"Terrorism is nothing new. Lots of terrorist attacks are nothing new, but we pay a lot more attention to them today."

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Source : "Are We Living In An Unprecedented Age Of Terror?". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. July 1, 2016.

Daniel Byman

#Attention Quotes #Pay Quotes #Today Quotes

“Tax time approaches, and Americans are as always paying H & R Block billions to help them save some of their wealth from their ravenous government. Pitiful, in a way: it underlines the grim but unacknowledged fact that the government is their enemy and they have to hire protection from it. But don't we enjoy 'self-government'? Well, if we have it, I'd hardly say we enjoy it. True, we aren't being taxed by the monarch of Great Britain, but our American-born rulers claim far more of our wealth than the British monarchs ever did.”
“It goes without saying that your friends are usually the first to discuss your personal business behind your back.”
“There's nothing like having grandchildren to restore your faith in humanity.”
“The truth has a way of changing people's plans.”
“On immigration, there are a lot of hurdles before anything arrives at the White House.”
“Still very active And rarely seen apart You're teenage geriatrics Modern and young at heart”
“People are lonely. The network is seductive. But if we are always on, we may deny ourselves the rewards of solitude.”

Source : Sherry Turkle (2011). “Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other”, p.23, ReadHowYouWant.com
“For me, it was all about working with an inspirational filmmaker.”

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