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• The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Girl, Book, Reading

  "What’s So Scary About Smart Girls?" by Nicholas Kristof, www.nytimes.com. May 10, 2014.

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• In Waziristan people get really upset when there are no drone attacks. Their apprehension is that the US and Pakistani government might enter in an agreement to halt the attacks.

  Pervez Hoodbhoy

  Government, Agreement, People

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• If we can have drones, we can have brown people on TV, and the world won't end! We need to catch up. We are painfully behind.

  Gabrielle Union

  People, Needs, World

  "Gabrielle Union on Diversity on TV: ''We Are Painfully Behind'" by Molly Langmuir, www.elle.com. January 9, 2015.

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• We've been talking about this for a good while, the immorality of drones, dropping bombs on innocent people. It's been over 200 children so far. These are war crimes.

  Cornel West

  Children, War, Talking

  "Cornel West: Obama is a ‘war criminal’ who has killed ‘over 200 children’". www.rawstory.com. February 15, 2013.

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• I want to say to anyone who works in a drone workplace, raise the bar! There's no reason why you have to dress to the lowest common denominator.

  Tim Gunn

  Dresses, Bars, Want

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 11, 2014.

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• Generally speaking, it's a very hard thing to wrap your head around that a drone operator in Nevada can be releasing munitions in the Middle East.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Middle East, Nevada, Operators

  Source: collider.com

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• I believe we should use any and all means necessary to take out people who pose a threat to us and our friends around the world. And it’s widely reported that drones are being used in drone strikes, and I support that and entirely, and feel the president was right to up the usage of that technology, and believe that we should continue to use it, to continue to go after the people that represent a threat to this nation and to our friends.

  Mitt Romney

  Believe, Mean, Technology

  Presidential debate on foreign policy at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida, www.foxnews.com. October 22, 2012.

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• The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and this lie drones on from its mouth: 'I, the State, am the people'.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Government, People

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• The harm that you do to others is the harm that you do to yourself and you cannot think then that you can cause wars in other parts of the world and destroy people and drone them without this having a terrible impact on your own soul and your own consciousness.

  Alice Walker

  War, Thinking, Impact

  "Poet, Author Alice Walker Meets the Inner Journey with Global Activism in 'The Cushion in the Road'". Interview with Amy Goodman and Aaron Maté, www.democracynow.org. May 28, 2013.

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• The only thing about sanctions is that, like a lot of drone strikes, there are countless unintended victims. Cutting off aid to Uganda only increases the pain there.

  Henry Rollins

  Pain, Cutting, Uganda

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• The girl must early be impressed with the idea that she is to be "a hand, not a mouth"; a worker, and not a drone, in the great hive of human activity. Like the boy, she must be taught to look forward to a life of self-dependence, and early prepare herself for some trade or profession.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Girl, Work, Boys

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper (1889). “History of woman suffrage”

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• Military technologies such as Drones, SWAT vehicles and machine-gun-equipped armored trucks once used exclusively in high-intensity war zones such as Iraq and Afghanistan are now being supplied to police departments across the nation and not surprisingly the increase in such weapons is matched by training local police in war zone tactics and strategies.

  Henry Giroux

  Military, War, Gun

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I'm very impressed and the next movie I do I'm definitely going to use a lot of drones in it, because they're very light and flexible and fast, and there are things that you can do with them that you can't possibly do with a helicopter for safety reasons.

  Paul W. S. Anderson

  Light, Safety, Use

  Source: collider.com

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• Drone strikes, Albert Camus would argue, are not just meant to kill. They are programmed to terrorize. In this regard, whether the missile strikes its intended target or incinerates a goat-herder and his flock is incidental. In fact, the occasional killing of civilians may well be a desired outcome since collateral deaths intensify the fear. This is punishment by example, not for any particular crime or impending threat, but merely because of who you are, where you live, what you might believe. These new circuitries of death are meant to humiliate, subdue and dehumanize.

  Jeffrey St. Clair

  Believe, Punishment, Example

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• Liberals don't mind discussing who is more patriotic if patriotism is defined as redistributing income and vetoing the Pledge of Allegiance. Only if patriotism is defined as supporting America do they get testy and drone on about 'McCarthyism.'

  Ann Coulter

  Patriotic, America, Mind

  Ann Coulter (2003). “Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism”, p.15, Crown Forum

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• On vague wording of drone strike criteria: “Are you going to just drop a hellfire missile on Jane Fonda? Are you going to drop a missile on Kent State? That’s gobbledygook.

  Rand Paul

  Criteria, States, Strikes

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• When you understand that your tax dollars pay for those tear gas canisters that were being fired into the crowd, and when you see that, and to know that a little bit of your fingerprint, your American DNA is a part of that, as well as those stealth bombers and that bomb that's lodged in the side of the school that has "Made in USA" on it in Gaza, and all of the unmanned drones that are blowing up weddings and things of that nature, to know that you pay for that, you really have - you don't have to do it now, but you need to think about that.

  Lupe Fiasco

  School, Thinking, Dna

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. March 9, 2011.

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• Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you -- like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist -- or else it is nothing, an empty, formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Fire, Musician, Pedants

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.3286, e-artnow

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• We're setting up mechanisms where we can kill human beings with drones and missiles where you're sitting at a console and pressing the button. We never have to hear their whimpering, or hear them begging for their mother, or dying in horrible realities around us. I don't know if that's necessarily such a good thing.

  George R. R. Martin

  Mother, Reality, Dying

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• The onlooker had better wipe the sympathy off his face. What he has seen is a revolution, not the home of little cogs and drones. What he has seen is the dormitory of the next managerial class.

  William H. Whyte

  Sympathy, Home, Class

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• A lot of times when I buy a lot of toys, I get a little jealous and keep one or two for myself. So I've got a couple of drones. I've got a couple of remote-control cars. I like to have fun

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Couple, Fun, Jealous

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• She tapped on the window with her embossed hairbrush. They were too far off to hear. The drone of the trees was in their ears; the chirp of birds; other incidents of garden life, inaudible, invisible to her in the bedroom, absorbed them. Isolated on a green island, hedged about with snowdrops, laid with a counterpane of puckered silk, the innocent island floated under her window. Only George lagged behind.

  Virginia Woolf

  Garden, Islands, Bird

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.933, Wordsworth Editions

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• There's always something in most world folk musics that always seems connected; whether it's a bagpipe or a tambura, there's always some sort of drone instrument, and there's always percussion.

  Paul Weller

  Bagpipes, World, Instruments

  Source: www.clashmusic.com

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• In an interview with a journalist, you look petty taking the pot shot but in a slick ad you can really do damage - including unfair damage - from afar. It is not that much different than waging a war by a drone than by hand-to-hand combat.

  Greta Van Susteren

  War, Hands, Afar

  "Candidate Fundraising: Is This All Messed Up, or Am I Wrong?" by Greta Van Susteren, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2012.

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• Bin Laden was 200 miles away from the area where all of these drone strikes were taking out his key leaders in al-Qaida. He was able to indulge in his hobbies... He was making occasional video tapes and audio tapes for release to the wider world.

  Peter Bergen

  Indulge In, Keys, Leader

  "The 'Manhunt' To Capture Osama Bin Laden". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. May 1, 2012.

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