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• If those kids had been carrying guns they would have gunned down this one gunman... Don't pray. Learn to use guns.

  Ann Coulter

  Kids, Gun, Praying

  Ann Coulter's remarks on Heath High School shooting on "Politically Incorrect" with Bill Maher, December 18, 1997.

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• A successful politician must not only be able to read the mood of the public, he must have the skill to get the public on his side. The public is moved by mood more than logic, by instinct more than reason, and that is something that every politician must make use of or guard against.

  Jean Chretien

  Successful, Skills, Able

  "Straight from the Heart". Book by Jean Chretien, 1985.

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• I suppose there is something appealing about a word that everyone uses with absolute confidence but on whose exact meaning no two people can agree. The word that I'm thinking of right now is genre, one of those French words, like crêpe, that no one can pronounce both correctly and without sounding pretentious.

  Michael Chabon

  Thinking, Two, People

  "McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories". Book by Michael Chabon, 2004.

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• It is curious how an age of public self-revelation, and of the use of psychological jargon, should also be an age when self-examination is rarely practised.

  Anthony Daniels

  Self, Age, Examination

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• Open platforms and experimental amateurs eventually beat out the spendy, slick pros. Relying on incumbents to produce your revolutions is not a good strategy. They're apt to take all the stuff that makes their products great and try to use technology to charge you extra for it, or prohibit it altogether.

  Cory Doctorow

  Technology, Trying, Stuff

  "Why I Won't Buy an iPad (And Think You Shouldn't, Either)". boingboing.net. April 02, 2010.

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• America has shown we are serious about removing the threat of weapons of mass destruction... We now know that Saddam Hussein had the capacity to produce weapons of mass destruction.... We know he had the necessary infrastructure because we found the labs and the dual-use facilities that could be used for these chemical and biological agents. We know that he was developing the delivery systems - ballistic missiles - that had been prohibited by the United Nations.

  Dick Cheney

  Mass Destruction, America, Agents

  "Vice president urges Congress to make tax cuts permanent". usatoday30.usatoday.com. February 16, 2004.

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• Why must I have the Piglet?' 'Because you are the best.' 'I do not understand.' 'Teach him.' 'And who teaches me?' ' As an officer, my lord, you will have many men under your command and not all will be gifted. You must learn to use each man to his best advantage.

  David Gemmell

  Men, Piglet, Lord

  David Gemmell (2011). “Quest For Lost Heroes”, p.17, Hachette UK

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• Сertainly there are people for whom anti-depression medication has allowed them to use difficulty to wake up, and I don't deny that at all, but as usual with us human beings, we've overdone it. We are self-medicating ourselves away from the great awakening moments, and losing our coping skills and losing wake-up calls.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Self, Skills, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Creativity is basically a feminine process. I'm convinced that we have in our soul, everybody, this masculine side and this feminine side. So at the end of the day, you always use this feminine creative energy to write or to do any type of art or creativity. So if I see that my protagonist is feminine, it's not more difficult, no. And even when my protagonist is masculine, I'm writing from using this feminine energy.

  Paulo Coelho

  Art, Creativity, Writing

  "Book Talk: Paulo Coelho on life, work and 'Adultery'". Interview with Lisa Von Ahn, www.reuters.com. November 13, 2014.

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• Do we regard language as more public, more ceremonial, than thought? Just as family men condemn the profanity on the stage that they use constantly in conversation, in the same way we may look to written language as an idealization rather than a reflection of ourselves.

  Edmund White

  Reflection, Men, Looks

  Edmund White (2014). “States of Desire Revisited: Travels in Gay America”, p.284, University of Wisconsin Pres

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• When a job is to be done there's no use putting it off.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Jobs, Done

  Sherwood Anderson (2016). “Poor White”, p.9, Sherwood Anderson

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• Of what use the friendliest disposition even, if there are no hours given to Friendship, if it is forever postponed to unimportant duties and relations? Friendship first, Friendship last.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Forever, Lasts, Firsts

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.110, Penguin

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• People in the eastern regions [of Ukaraine] are talking about federalisation, and Kiev has at long last started talking about de-centralisation. Order in the country can only be restored through dialogue and democratic procedures, rather than with the use of armed force, tanks and aircraft.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Order, Talking

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• All of us have to do a better job of teaching young people not to let themselves be defined by the words other people use against them.

