The Politics of Frustration

90 percent of the funding came from Thailand.

Politics, man. Politics.

This is political!

I don't know what I'm supposed to do.

A certain amount of certainty gives the sense of a non zero outcome.

But certainly, recently, we've had some real tangible things about where society's changing.

It can give credit to sound decision making, adding momentum to success.

The smell of stale beer and defeat.

Life as an engineer will bring only frustration.

We've all had a heartache.

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Iran s Political Clerics

He is an energetic politician.

It's a political piece, and it's...

Politically active. Animals First.

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Because surrender is death, and death is for pussies.

Mr. White is a liberal politician.

And that doesn't produce a productive politics.

Because they had no idea.

This is what we need to do with heart disease now.

Bullies use violence in three ways.

Now the teacher says it's too political and we can't put it on.

However, I was again frustrated by failure.

Good. Twice the pride, double the fall.

Then we say, Ah, well it must be a financial problem.

When the design emerged it was surprisingly simple and straightforward.

You seem to describe a political leadership that is kind of unprepared and a prisoner of the whims of the financial markets, and that scene in Brussels that you describe, to me, as a citizen, is terrifying.

TJ It has to be companies. It has to be civil society.

Due to some political problems that are being resolved...

It would be politically untenable.

Better than a philandering, dishonest old politician.

Every Iranian artist, in one form or another, is political.

The computer lives in so many dimensions.

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And this is the difficulty that I face.

Some questions tell you more about a person than others.

And that was only the beginning.

We need to move one step beyond that now.

Are we really prepared to say that we're powerless in the face of such carnage, that the politics are too hard?

There's practical problems.

Political assassination wasn't in the contract.

You're risking your political capital.

We can put this defeat to political use.