"MacKinnon's treatment of the central issue of * as she herself poses it - the harm that * does to women - is shockingly causal. Much of her evidence is anecdotal, and in a nation of 260 Million people, anecdotes are a weak form of evidence."

-- Richard Posner

#Government Quotes #Issues Quotes #People Quotes

“I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien describes, and never knew it.”
“The content of the curriculum should never exclude the realities of the very students who must intellectually wrestle with it. When students study all worlds except their own, they are miseducated.”

Source : Johnnetta B. Cole (2011). “Conversations: Straight Talk with America's Sister President”, p.169, Anchor
“I loved the fact that I was suddenly no longer dependent on whether a store took out an ad in the right place, or on the word on the street.”
“If you dont have anything nice to say... dead silence creates a lot awkwardness.”
“I love mentoring young girls. I've always been like that.”
“Barack Obama is betting on the American worker.”

Source : Ted Strickland's address at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 4, 2012.
“You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.”
“I believe that modern science supports free will, in showing that the brain can act spontaneously, not only in response to external stimuli.”

Source : Source: deutsche-denker.de

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