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• We are not strong enough to stand up against endless grief, And yet pain is the constant drone of life. So if we are to have any happiness at all, it is only in the passing instant.

  Charles Frazier

  Strong, Pain, Grief

  Charles Frazier (2006). “Thirteen Moons: A Novel”, p.393, Random House

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• Concerted voices of heartfelt petitions in Arabic all pleading for divine intervention are abruptly silenced as the drone ensures fatalities by injecting a final stab in each of their skulls.

  C. J. Anderson

  Voice, Skulls, Heartfelt

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• The song 'Humiliation' is kind of about what if, outside of a dinner party or something, I was blown up by a drone missile, out by the pool. What an embarrassing way to go.

  Matt Berninger

  Song, Party, What If

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• US government policies are continuing to do exactly the same thing [produce terrorism]. Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But of course it is just easier to terrorise people.

  Noam Chomsky

  Government, Boston, Two

  Source: www.dawn.com

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• That information, those 6,000 pages, should be released to the public. It's our right as U.S. citizens to know what our government has done in our name just as I think that these memos about the U.S. of drones should be released to the public.

  Medea Benjamin

  Thinking, Names, Government

  Source: progressive.org

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• The sky was of the deepest blue, with a few white, fleecy clouds drifting lazily across it, and the air was filled with the low drone of insects or with a sudden sharper note as bee or bluefly shot past with its quivering, long-drawn hum, like an insect tuning-fork.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humorous, Sarcasm, Past

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “Beyond the City”, p.30, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Few years ago I did a movie, Good Kill, about drone pilots and for four or five months I'm obsessed with the Air Force.

  Ethan Hawke

  Air, Years, Four

  "Ethan Hawke Talks Regression". Interview with Josh Lasser, www.ign.com. February 4, 2016.

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• I became an instant fan of the show [Underground] seconds into the opening frames of the pilot. When that drone shot carried us through the main house with Rosalie, played so unflinchingly-brilliantly by Jurnee Smollett Bell, I signed on for the ride.

  Aisha Hinds

  House, Fans, Bells

  Source: www.theaquarian.com

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• The drone war takes place 24/7, 365 days a year. The war doesn't stop on Christmas. It's like being a fireman when there's a fire every single day, day after day after day. That's emotionally and physically taxing.

  P. W. Singer

  War, Years, Fire

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There is Pakistan's relationship with Afghanistan which will also be a very tricky issue in the coming years. Then there is a large part of Pakistan which is being torn apart from American drone attacks. The country is being invaded constantly by a terrorist superpower. Again, this is not a small problem.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Small Problems, Years

  Source: www.dawn.com

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• It's so hard to go to war at home. Go to war, go home, repeat. And that is the future of warfare. Forget about remote control drones, there's going to be remote control tanks.

  Andrew Niccol

  War, Home, Tanks

  "Andrew Niccol on his new drone-warfare drama Good Kill". Interview With Sam Fragoso, film.avclub.com. May 20, 2015.

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• John Brennan has been the mastermind of the drone program. He's the one who'd convene the terror Tuesday meetings at the White House.

  Medea Benjamin

  White, Tuesday, House

  Source: progressive.org

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• The worst terrorist crimes going on right now are the drone campaigns.

  Noam Chomsky

  Campaigns, Crime, Terrorist

  "Anti-Intellectualism, Terrorism, and Elections in Contemporary Education: a Discussion with Noam Chomsky". Interview with Dan Falcone, www.counterpunch.org. June 3, 2016.

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• During the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the military conducted only a handful of drone missions.

  Michael Hastings

  Military, Iraq, Invasion

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• Revenge commonly hurts both the offerer and sufferer; as we see in a foolish bee, which in her anger invenometh the flesh and loseth her sting, and so lives a drone ever after.

  Joseph Hall

  Hurt, Revenge, Flesh

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• The Obama administration is dedicated to increasing terrorism. In fact, he is doing it all over the world. Obama is running the biggest terrorist operation that exists, maybe in history. The drone assassination campaigns - which are just part of the special forces operations and so on - all of these operations are terror operations.

  Noam Chomsky

  Running, Special, Administration

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I will speak until I can no longer speak. I will speak as long as it takes, until the alarm is sounded from coast to coast that our Constitution is important, that your rights to trial by jury are precious, that no American should be killed by a drone on American soil without first being charged with a crime, without first being found to be guilty by a court.

  Rand Paul

  America, Rights, Law

  FaceBook post by Rand Paul from Mar 06, 2013

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• CHEERS, CARTER. At least you have the sense to hand me the microphone for important things. Honestly, he drones on and on about his plans for the Apocalypse, but he makes no plans at all for the school dance. My brother's priorities are severely skewed.

  Rick Riordan

  Brother, Cheer, School

  "The Serpent's Shadow". Book by Rick Riordan, October 3, 2017.

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• I can't wait to write a defense of the drone strike that takes out Julian Assange.

  Michael Grunwald

  Writing, Waiting, Defense

  "Michael Grunwald, Time Magazine Reporter, Sends Out Shocking Tweet About Julian Assange" by Braden Goyette, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 17, 2013.

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• What's interesting about the Taliban, is they're more afraid of educating girls than they are of drones. One educated girl is more scary to the Taliban than a drone.

  Tina Brown

  Girl, Interesting, Scary

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• How can you claim infallibility and claim that in these 114 [drone] strikes there was just one mistake -- one person killed that was a civilian -- and at the same time say, 'Well, we don't really know how many people were killed or who they were, but we know they weren't civilians'? I don't know how you can do that.

  Richard Engel

  Mistake, People, Strikes

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• In certain men digestion and sex absorb the vital force, and the stronger these are, the individual is so much weaker. The more ofthese drones perish, the better for the hive.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sex, Men, Stronger

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.312

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• We have a lot of villains in the world, all right? And the Catholic doctrine says turn the other cheek, the Christian doctrine. But if you turn the other cheek, you could be annihilated. So when is it justifiable to defend yourself and take aggressive action in that regard, like dropping drones on people?

  Bill O'Reilly

  Christian, People, Catholic

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Why should we care about the coup? First, because we depend on Yemen's government to support our drone war against another local menace, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). It's not clear if we can even maintain our embassy in Yemen, let alone conduct operations against AQAP. And second, because growing Iranian hegemony is a mortal threat to our allies and interests in the entire Middle East.

  Charles Krauthammer

  War, Government, Support

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• Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening to eight different bosses drone on about about mission statements.

  Ron Livingston

  Office Space, Eight, Boss

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