All Quotes

"Since the first day, it was a story of fighting injustice. That is what really motivates me, because in my life, I had a lot of injustices."

"And if some of them achieve success, we have a good chance to invent a new kind of tech entrepreneurship that changes the trajectory of modern capitalism. This is my goal."

"When we choose where we should go, the main criteria is if there is injustice."

"Before this, I thought that we could in small steps change life in Russia, despite the fact it’s a very corrupt state."

"But when this war began, it was a really big shock. I couldn’t believe it and we immediately decided to leave. And I made some antiwar declarations and now it’s not safe for me to go to my hometown. It is super sad."

"I work and work and still it seems I have nothing done."

"'I have seen with my own eyes, along with my parents, how things flew around our house in Kolkata. Balls of hair appeared in our room out of nowhere. The tables shook violently, and books fell from our bookshelves. My pet dog, Happy, was the one who was most traumatized, because he saw what we couldn’t.'"

"'Occult isn't something to be scared of, it is a way of life, live it'"

"'Voodoo, Necromancy, and Witchcraft are not fragments of fear, but the trinity of power — the drum that summons spirits, the voice that awakens the dead, and the flame that bends reality. Together they form a covenant not of darkness, but of truth: that life and death, shadow and light, are threads of the same cloak. To walk this path is not to curse the world, but to master it. Voodoo, Necromancy, and Witchcraft are the pillars of the unseen empire. Voodoo binds us to the spirits of earth and ancestry; Necromancy unveils the wisdom of those who have crossed the veil; Witchcraft ignites the fire that shapes destiny. To walk this triad is to reject fear and embrace power, to see death not as an end but as a door, to see magic not as illusion but as truth. This is the new custom: we do not bow to shadows, we command them. We do not whisper to spirits, we summon them. We do not fear the grave, for the grave itself speaks to us. In our hands lies the covenant of the living and the dead — the eternal balance of flesh, spirit, and will.'"

"'Alchemy in the occult is not the fabled transmutation of base metals into gold, but the higher art of turning the base fragments of the soul into radiant flame. It is the path where suffering becomes power, ignorance becomes vision, and mortality is sculpted into eternity. The truest philosopher’s stone is the self, refined through fire, shadow, and silence.'"

"'Baphomet is the eternal cipher of the occult — the androgynous flame that unites light with shadow, heaven with abyss, and beast with god. To gaze upon Baphomet is to confront the riddle of existence itself, where purity and corruption, creation and destruction, divinity and damnation are bound in one living paradox. It is not an idol of worship, but a mirror of the hidden truth — that within every seeker lies both angel and demon, both torment and transcendence, and only by embracing the whole may one become complete.'"

"'Call upon Hecate at the crossroads of night, for she is the torch in the abyss, the whisper in the shadow, and the keeper of keys that unbind all doors. Hecate is the flame at every crossroad—she does not choose the path for you, but lights the way so you may walk it with courage, shadow, and sovereignty.'"

"'You call witchcraft a lie, yet tremble when shadows dance; you name the occult delusion, yet cannot explain the flame that moves without fire, nor the whisper that answers when no lips move. Deny it if you will—truth does not vanish because fools shut their eyes.'"

"'The mathematical precision in the construction of mantras and shlokas is fascinating. Sanskrit, the language of these texts, is known for its phonetic and structural precision.'"

"we need to return to just teaching everyone basics rather than making excuses for certain groups"

"when black female student are repeatedly disciplined for being social, loud,or goof in the mathematics classroom, they experience mathematics violence""

"I think they don’t see enough of us that look like them so they can identify with that career as something they can actually do."

"Regenerated neurons need to make all the right connections to restore function."

"You have to coax stem cells to sit on it [the nano-scaffold] and grow into mature cells and new tissue."

"This is a very exciting time to be doing stem cell research," Arinzeh said. "The field is wide open and has the potential to influence how physicians treat patients with severely damaged or diseased tissues."

"The problem with spinal cord injuries is that nerve cells do not regenerate."

"During the '80s and '90s, we... repeatedly saw... criminals... use condos and high-rises to launder money," says Jonathan Winer... "it was a way of turning dirty money into clean money... and it explained why there are so many high-rises... sold but no one... living in them."

"A Senate investigation... revealed that Bogatin was a leading figure in the Russian mob in New York. His ...ties ...led straight to the top: His brother ran a $150 million stock scam with ..., whom the FBI considers the "boss of bosses" of the ... Mogilevich ...was expanding his multibillion-dollar international criminal syndicate into America."

"[F]low of money from Russia provided Trump with a crucial infusion of financing that helped rescue his empire... "They saved his bacon," says Kenneth McCallion..."

"[T]he public record makes clear that Trump built his business empire in no small part with a lot of dirty money from a lot of dirty Russians—including the dirtiest and most feared of them all."

"Boris Yeltsin's shift to a market economy was so abrupt that... s and corrupt government officials were able to privatize and loot state-held assets in oil, , s, and banking."

