"It appears that legal positions that you have supported have been used by the administration, the military, and the CIA to justify torture and Geneva Convention violations by military and civilian personnel."

-- Edward Kennedy

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“There are many true statements about complex topics that are too long to fit on a PowerPoint slide.”
“I can't see myself not rappin' and not talking the bullshit I'm talking. I love that! I can't lie. Once I stop I'm just going to stop all the way.”

Source : "From the Vault: Sean Price (Random Axe)". Interview with Sherron Shabazz, therealhip-hop.com. March 13, 2017.
“I love the love of those who are far enough away, it becomes whatever I wish to believe it.”

Source : Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.63, New Victoria Publishers
“The rumble of a subway train, the rattle of the taxis.”
“I thought, 'Well, I'll amuse people a little bit.' During lunch hour, while everyone was off to the faculty club and this and that, I set up a bunch of bases down the hallway of the school and I put all of the portraits I had completed... and I waited for the reaction.... that's how I got started again, doing portraits of people around me...”
“We are afraid that our adult sexuality will somehow damage our kids, that itâ€™s inappropriate or dangerous. But whom are we protecting? Children who see their primary caregivers at ease expressing their affection (discreetly, within appropriate boundaries) are more likely to embrace sexuality with the healthy combination of respect, responsibility, and curiosity it deserves. By censoring our sexuality, curbing our desires, or renouncing them altogether, we hand our inhibitions intact to the next generation.”
“He alone is great Who by a life heroic conquers fate.”

Source : Sarah Knowles Bolton (1923). “Sarah K. Bolton: Pages from an Intimate Autobiography”
“It is one of the perceptual defects of Western government and press to assign Western-style motives to what people do in non-Western societies, as if these are universally relevant.”

Source : "Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends". Book by William Pfaff, Chapter 5, Nationalism, p. 147, 1989.

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