were not coming onto the summit and because I had no radio link to those below me, I began to wonder if there were difficulties down the mountain. I made the decision to descend."
48
"You only need a few people to effect a kidnapping."
35
"It is very difficult to know what may be in the back of the mind of public figures."
30
"One can always debate questions back and forth."
51
"There is nothing more foreign to a civilised and democratic system than preventive detention."
31
"There was never in my mind a desire to give in on the subject of freeing the political prisoners."
44
"There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical."
36
"I have always said that we did not expect a revolution in the streets."
39
"Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it - not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits."
55
"My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature."
42
"Is there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons?"
60
"I'm not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do."
44
"Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician."
72
"The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence."
80
"The beauty of the past belongs to the past."
22
"Work is something you can count on, a trusted, lifelong friend who never deserts you."
24
"Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience."
24
"Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has."
33
"Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet."
40
"A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankind's heritage."
172
"There has been so much power concentrated. There is no leash on that power anymore and Americans face the situation that this power is getting momentum with each passing year with each presidency."
38
"Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission."
34
"People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for the public good, and bad government is when politicians lie for their own selfish interests."
37
"Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends."
37
"Some of the folks on both sides might be sincere, but it does seem as if it is only the opposition that cares about the Bill of Rights most of the time."
51
"Some politicians are aware of the Bill of Rights. It seems that the opposition party is far more likely to invoke it, to wave it in the air, this is what we saw from a lot of republicans during the Clinton Administration, and we are seeing the same from Democrats under Bush."
35
"The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people."
42
"The more expansive government is, the more perils people face in daily lives, be it from IRS agents or from child support services, or from other agencies that often have little or no legal restraints on their power."
37
"There are a lot of benefits representative of government and it is far better than any type of dictatorial system and it is far better than a one-man rule situation."
36
"It is unfortunate that Americans are no longer aware of what the constitution says and what their rights are. Because of that, we are often very passive about what happens when the government violates those rights."
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