"Yeltsin... would... describe Russia as "the biggest in the world.""

"After Vladimir Putin... Russian intelligence effectively joined forces with the country’s mobsters and oligarchs..."

"According to James Henry... $1.3 trillion in illicit capital has poured out of Russia since the 1990s."

"[A]ccording to the FBI... [] was the key money-laundering contact for the Solntsevskaya Bratva... one of the richest criminal syndicates in the world. ...[R]unning a multibillion-dollar worldwide racket ...drug trafficking and prostitution rings ...accused of selling ...stolen ...ground-to-air missiles and armored troop carriers, to Iran. ..."He uses ...wealth and power ..." the FBI says, "...to influence governments and their economies.""

"According to the FBI... Mogilevich paid a Russian judge to spring... Vyachelsav Kirillovich Ivankov, from a... . ...Ivankov was the enforcer ...torturing ...victims and boasting about ...murders ..."

"In Red Mafiya... Friedman documented how Ivankov organized... a multibillion-dollar criminal enterprise. According to the FBI, he recruited... "combat brigades" of Special Forces veterans from the Soviet war in Afghanistan to run the... and kill... enemies."

"The FBI concluded... one of Ivankov's partners... was Felix Komarov..."

"James Moody... told Friedman. "...we found out that Ivankov] was living in a luxury condo in ." ...high-level Russian mobsters came to view the future president's properties as a home away from home."

"[U]ntold millions from the former Soviet Union... wasn’t enough to save Trump from his... failings as a businessman. He owed $4 billion to... 70 banks... [F]ortunately... his... economic crisis coincided... In 1998, Russia defaulted on $40 billion... causing the ruble to plummet and... banks to close... oligarchs and mobsters scrambling to find a safe place... [for] their money. ... ...[c]onstruction got underway in 1999 ...one-third of the units on the ... priciest floors... [were] snatched up ...by individual buyers the former Soviet Union ...or ...companies connected to Russia."

"The "tower full of oligarchs," ...became a model for Trump’s projects ..."

"[E]xamining... deeds, bank records, and court documents... ' concluded... Trump SoHo had "multiple ties to an alleged international money-laundering network.""

"In ...2013 ...police ...rounded up... suspects in... gambling rings... prosecutors called "...world's largest sports book," ...in —including the entire fifty-first floor ...[A] condo ...below one owned by Trump ...served as headquarters for a "sophisticated money-laundering scheme" that moved ...$100 million out of the former Soviet Union ...into ...the United States ...under ...protection of ..."

"[W]hen was he first compromised by Russia? ...1984 ...David Bogatin, who allegedly had ties to the most powerful crime gang in Russia... who doesn't... [seemingly] have [legitimate] means of making a living... meets with Donald Trump, and... buys... five luxury condominiums for more than $6 million... in ... [T]he State Attorney General Office ...ruled ...that was money laundering for the ."

"I found... 13... episodes... , the president's home, was... a [] center for operations for... a long period..."

"...35 Trump Towers ...8,000 or 10,000 units. It would be interesting to figure out ...the scale of ...[D]uring the same period, since Putin's been in power ...$1.3 trillion in flight capital from Russia... to launder."

"If you're in a relationship with the , they're the boss. You're . ...[T]hey have compromised him, and they are ...an arm of the Russian government. Russia is a ."

"Putin's greatest achievement... weaponized organized crime... effectively a powerful foreign policy tool... [T]hey've compromised... the president of the United States..."

"[H]is first trip to Russia... hoping to build a Trump Tower in Moscow... ...the first ...presidential ambitions surface. ...in '88 ...a full page ad in The New York Times and '... the same kind of foreign policy... since ...president, attacking , attacking NATO... that appears to be in Russia's interest..."

"[A] free-for-all where he's laundering massive amounts of Russian money?"

"Mogilevich... probably the most powerful mobster in Russia for more than 30 years. ...According to FBI files... in... prostitution... drug running... elaborate stock fraud scandals... [etc.] [R]enowned for... . ...the "brainy don" ...[came] up with... elaborate schemes... trusted by ...mobsters to launder their money... $1.3 trillion... it would be great to have a real estate mogul who had thousands... of luxury condos you could trade... through shell companies..."

"I would argue Mogilevich... has a direct relationship to Putin... [T]hat's come out in ...WikiLeaks releases... David Bogatin, going back to 1984, was tied to the Mogilevich crime gang, and Mogilevich is tied to Putin."

"Sater's ... did not appear to be a deal breaker for Trump. "Donald is happy with me...""

"In Vladimir Putin's regime, business... organized crime and intelligence... can... be used as weapons of the state. ...[O]ne company that potentially questionable Russian money flowed through was Bayrock."

"[Jody] Kriss... alleged that Bayrock was "covertly mob-owned and operated... backed by oligarchs and money they stole from the Russian people... engaged in... financial-institution fraud, tax fraud, partnership fraud, , , , and, on occasion, real estate.""