"What did it for me was a blurb on the back of a book I was reading. The blurber wrote - I just looked it up - that "Trials have provided some of the best examples of 'micro-history' or the 'new narrative'...." And that was it."

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Debra Hamel

#Book Quotes #Reading Quotes #Example Quotes

“Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.”
“As long as man was small in numbers and limited in technology, he could realistically regard the earth as an infinite reservoir, an infinite source of inputs and an infinite cesspool for outputs. Today we can no longer make this assumption. Earth has become a space ship, not only in our imagination but also in the hard realities of the social, biological, and physical system in which man is enmeshed.”
“We all come from a woman. We have to make love.”
“Our world is obsessed with success. But how does God define success? Success in God's eyes is faithfulness to His calling.”

Source : Franklin Graham, Billy Graham (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.330, Thomas Nelson Inc
“But that's the nature of the beast. It's understood going in what the human toll will be.”
“In cyberspace, 95 per cent of what you read is hearsay.”
“The future is coming so fast, we can't possibly predict it; we can only learn to respond quickly.”
“I'm big into fashion, so after swimming, when I hang up the Speedo, I definitely want to get into fashion and start designing my own clothing line.”

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