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Amanda Ripley

"The evil genius of terrorism is that that maximizes unfamiliarity, imaginability, suffering, scale of destruction, unfairness. It's really important to understand why terrorism is so frightening because it is a psychological war and until you understand it and try to reduce the dread, until then you become like a force multiplier for the terrorists inadvertently because you'll tend to overreact to terrorist attacks because the dread factor is so high."

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Amanda Ripley

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“I've been chased through airports with a screaming baby because the photographers are ruthless, and they want the picture.”
“Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.”

Source : Alexander McCall Smith (2004). “The Sunday Philosophy Club”, p.153, Anchor
“I support and have always supported passage of a federal constitutional amendment that defines marriage as a union between one man and one woman. As President, I will fight for passage of this amendment. My personal belief is that marriage is between one man and one woman, for life.”

Source : "Things I do not understand: religion, politics, & the American people" by Lynne Joseph, www.dailykos.com. January 17, 2008.
“As the years have gone on and you start to know your character better than some of the writers and directors do, you get a little bit more of a world in which you can say, "I think it would be really great, if this year, her fate wasn't determined by the boys," or that kind of thing. You have to pick your battles and make sure that you've earned the right to talk about that.”
“And then fourth, we have that essential group of people who track programs and budgets to ensure that they align with the needs of preparation and warning, counterintelligence and support to the operational war fighter.”
“Proud parents to two children Grandparents to five more Who visit the "Harper Bakery" It's Gran's cooking they all adore”
“Do not try to drive pain away by pretending it is not real. If you seek serenity in oneness, pain will vanish of its own accord.”
“Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.”

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