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The main steel company in Argentina has set up its holding company in Luxembourg, the monies that this Argentine company, which develops its activities from Argentina, makes ... remain hidden and we don't tax them.

– Ricardo Echegaray

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9 years ago

We see that obstacles are being set up to prevent its fulfilment, if Europe does not want to carry it out, then it will not be carried out...We think this is against Europe's economic interests and is causing damage.

– Vladimir Putin

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9 years ago

We are ready to not only expand the Blue Stream, but to build another pipeline system to supply the growing demand of the Turkish economy, and if it is deemed justified, to set up an additional gas hub for the South European consumers on Turkish territory, near the border with Greece.

– Vladimir Putin

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9 years ago

Set up the listening. Prepare who you are talking to for what you want them to hear. Get people to listen as a possibility rather than a problem.

– Mal Pancoast

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9 years ago

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

– Iris Murdoch

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

– Aleister Crowley

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Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic.

– Jean Sibelius

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13 years ago

Hell must be isothermal; for otherwise the resident engineers and physical chemists (of which there must be some) could set up a heat engine to run a refrigerator to cool off a portion of their surroundings to any desired temperature.

– Henry Albert Ben, _The Second Law_

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All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

– Thomas Paine, "Age of Reason"

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Einstein said that God does not play dice with the universe. He was right, but not in the way he meant. God doesn't play dice with the universe because the universe doesn't need him. The craps table is set up and running. Whether or not God put it there is besides the point.

– Mark Coggins, "The Immortal Game" (novel)

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All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

– Thomas Paine

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The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.

– Charles Dudley Warner

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Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!

– Jean Sibelius, quoted in Bengt de Torne "Sibelius: A Close-Up" 1937

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If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.

– Carl R. Rogers

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14 years ago

Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.

– Henry Ward Beecher

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Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.

– Jose Ortega y Gasset

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14 years ago

Paul's evangelistic mission was different from the Kingdom Apostles, but in many ways the same. The Kingdom Apostles preached Jesus the Messiah, ready to return to Israel and set up His Messianic Kingdom. From Israel, the Apostles, with Christ on David's Throne, were to go into all the world and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to observe everything Christ had commanded them. They would do that because all authority in heaven and on earth had been given to Christ. As we all know, that did not happen. It will happen in the future, but it has not yet happened. What has happened is that Christ revealed a Mystery through His Special Apostle Paul.

– Mark McGee

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14 years ago

Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.

– Dr. Karl Menninger

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14 years ago

Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic

– Jean Sibelius

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14 years ago

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