Aaron Hotchner (Criminal Minds)

Aaron Hotchner (Criminal Minds)

Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner is a fictional character from the CBS crime drama Criminal Minds, portrayed by Thomas Gibson. He is a Supervisory Special Agent within the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit, and has appeared from the series's debut episode, first episode which was originally broadcast on September 22, 2005.

Hotch begins the series married to his high school sweetheart Haley (Meredith Monroe). They have a son named Jack (Cade Owens), though they later divorced over Hotch's dedication to his job. Meredith Monroe's character Haley was later killed in season five by serial killer George Foyet. Two years after Haley's death, he met triathlon runner Beth Clemmons, and has been in a relationship with her.

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Quotes·Quotations by Aaron Hotchner

Thomas Gibson as Aaron Hotchner from Criminal Minds

Season 4

¶ "Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime." Ernest Hemingway [Criminal Minds 04.01 Mayhem]

¶ "We all die. The goal isn't to live forever. The goal is to create something that will." Chuck Palahniuk [Criminal Minds 04.02 The Angel Maker]

¶ Wendell Berry said, "The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it." [Criminal Minds 04.02 The Angel Maker]

¶ Roman poet Phaedrus wrote, "Things are not always what they seem. The first appearance deceives many. The intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden." [4x04 Paradise (Oct 22, 2008)]

¶ Thomas Fuller wrote, "A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell." [Criminal Minds 4x04 Paradise (Oct 22, 2008)]

¶ Amos Bronson Alcott said, “Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind and finds the readiest response.” [Criminal Minds 4x06 "The Instincts"]

¶ "I'm not sure about automobiles. With all their speed forward, they may be a step backward in civilization." Booth Tarkington [Criminal Minds 04.23 Roadkill]

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George S. Patton (1885-1945)

George S. Patton (1885-1945)

George Smith Patton Jr. (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945) was a general in the United States Army who commanded the Seventh Army in the Mediterranean Theater of World War II, and the Third Army in France and Germany after the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944.[1]

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Quotes·Quotations by George Patton

Courage

¶ Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

War

¶ May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't.

¶ The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

¶ Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

¶ Better to fight for something than live for nothing.

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Patton in 1945

General Patton U.S. commemorative stamp, issued in 1953

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_S._Patton

Don Delillo (1936~)

Don Delillo (1936~)

Donald Richard DeLillo (born November 20, 1936)

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Quotes·Quotations by Don Delillo

Rain

¶ There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.

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Warren Buffett (1930- )

Warren Buffett (1930- )

Warren Edward Buffett (/ˈbʌfɨt/; born August 30, 1930) is an American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. He is widely considered the most successful investor of the 20th century. Buffett is the primary shareholder, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway[5] and consistently ranked among the world's wealthiest people. He was ranked as the world's wealthiest person in 2008[6] and as the third wealthiest person in 2011.[7] In 2012, American magazine Time named Buffett one of the most influential people in the world.[8]

Buffett is called the "Wizard of Omaha", "Oracle of Omaha",[9] or the "Sage of Omaha"[10] and is noted for his adherence to the value investing philosophy and for his personal frugality despite his immense wealth.[11] Buffett is also a notable philanthropist, having pledged to give away 99 percent[12] of his fortune to philanthropic causes, primarily via the Gates Foundation. On April 11, 2012, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer,[13] for which he completed treatment in September 2012.[14]

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Quotes·Quotations by Warren Buffett

Finance

¶ It's only when the tide goes out that you learn who's been swimming naked.

