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Pishevar, co-founder and managing director of Sherpa Capital, is a powerful figure in the Valley and a bridge to establishment figures on both coasts. He cultivated a relationship with Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick and publicly came to his defense when he was ousted as chief executive officer and sued by another investor.

~Emily Chang

Topics: Another Both Bridge Came Capital Chief Chief Executive Cultivated Defense Director Establishment Executive Figure Figures He His Investor Managing Officer Powerful Publicly Relationship Sued Valley Uber

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I think my fascination is less with genre figures than with writers in general.

~Eric Brown

Topics: Fascination Figures General Genre Less Than Think Writers I Think

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As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and Kings, of heroes and murderers of the day. The dead now had that same unreality, which shocks without arousing pity.

~Ernst Toller

Topics: Annual Boy Chamber Day Dead Fair Figures Go Had Heroes Horrors Kings Look Now Pity Same Shocks Used Wax Which Without

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Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion.

~Etty Hillesum

Topics: Absorb Amount Attempt Figures Greed Information Intellectual Intellectual Life Life Massive Mental Well

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Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

~Evan Esar

Topics: Definition Facts Figures Producing Reliable Science Statistics Unreliable

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Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.

~Evan Esar

Topics: Admit Analysis Believes Definition Either Figures Lie Man Some Stand Stand Up Statistician Than Them Up Who

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The Beijing government avidly asserts its control over matters of reincarnation as a way of securing the loyalty and political complexion of influential Tibetan figures.

~Evan Osnos

Topics: Beijing Complexion Control Figures Government Influential Loyalty Matters Over Political Reincarnation Tibetan Way

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The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish to prevent me from freely considering figures hanging on a balance imagined to be at an infinite distance beyond the confines of the world?

~Evangelista Torricelli

Topics: Abstraction Balance Beyond Carry Confines Considering Distance Figures Freely Hanging Imagined Infinite Intellect Me Means Out Prevent Privilege Special Then Who Wish World Would

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I have seen what the days of tribulation can do to people. I have seen hunger stalk the streets of Europe. I have witnessed the appalling, emaciated shadows of human figures. I have seen women and children scavenge army garbage dumps for scraps of food. Those scenes and nameless faces cannot be erased from my memory.

~Ezra Taft Benson

Topics: Appalling Army Cannot Children Days Erased Europe Faces Figures Food Garbage Human Hunger Memory People Scenes Scraps Seen Shadows Streets Those Tribulation Witnessed Women Women And Children

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I've always wanted, notionally, to be a mother. And I was certain I would be, because everyone I know, gay or straight, married or single, rich or not so much, who truly wants to have a child figures out a way, some way, to have one - whether through adoption, fostering, surrogacy, fertility, accident, or persistence.

~Faith Salie

Topics: Accident Adoption Always Because Certain Child Everyone Fertility Figures Fostering Gay Know Married Mother Much Out Persistence Rich Single Some Straight Through Truly Wanted Wants Way Whether Who Would

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