"The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed - where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once."

Source : "Ninth Circuit Confirms a 2nd Amendment Right to Carry" by Michael James Barton, www.nationalreview.com. February 14, 2014.

Alex Kozinski

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“Because I do think - not just in building AOL - but just the world in which we live is a very confusing, rapidly changing world where technology has accelerated.”
“How, then, find the courage for action? By slipping a little into unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct which holds one to the earth and dictates the relatively good and useful. By accepting the human condition more simply, and candidly, by dreading troubles less, calculating less, hoping more.”
“We have to unclutter our brains from worries that maybe people don't like us. Women tend to worry about popularity; it doesn't matter if they like you. They need to respect you. They need to show that respect for you in your pay check. And that needs to be okay.”
“I am moving deeper into my own brain.”

Source : Peter Porter (1972). “Preaching to the converted”, Not Avail
“Well, people from the "me" generation use photography to show off what they are doing, to show the world themselves and their friends. Those sort of diarized accounts have always been there. But the phenomena of making those diaries public is new, isn't it?”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?”
“I don't believe in anti-anything. A man has to have a program; you have to be for something. Otherwise, you will never get anywhere.”
“I am grateful to the motherland and the people. I feel honored to fly into space on behalf of hundreds of millions of female Chinese citizens,”

Source : "China's first female astronaut shows how 'women hold up half the sky'" by Tania Branigan, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2012.

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