"No matter how one approaches the figures, one is forced to the rather startling conclusion that the use of firearms in crime was very much less when there were no controls of any sort and when anyone, convicted criminal or lunatic, could buy any type of firearm without restriction. Half a century of strict controls on pistols has ended, perversely, with a far greater use of this weapon in crime than ever before."

-- Colin Greenwood

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“There is no other dog that can compare to a Corgi. They're the epitome of beauty.”
“Ridicule is often employed with more power and success than severity.”
“Then Day reaches out and touches my hand with his. He encloses it in a handshake. And just like that, I am linked with him again, I feel the pulse of our bond and his- tory and love through our hands, like a wave of magic, the return of a long-lost friend. Of something meant to be. The feeling brings tears to my eyes. Perhaps we can take a step forward together. â€œHi,â€ he says. â€œIâ€™m Daniel.â€ â€œHi,â€ I reply. â€œIâ€™m June.”
“If you focus too much on development of the visual angle, it could be a detriment to what you're doing musically.”
“Music, at the end of the day, is communicating something - emotion, a feeling, a rite of passage, where you are in life.”

Source : "Radiohead's Thom Yorke and Ed O'Brien". Interview with Chris Mincher, music.avclub.com. July 1, 2008.
“I like the way the morning can be stormy and the afternoon clear and sparkly as a jewel in the water. Put your hand in the water to reach for a sea urchin or a sea shell, and the thing desired never quite lies where you had lined it up to be. The same is true of love. In prospect or contemplation, love is where it seems to be. Reach in to lift it out and your hand misses”
“Society may be formed so as to exist without crime, without poverty, with health greatly improved, with little, if any misery, and with intelligence and happiness increased a hundredfold; and no obstacle whatsoever intervenes at this moment except ignorance to prevent such a state of society from becoming universal.”

Source : Robert Owen (1857). “The Life of Robert Owen Written by Himself: With Selections from His Writings and Correspondence”, p.349
“The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.”

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