"One of the few times I'm hit emotionally is when I listen to the tapes sadists make of torturing their victims. There the person is currently suffering, you can hear them suffer, and that calls out for an empathic response. But when they're dead, when they're no longer suffering, when it's over, it's hard to feel empathetic for the corpse."

-- Park Dietz

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“The duty of a historian is simply to understand and then convey that understanding, no more than that.”
“Focus on the competition to diminish the time dedicated to internal politics.”
“Universality has been the key enabler of innovation on the Web and will continue to be so in the future.”
“I've really carelessly gotten out of relationships that were incredibly destructive instead of being honest.”
“I think being raised within a Mexican Catholic family made magical realism a very natural part of who I am as a person and as a writer. My parents always told us great stories that often had magical elements and roots within Mexican folklore. Also, I remember my father reading a book to me, when I was very young, about the lives of saints. Those were crazy scary stories! Maybe he was trying to scare me into being a good person. In the end, magical realism offers me untethered freedom to explore human frailty and the way we clumsily cobble together our lives on this strange planet.”
“I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educators.”

Source : "The Education Week Interview: Margaret Spellings". Interview with Lynn Olson and Erik W. Robelen, www.edweek.org. February 9, 2005.
“I feel like I'm capable of doing so many things to help people around the country and the world.”

Source : "NBA star risks everything for daughter's health" by By Mike Celizic, www.today.com. July 23, 2007.
“Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal. Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That's where the real danger lies.”

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