Investment

¶ We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

Sagacity

¶ Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

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References

[7]^ Luisa Kroll, Matthew Miller (March 10, 2010). "The World's Billionaires". Forbes. Retrieved March 11, 2010.
[8]^ "The 100 Most Influential People In The World". Time. April 18, 2012.
[9]^ Markels, Alex (July 29, 2007). "How to Make Money the Buffett Way". U.S. News & World Report.
[10]^ Sullivan, Aline (December 20, 1997). "Buffett, the Sage of Omaha, Makes Value Strategy Seem Simple: Secrets of a High Plains Investor". International Herald Tribune.
[11]^ Gogoi, Pallavi (May 8, 2007). "What Warren Buffett might buy". MSNBC. Retrieved May 9, 2007.
[12]^ Buffett, Warren (June 16, 2010). "My philanthropic pledge". CNN.
[13]^ Telegraph staff and agencies (17 April 2012). "Warren Buffett diagnosed with prostate cancer". The Daily Telegraph (London). Retrieved 17 April 2012.
[14]^ Lopez, Ricardo (September 16, 2012). "Warren Buffett completes prostate cancer treatment". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 22 September 2012.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Buffett

William Blake

William Blake

William Blake (November 28 1757 – August 21 1827) was an English poet, Christian mystic, painter, printmaker, and engraver.

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@ Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.
There Is No Natural Religion (1788)

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Frederick the Great (1712~1786)

Frederick the Great (1712~1786)

Frederick II (German: Friedrich II.; 24 January 1712 – 17 August 1786) 

Crown

¶ A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.

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Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

Charles John Huffam Dickens, FRSA (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was the foremost English novelist of the Victorian era, as well as a vigorous social campaigner.

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Quotes·Quotations by Charles Dickens

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Tracy Hickman

Tracy Hickman

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@ The goal of the hero is to return (normal) life to the living.
Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, Journey into the Void (2003)

José Narosky (1930~)

José Narosky (1930~)

José Narosky (born 20 April 1930)

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War

¶ In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.

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Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

Abraham Lincoln /ˈeɪbrəhæm ˈlɪŋkən/ (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through a great constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union, while ending slavery, and promoting economic and financial modernization. Reared in a poor family on the western frontier, Lincoln was mostly self-educated. He became a country lawyer, an Illinois state legislator, and a one-term member of the United States House of Representatives, but failed in two attempts at a seat in the United States Senate.

After opposing the expansion of slavery in the United States in his campaign debates and speeches, Lincoln secured the Republican nomination and was elected president in 1860. Before Lincoln took office in March, seven southern slave states declared their secession and formed the Confederacy. When war began with the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, Lincoln concentrated on both the military and political dimensions of the war effort, seeking to reunify the nation. He vigorously exercised unprecedented war powers, including the arrest and detention without trial of thousands of suspected secessionists. He prevented British recognition of the Confederacy by skillfully handling the Trent affair late in 1861. He issued his Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and promoted the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, abolishing slavery.

Lincoln closely supervised the war effort, especially the selection of top generals, including commanding general Ulysses S. Grant. He brought leaders of various factions of his party into his cabinet and pressured them to cooperate. Under his leadership, the Union set up a naval blockade that shut down the South's normal trade, took control of the border slave states at the start of the war, gained control communications with gunboats on the southern river systems, and tried repeatedly to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond. Each time a general failed, Lincoln substituted another until finally Grant succeeded in 1865. An exceptionally astute politician deeply involved with power issues in each state, he reached out to War Democrats and managed his own re-election in the 1864 presidential election.

As the leader of the moderate faction of the Republican party, Lincoln's policies and personality were "blasted from all sides": Radical Republicans demanded harsher treatment of the South, War Democrats desired more compromise, Copperheads despised him, and irreconcilable secessionists plotted his death. Politically, Lincoln fought back with patronage, by pitting his opponents against each other, and by appealing to the American people with his powers of oratory. His Gettysburg Address of 1863 became the most quoted speech in American history. It was an iconic statement of America's dedication to the principles of nationalism, equal rights, liberty, and democracy. At the close of the war, Lincoln held a moderate view of Reconstruction, seeking to speedily reunite the nation through a policy of generous reconciliation in the face of lingering and bitter divisiveness. However, just six days after the surrender of Confederate commanding general Robert E. Lee, Lincoln was assassinated by actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre while watching the play Our American Cousin. His death marked the first assassination of a U.S. president. Lincoln has been consistently ranked by scholars as one of the three greatest U.S. presidents.

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Quotes·Quotation by Abraham Lincoln

Advice

¶ Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Animals

¶ What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

Appearance

¶ Ladies and gentlemen, if I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

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