"In any case, to the extent that the media is dedicated to exposing lies and reporting the truth, it is indeed the opposition party to people like Bannon."

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Source : "Trump Team Still Doesn’t Seem to Understand They’re in the White House Now" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. January 26, 2017.

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“The model for an NHL without fighting is right there in front of us. The [playoffs are] the time of year that fans love best; when the best hockey is played... [The] enforcers don't play. Even mini-enforcers... remain on the bench. Teams and coaches can't afford anything stupid and unpredictable... With no one to fight back for them, players go harder into the corners, more determinedly to the front of the net. If they want to fire up the crowd and their teammates, they have to do it themselves. And in the playoffs, they do.”
“You can't breathe for sheer revulsion when you keep finding the bodies of women with bamboo poles thrust up their vaginas. Even old women over 70 are constantly being raped.”

Source : John Rabe (2007). “The Good Man of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe”, p.208, Vintage
“Happy is the moment we sit together, with two forms, with two faces, yet one soul. You and I.”
“An atheist before Darwin could have said, following Hume: I have no explanation for complex biological design. All I know is that God isn't a good explanation, so we must wait and hope that somebody comes up with a better one. I can't help feeling that such a position, though logically sound, would have left one feeling pretty unsatisfied, and that although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.”
“It's an extremely good thing that money sometimes changes hands.”
“I will not just live my life. I will not just spend my life. I will invest my life.”
“two powerful, opposing forces - one seducing people to eat and the other telling them they are failures if they do - create heartache everywhere.”
“If you do not feel natural about what you want to be, you will not be it.”

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