  William J. Clinton

  Jobs, Teaching, People

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999”, p.595, Best Books on

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• If, it was natural to reason, God punishes men with eternal torment, it is surely lawful for men to use doses of it in a good cause.

  Joseph McCabe

  Men, Causes, Reason

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• I was born with scoliosis. I have a double curvature of the spine, and it's forced me to use a wheelchair because the disease has really taken hold. It really saddens me that I can't ride.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Taken, Disease, Scoliosis

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We should pass the U.N.'s Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. At least it will clearly establish whom you view as a terrorist and whom you don't. We need to delink terrorism from religion - to isolate terrorists who use this interchange of arguments between terrorism and religion.

  Narendra Modi

  Views, Needs, Argument

  "Exclusive Interview With Narendra Modi: 'We Are Natural Allies'". Interview with Nancy Gibbs, Zoher Abdoolcarim, Nikhil Kumar, time.com. May 7, 2015.

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• If you’re too stupid to understand that a philosophy that favors a federally structured republic, with numerous restraints on the scope and power of government to interfere with individual rights or the free market, is a lot different from an ethnic-nationalist, atheistic, and socialist program of genocide and international aggression, you should use this rule of thumb: If someone isn’t advocating the murder of millions of people in gas chambers and a global Reich for the White Man you shouldn’t assume he’s a Nazi and you should know it’s pretty damn evil to call him one.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Stupid, Philosophy, Men

  "Springtime For Slanderers" by Jonah Goldberg, www.nationalreview.com. January 5, 2001.

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• I also think that everyone has an elitist approach to his own art, a complex knowledge of it, whether he is a clockmaker or an engineer. And I think it's perfectly legitimate to make use of this knowledge because it enriches the overall texture of life.

  Peter Greenaway

  Art, Thinking, Texture

  Peter Greenaway, Vernon W. Gras (2000). “Peter Greenaway: Interviews”, p.41, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I think there's a side of me that's trying to compete with Lucas and Spielberg - I don't usually admit this publicly - because I tend to think that they only go so far, and their view of the world is rather simplistic. What I want to do is take whatever cinema is considered normal or successful at a particular time and play around with it - to use it as a way of luring audiences in.

  Terry Gilliam

  Successful, Thinking, Views

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Today, we will hear from federal law enforcement agencies, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, who will discuss the problem of ELF and ALF and law enforcement's reaction to their dangerous and destructive tactics. It is these tactics, particularly the widespread use of arson, which makes ELF and ALF the #1 domestic terror concern over the likes of white supremacists, militias, and anti-abortion groups.

  James Inhofe

  Law, White, Agency

  Senate Hearing 109-947 before Committee on Environment and Public Works, May 18, 2005.

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• There is no economic policy. That's really important to say. The general modus operandi of the Bushies is that they don't make policies to deal with problems. They use problems to justify things they wanted to do anyway. So there is no policy to deal with the lack of jobs. There really isn't even a policy to deal with terrorism. It's all about how can we spin what's happening out there to do what we want to do.

  Paul Krugman

  Jobs, Important, Want

  BuzzFlash interview, September 11, 2003.

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• Humanity, morality, decency, might be forgotten, but codfish must still be had for the use of the faithful in Lent and on fast days.

  Francis Parkman

  Humanity, Faithful, Might

  Francis Parkman (1871). “Pioneers of France in the New World”, p.208

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• What I really have a sense of dismay about is that there is a center of anything. I think maybe Cleveland can use one. Also possibly Los Angeles needs informed cultural guidance and a place to go get it. But not New York. New York is a center, a world's fair, and a den of thieves, and a house of miracles.

  Frank Loesser

  New York, Thinking, Miracle

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• I go to a meeting every day. I surround myself with people who don't use. I recently got back from Ozzfest and I caught myself in kind of a sticky situation where I was around a lot of people using, drinking and it was kind of - I didn't have the urge to use once, but I just knew I shouldn't have been there.

  Jack Osbourne

  Drinking, People, Kind

  "Jack Talks About His Addiction and Recovery". MTV.com,

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