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• Terrifying mass shooting and high-profile officer-involved incidents have dominated the national conversation on gun violence in recent years. But most deaths by gun are not headline-grabbing massacres. They`re more private, more intimate, and perhaps in that way, even more horrifying. Domestic violence, make no mistake, domestic violence is a gun issue.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Mistake, Gun, Mass Shootings

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• What's invaluable about actually going to the places you want to write about are the random accidental things that happen. Random, accidental detail is the best way to make a setting convincing. You can of course invent your own random details, and sometimes I will also mash up real incidents.

  Zachary Lazar

  Real, Writing, Mash Up

  Source: therumpus.net

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• A first-person voice helps to ensure the uniformity and cohesiveness of the narrative; it gathers unto itself incidents and characters in its unstoppable progress toward the story's end.

  Norman Lock

  Character, Voice, Progress

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Another bigger problem is the fact that these incidents of police violence continue to occur because far too often the officers on the force rally around the one who committed the act of violence and, in this particular instance, may have engaged in a cover-up that itself should be prosecuted.

  Hakeem Jeffries

  Police Violence, Cover Ups, May

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The decrease in incidents of death from cancer is largely attributable to new medicines or therapeutics. Perhaps a third is attributable to changing our environment, and that includes of course smoking which I believe accounted for probably 20 percent of deaths from, certainly from lung cancer, more than that from lung cancer, but from cancer overall.

  Laurie Glimcher

  Cancer, Believe, Medicine

  Source: to.pbs.org

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• When our sailors in the Persian Gulf accidentally strayed into Iranian waters, that could have sparked a major international incident. Some folks here in Washington rushed to declare that it was the start of another hostage crisis. Instead, we worked directly with the Iranian government and secured the release of our sailors in less than 24 hours.

  Barack Obama

  Government, Hostage Crisis, Water

  "President Obama Gives Statement About U.S.-Iran Deals This Weekend". "Weekend Edition Sunday", www.npr.org. January 17, 2016.

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• He [Erdogan] has crept up to the edge talking about mistakes by pilots. But he also knows that with leaders like himself and Vladimir Putin, apologies may not be the answer. Just look at Israel. Prime Minister Netanyahu apologized years ago to Erdogan over this incident off the coast of Gaza in which Turkish people died onboard an aid ship. And only just now is that relationship at least in talks to be improved.

  Peter Kenyon

  Mistake, Apology, Israel

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I experienced direct telepathy with other people, and during one such incident, I I received a channelling of cosmic information from some being in another realm. It came directly through a friend who was tripping on acid, and as he began speaking stream-of-consciousness to me and my girlfriend - and both of us were very stoned on grass - his words conveyed cosmic instructions and information we all three knew to be profoundly important and meaningful.

  Susan Schneider

  Meaningful, Girlfriend, People

  Source: thequietus.com

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• When I started writing fiction it always seemed in retrospect (I didn't realise at the time) that it was always caused by environments rather than by incidents and characters.

  Jonathan Meades

  Writing, Character, Fiction

  Source: thequietus.com

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• While photography to Cartier-Bresson is constantly an intuitive process, it is never purely instinctive. It is founded on continuous intellection, on ceaseless consideration during all moments previous to, or preparatory for, the pressing. It does not only operate in the blinding flash of a moment seized; it works all the time. The snatched picture merely cuts across the vein of observable incident or accident which is always beating, whether or not the fingers actually press.

  Lincoln Kirstein

  Photography, Cutting, Doe

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• Addiction is such an isolating incident in your life. You feel alone. And when you admit, when you come into a fellowship and people just surround you and say, "We will help you, that you're not alone, that we've been through it before, and you will get through it," just gives you such great hope.

  Michael Botticelli

  People, Giving, Addiction

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• The Times Square Incident wasn't a terrorist attack, it was a Jim Carrey movie. The terrorist locked the keys to the safe house he was going to escape to in the carbomb. And I love that he locked the carbomb. Nobody's getting my Ipod. Then he left the keys to carbomb hanging out of the tailgate of the carbomb, and built the carbomb out of fertilizer that wouldn't explode. I have been doing comedy for 25 years and I have never been that funny.

  Christopher Titus

  Keys, Squares, Years

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• ...it is pretentious for photographers to believe that their pictures alone change things. If they did, we wouldn't be besieged by war, by incidents of genocide, by hunger. A more realistic assessment of photography's value is to point out that it is illustrative of what's going on, that it provides a record of history, that photographs can prompt dialogue.

  Eugene Richards

  Photography, War, Believe

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• I had one incident where my daughter said that a girl asked if she was a brown person. I said, 'We're black. You have black people, white people, Chinese people, Hispanic people; we're all brought up differently.'

  Kevin Hart

  Girl, Daughter, White

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• There was one incident at a movie theater where my girl got mad at these guys who were talking behind us. I never looked back there, but she was like, 'Will you all just shut up!' And I just got up and moved three rows in front. She was like, 'What are you doing?!' I was like, 'You better get up here! I don't play the fighting games.'

  Kevin Hart

  Girl, Fighting, Talking

  "Kevin Hart Talks RIDE ALONG, Mutual Respect with Ice Cube, the Funniest Scene They Shot, and Keeping the Movie Grounded". Press Conference, collider.com. January 13, 2014.

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• Marriage, to woman as to man, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Men, Luxury

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• In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination - and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past - are real and must be addressed.

  Barack Obama

  Real, Mean, Past

  A More Perfect Union, delivered 18 March 2008, Philadelphia, PA

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• We are seeing reports that NATO's sending early warning radar planes and German military personnel to Turkey. That might reduce the chances of another incident like this jet shoot down. And obviously both NATO and the U.S. are pressing their ally Turkey to urgently deescalate the situation.

  Peter Kenyon

  Military, Turkeys, Allies

  "2 Willful Leaders Heighten Tensions Between Russia, Turkey". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. December 28, 2015.

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• Sure, you can do without the hard personal comments, but it doesn't really happen apart from a few isolated incidents.

  Andrew Flintoff

  Comment, Isolated, Happens

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I think the president-elect [Donald trump] also supports anything we can do to put an end to these sorts of incidents from taking place in our country.

  Reince Priebus

  Country, Thinking, Support

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Smaller incidents in my life made me realize that language, even more than color, defines who you are to people.

  Trevor Noah

  Color, People, Language

  Source: www.npr.org

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• That was the reason why very few people fleeing the rise of fascism in Europe, especially in Germany, could get to the United States. And there were famous incidents like with the MS Saint Louis, which brought a lot of immigrants, mostly Jewish, from Europe. It reached Cuba, with people expecting to be admitted to the United States from there. But the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt wouldn't allow them in and they had to go back to Europe where many of them died in concentration camps.

  Noam Chomsky

  Europe, People, Fleeing

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• [ John] Winthrop was the man who first said America was "a city upon a hill," which [Ronald] Reagan then appropriated. There are incidents like that all through history. We have been here.

  Kevin Sessums

  Men, Cities, America

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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• It was a very lucky set of incidents that led to Wham! getting a record contract - although we weren't Wham! when we got the record contract. We were nothing; we were just two friends who had written a few songs.

  George Michael

  Song, Two Friends, Lucky

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We have seen recently, almost every major head of state goes to India and says, we believe India should be in the Council. They go back home and do nothing about it. But this cannot be sustained for long. If they want to keep the UN as a global forum where they discuss incidents and take some meaningful decisions, they should [reform].

  Kofi Annan

  Meaningful, Believe, Home

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